i go to new york

i feel like the u is appropriate when talking about a tapas bar on the UWS

perhaps so

ok, i have a check. how charming! how do i get it into my bank account as quickly as possible? is it best to give it to a human teller? or can i do it at an atm?

it depends on your bank. if your bank has those things that automatically scan the check, they tend to be about as fast as actually giving it to a human being. the kind of atm with the envelopes takes abt a day longer ime

ok, i have a check. how charming! how do i get it into my bank account as quickly as possible? is it best to give it to a human teller? or can i do it at an atm?

― caek, Monday, July 22, 2013 12:56 PM (24 minutes ago)

Be prepared for a several-day hold on the funds, for no other reason than "because we can."

thanks guys.

"you use checks" is going to be my standard response to forthcoming royal baby zingers.

i am ruining the new york thread, sorry

we are a warm and tactile people

I don't know which bank you went with but a few of em you can deposit checks by taking a picture of it on your phone if you get their app. Might be a longer hold time though.

btw I would propose going to the Cyclones game in Coney tonight but the weather looks like crap (surprise); also Mondays are bad for mookieproof. They're only home Sat-Mon the next 2 weeks, all bad for me, then there's a month left in the season... Wednesdays are $10 nights, and Sunday Aug 11 is Pre-Game Catch day (5 pm).

caek have u ever thrown a baseball?

Sunday Aug 11 is Pre-Game Catch day (5 pm).

I might be into this one. Been wanting to take my daughter again and 7pm is too late for her. It's weird that there are NO afternoon games.

i have never thrown a baseball, but i am definitely up for cyclones any time. i'll be coming and going a lot in august though, and can't make aug 11 :-( i can do next weekend i think though (except maybe not saturday due to cricket)

btw i am playing cricket this summer, so if anyone wants to watch me play a boring game in appalling heat with two mattresses strapped to my legs then i will post here with dates when i know them.

i paid in my check btw im sure you're all glad and relieved to hear

whew!

just make sure she brings her glove, dmr.

I know a little bit about cricket... like the Silly Position.

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can anyone recommend a baseball batting cage in (on?) manhattan or brooklyn btw. my english friend and i feel like celebrating the royal baby.

ha yes that guy on the right in at silly mid off, which is where they put young fielders without wives or children who couldn't get exempted by joining the air national guard.

since this is the de facto NYC bulletin board right now - anyone interested in buying a couple of tickets for New Order and Holy Ghost in Williamsburg on Wednesday night? I bought em a while ago and then later got offered guestlist. email me if you're interested. dmr3345 at g mail.

there is a baseball batting cage at chelsea piers, but the one time i hit there (several years ago) it was giving me some crazy-ass breaking balls

how do people get to boston? is one of the coach lines better than the others? or should i just fly if i can do that for $100 on my dates?

mega/bolt bus will get you there for less than 20 bucks usually tho they pick up/drop off at weird locations

they're not the ordeal that uk coaches are, right? a/c, legroom, etc.?

Bolt isn't, I don't think. I'm taking my side effects to Philly for $12 tomorrow.

maybe one time out of ten you get a bus with broken a/c or something but mostly theyre pretty decent. for a little more you can get greyhound which is a little more reliable/comfortable but not by that much

sold, thanks guys

I have been on several megabuses and they were all more comfortable than the one greyhound I did

Get there early and get the seat behind the stairs on the top deck for more legroom than you can use

Yes, get by, mega etc, not greyhound - others are way nicer.

*bolt

the megabus boarding area has some sweet refugee camp vibes

I once spent a happy four hours or so riveted by the conversation of two 21-year-olds getting to know each other immediately behind me on the megabus.

sweet. i went with megabus in the end because they were lots cheaper than bolt or greyhound for my dates. felt dirty though (via giving money to brian souter/stagecoach uk)

i still don't understand how these things make money. does they run on solar power?

I once spent a happy four hours or so riveted by the conversation of two 21-year-olds getting to know each other immediately behind me on the megabus.

on my Columbus -> Chicago run two students got on at OSU and took the seats in front of me. they proceeded to "stealthily" grope each other and he put his face on her chest, until Indianapolis. There a guy who'd been sleeping on the back seats got off, and they rushed to claim it. Someone else took the other end of it, though, so they just gave each other handies under a draped hoodie until they fell asleep.

I guess Brian Souter would be proud?

Megabus is great, although the Hell's Kitchen pickup location really is the pits. I've ridden a lot of Greyhounds and only two or three Megabuses but I would pick the latter easy for comfort, reliability, a/c adapters (plus spotty intermittent wifi), etc. Some people also swear by the harrowing and ultra-cheap Chinatown buses but those are currently out of commission I believe, due to some kind of permit inspection/police business.

the Chinatowns were pretty hit-and-miss, but I never got the 'harrowing' ones (unless that's what you call plowing to DC at 85 mph).

if money is less of an object take a freaking train. so much nicer.

delays are less of an issue (unless there's a big snowstorm) and you can get up and stretch and there aren't weird bus people. plus wifi.

i did busses for years, then took a train once and realized i would never take a bus again.

There isn't always wifi on Amtrak iirc, depends on the service?

$100-$150 round trip vs. $40 round trip, hmmmm.
also lots of horrifying train accidents lately!

(those are weekend rates, weekday rates are a bit cheaper)

the Chinatowns were pretty hit-and-miss

could refer both to the bus service, and the guys shooting at each other in cheap-bus turf wars

bus was $54, train would have been $200 (my return journey is on labor day, so this might not be usual). flying would have been $150ish.

is the $1 bus a scam teaser rate for only one seat? i remember RyanAir offering 5 pound plane tickets to Greece but you had to be the fifth caller or something.

yeah

i like bolt better than mega, bolt picks up at penn station which is convenient. mega picks up three avenues away

but if you're missing the UK, mega is a double decker.

the megabus boarding area has some sweet refugee camp vibes

― lag∞n, Tuesday, July 30, 2013 4:02 PM (3 hours ago) Bookmark

i took megabus last year on the wednesday before thanksgiving. the worst

traveling the wednesday before thanksgiving is pretty much a misery no matter how you go, iirc.

i feel like i have tried it all. bus, plane, drive, train, and it is all awful. driving being the best because even if you're stuck in traffic you don't have to listen to/smell/be pressed into so so so many other humans.