quiddities and agonies of the ruling class - a rolling new york times thread

"I'm going to take this opportunity to address a social problem that is tangentially related to this topic"

Joel Stein has always been pretty hacky & stuck in the early 90s.

tbf men don't know the real problems with being men so we just say "uhh, you know, wars and patriarchy and stuff"

the solution

http://youngadultfinances.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/05/slap.jpeg

Some tips of worth but

http://travel.nytimes.com/2012/07/15/travel/how-the-tough-get-going-silicon-valley-travel-tips.html

the brand of tim ferris is the most mystifying thing

eh hes a con man

yeah but 5 minute youtube video on how to travel on only 2 pairs of underwear -> multiple bestselling books makes me :(

its also like, the time it takes you to learn about all these new cool websites like tripit etc. is probably > than time you save doing these things

“I had lunch and polished off two conference calls before my friend even got his shoes back on,” Mr. Ferriss said.

btw wtf is the point of getting to the airport so fast if youre just gonna have lunch when you get there

To save time and sanity, he recommends keeping an extra set of phone and computer chargers packed and ready to go so they are never forgotten. Still, even if they are, Ms. Warren of Yelp has a trick she said rarely fails: tell the hotel you want to rummage through the lost-and-found bin. “Every single time I’ve done this they’ll have this huge box full of chargers and all kinds of miscellaneous plugged-in things,” she said. “They’re just like, ‘Please take some of this off my hands.’ ”

never pack your phone charger using this one weird trick

yeah but 5 minute youtube video on how to travel on only 2 pairs of underwear -> multiple bestselling books makes me :(

― dayo, Saturday, July 14, 2012 9:27 AM (1 minute ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

well hes mostly abt telling people they can work only 4 hours a week and get rich by like 'having a website' is my understanding

oh I understood him as the guy who got rich by telling people how to never change clothes when they travel thereby never having to check luggage

here u go http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_4-Hour_Workweek

yeah he's silly

his tips are like, "don't waste time reading the news, ask your waiter at brunch what's going on in the world today ... *poof* now you're informed!"

For those rare (and hateful) occasions when he must check a bag, he places a cheap starter pistol inside (they don’t use bullets and are available on Amazon or in sporting goods stores), and then declares at the check-in counter that he’s carrying an unloaded and locked firearm. (See T.S.A. firearms guidelines.) No chance the airline will lose track of that bag (for which you need a T.S.A.-approved lock), Mr. Ferriss said. (Don’t even think of trying this on international flights.)

sure yes ok

that is insane enough that i kinda like it.

sounds like a good way to save time

Major lols at Room app.

"don't waste time reading the news, ask your waiter at brunch what's going on in the world today ... *poof* now you're informed!"

Actually, I kind of agree with this, except for the brunch part. I canceled the newspaper and the New Yorker and just read the used books lying around my house and the truth is I feel a lot more informed. Also, I do have two laptop chargers and just keep one in my backpack so I don't have to worry about whether I remember to pack it. But I don't go writing self-help books about it!

oh I understood him as the guy who got rich by telling people how to never change clothes when they travel thereby never having to check luggage

― dayo, Saturday, July 14, 2012 8:31 AM (2 hours ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

this is a+ camping advice tho

i always check my luggage while camping *sigh*

I should write a book explaining how people can save time by never traveling

ha yes

"I, too, was eating lunch while you were waiting in the security line."

guy joins linkedin

http://www.nytimes.com/2012/07/15/fashion/social-networking-takes-a-strange-turn.html?_r=1&ref=style

sunday mag nanny cover story today. might have to read that.

this made me laugh

http://www.nytimes.com/2012/07/15/magazine/the-dirty-street-encounter-that-made-me-a-new-yorker.html?_r=1&ref=magazine&gwh=ABA452FDD5EF193BDE6E656111D27B34

every time i walk by that stoop on university place, i feel the ghost of his rancid, malodorous fingernail twitching within the not-wealthy flesh of my cheek, and my entire face burns with impotent shame.

http://graphics8.nytimes.com/images/2012/07/15/magazine/15lives_author/15lives_author-articleInline.jpg

He jabbed his index finger in my face — hard — burying his fingernail in my cheek. He swung around and headed back to his stoop. I had my hand over my cheek. Someone asked if I was O.K. I said I was, but then my fingers came away bloody. That whole side of my face felt tingly and infected. A fingernail. I wanted to throw up. I needed gauze, disinfectant, hydrogen peroxide — all of it, immediately. And my apartment was blocks away.

When I got there, my roommate helped me clean the wound — a crescent-shaped cut an inch below my eye. Just soap and water, she said, a little Neosporin. She congratulated me on getting into my first New York fight. I didn’t hold up my end, I said. Forget it, she said. She poured me a glass of wine to calm me down. Then she suggested we go back to University Place, find the guy and dole out some payback.

you must be anointed by the dirty fingernail to become a real new yorker. and have a letter of recommendation from martin amis. sounds about right.

I think something about the college application/essay-writing process has fucked up a whole generation. Like all these people are out looking for the slightest 'experience' to happen to them so they can blog about it.

It's less about the college application/essay-writing process and more about the existance of 7,500,000,000 humans, imo.

You'll probably share this insufferable anecdote with your sockless, boat-shoe wearing friends in fitted shirts and linen shorts, over some goat cheese profiteroles you warmed up in that fancy Viking range in your "loft" that once was a soap factory, or something.

classic shit right here

http://www.nytimes.com/2012/07/22/education/edlife/prepping-students-for-sorority-rush.html?_r=2&smid=tw-share&pagewanted=all

MARGARET KING of Birmingham, Ala., was at a loss about how to help her older daughter prepare to rush at the University of Virginia.

With the help of Ms. Foster and Ms. Grant, who wears a pink feather boa during workshops, Mrs. King asked alumnae of about 10 chapters, several from U.Va., to write her daughter’s recommendations. To guide their plaudits, she sent them packets with a professional photograph, transcript and résumé. To thank them, she dropped off a bottle of rosé in their mailboxes.

RUSHBIDDIES

getting a quote from someone with a "von" or "van" is a hallmark of all classic quiddites articles

Samantha von Sperling is an image consultant in New York, but lately her bread-and-butter Wall Street clients have asked her to help their daughters get ready for rush at schools like Harvard; the University of Wisconsin, Madison; and New York University, which has added three chapters since 2006 and more than doubled the number of sisters, to 570.

“It’s the same kind of coaching I do on Wall Street,” Ms. von Sperling says.

“If you’re a great active listener, they will remember you because you let them talk.” Her typical fee: $125 an hour.

Ms. von Sperling offers a Friday-to-Sunday intensive, for $8,000. One day is devoted to carrying yourself properly and the art of conversation.

Ms. von Sperling

Changing my name to Mr. von Aimless.

“I lost six pounds that week,” recalls Julie Baselice, whose daughter Christina is now a Chi Omega at the University of Texas. “It was the most stressful experience of my life.”

another classic name

Madeline D’Arcambal Braun, a Manhattan native entering her junior year at Indiana University Bloomington, says she had “absolutely no idea” why she wasn’t asked back.

Abigail Sullivan Moore is co-author of “The iConnected Parent: Staying Close to Your Kids in College (and Beyond) While Letting Them Grow Up.”

The iConnected Parent: Staying (REALLY) Close to Your (Mortified) Kids in College (and Forever) While Letting Them (Sorta Kinda) Grow Up (To Be Damaged Adults)

did the Times kill satire before Kissinger's Nobel Prize?

With the help of Ms. Foster and Ms. Grant,

Foster/Grant? Are you kidding me?