My rent is up and I am completely fed up with the building where I live. I definitely need to move.
The real-estate market is at it’s peak, and buying now is probably stupid. Still, I am looking.
How about this? Nice, huh? And just 245K.
Seriously though, does anyone know a good realtor (actually it’s Realtor® , but I hate them so much.. ) in Sheepshead Bay?
“Windows” is a much better name than “Linux”. It could be “Billdows”. Or “Gatesix”.
“To handbag” – to assault verbally, to intimidate. This expression was coined by Margaret Thatcher’s opponents. The actual bag sold for 100,000 pounds.
What does Queen Elisabeth carry in her handbag? My photography teacher said that she carries a Rollei rangefinder camera, but I could not find any references on the Internet. Oh, and the Queen’s website doesn’t run on Linux these days. It runs on a Windows machine. But It looks like she does use a Dualit Toaster though.
Feeling lucky?
Notice, only prime numbers in the picture.
Here is the thing from Kings Highway station that I mentioned before
I searched on the Net a bit, and now I know what it’s called: “Kings Highway Hieroglyphics” by Rhoda Yohai Andors, installed in 1987.
I was reading “The Non-Designers Design Book” today. It had a relevant passage in the introduction:
Many years ago I received a tree identification book for Christmas. I was at my parents’ home, and after all the gifts had been opened I decided to go out and identify the trees in the neighborhood. Before I went out, I read through part of the book. The first tree in the book was the Joshua tree because it only took two clues to identify it. Now the Joshua tree is a really weird-looking tree and I looked at that picture and said to my- self “Oh, we don’t have that kind of tree in Northern California. That is a weird-looking tree. I would know if I saw that tree, and I’ve never seen one before.” So I took my book and went outside. My parents lived in a cul-de-sac of six homes. Four of those homes had Joshua trees in the front yard. I had lived in that house for thirteen years, and I had never seen a Joshua tree. I took a walk around the block, and there must have been a sale at the nursery when everyone was landscaping their new homes -at least 80 percent of the homes had Joshua trees in the front yards. And I had never seen one before! Once I was conscious of the tree, once I could name it, I saw it everywhere. Which is exactly my point. Once you can name something, you’re conscious of it. You have power over it. You own it. You’re in control.
Ah, there is not much mystique in the Sargasso Sea. No stuck ships, no monsters. I have one connection to it though – the humble sand eel, that is used as a bait for striped bass, goes to the Sargasso Sea to spawn. The fry spend about a year getting back to the coast, just to be eaten by the bass.
One thing that I see daily from the scratched window of my mobile “office” is the Clock Tower Building. Basically it’s a building in a neighborhood called DUMBO (a cutesy acronym for “Down Under the Manhattan Bridge Overpass”). Many recently formed New York neighborhoods have cutsy acronym names. Like SoHo copycats NoLita (North of Little Italy) and NoHo (North of Houston). They remind me of dying internet consulting companies Scient, Viant and Sapient and probably already dead members of Politburo Zaikov, Slunkov and Vorotnikov (they were always mentioned together).
Clock Tower or Clocktower building used to be called “Gair Building No. 7” after Robert Gair, inventor of the corrugated cardboard box.
The building has a unique feature – a penthouse apartment with windows in a form of a clock. Which actually shows time.
The view from there is amazing. I think it’s a bargain at 4 million bucks.
I’ve rented my apartment sight unseen after the asshole real-estate agent showed me another apartment in the same building which had an OK view of Brooklyn. What I didn’t realize was that my apartment was facing another building. Yeah, I am a sucker for views.
