Kathy, I am so unspeakably jealous of your laundry right across from the elevator I can barely lift my fingers to type.
Hee! This is the best laundry-room situation I've had since my first apartment back in 1993, which was a "garden" apartment (meaning, in the basement), so the laundry room was just down the hall. The second apartment had its laundry in another building entirely, the third had none at all (but a laundrymat was a few blocks down the road), and the last place was down the alley, so I'm enjoying this thoroughly.
But the best thing about the new apartment is that it's only five miles from work (as opposed to 30, before I moved). Gas should have to be refilled every month or so (my new Civic gets 30 mpg/city), and my insurance just dropped $20/month!
I would be so very happy to have a laundry room with a working washing machine.
Kathy, I am so unspeakably jealous of your laundry right across from the elevator I can barely lift my fingers to type.
After four years in a Philly apartment with the laundry room around the other side of the building, I have vowed never again to live in an apartment which does not have its own laundry inside the apartment.
Go, go Mister Kitty!
Martha Stewart is making a Monkey Cake!
That's a pretty swell monkey cake but I still love the monkey cake my friend made for the lulu eightball book party:
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I can't get motivated to work on my stupid document. If I'd worked on it better this morning I would have been able to go out to lunch with friends. Now I'm all sulky about missing lunch and I've only my poor work ethic to blame.
As long as it's convenient (current apartment: across the street. Last apartment: first floor of same building), I like going to the laundromat. You can do everything at once! Laundry every three weeks take me a hour start to finish.
All i want is a new haircut/style. I dont know how this applies.
Maybe time for an 80s revival?
Probably not you, though.
I see you as more of a forties glamourdoll.
Even a big Bobbie Gentry 60s mane.
I'd love something sweet right now. Unfortunately, the movers wiped me out, so I've got $8 in my wallet and $3 in my bank to supposedly last me until payday on the 12th. But, Dad's visit on Saturday might just fix that! Also, my old apartment's manager is checking it out today, and I'm hoping he will have the check cut by the end of the week. I'm calling him to ask that if he does do that, maybe he can overnight the check to me and deduct the cost for the mailing from the check.
Star Trek-esque cloaking device closer to reality (as long as you only want to theoretically cloak particles of dust from certain kinds of light):
Nicolae Nicorovici and Graeme Milton propose that placing certain objects close to a material called a superlens could make them appear to vanish.
It would rely on an effect known as "anomalous localised resonance".
The phenomenon is analogous to a tuning fork (which rings with a single sound frequency) being placed next to a wine glass. The wine glass will start to ring with the same frequency; it resonates.
The cloaking effect would exploit a resonance with light waves rather than sound waves.
However efficiency remains the key. There is only so much biomass that can sustainably be converted to energy.
Well, it's not like butanol or E85 is going to be cheap per gallon. There should be plenty of market incentive to make more efficient vehicles.