Huh. Maybe I should have gone to my parents' house for the 4th after all...

There is obviously a massive credibility gap between: "Here endeth the lesson" and "Here endeth NYC"

And that's not the only place.

And they're not all lofts

I wasn't going from the floor plans listed, just from the explanation of what a pod was.

It's an interminably irritating site. Why hasn't Flash found its rightful niche yet? If you don't need to be interactive, if it seems simple that you might benefit from someone sending a link to a page in your site to a friend, or bookmarking or printing said page--for god's sake, don't use Flash.

On some of the tech blogs they link to nifty concept gadgets...no, they link to the web sites that contain them, and you have to navigate flash to find what they were talking about. Instead of impressing me with sliding and sound, or even bumping into more product than I might have seen if I went right in, I often just bail a click or two in.

Now, when I get a link right to something particularly nifty, I do backtrack on that site to see what else they have is cool.

Mandating one true path to content is anti-web. I deem it so.

OMG, SHOCKING!!!

Men may be from Mars and women from Venus, but when it comes to our favorite foods, there's no battle of the sexes.

Lunch: it’s the meal ladies like best. You know, that time to order a light salad. Think again.

It turns out ladies prefer French fries.

Harry Balzer, Vice President of the NPD Group, says, "French fries are the number one food ordered by women in restaurants in America."

I have flash turned off most of the time, even when a site recognizes my office's prehistoric version of it. Especially at TwoP/Fametracker; those PayMyBills ads etc. are atrocious.

Sing it, ita. So true.

I kind of like the "People of faith, take a long weekend" message. Almost friendly for a doomsday prediction.

Sigh. Took the car in for an oil change and tire rotation on Wed. before driving to Monterey. Picked it up at 5:30, went and got gas, and the chekc engine light came on. Tried reseating the fuel cap, tried stopping for gas again, light stayed on. Also, transmission seems wonky. Since this all happened after the servicing, assumed that had something to do with it.

DH just called from the service place - they claim they didn't do anything that could possibly produce those effects and they don't even have the equipment to diagnose.

DH just called from the service place - they claim they didn't do anything that could possibly produce those effects and they don't even have the equipment to diagnose.

I assume they put oil in it?

(I've actually heard of oil change places forgetting to do this.)

yes, my sister's engine once seized up because of the oil change folks not putting in oil.

[eta: Okay, and the penthouse apartment have free-standing bathtubs right in front of the balcony! So you completely enclose your bathroom/kitchen in a box in the middle of the room, but have a freestanding tub facing a window? WTF?]

Perhaps the designer is an exhibitionist who's uncomfortable with the thought of being watched while eating or using the facilities?

I know people who got a new car from Jiffy Lube because they didn't put oil in the old one and it died!

We are now 98% confident that the UN Plaza will be hit by a terrorist nuclear bomb between Thursday evening June 29th and Tuesday evening July 4th, 2006

That's right where I am! Cool!