snowpocalypse
Gothamist is calling this one "Snowtorious B.I.G."
You're like my fairy godmother, and Santa Claus, and Q all wrapped up into one! Q from Bond, not Star Trek.
Buffy ,'Help'
Natter 71: Someone is wrong on the Internet
Off-topic discussion. Wanna talk about corsets, duct tape, or physics? This is the place. Detailed discussion of any current-season TV must be whitefonted.
Tom Scola - Feb 08, 2013 11:09:28 am PST #10437 of 30001
hwæt
tommyrot - Feb 08, 2013 11:09:50 am PST #10438 of 30001
Sir, it's not an offence to let your cat eat your bacon. Okay? And we don't arrest cats, I'm very sorry.
Gothamist is calling this one "Snowtorious B.I.G."
Hee!
Theodosia - Feb 08, 2013 11:10:09 am PST #10439 of 30001
'we all walk this earth feeling we are frauds. The trick is to be grateful and hope the caper doesn't end any time soon"
Up until Shreve, Crump & Lowe (old-time fabulous Boston jewelry store) moved out of its original building in the early 2000's they still had a pneumatic message system that the salepeople would use to send orders to the stock room, and a runner would come up with the merchandise.
Liese S. - Feb 08, 2013 11:11:45 am PST #10440 of 30001
"Faded like the lilac, he thought."
We actually have left a space in the master bathroom for a potential future composting toilet. Turns out those suckers are expensive!
Liese S. - Feb 08, 2013 11:15:21 am PST #10441 of 30001
"Faded like the lilac, he thought."
The hotel I stayed at in DC had the mail chute thingies. It wasn't pneumatic, though, you just dropped your postcard in the slot by the elevator shaft and it fell all the way to the box on the ground floor.
Atropa - Feb 08, 2013 11:16:47 am PST #10442 of 30001
The artist formerly associated with cupcakes.
Mine too. Plus I want a dumbwaiter. And a bookshelf that's a doorway to a secret compartment. And a dragon living under the stairs.
YES, THESE ALSO. And a turret. Possibly two, because I assume Pete would want his curmudgeonly artist refuge in one.
Liese S. - Feb 08, 2013 11:17:24 am PST #10443 of 30001
"Faded like the lilac, he thought."
I know a guy who has not one, but two dumbwaiters in his house. I got to see the mechanical side, which was pretty awesome.
Tom Scola - Feb 08, 2013 11:17:36 am PST #10444 of 30001
hwæt
The building I live in has a mail chute.
JZ - Feb 08, 2013 11:22:13 am PST #10445 of 30001
See? I gave everybody here an opportunity to tell me what a bad person I am and nobody did, because I fuckin' rule.
Our hospital has a (very well padded) pneumatic tube system that I think is still occasionally used for sending stat fluid and tissue samples to the lab -- the elevators are pretty good but sometimes wonky, and folks on the 12th-15th floors like being able to send a sample down to the 5th floor in a few seconds instead of send a clinical staffer who's got a billion other things to do trotting off down the stairs. They're the last holdouts, but when I started here the tubes were in regular use by everyone.
My forever house should have a wraparound porch, treehouse, claw-foot tub, washer/dryer, HEPA filter air cleaners in all the rooms, solar panels, a full bar, a library, and a couple of supplemental bookshelves in all the other rooms too. Fireplaces can be functioning or non-, but there should be at least two mantels. And a spiral staircase. And a dusty attic with an old dollhouse and a birdhouse and trunks full of vintage clothes and linens.
Amy - Feb 08, 2013 11:26:59 am PST #10446 of 30001
Because books.
And a dusty attic with an old dollhouse and a birdhouse and trunks full of vintage clothes and linens.
I thought this went without saying.
A carriage house would be nice, too. With a second floor full of bedrooms for staff guests.