Took a cab from Gowanus back to Washington Heights yesterday after a few drinks. Well, not all the way. Only from when I realized after transferring to the A that it’d be local and only go to 168th.
Romanian guy, really nice. Wife was a teacher back home, tried it out here; left after two weeks. Doesn’t understand our aversion to corporal punishment (and really, neither do I) or the seemingly universal disrespect to education in general and educators in specific.
We talked about traffic and outer-borough types, and it came that I studied urban planning on the topic of empty pied-a-terre condos. Turns out he does a bang-up business in November/December ferrying wealthy Europeans and Asians from JFK to their hotels with empty suitcases and from their hotels back to JFK with full ones, and how NYC basically went from being the third most expensive place to live to “not even in the top ten!” Moscow’s now more expensive. Moscow.
Considering that I can’t imagine any other place to live, I’m shocked. NYC: Filene’s Basement of the world. The bargain capital. We really are, as the epithet goes, a third rate Babylon.
By the way: Gowanus? Red Hook? Get some darker brews. Your effete drinks need weight to them!
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At about 1:45 am computer #1 goes BANG. Smells of burnt silicon. Thin veil of smoke. Mmm.
Currently 4:30am now and the RAM, video card (now SLI’d), DVD burners and SATA HD are in computer #2, thankfully running smoothly.
Time to buy a new power supply. Maybe replace those parts in computer #1 along with a new […]
Took a cab from Gowanus back to Washington Heights yesterday after a few drinks. Well, not all the way. Only from when I realized after transferring to the A that it’d be local and only go to 168th.
Romanian guy, really nice. Wife was a teacher back home, tried it out here; left after two weeks. […]
So Clinton won the Pennsylvania primary by 10%, which means the election will be won in the convention. Hello, two more months of cringing at every stupid nonsensical bullshit gaffe either makes over the other while we stare at the calender and will McCain’s early death.
Speaking of gaffes, what happened while we were talking about […]