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| April 17, 2024 |
Electra Building, Vancouver BC
- It's always World X Day or International Y Day - look 'em all up at
Holidays
and Observances.com.
-
The Atlas of
Pizza: 23 Types of Pizza (With Pictures!) #1 Neapolitan (True Italian) or
#5 (New York) for me, please (but I want to try #8, the St. Louis).
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| March 29, 2024 |
- A link for Easter from Present And Correct: a 1968 book of Ukranian
Pysanky egg designs.
- No, you're not an excellent driver:
Motonormativity --
The bias that leads to dangerous driving.
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| March 22, 2024 |
- It's a big problem, fewer people paying attention. In the Financial Times,
No
news is bad news and in Slate,
Welcome to Me Mountain.
- Esquire asks,
Can
You Go Sockless With a Suit? Should You? Now, the very
idea of going sockless connotes a certain level of decade-old Millennialism that
Gen Z-ers on TikTok would denounce as "cheugy". Er...how does one pronounce
that? My second-language German has me instinctively saying choy-gee but
the Urban
Dictionary says it's chew-gee. Note that I consider going sockless a
juvenile affectation, and IMO those short-short socks (which simulate this
look) are feminine, I would never.
- For some reason I'd like to have a femur similar to my own in scale, and
an artificial reproduction would be adequate; but I've just learned the real
thing is available for a few hundred dollars
at
Jons Bones. They have skulls on offer as well. Naturally I'd want to know
who these bones belonged to originally; I'm guessing Jon ain't telling.
- Directory of Cat
Cafes in the USA.
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| March 13, 2024 |
- Occupying a mansion above Beverly Hills:
the
Battle Over California Squatters Rights, where I learn of
Mercedes
G-Wagons (which I've no doubt seen, but thought were Hummers);
Step-and-Repeats, what those backdrops are called, arrays of logos
(which remind me of Louis Vuitton) behind posing celebrities; and
the Squatter Squad, a
'same-day squatter-removal' service in Irvine.
(archive link since original Curbed
source is part of New York magazine.)
- De Zeen: Ten
recently completed skyscrapers in New York City. That
Steinway Tower, the world's skinniest supertall
skyscraper and the second-tallest building in the Western Hemisphere,
looks like it would snap off given strong enouugh winds.
- Please Listen Closely, as Our Menu Options Have Changed. Rather
than Customer Service Menu Hell, this is actually about daily menu recordings
at a dwindling number of institutions and restaurants
across the country. Reminds me of Tel-Med, a library of recorded health
messages I'd listen to while killing time on-the-job in the early 1980s.
IMO it's weird to label these 'hotlines' as this article does; aren't those
for crisis situations, where operators are actually standing by?
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