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"Loaded with soul...under control"
How does the old saying go? A liberal is just a conservative who hasn't been mugged yet? Try putting someone with a jack hammer outside your window until 10pm every Saturday night and tell me it's not a quality of life issue. Especially when you've got young kids to take care of, that you're struggling to get off to sleep.
There's several solutions to this: a) Don't move to a neighborhood that you've never been to, and expect the local community to... [more]
posted to MetaFilter by jivadravya
at 9:47 AM on July 9, 2008
Doesn't the whole idea of a neighborhood connote community? One would think that these twats would want to be a part of the community that they moved into. A way to not engender good relations with the people already in the community? Threaten to lynch them.
Ways to engender good community relations:
Work with the community - get to know the neighbors, actually hang out (wow!) and talk to the people drumming; let the community know you're actually interested... [more]
posted to MetaFilter by jivadravya
at 10:28 AM on July 9, 2008
Some more on the gentrification of Harlem. The gentrification of Harlem is quite a big story here in NYC.
posted to MetaFilter by jivadravya
at 10:35 AM on July 9, 2008
MeFi post:
World's Biggest and Most Expensive Ship
Not to split hairs, but the QE2 is substantially smaller than it's sister ship, the Queen Mary 2, and is also smaller than her other sister ship, the Queen Victoria. I've seen them all in very close detail (they park behind my house).
posted to MetaFilter by jivadravya
at 2:23 PM on June 24, 2008
Those ships are actually ocean liners, and not cruise ships. Also, your house is in an awesome location, I envy you.
Actually, the Queen Victoria is in fact a cruise ship - the QE2 and the QM2 are in fact, ocean liners. The Queen Victoria " ... unlike most other Cunard Queens, she is not an ocean liner, but rather a cruise ship. 1.
As to my location, yes I am truly blessed. In addition to the Queens, the submarine The... [more]
posted to MetaFilter by jivadravya
at 7:50 AM on June 25, 2008
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That's a lot of miles
A friend of mine is doing something similar, from the Puget Sound to Brooklyn NY. Riding solo, he's been posting a blog with updates almost daily, photos included. He's riding for the American Cancer Society to raise money in honor of his mother.
posted to MetaFilter by jivadravya
at 8:50 PM on July 9, 2007
MeFi post:
Your Karate is No Good.
[long post follows]
In many ways, it's the fighter or the exponent of you-fu that is "bad" or "good" - just like in any other pursuit.
I've studied several forms of fighting, from the koryu Japanese arts to Muay Thai, and some things in between. "Aliveness" and rolling are not new concepts - they're very important in any complete system. However, not every art that I've studied has stressed... [more]
posted to MetaFilter by jivadravya
at 6:12 PM on August 31, 2006
MeFi post:
Sploid 'Sploded
Not to self link, but I guess I will anyhow: CJR Daily is also 'closing' - the two editors and myself resigned on Friday, as our budget is being cut to subsidize a direct-mail campaign for the CJR print magazine.
I don't know how many of you ever read the Daily, but it's a loss, at least to me.
posted to MetaFilter by jivadravya
at 10:41 AM on August 16, 2006
MeFi post:
Comma Chameleon
PinkStainlessTail - you wouldn't need commas. The sentence is correct as it stands. If you wanted to write the more pornographic sentence, it would be constructed as such:
I helped jack-off the horse.
posted to MetaFilter by jivadravya
at 10:52 AM on August 7, 2006
hilker: typically, yes. My usage was directly lifted from OED usage for "jerk-off" which has the same meaning as "jack-off", to wit:
jerk-off, a.
[f. vbl. phr. to jerk off (JERK v.1 8).]
(adjective, yes, which further reiforces your call-out).
Stupid slang! Be more normal!
Perhaps "jackoff" would be better, but would have changed PinkStainlessTail's sentence too much?
Dammit.
posted to MetaFilter by jivadravya
at 11:32 AM on August 7, 2006
MeFi post:
CAN YOU HEAR ME NOW?
Hopefully, there's an option for Nextel service with this phone - the constant walkie-talkie action on top of owning a $300,000 phone will definitely let you let everyone else know exactly what type of asshole you really are!
posted to MetaFilter by jivadravya
at 10:09 AM on July 25, 2006
MeFi post:
They Don't Call It South Jersey for Nothing
Re: Pennsylvania
The appropriate term (grew up in Bucks county, keep a small farm in Susquehanna county) for everything between Philly and Pittsburgh is "Pennsyltucky". You people (from the coasts, or the PA cities) are "flatlanders" (pejorative). They (Pennysltuckians), are "ridge runners", again also pejoratively.
posted to MetaFilter by jivadravya
at 10:52 AM on July 14, 2006
MeFi post:
Gloria Trembicky is a bad landlord
Actually, anymore rent control is like a unicorn - never seen by the eyes of man. One can be lucky and find a 'rent stabilized' apartment, wherein one pays rent increases per year at a fixed rate, determined by the city - I think right now the increase is 3.5% annually.
posted to MetaFilter by jivadravya
at 3:52 PM on January 17, 2006
MeFi post:
Secret Red Cross reports confirm numerous claims of Guantanamo Koran desecrations.
Can you imagine the outrage on the right that would occur if say, if I, a lefty American citizen during this "War On Terror" were to burn an American Flag in front of the Capitol? It's a weak analogy, I know, but the principle applies, nonetheless. To argue that "it's just a book" is disingenuous at best - even if you're not an adherent to the religion in question, to destroy a symbolic representation of it is, to be polite, callous.
posted to MetaFilter by jivadravya
at 8:37 AM on May 20, 2005
MeFi post:
Ikea comes to Red Hook
fortunately, the condominium development that was happening at 160 Imlay st. has been postponed, at least for the time being. the development, which was taking place in the two "huge white buildings" discussed in the gothamgazette.com link were to be "luxury" properties, with asking prices (from what i heard) starting around $350,000, prompting a friend and i to discuss the viability of putting a clear dome around the condos, so that new tenants wouldn't have to deal with us,... [more]
posted to MetaFilter by jivadravya
at 11:02 AM on January 5, 2005
