I love carriage houses in Brooklyn, but these days they are crazy expensive.
This one is in our neighborhood. The location is excellent and the place looks fantastic.
But $5.6 million? Ouch.
Category: Crazy
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You are what you watch…
I read so much commentary saying Trump’s flag burning tweet was a “misdirection”…
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A Lost World of Shipwrecks is Found
Via the NY Times, an amazing story of 1,000 year old shipwrecks discovered in the Black Sea.
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Brooklyn Raccoon
I know in most places this is a normal thing, but we don’t see raccoons in Brooklyn. At least I haven’t in 20 years.
But walking home after dark tonight with my daughter, she calls out “raccoon!”! And sure enough, there’s a big fat raccoon crawling over the garbage by a nice brick building. And then he starts climbing up the drain pipe. Pretty quickly for a fat raccoon…
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Happy Halloween from NASA
Via the Verge, what happens when NASA engineers carve pumpkins…
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Fashion = Grammar
From xkcd…
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The stuff in the movie 300, but regular speed and with more clothing
The tallest image I’ve seen and in typical xkcd style, both informative and funny.
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Ironman
My oldest brother Tom is 58. He’s a professor at University of Wisconsin-Oshkosh. Generally he teaches summer sessions, but Governor Walker has cut back on education spending, so this past summer those sessions didn’t exist. So what did my brother do with the extra time? Catch up on reading? Travel? Spend lots of time with his new grandson?
No, he trained for an Ironman Triathlon.
If you are aware, the “Ironman” designation for the race means specific distances. A 2.4 mile swim followed by a 112 mile bike ride followed by a full 26.2 mile marathon. Any one of those individually is brutal. To get an official finishing time you have to complete them all in under 17 hours.
Tom has done this before when he was younger, so his lack of sanity was not in question. I saw him in July when we visited his new grandson in Chicago. He looked crazy in shape.
So I’m pleased to announce that yesterday my brother finished the Wisconsin Ironman. He was slow and steady the whole way, finishing a bit before midnight.
If you want to see the crazy mass swim start, this video is from two years ago:
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Whack-A-Mole
Would have been one of Gruber’s best headlines, if it weren’t for the typo. Hopefully it will be fixed soon.
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Whack-a-mole all the way down.
The URL is still amusing:
http://daringfireball.net/linked/2016/08/11/facebook-ad-blocker-blocker-blocker-blocker
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