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Buying a house is a stressful process. Not only do you spend all your free time poring over awful real estate listings, when you do find something suitable it's gotten five offers before you even get there. If you do get a bid in, then there is invariably something wrong during inspection and you have to start all over again.
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Try in New YorkOriginally posted by 888 View PostFashion is a form of ugliness so intolerable that we have to alter it every six months - Oscar Wilde
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i feel kinda lucky because i just went in contract on a sale and purchase in 2 weeks. that's how fast you need to move if you want a place., and pay cash, and pay over asking price, and pay your agent's commission, and your lawyer, and your co-op board, and...
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Just got an offer accepted! I had to offer cash at asking price, but finally got one. Hopefully the inspection is good and we're done looking for a place for the next ten or so years.Comment
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Congrats! I also considered financing when the rates were really low a few months ago, but the lending process is slow as molasses. I would have lost a lot of potential places for me to move into if I had to wait for several months to close.Comment
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so this pretty hilarious thing just happened
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Eugene Thacker on that non-color so many of us are obsessed with, black.
"He described this initial impetus as like discovering that they both were looking at the same intriguing specific tropical fish, with attempts to understand it leading to a huge ferocious formalism he characterizes as a shark that leapt out of the tank."Comment
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All guys named Eugene are too smart for their own good.Fashion is a form of ugliness so intolerable that we have to alter it every six months - Oscar Wilde
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Fashion is a form of ugliness so intolerable that we have to alter it every six months - Oscar Wilde
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I love this.
toddler buys car on eBay with dad’s smartphone
I'm waiting for little miss to now post her purchase in Good Finds.
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That's cute. I imagine that could look pretty good and run pretty well after 15 years of work.Originally posted by interest1 View Post
I love this.
toddler buys car on eBay with dad’s smartphone
I'm waiting for little miss to now post her purchase in Good Finds.
An artist is not paid for his labor, but for his vision. - James Whistler
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Since there seem to be alot of Russian people or people of russian ancestry on SZ, a question: Is Russian Intellectual culture really this far beyond the two cultures divide? If so, major props.
"I come back to Yuri Manin and his book Mathematics as Metaphor. The book is mainly about mathematics. It may come as a surprise to Western readers that he writes with equal eloquence about other subjects such as the collective unconscious, the origin of human language, the psychology of autism, and the role of the trickster in the mythology of many cultures. To his compatriots in Russia, such many-sided interests and expertise would come as no surprise. Russian intellectuals maintain the proud tradition of the old Russian intelligentsia, with scientists and poets and artists and musicians belonging to a single community. They are still today, as we see them in the plays of Chekhov, a group of idealists bound together by their alienation from a superstitious society and a capricious government. In Russia, mathematicians and composers and film-producers talk to one another, walk together in the snow on winter nights, sit together over a bottle of wine, and share each others’ thoughts" - Freeman Dyson, from an essay on Birds & Frogs (generalists & specialists) in the worlds of math and physics.
(The only other Russian Mathematician whose work I'm somewhat familiar with - Misha Gromov - is also a man of many interests who has even collaborated with David Lynch.)"He described this initial impetus as like discovering that they both were looking at the same intriguing specific tropical fish, with attempts to understand it leading to a huge ferocious formalism he characterizes as a shark that leapt out of the tank."Comment
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I can't speak for contemporary Russia, but, yes, it was given that any person of intellect should be very well versed in culture. As far as I know there was no right brain/left brain war they way it is in the US. You know, doctors were taught that they should be doctors because their profession is noble, not because they can bag a million a year. And doctors were supposed to have empathy. And empathy comes not from math but from literature. Have you heard of Leonid Tsypkin? Fascinating figure.
In general the emphasis on the importance of education in Russia was paramount. When janitors joke of Pushkin, you know you live in a different culture. If you did not know something from high culture you were met with derision - something that here is reserved for Williamsburg music nerds. People did not flaunt their ignorance, that's for sure.
Not that it did us much good, mind you. But it was useful for the ruling Communist elite to teach us that it's much better to enrich our minds and souls than our bank accounts. Who needs material comforts when your soul can soar with Lermontov and flow like Landau's mercury.
Fashion is a form of ugliness so intolerable that we have to alter it every six months - Oscar Wilde
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