asciilifeform: i especially liked this kind of motorcycle that the local orcs ride, it looks like it is made for a boy, their arses just nearly touch the ground !

asciilifeform: and pretty much everything he wrote, as far as i could discern, was true.

asciilifeform: BingoBoingo: this thing was in the middle of ladond's red zone map

asciilifeform: has own crematorium even

asciilifeform: perhaps it could be mircea_popescu's castle of doom

asciilifeform: and prolly exceeds what my organs are worth, at any rate

asciilifeform: BingoBoingo: it wasn't for sale.

asciilifeform: anyway this ought to suffice as a general picture.

asciilifeform: aha.

asciilifeform: abandoned eons ago.

asciilifeform: https://i.imgsafe.org/875dac0d89.jpg << gigantic castle-like thing on the horizon, with trees growing through the roof.

asciilifeform: https://i.imgsafe.org/875ad96a52.jpg << room-temperature meat thing. ☟︎

asciilifeform: https://i.imgsafe.org/87582032d9.jpg << moar tuna than you will ever see in one place. ☟︎

asciilifeform: https://i.imgsafe.org/8755d5b992.jpg << where they eat.

asciilifeform: https://i.imgsafe.org/87542d9ea6.jpg << tub, with can of cat food.

asciilifeform: https://i.imgsafe.org/8751feb135.jpg << neighbour.

asciilifeform: https://i.imgsafe.org/874f207a2b.jpg << shitter.

asciilifeform: new roof.

asciilifeform: nope.

asciilifeform: ^ yes, hard-wired to the house. hence still in the rubble.

asciilifeform: https://i.imgsafe.org/874a3eee3e.jpg << rrrrring. it's for you.

asciilifeform: https://i.imgsafe.org/874a35e17c.jpg << a craaaaaazi game of poaaaakah!!1 i lost it all!111ilost it all

asciilifeform: trinque: my blog has an actual subj.

asciilifeform: https://i.imgsafe.org/8744fd6ac2.jpg << bedroom.

asciilifeform: and i'm not wholly convinced that it isn't a waste of bandwidth, srsly

asciilifeform: but this crapola ain't ever going on my actual blog.

asciilifeform: tired of the ad bar

asciilifeform: on the left hand side: sink trap, yes.

asciilifeform: https://i.imgsafe.org/873d0b0e13.jpg << kitchen. (more pics later.)

asciilifeform: possibly because no human habitation since '90s

asciilifeform: surprisingly, no visible vermin

asciilifeform: $16k.

asciilifeform: new roof and approved by city for sale.

asciilifeform: it wasn't condemned ☟︎

asciilifeform: ^

asciilifeform: need dry and at 20c or so.

asciilifeform: ugh

asciilifeform: tanstaafl (tm) (r).

asciilifeform: it isn't that all of this cannot be fixed, but that the cost adds up quickly.

asciilifeform: BingoBoingo: missing floors, wall wiring, furnace, bathroom contents, entirety of kitchen, etc.

asciilifeform: https://www.reddit.com/r/ethereum/comments/4qwdjq/where_can_i_find_the_latest_update_on_the_path/d4x18b9 << lel

asciilifeform: where is this

asciilifeform: l0l!!

asciilifeform: the idea of paying ~0 is so alluring, it is like dividing by zero

asciilifeform: lel

asciilifeform: eventually.

asciilifeform: and dun see this changing.

asciilifeform: and would like to not.

asciilifeform: as it is, i bleed megatonnes of money

asciilifeform: why would running a great many servers change my perspective ?

asciilifeform: http://btcbase.org/log/2016-07-03#1495363 << waiwut? ☝︎

asciilifeform: *dudes

asciilifeform: the whole lafond safari set in one place

asciilifeform: buncha duded hanging around doing ~nothing

asciilifeform: old white bloke on electric wheelchair going up, down, up, down, the street, all day long

asciilifeform: the locals were an interesting set of mental case

asciilifeform: mm

asciilifeform poorphag

asciilifeform: reckoned up the cost of the missing parts, and it + base cost is > what i got.

asciilifeform: i didn't buy any

asciilifeform baaaak

asciilifeform bbl, off to see ww2 sub

asciilifeform: scootymen, big mamaz, et al

asciilifeform: all of his favourite creatures are here

asciilifeform: BingoBoingo would luvvvv this place

asciilifeform: pics later.

asciilifeform done with the ruinz, now off into generic bmore

asciilifeform: blackholed quite often though.

asciilifeform: http://btcbase.org/log/2016-07-02#1495250 << no? ☝︎

asciilifeform: aha.

asciilifeform: their terminology.

asciilifeform: where there are already 5-6 cruisers writhing impotently

asciilifeform: it gets sent to 'situations'

asciilifeform: but typically the armoured thing is not used as cruiser

asciilifeform: to mow them zulus down.

asciilifeform: how lost ? the apc is there in case the designated africas try to spill into the rockvilles.

asciilifeform: it's internal security, guardia civil, whatever. in usa they both, for historic accident, are called 'police'.

asciilifeform: siege engine.

asciilifeform: it dun need mobility. plants down, then opens fire from turret.

asciilifeform: see also http://btcbase.org/log/2014-10-05#859183 ☝︎

asciilifeform: aha, them

asciilifeform: they are spiffy, i've been inside one, it is like lenin's little tank

asciilifeform: for phree.

asciilifeform: phf: these were issued to all md police precincts some time after gulf war 2

asciilifeform: where the 'red' metro line ends.

asciilifeform: rockville is where the bureaucrat folk live.

asciilifeform: but yes, phf's description is spot on.

asciilifeform: phf: somebody's gotta issue them parking ticketz!11

asciilifeform: lel i lived there for more than decade

asciilifeform: ..alcatraz?

asciilifeform: does a u.s. army base count ?

asciilifeform: i dunno that i've ever been inside of a 'gated komyoonity'

asciilifeform: some of them folk have iron doors that'd be the envy of any bank, etc

asciilifeform: plenty of fear in lafond's redzone

asciilifeform: 'bitch dontcha know yer job is to die and make soap'

asciilifeform: same reason nazis were indignant over warsaw ghetto uprising

asciilifeform: yes, the jhu that has armed escorts from lecture hall to garage

asciilifeform: http://www.jameslafond.com/btg << the blue zone in top center of lafond's map

asciilifeform: that'd be jhu.

asciilifeform: pretty sure that one's still cluckin' along