asciilifeform: trinque: would love some acid. might make this existence bearable. see old thread re: why i never had any.

asciilifeform: trinque: if you cannot understand this, i am probably wasting space here attempting to explain it.

asciilifeform: trinque: i have zero, zip, nada, interest in being an interchangeable part.

asciilifeform: or not.

asciilifeform: trinque: read thread, and maybe get it.

asciilifeform: trinque: see thread.

asciilifeform: ...?

asciilifeform: so?

asciilifeform: 80 may as well be 800 or 800,000,000 from my pov.

asciilifeform: anyway, 1,2,3,infinity.

asciilifeform: actually i am wrong, fella i know bought a spiffy van for 70k

asciilifeform does not dispute this

asciilifeform: 80k barely buys a van here.

asciilifeform: woah

asciilifeform: no so different from where my parents live, size-wise

asciilifeform: no.

asciilifeform: it was a kind of theme park of not-feeling-cramped

asciilifeform: i now understand why chinese emperors (and american industrialists) built them!

asciilifeform: whereas an endless succession of labyrinthine chambers is precisely it.

asciilifeform: (from my hindbrain's pov)

asciilifeform: for one thing, a four-story warehouse ceiling is vertical space and ipso facto wasted.

asciilifeform: because those spaces do not register as 'plausibly like somewhere i can picture living'

asciilifeform: it is interesting how visiting, e.g., a gigantic warehouse, or stadium, does not tickle this fantasy

asciilifeform dreams (literally) of rooms the way a hungry man does of food

asciilifeform: this played straight into the mega-phantasy in my dream world of 'found extra room in house' that i've been afflicted with since childhood

asciilifeform: a kind of labyrinth

asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: the place was also set up in such a way that one must look for hidden doors (e.g., swing-out book cases) to find new rooms

asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: all the rest - shelves, bulkheads

asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: my old flat had just enough void air in it to physically pass from one room to another.

asciilifeform: (more pointedly, made it 'plausibly like places in my head')

asciilifeform: i think the 'cramped' actually made it appealing to my inner submariner

asciilifeform puts on map.

asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: now ~that~'s a mega-museum.

asciilifeform: seems like he is dead. and was a bird.

asciilifeform: 'Local gamekeeper said he understood that the police wanted the bird dispatched because they were worried that it could cause a car crash'

asciilifeform: http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/newstopics/howaboutthat/10821220/Runaway-rhea-Chris-is-shot-dead-by-a-gamekeeper.html

asciilifeform: (given that i've never heard of such a man)

asciilifeform: so i can't imagine he would invite me for tea.

asciilifeform: i don't personally know a fella named chris rhea.

asciilifeform: it is a museum ?

asciilifeform: any in particular ?

asciilifeform: and it is ahead on the list

asciilifeform: i've never been to alaska either

asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: never had a reason to go

asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: nope

asciilifeform: then shittification, pressboardification, 'modern' towers, shitter/bath combos, and 'lie-down' enameled steel tubs.

asciilifeform: it was sop.

asciilifeform: mats: i bathed in one as a boy

asciilifeform: mats: actually old ru rubs were of the 'sit-down' kind

asciilifeform: no 'pressed shitboard' either

asciilifeform: there were something like seven wooden tubs of various kinds, in just the rooms i saw

asciilifeform: fuck the items.

asciilifeform: of space.

asciilifeform: nonononono

asciilifeform: 'so this is what actual life looked like.'

asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: similar feeling to when i saw an american grocery store for first time

asciilifeform: it is where the piles of 'books' came from

asciilifeform: (literally, the folks who work in that place, brought the crud in for sale)

asciilifeform: mats: much of the garbage in the photos is 'yard sale'

asciilifeform was there with pet, and afterwards we had debate re: whether 'if even a few of the folks with maxint usd wanted a house like this, how many could be satisfied, ..., ..., turkey-buying dollars (tm), ..., ... .'

asciilifeform: though ftr i was there for ~2h and didn't visit even half the rooms.

asciilifeform: mats: i disrecommend the www; just see my photos.

asciilifeform: ^ anybody else in gringolandia.

asciilifeform: ^ ben_vulpes et al

asciilifeform: and yes, one can rent the place by the hour, day, month, and actually shit in them golden toilets !!

asciilifeform: possibly one of the worst company www i have ever seen.

asciilifeform: http://www.omansion.com << very spammy www, if i learned of it from www instead of wandering in, would not have even contemplated setting foot near it

asciilifeform: house of 19th c. mega-imperial somebody, turned into a museum-cum-whore-hotel

asciilifeform: speaking of which, the curator informed me that j.e.hoover quartered his agents in that place.

asciilifeform: (in a residential bldg)

asciilifeform: btw that was also the first time in my entire life in usa that i saw proper european-height ceilings.

asciilifeform: ^ makes sense

asciilifeform: ~THIS~ is how actual people lived.

asciilifeform: it was brain-melting.

asciilifeform: i had never before been inside a hose half like that.

asciilifeform: how else!

asciilifeform: with predominantly 19th c (or early to mid 20th in some cases) setting for each.

asciilifeform: rooms had 'countries' theme - 'britain', 'russia', etc.

asciilifeform: from ludovic vii to aeron.

asciilifeform: there were perhaps 1,001 types of chair.

asciilifeform: five motherfucking stories of it.

asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: http://imgur.com/a/GIDeo << i went there today. and this is how i imagine your old house looks like. ☟︎

asciilifeform: http://log.bitcoin-assets.com/?date=07-09-2015#1264661 << 'negative' there is codespeak for '#b-a and other thoughtcrimes' ☝︎

asciilifeform: wallowin' with the eagles.

asciilifeform moonlights in celestial horde

asciilifeform in zombie city ☟︎

asciilifeform: http://log.bitcoin-assets.com/?date=07-09-2015#1264658 << omitted important elements, the zombie city and the celestial horde. ☝︎

asciilifeform: http://log.bitcoin-assets.com/?date=07-09-2015#1264649 << where does my personal circle of hell fit into this dante inferno ? y'know, the one with work ☝︎

asciilifeform: http://log.bitcoin-assets.com/?date=06-09-2015#1264614 << note the standard slimeball blame shift to the folks who busted the bug vault, rather than the turds who collected and sat on the goodies for usgtronic purpose ☝︎

asciilifeform: http://log.bitcoin-assets.com/?date=06-09-2015#1264609 << this needs exposition work imho ☝︎☟︎

asciilifeform: http://log.bitcoin-assets.com/?date=06-09-2015#1264569 << it's that one bloke, every time. mr. misspell. ☝︎

asciilifeform: http://log.bitcoin-assets.com/?date=06-09-2015#1264479 << holy fuck man what've you been smoking ☝︎☟︎

asciilifeform: http://log.bitcoin-assets.com/?date=06-09-2015#1264476 << same, l0l ☝︎

asciilifeform: http://log.bitcoin-assets.com/?date=06-09-2015#1264443 << i don't expect to get anything out of this. or rather, i don't expect to see any of the things that i want, for the price i can afford. this requires broke, desperate americans selling to make rent. and i can't see them doing it on mircea_popescutron ☝︎

asciilifeform: http://log.bitcoin-assets.com/?date=06-09-2015#1264440 << see above. ☝︎

asciilifeform: prolly not of interest to anyone here.

asciilifeform: ~and~ it's american.

asciilifeform: (you can't actually get a 24/7 unix process at n.f.s. - it's a plain old www hoster, 1990s-style)

asciilifeform: http://log.bitcoin-assets.com/?date=06-09-2015#1264422 << completely useless for anything but static html. it simply happens to be where my site lives ☝︎

asciilifeform: http://log.bitcoin-assets.com/?date=06-09-2015#1264370 << 'work' as in their presence must not make the thing blow up. atm, it does. ☝︎