asciilifeform: i recall asking why is the ceiling low, and nobody had answer.
asciilifeform: asciilifeform must confess, that he did not live in a hurscheba-type until it was almost time for the airplane ( after the ancestral home , an early 1900s flat , had been sold )
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: how much of the old-times flats still stand ?
asciilifeform sings 'что тебе снится, крейсер аврора...'
asciilifeform: but they dun have these in usa, afaik.
asciilifeform: aha. if mircea_popescu's orcistan looked anything like the old-town of timis, then it looked quite like asciilifeform's.
asciilifeform: for typical usaschwitz inmate, 'acreage' is measured either in decimal 'dust' fluff ( if mortgagist ) or in big fat 0 ( if urban zek ) . but mircea_popescu probably knew this.
asciilifeform: in asciilifeform's eyes also that was the piece that made the d00d stand up from the background hiss
asciilifeform: ahahaha it's from that piece that he deleted
asciilifeform: j gave the impression of longing for his one troo motherland, france-with-platinum-creditcard-on-expenseaccount
asciilifeform at one time took a stab at reading jefferson, to try to find out what specifically the man subscribed to. but walked away with picture 'was simply prolix d00d who couldn't manage his 'creditcard', nuffintowritehomeabout'
asciilifeform: dunno that jefferson subscribed to it, at least in this formulation
asciilifeform: what 'rich' means muchly depends on locale. 'rich chukcha' has moar deer, i imagine. rich plantator -- moar ground. but there is not a habsburg house for him to live in, he cannot buy it any more than he could have bought a pdp-8
asciilifeform: not far from where asciilifeform lives , there is a preserved manor house from enormous plantation, that once covered what is now 4 or so townships. the house is quite tame by even timisoara standards.
asciilifeform: i dun think anybody imagined the plantators being loaded by euro standard.
asciilifeform: by standard of euro royal houses -- poor. by local standards ?
asciilifeform: ben_vulpes: i used to work with a number of d00dz who had young chillunz, they all bought rubberized tabletrons for'em 'as soon as knew how to hold it'
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: incidentally, in re milk thread ( http://btcbase.org/log/2017-10-25#1728908 and elsewhere ) -- i found out that there is apparently nao an Official loophole -- while it lasts -- in usgistan : raw milk sold 'for cats' , for piles of money , wink, nudge, posh clientelle fills up thermoses☝︎
asciilifeform: one day i'd like to so much as see one
asciilifeform: a grous is рябчик , and for most of life asciilifeform never encountered it in any other context.
asciilifeform: nah it's just this old skull attic furniture, this rhyme.
asciilifeform finds that he cannot think of grouse without recalling mayakovsky's 'Ешь ананасы, рябчиков жуй, / день твой последний приходит, буржуй.'☟︎
asciilifeform: BingoBoingo: this -- supposing it actually worx as-printed-on-the-box -- is pretty neato.
asciilifeform reviews linked item, with some surprise notices that it in fact mentioned a turtle
asciilifeform: so may as well buy the single-shot wipes, same type as for rifle barrels
asciilifeform: BingoBoingo: it is only 'great for dusting' when new. but i've found that lens cleaner cloth is ~disposable, it dun 'micro-' no moar after 1st wash.
asciilifeform: sustainably(tm)(r) knitted from fibers grown in the skins of sustainable(tm)(r) diverse(tm)(r) nation of africa nationals ?
asciilifeform: as it is, i haven't even mustered the givingashit to go there as pure tourist
asciilifeform: what do folx need to have inside their crankcase, to swallow it.☟︎
asciilifeform many times offered work in ca, equally many times refused. 'tell me why i should take the double pay , so as to pay 3x for flat, and it will have roaches , why ? '
