THE BEAUTY OF THE PROCESS:
One of my favorite visual artists in America forwarded this lovely video our way. It shows how a NOMOS Glashütte is made. WANT.
CUTTING THE CABLE: Without actually cutting the cable. In other words, there are secret menus for your small screen viewing pleasure.
CUTTING SOMETHING ELSE ENTIRELY: Consider this a Dossier update. Also, consider yourself warned. If you’re squeamish about terrible-not-at-all-pleasant things happening to your best little buddy, don’t click here.
THE CRUELEST CUT: The lowly male octopus. Sorry dude.
DRIVE:
THERE MIGHT BE A REASON…your cat is an entitled arrogant master of your domain. SCIENCE!
AND A ONE AND A TWO…snap to it fellas.
GOOD NEWS ON THE Z’S FRONT: You might have just gained one hour of time in front of the tube.
COMMONWEALTH GAMES: The bad, the bad, and the ugly.
First, for those readers who do not live under Her Majesty’s , a little background. This year there seems to be a great deal of buzz surrounding the uniforms Scotland and Australia have recently unveiled. Unfortunately, it has not been the good kind of buzz. Nope, not at all. At least the Scots can take comfort in their totally bitchin’ mascot, right? Big thanks to Dappered contributer Chris for the tip. He’s currently living in Glasgow. Near a stationery version of “Clyde“.
WORD: I’m just going to leave this right here.
TO OUR CALIFORNIA BRETHREN: You have been warned. Also, dayum.
TO YOUR HEALTH!
GIGGLES VIA GEOGRAPHY: Why yes, I do have the maturity of a teen boy.
OFFERED WITHOUT COMMENT: Your scientific abstract of the week.
VACATION PLANS: The ultimate TV binge party.
HERE’S LOOKING AT YOU KID:
This is a juvenile live bay scallop and those bright blue spheres are eyes…nearly 100 of them.
SCHEISSE: Perhaps their legendary engineering can make things right?
SCHEISSE: Number 2.
CORRECT ME IF I’M WRONG…but if this is what it takes to have affordable housing, something is terribly wrong with our society. Mostly. More or less.
ONCE UPON A TIME:
BUYER BEWARE: You very well might end up in the middle of the next financial bubble.
OUCH OUCH AND OUCH: When things go horribly wrong. Numbers two, eight and nine seem especially nasty. Numbers three and six are all time favorites.
MARES EAT OATS…and occasionally juice it up. This is a problem when you are owned by QE2.
INCOMING!
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Tim Johnstone is Dappered’s music correspondent as well as our resident gatherer of all things interwebs related.
I’m going to correct you, because you’re wrong. The housing project appears to be a great idea and the way to actually start fixing some of the “affordable housing” problem. Currently this is generally run by extremely inefficient government programs, as opposed to letting private companies or non-profits try to build and focus on affordable options. If you actually read the article then it’s pretty clear that this group is not undertaking this project to charge every cent out of renters, but to actually design and test low-cost and low-emission options.
The group is also trying to work with existing materials (shipping containers) instead of leaving these items to rust and waste away. They are working to develop new ideas, technologies, and uses for existing materials as opposed to furthering the constant consumption of raw material.
These people should be receiving praise and recognition, instead of the fear and trepidation mentioned above. They even have examples from around the world showing how well it can work;
http://pierstransportation.wordpress.com/2012/02/07/what-happens-to-old-shipping-containers/
Could be wrong here, but I don’t think the intent of the post was to critique the housing project.
I believe the intent was to draw attention to the issue of soaring rent which has necessitated the development of such innovative housing solutions.
DON’T BE RATIONAL, THIS IS THE INTERNET. SOMEONE HAS TO BE WRONG!
Maybe DC should start electing people who will actually reduce the taxation and spending there. The cost of living in DC is just stupid, as is the fact we let the Feds run the city at all.
This still isn’t representative of a societal issue though, unless you want to look at it as evidence that as a “society” we shouldn’t let the Feds deal with housing. The article is clearly evidence that “society” can create solutions to Government-made problems.
That’s how I saw it. I’ve moved around a bit, and in one state you’ll pay $900 for a one bedroom studio, yet the same gets you a 3 bedroom house in another state, with no real change in quality of life, I’m stunned at the wide variety of housing prices.
It’s a brilliant idea for re-purposing those shipping containers. But it does seem like the circumstances have necessitated an extreme (even if it’s brilliant) strategy.
On a side note, I’d actually enjoy a shipping container apartment if I was a bachelor and didn’t read Dappered.
I’m going to go get another drink. Anybody want anything?
Tom Collins. Try not to drown it…
Height restrictions exacerbate the problem by essentially limiting the supply of units available for rent in the more popular neighborhoods, and in turn driving up the price.
The status quo is perpetuated by long term residents who are opposed to lifting / modifying these restrictions, with the people that would benefit most unable to express their interest because they can’t afford to reside in the District.
Wanna mix up a batch of Dark ‘n’ Stormy’s with that Reeds??
i can attest to the fact that the comcast Internet + HBO thing works.
Although listen closely, because the rep I spoke to (less than one week ago) kept saying “LVHVO” – which I think referred to some sort of expanded HBO access –
Oh, and you get HBO GO…so…POW.
The moment we get ESPN + HBO + Internet…(and basic channels?)…I’ll know we’ve finally arrived in Elon Musks’s beautiful future.
Damn. @Greg_S beat me to it…but I’ll take a Ginger Beer.
Not Reeds though, right? Something else if I’m not mistaken?? 🙂
Especially if it came outfitted like this.
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*clears throat…. Well know that you ask I have several sugge….
You know what? – I’ll Just write about it.
That watch video is absolutely mesmerizing. Excellent marketing, too. I very much wish I had a few grand laying around to buy one now.
On the bright side, you would “only” need a grand and a half to get the entry-level Nomos Club.
Question – my buddy tried to get this with comcast but when he looked into it he saw it was for new customers in test markets only. Any idea if this is true or is it just a matter of being persistent enough with the comcast rep?
In my case, I was honestly considering a downgrade or a cancel. With multiple users in my apt. and all of us using the internet rather heavily, we were bumping up against that 300GB cap every other month, and I was tired of the extra fees.
So a quick call to the rep led to my getting transferred to the “loyalty retention specialist”. They danced around a bit but once I described my usage etc and the fact that I was unwilling to pay for cable I wouldn’t use she actually suggested it.
Don’t pay more than $57.99 a month for it either.
Oh. and I had been a customer w/ comcast for 3 years prior to that call, and i’m in Nashville – a market that is the LAST to get anything, so s/he was giving you complete nonsense as far as the test market thing.
I wouldn’t be surprised if the AirBnB incident was orchestrated by the hotel lobby (confusing term).
Hey Joe, just a question. I originally found Dappered through the “steal the style” posts. I haven’t seen one in ages, I was just wondering why did you drop the series?