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He hit his 6th HR today. He leads the majors. He has 6 RBI.

My sister got me a Sophia (Golden Girls) Chia 2 Xmas's ago. It's still in the box. If she'd have gotten me Dorothy, it would have been in use on Day 1.

Perhaps I was sick of the constant news coverage for over a week of something I absolutely could not have cared less about.

Biden looking to revive interest in Texas bullet train project

YES... didn't you hear we had an earthquake? Things shifted a bit. 🙃🙃🙃

To the tune of K-K-K-Katie... C-C-C-Cicada, Beautiful cada... You're the only b-b-b-bug for me

I can't tell you how excited I've been about the eclipse... because there's no word in the English language that describes an amount that small.

New York City is serving up out new parking meters that will allow drivers to “pay-by-plate.” The new meters, which will first be rolled out in Upper Manhattan on May 8 before a gradual rollout to the rest of the city, will allow New Yorkers to pay for parking by entering their license plate number into the meter. That will allow the city to stop producing massive amounts of waste from paper parking receipts, which parkers place on their dashboard as proof of payment. Each year, New York City parking meters produce about 2,500 miles worth of receipts, enough to stretch all the way from New York to Los Angeles, the city’s Department of Transportation (DOT) says. “Our new pay-by-plate parking meters are simple to use and will make short-term parking easier for everyone,” DOT Commissioner Ydanis Rodriguez said in a statement. “Drivers will no longer need to worry about leaving a paper receipt on their dashboard and can use the convenience of the ParkNYC app to pay the meter while on the go.” DOT plans to retrofit its existing meters to the pay-by-plate model, rather than installing new ones. The meters will be synced to the NYPD’s parking enforcement systems and will feed real-time data to traffic agents about parkers overstaying their meter. Drivers can also pay for parking using the ParkNYC app, which eliminates the need to go to a meter at all. The price of metered parking varies widely across the city. In Manhattan’s core central business district, the first hour of parking costs $5.50, while in much of the outer boroughs it is only $1.5o. Most of the city’s curbside spots are free.

Are you sure you weren't watching a porn video?

Finally bought some yesterday and threw a little bit into a wrap. I expect Men's Health to call any minute to ask me to be on their cover.

I embrace a James Bond mindset... YOLT.

I blame YOU for the strike that deprived us of new content for months.

I acknowledge the talent, but... Tina Fey, even in (and especially) her commercials Jane Lynch, who has perfected the craft of playing people who are supposed to be entertainingly obnoxious but are not entertaining at all so well that it's all she ever plays. The only time I ever enjoyed any scenes she was in were in her few episodes of 2 1/2 MEN, as Charlie's therapist, but I think that was before her stereotype-cementing role in GLEE. It's a testament to how good ONLY MURDERS IN THE BUILDING is that I love it despite both having had (thankfully minor) roles in it.

He did an episode of celebrity IOU on HGTV a couple years ago. I don't remember much about it but the celebrities usually do at least a little bit of physical labor, so he probably at least sweated, even if his shirt didn't come off. I'm not saying that it definitely did not come off; I'm just saying that I don't remember whether or not it did.

We just had a small earthquake… I was sitting watching TV and suddenly my chair started to shake. I texted my sister and brother-in-law on Long Island, and they responded that their house had started shaking as well. It was a 4.8 magnitude quake centered in Lebanon, NJ

RKTB Architects cantilevers new Brooklyn building over neighbouring building New York firm RKTB Architects has completed One Sullivan Place, a mixed-income apartment building that rises 12 storeys and cantilevers in two directions over the rooftop of an adjacent structure. The building is located in the Crown Heights neighbourhood, near Prospect Park and the Brooklyn Botanic Garden. Totalling 60,000 square feet (5,574 square metres), One Sullivan Place contains 52 rental apartments, 16 of which are classified as affordable housing. Of those 16, three are designated for senior residents. The remaining units are market-rate. With a ground level that is roughly rectangular in plan, the 12-storey building rises from a corner parcel that was vacant. The parcel faces Sullivan Place and Washington Avenue. The developer of One Sullivan Place owns that corner parcel, along with an adjacent building that wraps around it. The neighbouring building has six levels and holds apartments. Appearing as two distinct buildings, the structure has a front facade along Sullivan Place and a front facade along Washington Avenue. For the empty parcel, the team sought to "maximise the buildable floor area for the small corner site by capitalizing on the air rights of the neighbouring building". This meant designing a building that extended into the empty spaces above the adjacent building. "Our team aimed to reconcile the small site size with the considerable amount of developable floor area available to capitalize on," said RKTB Architects managing principal Peter Bafitis. "The team ultimately arrived at the cantilever strategy that would theoretically allow them to build literally over and above the neighbouring building, but the narrow building frontage posed a significant challenge." The architects worked closely with engineers to devise a building with "dramatically cantilevered upper stories that spread out beyond the narrow site and over the rooftops of the neighbouring building". Found on both the north and east sides of One Sullivan Place, the cantilevering volumes are supported by two-storey steel trusses that are 30 feet (nine metre) in length. "Occupying the ninth and tenth floors, the truss functions as a tabletop to support the eleventh and twelfth floors above," said Nelson Vega, an associate principal with RKTB. The building's facades are clad in red brick and metal panels. The upper four levels are wrapped in exterior insulation finishing systems (EIFS), often referred to as synthetic stucco. Large stretches of glass animate the facade and provide occupants with extensive city views. The views were important to "help fetch competitive market rental rates – an essential component for making it possible to include affordable and senior rental units", the team said. The team added that One Sullivan Place was one of only a handful projects that were developed under a now-defunct city programme called Privately Financed Affordable Senior Housing (PFASH). The programme – discontinued in 2021 – facilitated the inclusion of affordable residences for seniors in housing projects by increasing zoning allowances. https://www.dezeen.com/2024/04/04/rktb-cantilevers-brooklyn-housing-block/

How fearless sneaker collector busted porch pirate w/ baseball bat & package filled w/ poop A sneaker collector from Queens got so furious after dozens of Nikes were swiped from his porch, he set up a decoy package filled with dog poop — then collared the crook himself.

What did you do, cook for it? @sync: I am so envious of those with the ability/skill/desire to prepare food(s). I've trained my body to endure my food preparations, but I wouldn't serve my preparations to other human beings unless they were starving on death row.

or at your brother's house in another county, 25ish miles away (hypothetically, of course).