We always stay at the Frederick across the street but wanted a bit bigger of a room this time. Absolutely my favorite location to stay in the in city with it being right next to the 1, 2, and the 3 with the A and the C being a block away. The pizza at Little Italy Pizza on Chambers and Church is serviceable if you want a late-night bite and don't want to take the train. Los Tacos No. 1 at Church and Warren is always our first stop after dropping off the bags. There's a bookstore on Warren that only sells mysteries and is fun for a stop. Another fun little store is Philip Williams Posters on Chambers. We consider this part of Tribeca to be home for a week or so every year. We love that it clears out most weeknights as people commute out.
We're staying at the Smyth in Tribeca in a couple of weeks for less than $450 a night and that's with a 300sqft room and on the weekend. I guess it depends on when you go.
If you're putting something together then I'd probably be interested in a portion.
Unless you're wanting one person to do the full $30K, which wouldn't be me.
I think his newer stuff like Billy Summers shows he's lost a bit of it when writing young characters. He did a great job with The Long Walk, but of course he was a kid when he wrote it.
Finished Under the Dome and loved it. I like a big, epic, cast of characters.
I used to run with a black guy and one day he stopped in the middle of our run and said, "You know you're white, and I have one question about white people that I've never had answered. What's up with birdwatching?"
I didn't have an answer for him other than, "Yeah, shit, that does seem weird now that I think about it."
Google maps makes it seem alright today. Weekends also look pretty nice being 3hrs from NYC, 1 from Providence, 2 to Boston, 3 to the Hamptons, 3 to Martha's Vineyard, 4 to Philadelphia, etc...
It would take me a few years to get through all of that.
My CEO would rather get shot in the face than hand off negotiations to anyone. I've seen him do everything from capturing a bank robber with a shotgun in the parking lot to him refusing to pay $50 to a vendor because they delayed a delivery by a week 6 months ago.
Hilarious, also TechPod was talking about robots in the house a few weeks back. They were in agreement that humanoid style robots are going to stay sci-fi for the foreseeable future. Having more roomba style robots that do one task well is the cheaper and more efficient path. The headaches of a giant robot wandering around and breaking stuff then falling on your dog and killing it are much more realistic than a robot maid that you can fuck.
That PBS quiz was quite good for pinning me at 27 points. Have I "run lambs" in preparation for the Matagorda County fair as a kid the same week as fishing off of a pier and being lectured to by the future leader of the Southern Baptist Convention on the virtues of attending Liberty University? You bet your ass I have. Do I now find myself selecting wines based upon what part of Spain they come from while arguing with strangers on the internet of the historiographical chops of Richard Hofstadter? Why yes, yes, I do.
Middle ass class raising now pretending to be upper middle.