Medical, highly regulated and legal.

Yah I just had some medical and I am mellow as a jellow.

tarheel

I been jellin' like a felon since about 10:30 this morning.

Nothing like waking and baking.

Besides, if you're gonna drink and smoke all day, ya gotta get an early start.[/valuelesslump]

Me also.

Look at it this way, when your values slump, their base broadens; relax. #angleofrepose

This body shop in Dorchester, MA, was started by a pair or brothers in 1894, and is now run by a pair of brother great-grandsons.

Fair warning ~ Do Not Fuck With Little Old Ladies ~ you don't know their past.

A great all-season mud and snow tire. :haha:

sure! makes all seasons slick

I was reading a piece about the history of model trains and found this ad for a thingy I've never seen. I guess you pay the water bill instead of the electric bill, although places that couldn't get electric probably didn't have public water and it had to be pumped by hand unless you had a rare gravity feed or windmill set up.

In the UK you used to pay a fixed water 'rate' instead of it being metered, we manged to dodge having a meter installed until we left 2001.
I read once that these home dynamos were very popular in the early days of electricity, much to the consternation of the water companies, and caused the move to metering.

My grandfather's brother told me that his first washing machine was powered by such a device, built into the washing machine. It didn't generate electricity, but directly powered the washing agitator. It used a lot of water.

You mean Banana Lady has been flying back and forth for 16 years? :crone:

Swiss high...

BOOOWL!!!

Heh.

Fuck that shit, I'm bringing a gun.:yesnod:

♫Everyone can see we're together
As we walk on by
♫And, and we fly just like birds of a feather
I won't tell no lie
♫All, all of the people around us they say
Can they be that close
♫Just let me state for the record
We're giving love in a family dose

"Riiiiii-coooo-laaaaaa."

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Album shoot...

Helpful Hint... when you rent a car go for the extra insurance.

Whoops.

yeeeee-ikes.

and if you get a cramp in your right leg, for god's sake, aim for the brake pedal.

where the hell is the rest of that car??!

Here and there... and there, and there, and there... :lol:
Amazing he walked away.

Kelly Blue Book...

Red Tape...

The Mittens.

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I do *not* want to meet that kitten.

The one that lost the mittens? :rolleyes:

:D

Progress of NYC...

The text credits the elevator, but I notice the real change agent in the pictures is the bridge.

The bridge caused the skyscrapers? That's even a bigger stretch than the elevators. :lol2:

the bridge brought commerce and increased the land value. So the only way to build was up. The elevators were invented to fill that need.

glatt is correct. Bridges are the cause of everything. Bridges bring people.

You don't need buildings or elevators or anything else without people.

You don't need bridges to bring people unless you have buildings for them to live and work in. The higher the buildings the more people you need.

You have that backwards. When you have lots of people, you need bigger buildings.

No no, people aren't standing in the street waiting for the building to be finished so they'll have some place to work/live.
If it's a company putting up a building for their firm, they always build bigger than they need hoping the business will grow and require more people.
The rest of the buildings are built by real estate speculators to rent space out. 99% of all cities have a surplus of unrented space. You know, vacancies, not built to demand, but in hopes of future demand.
If there is future business expansion, they might even have to build a bridge to accommodate those increases. That would be facilitating those increases not creating them.

Bridges increase the radius of people available to work in office space, which would increase the demand for big office buildings. They might also cause a short-term decrease in housing demand, as homebuyers consider property on the other side of the bridge. That decrease should be eliminated and reversed as the commercial buildup continues, and people realize that commuting across a bridge can quickly become terrible.

Bridges are ways over obstacles. And that's all they are.

There is no need to increase the radius until the skyscrapers are built and elevated.
Bridges facilitate white flight and the slumming of the hoods they flighted. People coming over the bridge are couthless bumpkins, the city is just where the job is. They jaywalk, take short cuts across the grass, spit on the sidewalk, and cheat on their spouses and/or taxes.

Buildings are built by private ventures, bridges by public. In my experience, the private ventures jump out in front of the demand (sometimes fucking up and losing all their money on an empty building) while the public ventures don't build until the situation gets bad enough to warrant it. When has a road ever been built where you were like, "Huh. I guess that could be useful," as opposed to "Jesus fuck, three years of construction traffic for this, and it's barely made a dent."

I'm not saying the elevator had no impact. I just think the bridge had a much larger impact.

NYC was always a bustling city. It was the gateway to much (most?) of America for centuries. The Erie Canal was probably the biggest agent for change in NYC. Followed by the Brooklyn Bridge, and then the inevitable elevators.

When you build a road into the wilderness, towns spring up along it. See the Amazon for an example in our lifetime. You can't look at the infill roads and highways built through existing suburbia to find your lessons about growth.

Manhattan was already there and already bustling before the bridge was built, but the bridge linked it to Brooklyn and that provided much needed residential space to house the employees. Brooklyn was already there too, but you had to take a boat (ferry) and the bridge carried exponentially more people. Living in Brooklyn and working in Manhattan made life more economically manageable for the workers, and so more workers came. Brooklyn grew in population very quickly. And Manhattan, where the jobs were, was also growing. But it was on a tiny sliver of land so the only way to build was to go up.

The height of buildings was limited by stairs, but there was a tremendous pressure to figure that problem out. Hoists were well known. Everyone had used them to get buckets of water out of a well. They had been around for thousands of years. This was the height of the industrial revolution, and the task of making a hoist just that much more reliable and safe was a relatively simple one that was inevitable. If Otis hadn't come up with the fix, somebody else would have. Manhattan was bursting at the seams.

Would you pay three million dollars for a 100th floor penthouse... walk up?
There wouldn't be tall buildings making room for all those jobs if not for the elevator. You're right, if it hadn't been Otis it would have been someone else, but the fact remains without the safe elevator the city could not have grown to accommodate enough people to warrant a bridge.

Cool. :thumb:

That is very cool. I like it.

I was looking to see what he used to cut the sheet metal. I see he used what I guess is a plasma cutter? Pretty clean cuts with no signs of edge clean up. Plasma cutter.

♫ Here comes the sun (doo doo doo doo)
Here comes the sun, and I say
It's all right ♪

So.... Pretty...

And phelps says it's cooling off so maybe we can go visit. :rolleyes:

This looks like a good idea, but I wouldn't use poison ivy...

Spiders.

Winter image please...

Ticks, bird droppings.

:o

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It's been reasonable here, but, I feel ya.

Ha!

well, maybe this is more what you were looking for. that fucking english ivy *ptui* is evergreen. winter looks like summer, but with fewer flowers. pass the napalm, please.

What do you give the man who has everything?