Odds and Ends

Categories: Curious, Fun

August 23, 2024

Just things I want to share – just odds and ends.

A headline from the New York Times !

Off the Grid, Extremely Online – August 14, 2024

Am I the only person that thinks this is an oxymoron? How can someone claim to be off the grid and still have a million YouTube followers?

A sense of humour may be necessary

if you read these word definitions:

Trump: Could be either a person of great excellence or someone who “trumps up” i.e. fabricates, invents stories, accusations.

And then there is:

Trumpery: 1) noun: worthless finery, rubbish, nonsense; 2) adjective: showy but worthless, elusive, shallow

Both from the Concise Oxford Dictionary, Seventh Edition, Oxford Clarendon Press, 1982

Another oxymoron

– vegetarian meat. How can it be both? And soon, on the grocery store shelf near you – lab grown meat!

Public washrooms…

have to be clean and bright – now if they can make you laugh as well, it’s a bonus. Check out the pictures from the Maison Alcan in Montréal.

There were more - many more - on the cubicle doors. — Male thing 1

Propmodo newsletter headline – August 21, 2024:

A Manhattan Office Tower Just Sold at a 97.5% Discount

Click on the link that goes to the New York Times original story – there are extenuating circumstances:

The building has negative net operating income after paying land rent to a pubilcly traded real estate company
Required renovation costs and required upgrades at $200/$300 psf over 900,000 square feet requires investment of between $180 and $270 million.
And it isn’t particularly well located.

So avoid headline panic. Read the source article. Get the detail.

Can you keep up with all of the texting acronyms?

There is mounting pressure to do so as they creep their way into everyday oral and written use. I mean, why say « in my opinion » when you can just say IMO? LOL!