rachel on 23/11/2016 at 12:05
Desk in front of the window isn't great for the eyes long-term, I'd put it against the wall instead. Just my 0.02$
Medlar on 23/11/2016 at 14:16
How about a mezzanine?
ZylonBane on 23/11/2016 at 16:00
Buy a damn chair mat.
faetal on 23/11/2016 at 18:19
Statue of your favourite TTLGer. Better choose one without hair, easier to sculpt.
Yakoob on 23/11/2016 at 18:27
Meth lab it is!
Thanks for the witty replies, TTLG delivers :laff: If anyone has serious suggestions, those are welcome too. Ya I am a minimalist but it still feels oddly empty. Especially if I ever have anyone over. Brainstorming with my sis, I'm thinking between a coffee table + 2-3 small chairs/sofa if I have people over, or a giant creative-space.
(so yes, a murder wall)
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Playspace for roomscale VR!
Meh. I'm not entirely into the VR hype just yet and not about to shell several $ks on vive and new power PC.
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Go all obsessive and disturb your friends and family by proudly showing them your murder wall.
I had a running joke with a friend back in college about how I should set up a little shrine dedicated to a girl - whole little table with candles and fruit offerings, with tons of photos printer off of facebook and cutouts of myself crudely taped next to her. Then, naturally, invite the girl over and completely act normal making no references to it until she notices :joke:
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Capsule homes?
One of the first apartments I checked out here was (
http://apodment.com/capitol-hill-apodments/videre/) a microstudio , 175 square feet. Literally a room smaller than my college dorm, without even a kitchen. Dear lord, I may be minimal, but I'm not a college kid any more. Those were just claustrophobic.
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Not to be racist or anything, but since we're on the subject, what is it with Polish last names? Did they all get together and decide that all those letters at the end of the alphabet weren't getting enough attention or something?
"Yeah, I want my name to be Wyzkyzkylwnzkski"
"...how do you pronounce that?"
"Like it's spelled."
edit: I'm not trying to be mean here, I just really wanna know.
Actually, pronunciation is probably one of the easiest part of the language since it is phonetic. Unlike English, every time you see a letter you always read it the same way (with just a handful of special combinations like cz or dzi). So once you learn each letter's sound, you can read it easily.
Grammar, on the other hand... that's a whole other beautiful clusterfuck.
nickie on 23/11/2016 at 19:23
I have no clever, witty suggestions to make. If it was me, I'd leave it. I'd give my eye teeth now for a bit of space that didn't have clutter. Yes, I live in a bit of a building site at the moment but I spend a whole heap of time trying to persuade the local charity shops to accept stuff that clutters up my life. One day, something will occur to you and it will be the right thing. And you'll be glad you have the space.
Or you could just rearrange everything.
Other than that, I'll go with the meth lab.
Renzatic on 23/11/2016 at 19:29
Quote Posted by Yakoob
One of the first apartments I checked out here was (
http://apodment.com/capitol-hill-apodments/videre/) a microstudio , 175 square feet. Literally a room smaller than my college dorm, without even a kitchen. Dear lord, I may be minimal, but I'm not a college kid any more. Those were just claustrophobic.
I could live in a small space, but I'd absolutely have to have my own kitchen. Same with a bathroom. I don't like using public restrooms due to the widespread prevalence of nasty bastards with obviously poor aiming skills. So there's no way in hell I'll be putting enough good faith in my neighbors to be willing to share a communal bathroom with them.
I WILL NOT SQUAT AND HOVER IN MY OWN HOME! :mad:
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Actually, pronunciation is probably one of the easiest part of the language since it is phonetic. Unlike English, every time you see a letter you always read it the same way (with just a handful of special combinations like cz or dzi). So once you learn each letter's sound, you can read it easily.
Grammar, on the other hand... that's a whole other beautiful clusterfuck.
English is phonetic...when it wants to be. But that's kind of the problem with English in general, isn't it? It's just as contextual as it is structural.
When you get right down to it, it's a language designed by yee hipsters of olde who wanted to shoehorn in as much Latin as they could, cuz...fuck it, the Romans were cool. Also there's some French in there too, cuz of all those wars.
heywood on 23/11/2016 at 20:13
If it were me, I would use the space across from the sofa bed to set up a small music system. And put a chalk board on that long wall to doodle and draw on. And maybe hang some a print or two of modernist paintings or photography. But that's me. I find that looking for something to hang on the wall is a great excuse to go check out galleries and artisan guilds and the like.
Starker on 23/11/2016 at 23:00
Quote Posted by Renzatic
English is phonetic...when it wants to be. But that's kind of the problem with English in general, isn't it? It's just as contextual as it is structural.
When you get right down to it, it's a language designed by yee hipsters of olde who wanted to shoehorn in as much Latin as they could, cuz...fuck it, the Romans were cool. Also there's some French in there too, cuz of all those wars.
The bigger problem was that English orthography got fixed down just as the language was undergoing a massive sound change. It used to be pronounced much closer to how it is written now.
Oh, and you'd be surprised how much French there actually is in English. Depending on how you slice it, it can be anywhere from 30-40%.
Renzatic on 23/11/2016 at 23:15
Well, modern English is pronounced about how it's spelled in most cases, it's just that it still has quite a few hangers-on from middle English that have stuck around, clashing with the current standard, and throwing everyone for a loop.
