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GeekNights Thursday - Furniture
Furniture is the topic of tonight's GeekNights. But first, Rym explains why there wasn't an episode on Tuesday (but happily, it will rise from the dead thanks in large part to @tresi), and Apple has thrown the baby out with the bathwater banning ALL instances of the rebel traitor flag in the App Store, including historical, cultural, and other entirely benign uses (e.g., a Civil War simulation game). We also talk about doctors and the hypochondrium, but hopefully neither one of us is dying.
Check out our video of Bad Games from PAX South, as well as snippets from it on Go, MOBAs, and Racewalking!
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As for your tabletop clone I will add another show to your reference list, Game night.
It's a BGG creation that is a superior tabletop show, however because the lack of Internet people is falling short in several areas but they do manage how to explain the rules to a T and make it fun to get through that experience.
I need to get some more photos of my place to share some design by budget choices.
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He is covetous.
Apparently I'm old too because I like looking through some of the Ikea shots and also the stupidly expensive furniture stores, a lot of which are just rectangles and cubes but with prices well over what I am willing to spend on furniture (at the moment anyway).
You guys have some nice high ceilings due to the old style buildings.
What you could have accompanied with this episode (if Scott's apartment hadn't been hit by a bomb) would be a photosphere that we could see on Google Cardboard in VR to show off your Ikea style furniture placements and how small / big your apartments are.
In houses, higher ceilings are a luxury upgrade from the default. People typically have 8' or so. Nice places would have 10'. Expensive new homes will push it 12-14', but it's considered a luxury feature in new construction.
In apartments, it's the same deal. Most apartments have pretty low ceilings. But new luxury apartments have higher and higher ones due to demand at the upper price levels.
Our current place has ridiculously high ceilings. It was built in 2008.
Don't know about America but here in the UK a lot of charity shops have awesome old wooden furniture for cheap because people tend to donate it in-staid of paying for someone to come throw it out or taking the time to sell it. I got a massive wardrobe for something like half what IKEA were selling a similar sized and much less durable equivalent for.
Also I totally lost my shit when Rym mentioned his desk collapsing into rubbish as that's exactly what happened to mine when I moved, the second I removed my PC which I guess was propping the whole thing up the desk sort of folded in half sideways and exploded into dowels and sawdust.
I guess that's sort of the new modernist. Mostly everything in our house is just whatever's cheap and practical. I'd like to have a keyboard tray but it's not a deal breaker. The sawhorses have shelves built into the bottom where they widen out so there's a place to keep my stuff off the floor. We got cheap $1 knock off Rubbermaid containers (also from IKEA) to stack on them in place of drawers.
The problem with doctors offices is always the staff. Every interaction is painful. Use ZocDoc to book your doctor, as it takes the bullshit out of their schedule booking procedures. Find your time and book it yourself. I also have an Angie's List account due to owning two properties, but it has the side benefit of having decent healthcare provider ratings.
Bryant Park does indeed have legendary public restrooms, especially when you consider what's available elsewhere in the city. It is a glorious place to poop.
Mississippi really is worthless, isn't it? Even when you hear these stories about "the government is building some insanely expensive piece of military equipment, and congress keeps making more, because pieces are manufactured in 49 states," that state they left out is probably Mississippi.
If you want to talk about college furniture, you've gotta hear about rich kids at Princeton. The tradition there is to just abandon your furniture from last year and come next fall with brand new stuff. They started a big donation drive where they just asked people to drag their stuff into roped-off areas, and the resulting piles of furniture were mind-boggling. I worked at Princeton for a year doing conference and event planning. We'd book student housing for overnight events, and have to do room checks prior to doing so. It was not unheard of to walk into a dorm room, over after the semester concluded, and discover that a student had packed a small back and just vanished. Left everything, expecting it all to be thrown out. I took home a lot of that furniture.
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I really want a Geek Chic table. I'm surprised this did not come up. The ship's table is also a badass idea, and I would consider stealing it, but I have really nice skylights that it'd interfere with.
I never plan on moving again, so my house is mostly IKEA, and I love it. After a few years, it pays to just go in and tighten all of your cams. Also, don't be afraid to slap wood glue in there when you are assembling. As Rym said, a lot of this stuff can't even be taken apart anymore, or it self destructs.
We even bought a big sectional couch from IKEA, and it's been working out great. So much cheaper than any other couch and is showing no signs of wear after two years. Installation was a bitch, requiring you line up some monster-sized bolts underneath the couch sections. There are pre-drilled holes you have to pass the bolts through, and one of our holes was mis-aligned by several inches, so I had to drill my own. I didn't think those Swedes made mistakes. I thought I was surely fucking it up, but I was right in the end. I quadruple-checked before taking a hole saw to my thousand-dollar purchase.
Like, what gender is this coffee table?
Also I don't really care about the coffee table. It can identify however it wants.