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IN THIS HOUSE WE PRACTICE
MAINTENANCE AND CARE

(taping stuff together)
A down jacket with lots of patches of orange and reflective repair tape
December 20, 2025 at 5:05 PM
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Feels like an opportunity for some classic "vents that mostly go nowhere except for a circle"
An old Realistic brand audio handset, with a once-common hardware design that included a broad grid of holes, but most of them are blind holes that are really just shallow dents. A circle of full holes that leads to the internal speaker is obviously visible.
December 18, 2025 at 2:55 PM
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A lot to like here, not least the method acting on the part of the logo
The side of a box truck with a big green logo that says “Tri State Dismantling Corp” with a big triangle TSD logo, all in badly flaking vinyl
December 11, 2025 at 11:14 PM
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This gets a big Yes from me
The side of a dark blue van, with a homespun logo for NGC, “Nice General Cleaning Corp” on it
November 24, 2025 at 11:44 PM
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I am terrible at all board games but I did these a while ago and they look cool. Finally got some white gel pens so I can do the other colors.
White game pieces from Settlers of Catan which I drew on with ultra fine point sharpie to look like little barns and stuff.
November 16, 2025 at 5:57 PM
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Wow, it’s November 5, 2025
A vivid purple and orange sunset over lower manhattan and New York harbor. The top of One Penn Plaza is illuminated in red white and blue stripes. Reflections of office lighting are visible
November 5, 2025 at 10:00 PM
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Found what looks like a pretty cool person at a pretty cool url. sunnyday.mit.edu
"Professor Leveson started a new area of research, software safety, which is concerned with the problems of building software for real-time systems where failures can result in loss of life or property. One advantage of this topic is that nobody questions its goals, except for a few misanthropes (who don't matter anyway). She and her students produced a formal requirements specification for TCAS II, a real collision-avoidance system required on all commercial aircraft in U.S. airspace. One of the lessons she has learned from this project is never to do anything like it again. The FAA was pleased with it though and adopted it as their official specification. She and her students are now analyzing safety in NextGen (the planned upgrades to the air transportation system). She claims that you should not read anything into the fact that she has been taking the train a lot lately."
October 29, 2025 at 9:02 PM
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That should do it 👍
“For 1984, Chevrolet rebranded its Citation line, renaming it the Citation II.[3] Intended to draw attention away from previous safety recalls and quality issues,”
October 20, 2025 at 1:40 PM
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Pretty cool: a collection of old restaurant placemats
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A placemat with scalloped edges and three color printing that says "Discover Texas / America's Funtier" with a map and illustrations
September 18, 2025 at 1:51 PM
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I’ve been there
A dry laid stone wall in westchester county , NY in late afternoon light
September 9, 2025 at 10:40 PM
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Oh, you know, normal stuff
A man holds an orange step ladder steady. Another man stands on the (unsafe) tippy top of the ladder and has disappeared through a hole in the ceiling around his waist. The hole is exactly the size of his waist. But it’s fine.
September 5, 2025 at 8:04 PM
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Fascinated by the guy who, in the age of e-bikes, wants $500 for a mountain bike with a honda lawnmower engine strapped to the back wheel.
A silver mountain bike in front of a garage door. There is a large red four-stroke honda engine mounted above the rear wheel, and some kind of big hoop attached to the wheel to transmit drive. Also has 90s style bar-ends on the handlebars.
September 3, 2025 at 4:18 PM
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Whoops it says “The Unification Church” not Unitarian. Also had this cool hammered metal razor caddy inside.
A hammered metal caddy with two spaces for packs of razor blades and a razor handle in the middle
August 24, 2025 at 3:52 PM
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This little box has a lot to say
An old cardboard box with “Mouse Traps and Flat Razor Scrapers” written on it in black marker Another side of the same box that says “A GIFT FOR YOU FROM SOME FOLKS WHO CARE” on a neatly printed sticker The inside of the box, where the inner lid has a clipped sheet that says “Because some are judging us unfairly, please let us tell you what we believe. The Unitarian Church”. The inside of the box is indeed filled with mouse traps and flat razor scrapers.
August 24, 2025 at 3:42 PM
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I just saw it from ground level and thought it looked cool from there, but oof that is a pretty lousy skyline view.
August 19, 2025 at 4:38 PM
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When safety and security are paramount, but you need a solution that moves at the speed of business, you need a Big Zipper
A stairwell blocked off with plastic sheeting with a Danger sign on it, and a huge vertical red zipper acting as a door
August 11, 2025 at 8:02 PM
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Janice from the muppet show who bears a striking resemblance to the 1971 Michelotti Laser
August 4, 2025 at 2:20 PM
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Always a little bittersweet finding stuff from Surprise! Surprise! in an old bag or bin somewhere 🥲
A pack of wall anchors with the tell tale bright green “Surprise!” Price tag (99¢) from the classic old east village home goods store
August 1, 2025 at 2:27 AM
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You have been visited by the $ Money Making $ van. Enjoy your day.
An old and busted box van with cool lettering that says “Money Making” with lots of dollar signs around it and a sassy cartoon face painted on the hood
July 30, 2025 at 1:44 PM
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This is the whole restaurant; this is the correct restaurant
The interior of a small, old fashioned lunch counter with Formica counter and vinyl topped stools. There are only a couple of tables in the small space and about 7 or 8 stools. An older couple sits at the counter eating burgers and chicken. The sole employee working a flat top is just out of frame
July 24, 2025 at 1:41 AM
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There are things they can’t take from us, like finding two other copies of your car parked next to each other outside the strip mall Starbucks 🫡
Three 8th gen Honda civic sedans in dark gray parked next to one another in a parking lot. One of them is mine. Rear quarter view of the same three dark gray Honda civic sedans
July 20, 2025 at 2:53 AM
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Amazing accident of history that this festival takes place on labor day, and we therefore don't have an "in the aftermath of 9-11" shrimp and petroleum festival poster. I guess they had fully processed it by 2002:
A hand painted poster for the Louisiana Shrimp and Petroleum Festival, 2002, showing a big happy pink shrimp wearing sunglasses and playing the accordion in front of a splashing green sea with an oil drilling platform
July 18, 2025 at 7:56 PM
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A calm bay in the Saint Lawrence river is visible through a gap in some trees and brush on a sunny day A pavilion and pier in the Saint Lawrence river on a beautiful sunny day. The flagpole is flying the US flag and the pride flag which I did not expect to see in this community and made me feel proud. Sunset on the Saint Lawrence river with some foliage and a boathouse in the foreground.
July 7, 2025 at 4:17 AM
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I like the vibes here
A small Boston whaler boat with light blue paint inside and a medium brown wood center console with split window screen set at a jaunty forward rake An old wooden runabout with white sides to the hull and a wood deck and gunwales, red vinyl interior, a split window screen, and little Evinrude outboard
July 6, 2025 at 2:49 AM
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We’ve been making a lot of iced tea lately and we have a little perpetual stew thing going on with oleo saccharum to sweeten it. Just tossing more citrus peel and sugar in when you have it, scoop some back out when you need it. It rocks.
A deli cup with a bunch of lemon and lime zest sitting in sugar, which has drawn out the oils from the zest and is very damp, fragrant, and flavorful. It’s a delicious citrus blend that people are calling “the taste of summertime”
June 27, 2025 at 2:03 AM