Posted in 2021, tagged reading, shopping, so on October 5, 2021|
A reading app Libby stopped working on my i-pad. I wrote to the customer service and got this answer
I’m very sorry to hear about the trouble you’re having. Unfortunately, your device’s operating system is no longer supported by XXX. These iPad models do not support any system version newer than 9. You cannot update your iPad any further. If you need to use software that requires a newer system software version then you will need to purchase a newer iPad model.
Nice!
Posted in 2021, tagged New York, photos, shopping, walks on April 10, 2021|
Waiting for the bus home after a doctor’s visit.
Noticed something? Who’re the masters of universe? Hint: an orange shopping bag is by Hermes…
Posted in 2020, tagged casual stupidity, covid, shopping, worldwide plague on December 13, 2020|
Posted in 2020, tagged corona V, life is stranger than..., shopping on November 21, 2020|
Читая развёрнутое описание инцидента, хочу спросить они там все были в масках? и стрелок, и раненые, и остальные 100 тыщ посетителей молла? Ну тогда всё в порядке! Nothing to see here, move along.
Posted in 2020, tagged corona V, fun and games, shopping on October 31, 2020|
Лишившись других развлечений, занимаю себя покупками онлайн, да так чтоб не сильно било по похудевшему карману.
Posted in 2020, tagged artifacts, racism, rules of attraction, shopping, visual wit on September 21, 2020|
Posted in 2020, tagged corona V, economy, life's trifles, New York, photos, shopping on September 16, 2020| 2 Comments »
Узнавши на ЛинкдИн-е о закрытии Century21 , всполошилась и побежала смотреть на их сайт – а ну чего скажут? Сайт молчит, о банкротстве ни гугу*, о том когда магазины закрывают – тоже.
Что же это, бабоньки, завыл внутренний шопоголик. После безвременной смерти Daffy’s Century21 был последней оставававшейся сетью относительно приличной, в т.ч., европейской одежды и ассесуаров по вменяемым ценам.
*Уже поправили: см. заставку на главной стр.
Posted in 2019, tagged corona V, healthcare, inquiry, shopping on March 28, 2020| 6 Comments »
На улице хмарь и временами дождик, у меня насморк, дома безвылазно неделю у компа, на ночь читаю свежевыпущенное окончание Манделовской трилогии о Кромвеле – всё в сумме жутко давит на психику.
Posted in 2019, tagged 100 days of negativity, architecture, life is stranger than..., New York, shopping on February 24, 2019| 2 Comments »
I just learned the horrible news: Lord & Taylor is no more!
With all those professional (equal to personal, for me) turbulences I had no time nor interest in shopping – and voila! I’m not just behind the times, I’m behind in “closing this store” bargains.
On the other hand, I’ve avoided the [semi-sweet] sorrow I experienced when shopping at Daffy’s during their last breathing days.
What a sad, sad world!
Can you advise me on headphones?
Хочу передвигаться по невидимому желобу!
Posted in 2014, tagged artifacts, casual stupidity, design, domestic duties, review, shopping, visual wit, whosdaman?!? on June 29, 2014| 3 Comments »
Where else could I brag if not in my own tiny corner of the ‘sphere?
Especially if the occasion is so rare, with my usual gadget idiocy.
I researched! And bought ! And installed (all by myself)! A brand new printer!
…к отголоску нынешней глобальной битвы в ЛЖ (кто там недавно жаловался, что жужа померла, никто ни о чём больше не спорит, и даже флешмобы пропали? зайдите к Асёне). Битва – на определяющую тему дискурса всего просвещённого человечества: поднаторевший в софистике религиозный лектор Ариэльского университета, сторонник иудейской версии intelligent design против молодой научно-журналистки, биолога, приехавшей из Москвы поучиться в университете, и вынужденной (по требованиям программы) его лекции посещать и даже сдавать экзамен.
Так вот – чем хороши такие 9ти-вальные битвы: открываешь много интересных для чтения ников. Через 3ю ссылку я добралась до поста и комментария, напомнившего мне забавный эпизод на прошлой неделе.
Posted in 2013, tagged artifacts, design, designer's tales, New York, seasons, shopping on August 21, 2013| 4 Comments »
Today was the last day of NY Now, and being an experienced show visitor, I knew this is the day to get nice stuff.
See, usually at the end of the show of this size many exhibitors, especially mid- and small-range want to sell their floor samples for “cash and carry”, so as not to ship them home, especially if home is overseas. The bigger firms may pack and go to another exhibition and need all their samples (like today, f.i., many of the reps told me they go next to North Carolina or to Germany or to Milan). Keep in mind, the prices are wholesale and sometimes lower, and some are willing to negotiate.
What is also nice when I get the invite to a fair at Javits, I know they sponsor fleet of free Academy buses, to move visitors and exhibitors from their hotels to the J.-Center. And I can get on one of them right next to one of my midtown subway stops and ride in luxury through throngs (what a mouthful!) to extreme West side, right to the Javits’ doors. See how hectic the streets are around us? Yes, that’s museum @Intrepid directly on course…
Finally, we arrived (15 measly blocks took us half an hour !) , I flashed my badge and walked to the isles. Started taking photos…here’s a nice girl at the Peruvian stand and her beautiful alpaca furnishings, here’s a booth with leather goods from South Africa…oh, shoot, I totally forgot – today the show closes at 2pm, I have no time for leisurely walks and snapping pics, I gotta run !
2.5 hrs later, I left Javits burdened with 3 huge bags full of wonderful things – you want to know what was there?
Just came in after walking endless miles at NY NOW show. So many beautiful, beautiful things – many more exhibitors than at ICFF. They took over 4 floors plus Pier 94 (where I haven’t been yet).
I was only able to see about 1/2 of the main booths. Got my supper calories from sampling: chocolate bonbons (pumpkin+white chocolate, mmmm!), pretzels+austrian beer, 15yr Kentucky whiskey (straight), brazilian Caipirinha+cheese bread, various fruit picks and 4 kinds of tea!
Saw gorgeous Japanese tea service (every line sings…), Swedish wool bed throws, sycamore cutting boards from PA, art glass vases I made an effort to disengage myself from, various french soaps, bohemian glass and an incredibly well-designed resin kitchen utensils, don’t remember by who… Joseph Joseph !
Will get you the links later, OK?
Tomorrow – to 94th Pier artisan resource show, on Wed – back to Javits for cash&carry samples sale. Yay!
Posted in 2013, tagged domestic duties, food, shopping on August 16, 2013| 4 Comments »
Guys, is it me or you, too, noticed their prices imperceptibly went up?
I usually buy more or less the same things – coffee, frozen meatballs, various nuts, almond butter, wild rice, some dry fruit snacks, fruit butter, can of crab legs and several cheeses – and I used to pay about $75 for two full paper bags of this stuff. Today it was $90…what gives?
Another question: what do you buy there? They always introduce some new things -maybe you tried something I didn’t and it’s good? Tell me.
Posted in LJ-2005, tagged New York, review, seasons, shopping on June 7, 2013| 10 Comments »
If you, like me, suddenly decided it’s time to buy new WINDOW* AC but don’t know where to get an adequate dependable review, search no more – I found it.
Ну наконец. 69F и дождь стеной. Сaмое время поискать кондиционер. А то когда жара, я не жилец и головой не думец.
Posted in 2013, tagged casual stupidity, inter-nets, life's trifles, shopping on April 15, 2013| 2 Comments »
Received weekly pack of special offers from promotional online company. They are:
Perceive any common theme here?
Posted in 2012, tagged life's trifles, New York, photos, shopping on October 3, 2012| 6 Comments »
Achtung-achtung. I found something that is impossible -no, IMPOSSIBLE- to buy retail in Manhattan.
Posted in 2012, tagged artifacts, design, me, review, shopping, visual wit on May 29, 2012| 6 Comments »
finally, shoemaker is no longer without the shoes. check out my new chair, guys! it’s called Fuksas Bea by Luxy and as close approximation of nirvana as could be.
Out 
. In 
you know what decided it for me? controls. they are “touch latch”! you push the round button, it shoots out and becomes a…cigar, and then you follow what the red arrow tells you to do: twist, turn or shake it, baby!
see also
Posted in 2012, tagged Goddess Demetra, me, shopping, women on March 25, 2012| 2 Comments »
Taken at a discount shoe store while searching for a decent summer evening shoe. Guess if I was able to buy any.
PS
I just got an alert that someone “Liked” this post and now “Follows” me. That someone has a WordPress blog and wordpress thought it appropriate to recommend a few posts from it; one is titled “An Ex-Hooker letter to Her Younger Self”, another “”How a Call Girl Feels When She’s Reviewed Online”.
So I guess my message to show manufacturers and fashion trendsetters got professional stamp of approval.
Posted in 2011, tagged fun and games, life's trifles, seasons, shopping on December 7, 2011| 4 Comments »
Yesterday when I was walking on Prince Street in SoHo, among small boutiques I passed a window of a shop. The window displayed green “grassy”shag carpet and a manikin dressed in unexciting clothes sort of “gesturing”, inviting the customers in. At her feet there was a cute toy bunny, “feeding on the grass”.
Or so I thought.
Then bunny moved his ears.
PS
You know what? Google and NY gawkers are omnipresent.
Found the picture of that same store window with that same bunny. Or maybe it’s a new one. In any case, he was alone and rather lethargic…at least he was not painted pink!
Way to end the Year of Bunny!
[image by: vivien chin via NummyNims]
Posted in 2011, tagged shopping on December 1, 2011| 6 Comments »
Using an unexpected Amazon gift card, bought much-needed set of new knives. Paid special attention to origins of manufacturer; ordered a German one.
Just received an UPS package; opened it, found nice-looking charcoal-blue box. On the lid it says “Slitzer. Germany”. On the back and on each blade – Made in China
Curse that globalization!
Posted in 2011, tagged alone, casual stupidity, me, seasons, shopping on October 27, 2011| 2 Comments »
*Собирая вечером одежду на завтрашнее интервью, обнаружила, что утюг не пашет. Просто не греется, хотя лампочка и горит. Оно канешна, ему уже лет 17-18, в утюжьих годах – Мафусаил, да и помимо общей у него были гериатрические проблемы: недержание водички для пара (просто капала вниз во время глажки, прямо на бельё), перекрученый артритом провод, процарапаный морщинами контейнер для той же водички, а стальная гладильная поверхность – вся в старческой гречке пятен. Но ведь как привыкла! Почитай, всю эмиграцию со мной верно прослужил…придётся выбирать из уже поглаженых одёжек, что надеть.
*Настал тот сезонный час: перевешиваю содержимое стенных шкафов, зимнюю одежду – в спальню, летнюю – в коридор. Весной двигаюсь наоборот, и это всегда улучшает настроение. Сейчас не то… А главное, в процессе заметила, что отсутствует моё осеннее полупальто. Прошерстила все шкафы – нет как нет. И куда я его могла задевать? Смутно подозреваю, что весной отдала в чистку – и забыла забрать, а квитанции нету. Не то, что я осталась гола-боса, но теперь проснулась моя особая любовь к этому пальто. Ему уже тоже, на минуточку, лет 20: шилось в ателье перед отьездом с родины, по собственному дизайну, а ткань – английская, привезённая из отпуска в Пярну. И-эх.
*Уходя из офиса где закончилось моё очередное фрилансерство, я забыла офисные туфли. Под деском. Не новые, не особенно красивые, но удобные. Написала, конечно, писулю менеджеру, вынесет их мне сегодня в фойе. И так я рассталась с этим местом в негативных эмоциях, теперь ещё возвращаться и брести оттуда в виде нищенки с чоботами в кулёчке.
* За окном с утра дождь, и прохладно. Будет течь весь день, а температура к вечеру понизится до 51F.
Posted in 2011, tagged food, gourmet, indian summer, New York, seasons, shopping, walks on September 30, 2011|
Speaking of fiery delights, there will be a Chile Peppers festival in BBG on Saturday. Two words for you, flame-eaters: pepper chocolate.
Who wants to come with me?
Posted in 2011, tagged New York, review, shopping on September 5, 2011| 5 Comments »
.., as it’s universally known, is shopping. Specifically, shoe-shopping.
Got a Lord&Taylor end-of-season coupon in the mail (something useful in USPS pulp download, for a change) and went to get my “20% of our sale items” bargain. Naturally, same idea occurred to other 759 women, all wandering in pandem0nium around same 4 1/2 stands with all left-shoe sale merchandise and then shuffling among settees with boxes and single shoes strewn all over them in insane hope to find something wearable AND moderately priced – unlike a pair of some-designer-I-never-heard-of podium-rough creation which was generously discounted from “suggested” $1,400 to mere $850. And who, incidentally, are those crazies who’d suggest such a thing? I want to look into their shameless eyes.
Anyway, what I want to is to brag. I did dug up something pretty: Franco Sarto sandals that Zappos downgrades to $55 but I fetched for $30. And naturally, the original tag was for $125!
You’d think – where’s the plus of shopping at L&T? You spend 3 hrs, give or take, among hordes of sweaty women and loud sales assistants to just get one lousy pair? Not quite; here’s why.
Among those only-left-shoes I did manage to dig up two others I wouldn’t mind to pay a bargain price for. And a saleswoman did scanned the label of them to her portable to get the right shoe for me. But apparently, those right shoes, as my luck would have it, were already packed and go to some warehouse. The lefties were put on the racks by mistake. An ordinary store sale clerk would just shrug her shoulders – but L&T’s Maxine went fighting for me; she combed through the database, made an order for those same shoes in my size from some other branch, ordered it to be delivered for free to my home at that day’s discount prices and promised they will not charge my credit card until I received the package! That’s what I call service.
I’ll give you an update when I do receive it…
Posted in 2011, tagged shopping on March 20, 2011| 7 Comments »
Chaz, I agree:
I’ll finish out my T-Mo contract, and then I’ll forget they ever existed.
Is that a coincidence that yesterday I found two new-phone/contract offers in my [physical] mailbox, one from AT&T and another from Sprint?
Posted in 2011, tagged in transit, life's trifles, luck, rats, shopping on February 9, 2011|
On the phone:
Me: Hi! I have placed an online order on January 28th, your site said it will be delivered within a week, and I still did not receive it. The invoice number is…
Man with Pakistani accent, interrupting: Oh, hi, ETat! Tell me your phone number, and we will call you in an hour
Me: how do you know my name?
Man with Pakistani accent: Caller ID! It says: ETat on my phone!
Me: but if you have Caller ID then you know my phone number. Why do you ask for it?
Man with Pakistani accent: Oh yes, I see the number. Bye!
Update:
it has been 3 hrs; nobody called me back yet.
Posted in 2010, tagged artifacts, design, gourmet, New York, photos, seasons, shopping on November 6, 2010| 2 Comments »
Jacques Torres chocolate shop. Картинки. (more…)
Posted in 2010, tagged designer's tales, New York, on the job, shopping on April 21, 2010|
So, the NY Design Center announced a spring sale. I’m going to stop by, on my way to a business meeting – does anybody wants something? I can buy it for you before the general public (i.e.: the horde of hippopotamuses with big pockets full of cash) comes in. So? You have 4 hrs to send me a request!
Posted in 2010, tagged artifacts, domestic duties, food, shopping, trivia on April 2, 2010| 4 Comments »
Among all the negativity what can we do to keep our spirit above water? Correct: escape to our little domestic fortress, rejoice in simple delights – cooking, listening to Hot Club of SF , scouting for vintage bargains and reading about our finds.
Which is precisely what I have been doing these couple of days – “lazy days of my mind”, as Pink Martini call it in their Clementine.
Here’s my last acquisition – an enameled roaster gotten at a thrift store for a whooping $7.99. After I washed out the soot and scoured the grime it turned out to be of blue color and stamped Savory along the left board (doesn’t she resemble a trans-Atlantic liner?she does!) Now comes the question where to stop sweating over it ; I wanted to leave some of those lovely patches, they reflect all the labor she went through over the years…and juxtapose the color perfectly. I’ve been on a blue-teal streak lately.
Finding out that ebay vendors sell them for about 2.5-3 times what I spent didn’t hurt, either. And the history is marvelous.
Well it seems that royalty money was at the core of a dispute over the patient(sic!) rights to the Savory roaster. The inventor of the Savory roaster, was a man named Mathy. He hammered out the orginal roasters in his home and sold them with the name “Savory” stamped into them. He later entered an agreement with the Republic Metalware company for the manufacture of the roasters. Mathy agreed to let Republic manufacture the pans in return for royalties but held on to the patent. Something went wrong between the two parties and Mathy went before the court of appeals, his contention was that the patent and “Savory ” trademark was still his and he had not abandoned or forfeited his rights to the contract. Republic Metalware tried to prove other wise. As best I can tell the judges ruled in favor of Mathy.
The year of the patent? 1909!
Posted in 2010, tagged anglosphere, artifacts, shopping, trivia on April 17, 2009|
Through Beautiful Things I learned about closing of the Shambles Museum and the forthcoming Auction Sale of the collections.
Like a kid in a toy store, I can’t decide what I’d want to bid on more: the copper kettle with snake-like nozzle? A set of apothecary bluish milk-glass bottles? Collection of hat pins? Three Art Nouveau biscuit tins called Dutch Boats? A box of mouth-watering jet jewelery? A lacquered fan box in elegant grey and white? Glass carafe with painted cornflowers?
Oh, I want it all, all!
Posted in 2010, tagged craigslist find, shopping on February 12, 2009| 2 Comments »
Posted today in “general” on Craigslist:
Date: 2009-02-12, 4:50PM EST
Email before it gets flagged.
If there is anything on this side of the coast you need get at me. i got all kinds, 1 hitters, 2 hitters, indoors, outdoors, colors, flavors what chu need? range from $25 on up 1 gram-1P paypal works for me. i send tracking if you want, using stealth shipments. start off small to build trust and eventuall make trips. get at me
* Location: Cali
* it’s NOT ok to contact this poster with services or other commercial interests
Gee, what passes for entrepreneurship in California now…
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