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kleinbl00 · 4752 days ago · link · · parent · post: Christopher Hitchens dead at 62

Different friend.

Guy who I saw it with was one of four storyboard artists. Works with JJ Abrams often enough to call him "JJ."

Guy who took photos of Dubai worked for this company: http://www.wetdesign.com/

They did the fountain at the Birj, same as they did the fountain at the Bellagio.

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thenewgreen · 4752 days ago · link ·

Thats right, I forgot you had mentioned that before. I was just at the Cosmo in vegas not too long ago. We had a great view of the Bellagio fountain from our terrace. It's amazing how transfixed a group of people are by some water, lights and music.

Cosmo is an amazing hotel btw.

Hope your projects are going well.

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kleinbl00 · 4752 days ago · link ·

Found a $5 bill on a piece of property I desperately want to buy but can't possibly afford at the moment.

Trying to decide whether I should buy lottery tickets with it.

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thenewgreen · 4752 days ago · link ·

http://www.redfin.com/CA/Pasadena/645-Prospect-Cres-91103/ho... ??

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kleinbl00 · 4752 days ago · link ·

http://www.redfin.com/WA/Bellingham/2300-Lake-Louise-Rd-9822...

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thenewgreen · 4752 days ago · link ·

btw, assuming Bellingham is a desirable place. 349k doesn't seem unreasonable.

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kleinbl00 · 4752 days ago · link ·

I live in an 1100sqft condo in LA. It has $600/mo HOA fees that I don't have to pay.

My landlord bought it for $390k in 2007. It's currently worth about $350k.

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thenewgreen · 4752 days ago · link ·

This is where I Hubski:

http://i.imgur.com/JTIpK.jpg

http://imgur.com/rUoti

I bought it a little over 6 months ago between Chapel Hill and Durham, NC. I think I'll be lucky if I break even on it when I sell 3 years from now, but my wife loves it, I love it. It's not an "investment", it's where I live.

I'd much rather live beside a "waterfall" in WA but till then, this will do.

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kleinbl00 · 4752 days ago · link ·

I am instantly jealous of your kitchen.

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thenewgreen · 4752 days ago · link ·

I thought you might be :)

Definitely the selling point of the home. I love, love, love that stove. It makes cooking even more enjoyable when you have good equipment. Now there's no one but me to blame if a dish sucks.

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thenewgreen · 4752 days ago · link ·

Who wouldn't want to own a waterfall? Very cool. It's beautiful. 41 acres, that's a real amount of land there. Would you purchase it with the intent to one day build or just to have as an investment property or as your own preserve? Either way, from the description it sounds fantastic. Not sure what Bellingham is like but WA is pretty high on the list of states we'd like to live in. Buy it, hold on to it and who knows maybe one day I'll take it off your hands. As for the $5, why not get a lotto ticket? I've only done so a handful of times but it's always fun.

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kleinbl00 · 4752 days ago · link ·

Sister's an architect. The waterfall is on top of a 200' vertical drop, like Niagara. Gonna build me a fallingwater up there, and then plant the whole thing all permaculture full of raspberries, blueberries, hazelnuts and shit.

We already make booze, and we do a damn fine job. This, however, changed everything:

http://www.burningstill.com/?q=node/47

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thenewgreen · 4752 days ago · link ·

exciting. Is this the idea, move to WA and distill your own spirits for distribution/retail purposes? What are the spirits?

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kleinbl00 · 4752 days ago · link ·

Brandy, port, liquers.

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thenewgreen · 4752 days ago · link ·

Let me know if/when you have a product to support and I will. I know a ton of restauranteurs in the midwest that would love to support small batch producers.