I happen to have a copy of The Official Preppy Handbook, and it seems that preppy cars barely changed at all since the book was written in 1980. That s 41 years ago! Lisa Birnbach says the following car makes are preppy: Land RoverToyota Land CruiserJeepInternational HarvesterWoody station wagonsVolkswagenBMWVolvoPeugeotMercedes BenzAny English car (today, that would include [ ]
I’m in a preppy place in New England and I notice the cars are different here than in prole parts of the New York metropolitan area. The quick summary is that European cars are preppy, American cars are not preppy (except for Jeeps which are preppy), Korean cars are not preppy, Japanese cars are neither [ ]
https://www.forbes.com/sites/forbes-global-properties/2021/07/29/inside-manhattans-co-op-market-where-prices-are-rising-amid-easing-covid-restrictions/ The article above says that prices in Manhattan are going up? What happened to the narrative that people are LEAVING Manhattan because they can work from home? Well I don t know for sure, but I have some theories. Theory #1: Prices for real estate…
Warning: I suppose this contains some minor spoilers. Over the past few years I’ve been re-reading Robert Heinlein books that I read a long time ago when I was a kid. (Although I’ve certainly been taking my time. It has been four and a half years since I started this project, and I still haven t [ ]
This is all spoilers, so don’t read if you haven’t watched the movie. I believe that the story actually takes place while Anthony is at the nursing him, and we are seeing his memories. Which are full of holes, so the scenes of the movie don’t always match up completely to what really happened. The [ ]
At first glance, it’s easy to think that they have nothing to do with each other. Self-driving cars are touted as a more convenient way to commute to work, but if people are working from home then it doesn’t matter if one’s car is self-driving or human-operated. But in fact, what remote work and self-driving [ ]
On August 24, I wrote: We keep getting worse and worse at social distancing, we are sending kids back to school, a new wave of cases before we get a vaccine seems kind of inevitable. I predict between 400,000 and 800,000 U.S. deaths from Covid-19 before the pandemic is ended with a vaccine. We have [ ]
Back in August, I wrote: [T]he cost of a bozo in the White House is 170,000 dead from the virus, and America’s international reputation shattered. The hypocrisy of Trump supporters who railed on and on about how you shouldn’t vote for Hillary because four Americans died in Benghazi, but the same Trump supporters are totally [ ]
Once, in my parents’ neighborhood in Staten Island, I was walking down the sidewalk when a Chinese woman comes out of a crappy townhouse and starts accusing me of taking something from her lawn or something. Instead of having a big chip on my shoulder about being racially profiled because I was white and she [ ]
The highlight of the game is when the chess hustler, losing to the grandmaster, attempts to cheat by using sleight of hand to remove his opponent s knight from the board, but grandmaster Maurice Ashley doesn t let him get away with it. Maurice Ashely s family moved from Jamaica (the island nation) to a ghetto neighborhood in [ ]