PASTA wrote: Wed Dec 11, 2024 3:20 pm

tallchris wrote: Wed Dec 11, 2024 11:24 am A house with a bedroom big enough to fit a king size bed. And a detached building so I can have a practice space at home.

Thread is titled "Dumb Desires" not "ENTIRELY REASONABLE AND PRACTICAL DESIRES" buddy

I guess technically we could fit a king size bed in our room, but then I'd have to get in and out of the bed via the closet. Stupid 110 year old houses!

tallchris wrote: Wed Dec 11, 2024 4:35 pm

PASTA wrote: Wed Dec 11, 2024 3:20 pm

tallchris wrote: Wed Dec 11, 2024 11:24 am A house with a bedroom big enough to fit a king size bed. And a detached building so I can have a practice space at home.

Thread is titled "Dumb Desires" not "ENTIRELY REASONABLE AND PRACTICAL DESIRES" buddy

I guess technically we could fit a king size bed in our room, but then I'd have to get in and out of the bed via the closet. Stupid 110 year old houses!

Do you follow this Flickr account? -- https://www.flickr.com/photos/seattlemunicipalarchives/. You might see your house (and a lot of odd social events involving City Light employees).

DaveA wrote: Wed Dec 11, 2024 3:21 pm

LuciousSandwich wrote: Wed Dec 11, 2024 2:25 pm

DaveA wrote: Wed Dec 11, 2024 11:55 am

Love how they keep showing that photo--elsewhere--of dude sporting a shit-eating grin. He totally looks like a guy who would do something like that and have no ethical misgivings about it.

It's one thing to fake your own death to collect a bogus insurance claim, or evade the law if it's closing in on you. It's another if you're just like "Fuck all y'all, I'm outta here!"

Frankenheimer's Seconds is of course a damn good movie, excellent Rock Hudson performance, good James Wong Howe cinematography, though it's way more sinister in scope and has darker implications than Wisconsin kayak bro "dying" under suspect circumstances so he can eff off to Europe.

".....communication with a woman from Uzbekistan."

Assuming there's an actual woman involved, I hope she's not someone who does this for a living and reacts badly when a guy actually shows up in person.

Come to think of it, he also has the face of a man who would shop for mail-order brides. In between eyeing up jet skis on Craigslist.

Never said he was some kind of mensch or stand-up guy!

And re-reading all this, he did take out an insurance policy, so this is absurdly typical stuff, aside from the photo they keep using with him sporting a devious grin.

He's back!

https://abcnews.go.com/US/kayaker-faked ... =116674098


"Borgwardt did reveal to authorities how he faked his death.

"He stashed an e-bike near the boat launch. He paddled his kayak in a child-sized floating boat out into the lake. He overturned the kayak and dumped his phone in the lake," the sheriff said at a news conference in November. "He paddled the inflatable boat to shore and got on his e-bike and rode through the night to Madison, [Wisconsin]. In Madison, he boarded a bus and went to Detroit, and then the Canadian border."

Borgwardt said the Canadian Border Patrol was "suspicious" that he didn't have a driver’s license or flight itinerary with him, but "ultimately, they allowed him to continue," according to the complaint.

At the airport in Toronto, Borgwardt said he bought a flight to Paris. "

Somehow buy an old Church of Scotland property and turn it into a co-op space with a pay-what-you-can studio.

Give my musical instruments away to people who are eager to learn.

Start over.

This guy:




A community somewhere that we work less, play music more, make food for each other, and leave our doors unlocked and our winter coats in the closet for when we go somewhere else.

But mostly that dog cloud there.

LuciousSandwich wrote: Wed Dec 11, 2024 9:44 pm

DaveA wrote: Wed Dec 11, 2024 3:21 pm

LuciousSandwich wrote: Wed Dec 11, 2024 2:25 pm


".....communication with a woman from Uzbekistan."

Assuming there's an actual woman involved, I hope she's not someone who does this for a living and reacts badly when a guy actually shows up in person.

Come to think of it, he also has the face of a man who would shop for mail-order brides. In between eyeing up jet skis on Craigslist.

Never said he was some kind of mensch or stand-up guy!

And re-reading all this, he did take out an insurance policy, so this is absurdly typical stuff, aside from the photo they keep using with him sporting a devious grin.

He's back!

https://abcnews.go.com/US/kayaker-faked ... =116674098


"Borgwardt did reveal to authorities how he faked his death.

"He stashed an e-bike near the boat launch. He paddled his kayak in a child-sized floating boat out into the lake. He overturned the kayak and dumped his phone in the lake," the sheriff said at a news conference in November. "He paddled the inflatable boat to shore and got on his e-bike and rode through the night to Madison, [Wisconsin]. In Madison, he boarded a bus and went to Detroit, and then the Canadian border."

Borgwardt said the Canadian Border Patrol was "suspicious" that he didn't have a driver’s license or flight itinerary with him, but "ultimately, they allowed him to continue," according to the complaint.

At the airport in Toronto, Borgwardt said he bought a flight to Paris. "

I'm mean, sure, it might be sophomoric to make silly assumptions about a stranger who keeps popping up in the news, based in part on his funny grin, but this is all textbook stuff. Pretty cut and dry. He would've made things harder for the authorities if he hadn't taken out that policy. The very first thing cops will ask themselves if someone dies or goes missing is "Who benefits from this?" Then they look into life insurance policies or who will collect an inheritance and so on. If there's anything there, that usually leads them straight to whomever's responsible. This is so common as to be nauseating, you'd think no one would try it, but people still do, every day.

I remember an old episode of Forensic Files in which an American near the U.S.-Mexico border faked his own death, going so far as to rob a grave before setting his car on fire with the corpse inside it. He almost got away with it. But part of the skull, that was positioned against the floor of the car (why would he die upside-down?) remained intact. And then they examined the dead individual's dental records and found he'd had work done of a style only performed in Latin America.

A former neighbor here set fire to his own house, as part of state-wide insurance fraud scheme. Before this occurred, my dog would always growl at him.

penningtron wrote: Wed Dec 11, 2024 10:54 am Sometimes I want a pickup truck. Not an obnoxious don't tread on me thing, but old school Toyota sized truck. Then I could acquire a bunch of dumb stuff from CL and estate sales.

Me too. I have nowhere to put a pickup truck. I have nowhere to put the things I would put in a pickup truck. I scoped the Ford Maverick recently, which is the modern version of the old Ranger and Tacoma. They just seem so convenient.

I did not buy one - my "car for me" moment will have to wait.

I want an N-Scale version of Bob Rivard's massive Soo Line layout.

Nostalgia is my dumbest desire.

I'm philosophically opposed to it. I don't even actually want to go back. I just miss the feeling of it all.

My late teens through twenties years were prone to euphoric levels of joy from just seeing a band play, gathering with my friends, people being funny at a party, becoming totally smitten by someone. Just being out with some of the people I found fascinating, with cigarettes and coffee, at night, driving with the windows down, talking excitedly, all that shit I worry kids don't do as much anymore.

I know that for all of those highs there were plenty of lows. Too much boredom, anxiety, depression just from being young and sensitive. I like being on the middle path, having things feel steady, secure, and just continuously low-key satisfying. It's better. I miss the highs. I know that's dumb.