Snowboarding in Manhattan

Some NYPD cops are awesome!
From Jon Kalish

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Snowboarding in Manhattan

Missouri City Fines Residents for Chipped Paint, Mismatched Curtains

Pagedale, Missouri In this suburb of St. Louis, residents have been ticketed and fined by the town’s police force for violations that don’t even begin to make rational sense.

One resident, Valerie Whitner, has been fined for having chipped paint on the outside of her home and for not attaching a screen door to her back door. She’s been told by city officials she must replace her rain gutters, her siding and put up storm windows. They also told her to mend her fence, cut her lawn and seal up cracks in her home’s foundation. She owes the city more than $2,400.

Photo above: Mildred Bryant, an 84-year old grandmother, has received citations from the city for having mismatched curtains and failing to have blinds in every window.

Photo by Institute for Justice

Full story: http://watchdog.org/252413/nanny-state-pagedale-missouri-fines/

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Missouri City Fines Residents for Chipped Paint, Mismatched Curtains

Tiny Vancouver home listed for $20K, but it has to be moved

"Sometimes small is just too small, even in a city grappling with out-of-control real estate prices and a shortage of affordable rentals.

A couple of years ago, Ches Lam created a tiny, 250-square-foot house in his east side backyard as a guest cottage for visitors, but the Vancouver carpenter didn’t consider city bylaws when he converted his former workshop/garage into a living space.
Now it has to go.
Lam says his neighbours love the little cottage and have even rented it for their own guests, but someone has made a complaint and city inspectors have given him notice to get rid of the place.
'It’s kind of heartbreaking, said Lam, 39, who has listed the cottage for sale on Craigslist.
'People love it, except for the one neighbour. I really don’t want to sell it, but the city wants me to take it out.'…”
http://news.nationalpost.com/homes/tiny-vancouver-home-listed-for-20k-but-you-have-to-move-it-out-of-the-city-where-its-illegal?google_editors_picks=true
From Anonymous

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Tiny Vancouver home listed for $20K, but it has to be moved

Tile Mural on San Francisco Steps

This is a on short dead-end at the northern end of California Street at Lincoln Park golf course.

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Tile Mural on San Francisco Steps

Doggie Diners

Doggie Diners were hot dog/hamburger stands in San Francisco in the '50s, known for their 7' high revolving fiberglass heads of a perky dachshund. Someone has apparently salvaged and repainted these three.
Melinda Koustousov shot this photo of them, mounted on a flatbed truck in the Mission district last weekend.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Doggie_Diner
http://doggiediner.com/

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Doggie Diners

Good Architecture in Berkeley

I really like this. The curved roofs, the corrugated siding (never needs paint), the nifty balconies, the alternating symmetries…

Kudos to the good architects, of whom there are unfortunately few these days.

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Good Architecture in Berkeley

Nice Shingled Small Home in Berkeley

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Nice Shingled Small Home in Berkeley

Manhattan From the Air, Monday Night

Photo by Sean Hellfritsch

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Manhattan From the Air, Monday Night

This is what a $350,000 house in San Francisco looks like

Listed (17 September, 2015) by realtors as a “distinguished home in need of work.”

In San Francisco, "…it’s clear that money has lost all meaning."
http://fusion.net/story/199332/this-is-what-a-350000-house-in-san-francisco-looks-like/
From Rick Gordon

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This is what a $350,000 house in San Francisco looks like

Green Snake and Neon Tetra Fish at California Academy of Sciences (San Francisco) Last Week

Snark snark: this place is vastly overpriced ($35 general entrance fee for one day), not very well designed, and compliments the weirdness and architectural absurdity of the De Young Museum across the way from it. Sorry, it just pisses me off. The old academy and museum were just fine and in harmony with the bandstand with its pollarded trees outside.

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Green Snake and Neon Tetra Fish at California Academy of Sciences (San Francisco) Last Week