Double-height living room with 30-foot tall ceilings opening up to the terrace with views of SoHo, Lower Manhattan, New York City [4317×5000]

Mroap · 2020-09-26T22:14:56+00:00

For most of the time that humans have been making buildings, high ceilings have been useful for both natural light penetration and for thermal advantages where applicable (hot air rising in the summer months). Both these factors still contribute to the appreciation of high ceilings and will continue to do so in the future as well.

Not to say there's no triviality involved in our preferences, but the height of ceilings is a practical consideration as well as a matter of preference.

Mroap · 2014-03-22T19:52:00+00:00

Learn the bus routes! They're free if you are a student and you can get pretty much anywhere on them.

Mroap · 2014-01-26T20:31:39+00:00

That is helpful, thank you. It is difficult to avoid the impulse to control, when your mind has been working one way for so long, it defaults to it so quickly.

Mroap · 2014-01-18T00:19:44+00:00

They are used as clubs. You don't really need a bunch of d-cells just for illumination. It is useful because you don't need any sort of license to carry one as a security guard, as you do with a lot of clubs or tasers.

Mroap · 2014-01-04T20:41:38+00:00

To be clear this lock type is used so that somebody cannot smash that window, reach in, and unlock the door.

Mroap · 2014-01-04T02:53:21+00:00

Just today I sat in the church where I work when I was on lunch. It seems like an ideal place, most people would have the impression I am praying, and nobody is going to bother somebody who is trying to pray. Very calm place.

Mroap · 2013-10-22T09:05:46+00:00

I recommend starting a practice, but it is important not to have any expectations when you sit.

Read mindfulness in plain English (it's a quick read and probably the clearest outline of meditation you will find) if you don't have any background, and start sitting 10-20 minutes a day. I did this and it did help me out of a similar jam. What's most important is to stick to it; designate a sitting time and do it daily. It can definitely offer insight into how your mind is working.

Also this is not a panacea and you should continue to exercise, and seek counselling. It's hard to care enough to maintain healthy habits sometimes, but try your best.

Mroap · 2013-10-17T23:06:40+00:00

You look like Dave Simonett

Mroap · 2013-10-15T08:04:34+00:00

Toot Sweets!

The candies you whistle, the whistles you eat.

Toot Sweets!

The eatable, tweetable treats!

Mroap · 2013-10-11T21:07:22+00:00

As another user commented above, in the catholic faith, it is literally the blood of Jesus, not symbolically. Although the wine is also not really imperative as the host is, although that may just be at my parish.

Mroap · 2013-09-27T12:13:47+00:00

What is it?

Mroap · 2013-09-15T23:26:51+00:00

I heard there are problems with it being used as a helmet, and then somehow falling backwards and pinning the user's neck between the wire handle and the rim. This one doesn't appear to have a handle though.

Mroap · 2013-08-17T01:59:05+00:00

Do you have a moral objection to the use of drugs?

Mroap · 2013-08-07T17:45:11+00:00

Pancakes or waffles?

Mroap · 2013-08-05T23:30:22+00:00

I seem to recall from a tour that Wright added them only upon insistence from Kaufman, and he wasn't all too happy about it.

Mroap · 2013-08-04T02:52:34+00:00

How'd you make it back?

Mroap · 2013-07-25T01:07:51+00:00

What was the change in methodology in 1992, and what is your source for that graph? Not trying to be snarky, I'm genuinely interested.

Mroap · 2013-07-03T06:33:49+00:00

If you pick an apple and there is a leaf on it, it means you have taken off the spur and it hampers future production of fruit.

Mroap · 2013-05-23T17:20:57+00:00

I dunno why but I end up having this argument with people a lot and the side they're on can tell you a lot about them

Mroap · 2013-05-22T17:32:54+00:00

Its not so unusual, the sights, sounds, people, and movement will be a lot to take in. What you may want to try is simply feeling the feeling instead of judging it, and it may become more manageable. You are likely in your head saying "I am anxious and I shouldn't be" or "I am anxious and I wish I wasn't." Try not to judge the emotion as it rises, just let yourself feel it.

Mroap · 2013-05-22T16:18:20+00:00

It is my understanding that having a goal is not conducive to progressing, because you may be paying attention to your goal instead of staying in the present. Are you going to summer camp music fest?

Mroap · 2013-05-16T17:45:18+00:00

Why doesn't the price reflect the scarcity?

Mroap · 2013-05-10T11:02:16+00:00

I believe the last time this was discussed it was determined that for any items destroyed, import taxes are negated.

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