Posts Tagged ‘wood’
Friday, April 26th, 2013
Here you go, here’s an expensive crib set what includes a crib with a drop side (which means it slides up and down) which you can’t sell in the United States anymore.
But can you sell it used on Craigslist? No. Hell no.
Check it, straight from the Consumer Product Safety Commission.
Loophole alert: Are you allowed to sell this crib not as a crib but as a convertible child’s bed?
Possibly.
Loophole alert: Are you allowed to throw away the drop side and sell the crib as a daybed, thusly?
“Beautiful, high quality solid wood Morigeau-Lepine crib converted to toddler day bed. Originally purchased for 850.00. Attached picture is of original drop-side crib which is now banned in the U.S. Drop side piece is not included in this sale to avoid possible danger.”
I don’t know. Maybe.
But what I do know is that you can’t sell drop side cribs no mo, even on Craigslist.
And yet people try to do that on Craigslist each and every day.
Just saying, ma’am.
What should you buy instead? How about a Sniglar* from IKEA? It costs just $69 (and it certainly looks like it costs just $69.)
And it will not impress any rich ladies in Russian Hill or anywhere else.
But, the Sniglar, she is legal, and that’s the thing.
Sorry for the hassle. Thank you, drive through.
“Morigeau Lepine (Canadian) WOODEN CRIB SET: $3250 VALUE — selling for $1000
Gorgeous Morigeau Lepine furniture in excellent condition. 2800 series collection. Used by one child only in smoke-free house. Can purchase individual pieces or all. Morigeau Lepine furniture is quality, Canadian crafted. Smooth to the touch, durable hardwood construction. It will stand the test of time and you will likely be able to pass down to others. All pieces match and are white with espresso (dark wood) detailing — SEE PHOTOS.
Crib – $550. Converts to a full-sized bed when child grows older! (Crib mattress can be added for additional $50)
Dresser – $300
Bookshelf – $200
$1,000 for all three”
*Wasn’t that Gollum’s name back when he was a Hobbit? Something like that.
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Tags: 2011, America, babies, baby, banned, cheap, child, children, Consumer Product Safety Commission, CPSC, craigslist, crib, cribs, damger, double, drop side, dropside, federal, hobbit, IKEA, illegal, kids, legal, Morigeau Lepine, safety, Second-Hand, secondhand, sell, smeagol, Sniglar, United States, used, wood, wooden
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Monday, March 4th, 2013
UCSF is finally getting off its ass and doing something about all those eucalyptus trees and this is the response?
I cry foul.
Now, leaving aside the fact that the Mount Sutro “cloud forest” aint a cloud forest and it aint a forest* neither, UCSF does stuff.
What do the whiny millionaire NIMBY neighbors of UCSF do? Nothing.
Advantage: UCSF.
Of course, there are impoverished hippies who similarly oppose UCSF doing anything to manage this area, so I’m going to look into this when I can.
But the assumption is:
WHY SHOULDN’T UCSF BE ABLE TO MANAGE ITS LAND?
See? UCSF does stuff. What do YOU do?
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To Be Continued…
*What is it really? A stand, a grove, a wood? (Which is the most insulting?) Alls I know is that Christopher Robin used to play in the Hundred Acre Wood, not the Hundred Acre Forest, right?
Tags: 2013, bay area, california, cloud, cut, eye, forest, glaucoma, grove, medical, mobile eye service, mount sutro, San Francisco, stand, sutro, that man may see, trees, truck, UC, ucsf, ucsf campus, university of california, wood
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Monday, June 25th, 2012
How long are these ropes? Like 50 feet each?
South of NoPA and west of EaPA and North of SoPA:
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What’s the game? Do you climb up this huge tree and then slither down the ropes and then tie on a board and then start swinging?
Boy, I’d like to see that…
You Can Do/ Anything
Tags: 2012, bay area, california, central, EaPA, fell, golden gate park, Line, masonic, NOPA, oak, panhandle, rope, Ropes, San Francisco, sopa, street, swing, tree, Tree Swing, white, wood, wooden
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Tuesday, November 22nd, 2011
As seen from Post Street.
Don’t miss the giant Buddha* – he’s in the mix as well:
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Merry Christmas!
* Now, you think, and I’m srsly you guys, you think maybe at some point Gumps could make a replica of the Buddha and then send the original back to Northern China whence it came? Just asking, Gump-bro. I know you have custody of it currently, from Agents of Fortune, though Accident of History, but is that the way it will always be?
“A Qing Dynasty gilded wood Buddha, carved for a summer palace in Northern China, is located in the store. It was carved in the Northern Manchurian Province of Jehol, the summer capital of the Ch’ing Emperors in the early 19th Century. The piece, the largest of its kind outside a museum, is the only item in the store that is not for sale.”
China, China, calling out to history
Is that the way it will always be?
Tags: 1980s, 2011, band, bay area, buddha, Buddha-Claus, BuddhaClaus, california, carved, China, chinese, ching, christmas, claus, decorations, department, dynasty, Emperor, Emperors, Eurocentric, flagship, giant, giant Buddha, gift, gifts, gilded, gold, golden, happy holidays, Jehol, Manchuria, Manchurian, Merry Christmas, north, northern, palace, post, post street, province, Qing, red, red rockers, San Francisco, santa, santa claus, statue, store, summer, thanksgiving, tree, trees, union square, wood, wooden, wrapped
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Friday, October 28th, 2011
The SmartMeter is the round white thing on the right and the cellie antenna is that stuff jutting out at the very top.
How would you like this RF farm parked three yards from your front door?
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Poor NIMBYs.
Poor by-now-certainly-sterile, wealthy, white, wizened, whiny NoPNA NIMBYs of the Western Addition.
And won’t somebody please think of the children?
Tags: 2011, antenna, bay area, box, boxes, california, cell, light, Nightmare, nimby, nimbys, NOPA, nopna, pg&e, phone, pole, San Francisco, Smart Meter, smartmeter, standard, telephone, wires, wood, wooden
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Wednesday, September 21st, 2011
The next best thing to foot binding?*
I mean, how can you roundhouse the typical Union Square/Twitterloin mugger/iPhone** thief with these things on?
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Clip clop clip clop…
Haven’t we been bound too long?
*”The ideal length for a bound foot was seven and a half centimetres” – that’s Wiki-talk for less than three inches, girlfriend.
**First the felonious MUNI riders came for the iPhone owners and I didn’t speak out, for I had the Android…
Tags: 2011, Android, bay area, binding, bound, california, Cruel Shoes, fashion, feet, foot, foot binding, heels, High, iphone, Muni, platform, San Francisco, shoes, shopping, twitterloin, union square, wood
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Tuesday, September 13th, 2011
See?
That’s pretty green, huh?
I think it’s celery something, but they change the menu so much I can’t find the name of this starter online:
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And oh yes, please don’t steal their unique chopsticks, no matter how tempted you might become…
Tags: 2011, appetizer, bay area, Bushi-Tei, california, celery, chef, chopsticks, color, dinner, green, greenest, Japanese, japantown, MICHELIN, post, restaurant, San Francisco, spork, star, starter, steal, stick, stolen, street, wood, wooden
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Monday, August 29th, 2011
Oh dear, I guess Carolyn Alburger already posted a photo of those famous Bushi-Tei chopsticks, you know, the ones so unique that high-end diners swipe them. So, I’m not really adding anything here:
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(Honestly, I missed the photo that she posted. Don’t know how that happened…)
Darn, this means that I’m just another free-loading internet wantrepreneur, another aggregator.
So, I guess alls that left to do is send out a misleading, hyped-up, SEO-optimized, Huffington Post-style Tweet and then I’ll watch the $$$ roll in…
No, I can’t do it! I gots to add value before this post is done.
Let’s see here, Bushi Tei’s chopsticks look like Harry Potter wands, like mini-Elderwands. (There, I’ve started the rise from mere internet wantrepreneur, mere aggregator, up to the lofty perch of blogger, of content creator. Hurray! Whew, that was close.)
But wait, there’s more.
OMG, handmade Pocky!
“Chocolate Pot de Creme – Blackberry and Elderflower: Handmade Pocky” by Pastry Chef Yuko Fujii:
These Pockies are the cutest things I’ve seen since those mini choco burgers that Spork gives you to ease the pain right at the time you realize you dropped $80-something at a revamped KFC. (Not that there’s anything wrong with that. And, last I heard, their Original Recipe Pull Apart Rolls with whipped honey butter and sea salt are still free, price on the menu is listed as $0.00. Hurray! Oh yes, please don’t steal Spork’s hefty, metal, straight-outta-Pusan sporks neither.)
I was going to save these Pockies for another post, but I sure don’t want anybody to call me the “A-word.”
Anyway, bushi tei is swinging for the fences up there on Post Street – I mean, they had a Michelin star(!) for a while, right? (And let me tell you, you won’t find too many of those in District 5, let me tell you.)
And now, bushi-tei has a new chef, I understand, so who knows what the future will bring.
Fin
Tags: 2011, bay area, Bushi-Tei, california, chef, chocolate, chopsticks, dinner, handmade, Harry Potter, homemade, Japanese, japantown, MICHELIN, Pastry Chef, pocky, post, restaurant, San Francisco, shopstick, spork, star, steal, stick, stolen, street, wood, wooden, Yuko Fujii
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Monday, August 29th, 2011
See?
That heavy-duty chain and tiny U-lock probably outweigh this wooden push-bike:
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Does the kid wear the chain bandolier-style when s/he’s riding? That’d be sweet…
Tags: 2011, bay area, bicycle, bicycles, bike, bikes, california, chain, children, cut, cyclist, cyclists, golden gate park, heavy, kids, lock, push, rider, robbed, San Francisco, steal, stole, stolen, teach, u, wood, wooden
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Tuesday, December 21st, 2010
No. No they’re not. It’s not even close. Wouldn’t get one at $9.99 much less $99.99.
(And they’re rather lightweight, so they’d be less-than-helpful in close-range combat.)
And “Ombrelli” – is that a brand name?
And “Manufacturing circa 1947” – really? Isn’t that something like, “I’ll pick you up at around 7:42:30 PM?
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I looked around for the videos cameras thinking I was getting Punk’d or something, but it turns out that Costco is serious about this.
Oh well.
Tags: $100, 1947, 2010, bay area, california, costco, fabric, italian, italy, ombrella, ombrelli, ombrello, San Francisco, stick, umbrellas, wood, wooden
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