Blog from the Loft

Home Lighting Control Lutron — RadioRA for existing retrofix, HomeWorks Interactive for more powerful and flexible controls.

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Yesterday was the most fun day of this loft hunting saga to date. Selina and Steward, the architects, came and visited the site, field verified all the measurements, and we spent a lot of time discussing the design. They came up with some very clever designs. That’s why calling in the professionals are better! Some [...]

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I went to the South End Historical Society annual house tour today. It is always fun to see nice homes. This time they included Lester Thurow’s house, which was just featured in the Boston Globe. That definitely was the highlight. One idea that I can borrow from one of the house is as follows: They [...]

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I just read the latest American Express (Credit card) rewards point catalog. For 890,000 points, you get the Pioneer 43 inch plasma TV. Now I have something to shoot for ! Now, how can I spend $800,000 quickly on my AE card?

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Flying back from Frankfurt via London, a few interesting observations: four 30 and 50 somethings were teaching each other the fine points of T9 data entry on their Nokia phones at the Frankfurt airport lounge. One indication that SMS is bigger over there then in the States. Then at the gate a mother and [...]

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Another birthday entry. This year I broke my “rule” about celebrating Birthday out of the United States. As we recall, 2000 was celebrated at the boardroom at Alliance Bank in Germany, 2001 was celebrated in a restaurent in Tokyo. I almost arranged 2002 to be in London, but all the flight connections was getting a [...]

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Finally I heard that the seller’s agent gathered all the architectural drawings and about to send it to my Architect. That took a long time. Meanwhile on the attorney front everything about the P&S should be negotiated except for one thing — whether I can put something there about the developer doing the custom work [...]

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