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Secret Recipes To Try At Home

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“When we apply our own prejudices to “reform” someone else’s taste, we may be unconsciously denying him some entirely legitimate pleasure. That’s why I don’t condemn a lot of things programmers do, even though I would never enjoy doing them myself. The important thing is that they are creating something they feel is beautiful.”

— Donald Knuth, “Computer Programming as an Art,” Communications of the ACM 1974

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yet again we find ourselves in cook county

Živjo from Slovenija, where there are no McMansions. (I finally know peace.) And yet at the same time I grew homesick enough to make my way back into the Cook County Suburbs, namely Barrington, namely South Barrington, namely McMansion Hell. If only in spirit.

This $3 million, 19,700 square foot house (built in 2001) showed up in a previous post, but only its facade. I promise you it's worth cracking it open and seeing the insides, like a gooey, ugly egg. This is probably the first post in this blog's history where there were no bedroom photos in the listing. Perhaps Realtors™ have learned a lesson from the "Welcome to Poundtown" incident. Anyway, here goes.

Remember her? Wish I didn't.

Foyer

The light fixture kind of reminds me of some peripheral creature you'd find in The Fifth Element. At least it's "unique" (in the same way a high school bully with really rich parents is "unique.")

Dining

I don't know why paint companies have to manufacture every color under the sun. They're putting their customers in danger of making really dumb decisions. Surely some ethics are warranted.

Great Room

I have never seen a McMansion living room bar that full of liquor. I assumed they were mostly decorative but no, these people drink.

like, they have an entire cooler room just for booze:

Kitchen

If you're not having some Wuthering Heights moments while doing the dishes, wyd

Master Bathroom

Like I said, there weren't any bedroom pics, but the bathroom almost makes up for it. Exceptionally weird.

Music Room

"But you don't even play piano!"

Office

How could they do this to my third favorite color???? What did she do to deserve such ignominy?????

Finally, I leave you with some of the most baffling assemblages of architectural bits and pieces hitherto known to residential architecture:

Yeah, this is like 10 McMansions.

Anyway, I hoped you enjoyed yet another trip to the 9th circle of McMansion Hell, aka South Barrington, stay tuned for our next installment, which will be about that fake Croatian town they made in Texas.

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For JavaScript beginners: learn about the 3 types of dialogs you can show your users and how you can use them.

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Core workout use to strengthen and stabilize this important muscle group.

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Petworth Historic Car Show  A lovely end to the evening was following the 1912 Rolls-Royce Silver Ghost

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Long ago, the four nations lived together in harmony.

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New Track: “Ramen Multinode”

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Tokyo night wanderer

https://www.instagram.com/tokyonieve/

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Sweet melody…

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UPDATE ✳️ Hey everyone, here is a quick update on recent Fornax Void endeavors: Slide 1: contents of the Cyberspace Database boxed edition. Slide 2: contents of the Cyberspace Database regular edition. Slide 3: manufactory / assembly line for the Cyberspace Database physical releases. Slide 4: finally finished, and scheduled a lot of ongoing video projects. Slide 5,6,7: current Fornax Void music setup. - I’ve been working on the physical release of Cyberspace Database for the last few months, finishing a couple of long ongoing video projects and recorded some music. The release of Cyberspace Database Physical will be around late July, early August. It will be coupled with the release of three new videos of which I’ve been posting a lot of previews over the last two years. More updates will follow over the next few weeks. -

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Pixel art by Mark Ferrari (*) (**)

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Selective breeding produced these curly pigeons

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