November 13, 2002: Fight the Power!
About two days ago this weird noise started emanating from the luxury loft building that just opened up next to our tenement on Thompson Street. I'd describe the noise as sort of the evil step child of a low siren wail and a mechanical whirring noise, and it seems to repeat about every three minutes. It's not so bad in the bedroom, but in the living room it is enough to drive a man mad. We called the super, but I felt a little tenant organizing was called for- my next step is following the lead set by Kramer in the Kenny Rogers Roasters episode of Seinfeld.
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I think the noise is coming from the elevator in the building next door, but it could be from some weird device Meg Ryan decided to bring with her when she moved in. Any ideas?
The Russel Crowe alert?
I have a feeling I'm going to need to talk to my advocates and solicitors at the firm of Collins, Dobkin & Miller, LLP.
You need a device to record the low sound. You might be able to contact the police about it. "Is someone's Medic Alert thing going off?"
seriously, it's more like that sound jet engines make when they are taxi-ing up to the runway. It sort of gets louder and louder, and just when you think the building is going to explode, it dies down again. Any possible explanations?
I had to look up the Seinfeld episode (here http://www.geocities.com/CollegePark/2622/episode8.html) to review the Kramer reference.
So you are going to leave Elaine's Russian hat at Heather's apartment? Color me confused...
Incidentally, I just realized you can kinda screw up the readability of this little window by typing really long words like idontwannabeatoysruskidwhenigrowupwhatareyoukiddingme?andhavetoputupwiththatobsequiousgirraffeandhisbandofpokémonpeddlingmiscreants?iwouldratherjumpintoaswimmingpoolfilledwithrazorblades.
Oh well.
Hmm. That didn't work so well, because of the question marks I think.
Trying again (I know this isn't necessary);
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Better, but not entirely perfect.
One last go, then;
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Victory!
Stop messing up my window!
Update on the noise: the super is looking into it and will have a report back tomorrow.
It's not as easy as it appears. Basically the javascript that handles the popup is hidden deep in the scripts that handle the commenting, so i'll have to go in and find it in the programming files to make the change.
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