I'm not going to tell you what it says... You have to get a QR-Code Reader yourself.

special thanks to the folks over at kaywa.com

I don't really know how to set this up other than, The Muppets:

Tonight I attended a vloggers meet-up at the rocketboom studio here in NYC where my friend Kathleen and her producing partner Tom of Dinosaur Diorama productions spoke about the realities of producing video for the web.  It was a good time, and Kathleen and Tom did a good job of laying out there both their understanding of what it takes to get video on the web and the enormous economic and logistical challenges that they wrestle with to get their bumble bee to fly.

And then the night got interesting.  We went over to a bar called Two Eighteen and happened into what appeared to be a wise-guy convention complete with a fellow standing just outside an alcove opposite to the bar SINGING the tunes (with a microphone) over the bar's speakers.  Some serious "fly me to the moon" going on.  Kathleen remarked how fantastic this was to have what looked like a wise guy singing rat pack for us while we drank.

And then it got better.  Vinnie Vella walks up to us (yes, THE Vinnie Vella) and tells us he's the emcee for the night and that there is quite a show coming up.  He then proceeds to got on the microphone and tell the whole bar not to worry about the dozen or so dudes who look like wise-guys, they're just actors.  He then proceeds to introduce a Barbara Streisand look alike who sings a Streisand song in a full length sequined evening gown.

Well as it turns out from what I can tell the actor Vinny Vella has made living playing mob types for some pretty high powered mob movies.  He played "Artie Piscano" in Martin Scorsese's Casino.  There is a video link on his site of him talking with Martin about a scene he did with Scorsese's mother.

To circle back around it was really interesting talking to people in the independent content generation scene, i.e. vloggers, try and reason out how to monetize through the various avenues of distribution and streamlining content to keep costs down.

Finally, because I pay attention to what Kathleen says and I am unendingly willing to plug my friends work, I offer you the following thought:  Respect your independent web video content creator.  They are likely working on a shoe string trying to squeeze just a little more blood from a stone to raise the money to keep going.  So go watch theburg.tv the allfornots.com and give them your eyeballs and tell your friends.

Thanks go to Kathleen for letting me be part of her entourage.  By the way my entourage name is "Cheetah" - just so we're clear.

Well, here I am on a computer running Windows Vista using Live Writer to pound out a post.  I attempted to use Ecto with the new version of dasBlog I had deployed to no avail.  So, at this point my options are debug through why my instance of dasBlog is not playing nice with ecto or ditch the bitch (get it?) and move on.

Sadly, since my job doesn't really involve .NET any more I had hoped dasBlog would be a rewarding connection to my old flame.  But alas, it seems it will remain a reminder of how good it could have been.

So at this point I either bite the bullet and install Parallels on my Mac so I can run Live Writer - NOT.  Or I use my virtual windows box that lives inside my Linux desktop - meh, a bit better.  Or I ditch dasBlog and move on.  This is going to require some think.

Thanks to the kind folks over at worth1000.com for their 'great' photo of a dog.  I think it fits.

I have just finished upgrading this blog to the latest version of dasBlog. I have been trying to use ecto from my MacBook Pro and it kept barfing. I had looked at the source of the last version of dasBlog and decided it was too much of a hassle and that I would just use LiveWriter to do my post composition. But now, I no longer use a windows box at work and my primary carry-around computer is a Mac. So, if tomorrow, when I go to post with ecto against this blog it barfs... stand by for me to declare dasBlog a dog and move on. My buddy over at

I posted on of her video's a while ago. Here's the link if you missed it. She's pretty original, and frankly searching for "Ukelele" on YouTube.com is pretty darn entertaining.

As my regular readers will tell you, my recent posts have been less meaty than usual. Some simple cause and effect later, my direct traffic has been down. Interestingly enough, it hasn't hurt my overall traffic too badly. It has meant that my search traffic has become 59% of my traffic, and Arizona, i.e. searches for "Dave and Buster's Phoenix", has been a big part of that. It just recently eclipsed New York as my primary source of traffic.

I was also noticing search traffic from the term "Dave and Busters Tempe" so I thought I'd investigate what they could be looking for. Turns out Dave and Busters has opened a new location in Tempe, so I thought I would write a post about it.

I was looking at Google Trends after I composed this post. I searched on the term "dave and busters" to find out that the top search city for "Dave and Busters" is Jacksonville, FL followed by my old stomping ground San Diego, CA. So, I wonder what my next D&B post will be about... Perhaps sunny Florida? My only lament is apparently I'm writing a blog about an establishment I don't really like that much. I guess I understand the draw if your life is suburbia, but the one in NYC is a joke.

For those of you who got here by searching "Dave and Busters Tempe" - Welcome. The information you're looking for is below

The Dave & Busters
Address: 2000 East Rio Salado Parkway, Suite 1100, Tempe, AZ 85050
Phone: 480-281-8456
Hours:

Mon - Thurs 11:30am - midnight

Friday 11:30am - 1:00am

Sat 11:00am - 1:00am

Sun 11:00am - midnight

Happy Hour Mon - Fri 4:30 - 7pm

Late Night Happy Hour Sun - Thurs 10pm - close

Power HourTM Mon - Fri 4:30 - 7:00pm

House Policies: (6 minors to 1 adult maximum). 18 and up; Guardian age 25; Non-smoking.

Here is the map of the Tempe Marketplace from their site with Dave and Busters highlighted.

At the time of writing this, Google maps had not posted satellite images of the center

For those of you who read my blog and didn't arrive here via searching "dave and busters tempe", I'm pretty sure you know what I'm up to.

I have been using Gmail a whole bunch lately and getting deeper into the advanced functionality. One of my favorite features is the search operators. These Ginsu Knives allow you to both find and filter email.

I found a help page that gives a great overview of the search operators that I find really useful. It's not hard to find the page but I thought I'd link you to it anyhow - Click Here.

Example:
from:Dave(friday funny) - returns email that is from Dave with the words 'friday' and 'funny' in the subject

Until I started using Gmail more I had no idea these features are there, and I think most folks are the same way. Finding email is my second biggest feature requirement for an email and this makes my life easier.

Amazon rolled out a new kind of affiliate widget recently - the MP3 Clips Widget. It's pretty cool as it allows me to put a little flash doo-dad on my page and you can sample the tunes that I'm digging. I actually have used the Amazon music service (actual name eludes me). I have no love for iTunes and their DRM bullshit. Amazon gives me what I want, tunes tunes and tunes.

So, for this installment, Vampire Weekend and their self titled album... These guys rock. Love the album. I actually blogged one of their songs a while a go Walcott Insane Mix #2 - freaking awesome. So, stream a sample and if you decide to buy, thanks, I actually got it from Amazon Download too. Otherwise head over to Pandora and check the Vampire Weekend station I'm groovin too.

Thank you Mr. Harvey... this is beautiful

Feeling like I'm neglecting both of my readers so I thought I'd offer a morsel on Patents (that I stole from Wired).  At any rate, Venice, March 19, 1474 the following law was enacted:

"Any person in this city who makes any new and ingenious contrivance, not made heretofore in our dominion, shall, as soon as it is perfected so that it can be used and exercised, give notice of the same to our office of Provveditori de Comun [State Judicial Office], it being forbidden up to 10 years for any other person in any territory and place of ours to make a contrivance in the form and resemblance thereof, without the consent and license of the author."

Interestingly enough, according to Wired, it was about attracting foreign investment.

As a "Creative Professional" who does work for hire on a daily basis, Intellectual property law is something of great interest.  I've recently had to fill out a disclosure of all "prior works of authorship" to distinguish my own creative endeavors from things I've done for hire.

In that vein, I'll pass along some advice I received from a friend who conveniently happens to be an attorney:

When describing your works of prior authorship, cut as wide a [creative] swath as you can in as few words as possible.  Put the onus on them to get clarification to try and diminish the scope of what you're claiming.

So, to give you a bad example that is completely fictitious, rather than claiming my new sock knit as a work of authorship I would claim "new solution for sox".  Pretty wide swath, eh?

This is the part where I clarify the bits you've read above:  This advice from from my friend was offered as a courtesy to me and is being paraphrased by me to you as a courtesy.  This does not constitute legal advice to you and I make no representation that I have specific expertise in this area and I further make no claims as to the validity or utility of this advice.  Should you choose to act on these statements you do so at your own risk and are advised to seek competent legal advice prior to acting. This is posted here because it just sounds reasonable to me.

I just love legalese.

Immediately after I saw Noam's post on SearchMe, I busted over to their site to sign up for the beta.  And today I'm pretty stoked to report that I got into the beta.  I think visual search is the next thing in search and I think SearchMe, by emulating the iPhone album "thumb through" interface, whether intentionally or not, hit the nail on the head.  My biggest problem with search results is something they talk about in their promo video. The constant forward back of going through the crappy results looking for the relevant one is annoying.  I love being able avoid those crappy ad site with keywords sprinkled in to draw search.

It definitely is a beta, and I was slightly disappointed there wasn't a gesture based interaction.  The index is small but the concept and overall execution are pretty huge.  I know someone is waiting in the wings to tell me that visual search is not new - true enough, but visual search that looks like it has a change to succeed is. Hmm, I wonder if the prospective buyers are already circling?

Here is their Promo Vid:

The New York Times has an article about the basics of blogging and some tips from the 'pros'.  I want to score a link to my blog on the New York Times site.  I guess I should put some ads up if I'm going to Mahir like that. (Don't remember the verb to Mahir.  Well, I blogged about it here)

So You Want to Be a Blogging Star?

By PAUL BOUTIN
Published: March 20, 2008

Successful bloggers with successful non blogging careers offer ways to think about getting into the business of blogging.

This actually is pretty straight forward and interesting. If I were to add my own tip, which is something that really helps me keep up a regular pace, it would be:

Post Ahead - When I have time to compose a couple posts I'll take one of them and kick it out into the future.

By posting ahead I can keep up my pace and also have "new post insurance" where I can skip a day or two and keep you on the line. This also gives me the ability to publish a longer post midweek when I usually have time for as I slog my way through the week

To keep this all above board, I st-borrowed this photo from The Whole Enchilada: Thoughts on life, work, tech & biz and the whole enchilada.

Okay, I'm trying to to gush here cause my wife only emailed me this about 30 minutes ago and I'm in love.  I'm sure she saw the appeal from a lot of angles, not the least of which is I use my cell phone as an alarm clock and it has an annoying alarm sound. What I'm gaga for is the Chumby and I've really on begun to investigate.

I'm not going to last the week without ordering one.  Here is what Small Space Living (where my wife found it) has to say about it:

Chumby is tricky device to classify. There are not many other devices that have the multifunction of Chumby.
Chumby is a small Wi-Fi compatible device with a 3.5 inch touch screen and a soft leather case. The Chumby is intended to replace your clock radio. But to call it a clock or radio would be so short sighted. It can be loaded with a number of widgets — the list grows daily.
There is no end to the multifunction goodness of Chumby. The Chumby can be a clock or an internet radio. It can track EBay auctions or display photos form your Flicker account.
The device sells for $179, which is the hardware break-even point for the manufacturers. It’s an unusual thing for a manufacturer to sell a product for no profit, but the intention is to make money by selling advertising on the Chumby units.
Chumby could fit well into your small space life — it’s little and has a multitude of uses.

I've created a virtual Chumby here to get a animated look see. But you really should click through and see what their site shows about this little sucker.

Just FYI, I have no association or relationship what so-ever with the Chumby, I'm just loving the concept

Turns out the web IS a small world.  A few years ago when Jonk and I started working together he read this blog forgetfoo.com (NASFW).  Over the last few years we've started referring to the content of Foo's site as 'Web Tits'.  It's sort of a mash-up of web tips and, well, tits. 

So, a couple weeks ago I run into Dylan at Mix08 (under miscellaneous) who works at ClearSpring with Foo.  I mentioned to him that I read Foo and that we referred to his site as 'Web Tits'.  He got a kick out of it and obviously passed the word along because Foo threw down a little shout out (Not entirely safe for work).

Actually, a few years ago when I was interviewing for my job, the last person I interviewed with was a Vice President of Engineering.  He asks a simple yet tough question, "What do you read to get your information about new technology and or web trends?"

Seems innocuous enough, but you'd be surprised how many engineers freeze up or have no answer at all.  Well, not me.  I actually cited Foo's blog as one of the places where I get design inspiration and tidbits about what's hot on the web.  Then I proceeded to navigate the veep over to Foo's blog having not seen what the current post was.  Don't remember what it was that day, don't think it was tits, but I got hired.

And before I forget, top set of tits.

The Saitz has an interesting post about how a tribute video to his deceased dog Cookie got picked up in the YouTube copyright dragnet and how he dodged doing hard time in the hoosegow.

He does it better than I could so leap on over then roll on back for my two cents.

I guess I knew that they were doing some form of copyright violation trolling over there, but it never occurred to me what that might mean.  It has to be automated right, they can't possibly have offshore low wage workers watching YouTube videos that can identify what pop song has been stolen.

I remember that Verizon launched a music recognition service on their phones using software Song IDentity by Rocket Mobile.  You remember the cheese ball commercials where a chick is walking by a store blaring music out the front, holds up her phone for 10 seconds (I think they shortened the time for the commercial - I mean 10 seconds in a commercial of someone doing one thing, no way).  Her phone recognizes the song, she downloads it to her phone (who thought that service would be a good idea? - maybe I'm just in the wrong demographic) presses play and walks away the song magically picking up where it left off from the store.

This stuff is all circa 2006.  Actually, there is a CNET article about same (YouTube, your copyright and Google, by Harry Fuller; October 2006) that is somewhat interesting about how they were looking to automate this (sure I could find an article that is more recent, but isn't it interesting what they were planning to do and where they are now).  What I find fascinating is the database and processing power you'd need to scrub all the incoming videos to YouTube. 

More to the point, let's say I post a video today with a song by my favorite artist Raffi which is not in the You-Can't-Use-My-Work database when I upload it.  Then two months later Raffi gets wise and adds his stuff to the You-Can't-Use-My-Work database.  Does YouTube continually re-scan the massive library of videos looking for new violations as their database grows.  I'm guessing they must.  Well, I'm going to a talk on MapReduce next week - maybe I'll find some answers there.

Thanks for the inspiration Ben.

Well, they almost got there.  This is Jonk's blog in Firefox:

This is Jonk's Blog in IE 8 Beta 1:

Doh.

Ari represent, originally uploaded by astoriahermit.

Ari's demo was great, cut through the bullshit and straight to the code, run it, break point and show the money.

IE8 has firebug., originally uploaded by astoriahermit.

Well, not really. But they built something like it.

Actually the activities functionality through the OpenService stuff looks pretty cool.

Scott Gu is a rockstar, no really, originally uploaded by astoriahermit.

So Scott comes on and the place goes a little crazy. Everyone starts snapping photos... Ooooh get on the stream, they are about to show IE8.

I am currently over Kearney, Nebraska ( I would throw in a link for you but I'm not connected to the inter-webs right now).  Two seats to my left is Noam of Blog.a.lish and right behind me is Jason of soon to be some blog somewhere.  We're on our way to Mix 08 in Las Vegas - Microsoft's Big web development conference.  The next few days will be dominated by posts about happenings at the conference.  Under a cloud of Wi-Fi, armed with a Wi-Fi enabled phone with and a post by email setup through Flickr I'm going to be a buzz with conference posts.

Last year at Mix07 the buzz was Silverlight followed by the Google-DoubleClick acquisition.  This year is certain to be Microsoft's hostile bid for Yahoo (is it safe to call it hostile yet? or just post bear-hug?).

This year has a few sessions about online advertising, an obvious subject of interest for anyone who knows why the web is "free" and/or want's a slice of the pie.  I'm also hoping to get some more insight into LINQ, Silverlight and the MS MVC. And, while it will be tempting to rant, I'm probably going to refrain from sharing my well earned opinion that WebParts are junk.

Actually, on a more non-specific front I'm going to quiz my MS friends about testability.  The project I am currently working on is using Sprint .NET as an IOC tool and N-Mock as a mocking tool. I'm curious what the MS boys have up their sleeve in this vein.  As I start to feel the effects of the TDD Kool-Aid these things have become more important to me as part of my daily work.

Sorry about the absence of links to the various subjects here-in.  I really am at 38,000 feet.  If only there were really Internet access on planes.  Then again, where else would I get to feel cut-off from the world in a cocoon of I-can't-affect-anything - oh wait, I ride the subway to work.  Thank you MTA for keeping me relaxed when I'm powerless.

Okay, this is both intriguing me and weird-ing me out.  I am fascinated by the possibility of huge visual variety, but at the same time, what will I see in the crystal ball come screen saver that big brother has lovingly made for me?

You all judge for yourself.  I'm still deciding. I'll let you know if I go for it and please let me know if you give it a try.

SurveillanceSaver is a screensaver which shows live images of over 400 network surveillance cameras worldwide. Yep, when your computer is idle you’ll get to see a live feed of what’s going on in other parts of the world. It’s quite fascinating because of the voyeuristic element involved but also surreal because it compresses time-space.

Something is happening right at the moment elsewhere and you are a witness to it. It is real but since it’s only an image, you tend to question its verity a little more than what you see with your eyes. Sometimes I can’t bear to look away from the screen because I’m always expecting something to happen just that moment, maybe a car accident or a cute girl would enter into the frame.

It’s these thoughts that make this screensaver (and surveillance) quite an intriguing process.

Some of you likely noticed that around late Thursday of last week, in conjunction with my lengthy post about my adventure into canning this blog went wonky and showed something that was an incomprehensible mix of two posts. The good news is no one wrote or commented telling me my writing had improved.

I think the problem had to do with using BlogJet. It seems to support dasBlog nicely but something went horribly wrong. This post is using ecto. I so, so so want to like ecto, and I do it's got that perfect mix of raw dork horse-power ( html-templating with keyboard short-cuts; solid html generation; and flickr/Amazon/YouTube buttons). But, and there always seems to be a "but", it was barfing on a post I was trying to make again my humble little dasBlog instance. I attempted to debug into the code on the dasBlog side, a big reason I chose dasBlog. In my initial look through I concluded that the problem was likely somewhere in ecto, not that dasBlog is a shining example of good code practices. 

I know, I know dasBlog is open source and I'm so critical, why don't I roll up my sleeves and dive in? The truth of the matter is, I'm not interested in writing a blogging engine, or even really fixing on this one. I've got other side-projects I want to work on and the list is already too long. While I don't believe blogging is fully mature, the issues I've been having with what seems to me a late teen set of technologies: blogging APIs and blog software) frustrates me a bit. And maybe this problem lies in the technology I've chosen. Blogging comes more or less from the PHP side of the tracks and .NET being my comfort zone I opted to use a .NET open source tool. Maybe it's time to learn PHP. (You hear that Bill?)

Back to the dangle-y loose thread holding this post together. I won't be using BlogJet on a live instance without further testing. Windows Live Writer (thanks for the suggestion Ben) hasn't really gotten a workout from me, will be making an audition on a laptop near me. And ecto, oh ecto... What am I to do? I went to your help page hoping you could tell me how to tune your software for dasBlog and this is what I saw:

Looks simple right? You'll notice I've included both the left and right edge of the browser window in the screen shot. In fact, I even went so far as to view source - there isn't an input tag on the page.

I'll give it another try, cause I like it so much, but it looks like Windows Live Writer might win. While it was fun to do raw HTML and I like the spell check and ability to have drafts of future posts.

So I've been toying around with ecto as a tool to compose blog posts on my local box before I post them to my site. Here is what they have to say for themselves:

With ecto you can write and manage entries for your weblog(s). The advantage over using your weblog's control panel is that you can compose entries offline and use the extra features ecto offers, such as spellcheck, creating links, attachments, and much more. ecto is designed to make blogging much more easier and yet give the users as much power as possible to manage their weblogs.

There are a couple things I'm really stoked about. First the keyboard short-cuts for definable tags, so in the rich text editor when I press Ctrl-Shift-B it wraps the selected text with

<blockquote class="withquote"><p class="withunquote">[Selected Text]</p></blockquote>

Second, it has an in browser preview capability that I don't get now using dasBlog. I have to save the post as unpublished and then return to editing. Finally, I'm really stoked about the ability to have draft posts. dasBlog doesn't really support that concept at all. The only problem is it's not free. There is a 21 day trial and then it's going to run me $17.95 or so. It may be worth it.

I've more or less figured out that if I'm going to keep up any sort of reasonable pace I need to be able to start posts in one sitting and finish them later.

I squeezed two posts out of this ritual last month, but I'm going to make it just one this time. I read Wired magazine, have for several years. I consider it my candy reading. The ritual I mentioned is around recycling my copy of Wired. I used to store magazines that I subscribed to in boxes, cause, you know you may read them again - as if. Ever since moving to NYC I have become merciless about things that take up space. So, instead of keeping them, I slice out the pages with things I'm interested in so I can go back later and remind myself. I'm endeavoring to not keep sliced out pieces any more by blogging about the items I'm interested in.

Anthology Records

This is REALLY great. Here is the link to the Wired article: Vinyl Frontier. It's a tidbit about a record label that re-releases vintage stuff. Here let's let Wired tell it.

Sure, iTunes has millions of tracks, but don't go looking there for obscure or out-of-print treasures like, say, the seminal stoner-rock stylings of Sir Lord Baltimore. Fortunately for music geeks, help is on the way. Keith Abrahamsson, an A&R rep for New York-based indie label Kemado Records, recently launched the first all-digital reissues label. At prices similar to those of Apple's square mass-market store, Anthology Recordings offers high-fidelity (320 Kbps), DRM-free rips of supercool, ultrarare titles — from late-'60s Swedish psych-rock to British postpunk and early-'80s dub.

I was doing a little browsing and came across Panama! Latin, Calypso, Panama! that sounds pretty great. And, I have no idea what this is...Thai Beat A Go-Go Volume 2.

Thinking of making my PC my TV

The OnAir GT Mobile HDTV Receiver & DVR for PC (HDTV-GT) seems to do the trick. This is my first stab at just going full on Media PC for all my entertainment needs. Right now we don't have cable and so all our TV is broadcast. It's not as bad as you think. Although we do miss our favorite channels: TLC, Discovery Channel and History Channel. I realize this isn't going to solve that problem, but I'm hoping by getting some DVR action I can do a bit of time shifting on stuff that I want to watch.

Goldfrapp, anyone? anyone?

Does anyone know anything about these guys? Opinions? I am intrigued by the 7 of 10 review that Wired gave their album Seventh Tree. Not running out to purchase (or I guess pre-purchase), but the Amazon.com MP3 downloads is definitely an option. I used it to download Basement Bhangra for $8.99 (DRM Free MP3). It's a good album (also found in Wired) I'll be using the AmazonMP3 optiont again. I still object to iTunes.

Thanks for holding the line. Now that that's taken care of. Over the last little bit I've been watching the percentage of my modest traffic from search inch up to a higher and higher percentage. As of this writing, It looks as if I'm holding steady at the top of the Google search results for "Dave and Busters Phoenix". This is a fairly interesting little trip into SEO. I'm starting to wonder if I should be detecting when people arrive here by search (dasBlog has some hooks for that) and show ads to those people. I'm not really interested in disrupting you-all, my loyal readers, with that kind of thing, but I can't help but smell the potential of essentially passive revenue at some point in the future.

For those of you catching up it all got started by the following blog posts (in chronological order)

• December 12, 2007 - Dave & Busters - Did I miss something?
• January 12, 2008 - Search: Dave & Busters Phoenix
• January 24, 2008 - Well Dave and Busters Phoenix appears to have worked

Definitely worth the read. This is long something I've realized - no talent, no company

Another Difficulty for a Microsoft-Yahoo Marriage: Recruiting

One risk for Microsoft is that it could spend billions to buy Yahoo only to find that many of its most talented people have already left. That is one of the perils of high-priced acquisitions in the talent economy, where the real prize is often the collective abilities of a company’s employees.

This is probably old news, but I can't stop watching it. It seems like it should be a cartoon.

I actually saw this as a demo while looking at Shadowbox.js that foo tipped me off to.

I was reading my buddy Ben's blog, the person who is responsible for me blogging, and I realized that I hadn't ever linked over to him. Let me just publicly say thank you, this has been a really great addition so my life, and something I've come to cherish. I've also added him to the blog-roll

Ben has some really great stuff about greenify-ing his home. I try and make him a daily read.

Mashable has a post Star Trek Comes To Joost, Nerds Rejoice!. I will confess I will probably be checking this out, much to the chagrin of my wife.

Joost just made some folks in the United States very happy as they are now serving up the entire original series of Star Trek (ST:TOS to those in the know).

If you haven't checked out Joost it's time. I was in on the early beta and watched a bunch of their National Geographic shows - I don't have cable and I really miss the The Learning Channel and the Discovery Channel. Their content is really becoming pretty compelling. They apparently (according to their site) have 408 channels, but that looks a lot like several flavors of different channels. Now all I need is a media PC and a 32" flat panel - why 32"? That's about all my apartment will handle.