Paul Sizemore

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Jan 5 / 5:10am

Fluer De Lis on Main: This is your parent's loft living

In my opinion the Fluer De Lis on Main development represents part of what is wrong with Louisville and the country. Real estate as investment over a place to live. After touring it, I feel more strongly about saying that; they are meant to lure the suburban dwellers back to the city, only Louisville hasn't gone through a great suburban migration. People can comfortably live in their Crescent Hill or Prospect home, and commute in to the city for work, their favorite play or sports event. There's very few affordable AND cool living spaces downtown. Also, most of the spaces are not for the young mobile professional. There are not many places for the boomerang professional to try out Louisville without buying into living here. Louisville needs more swanky downtown rentals in order to make moving here easier for the convincibles. Sorry, I digressed from the loft review, I'll resume. 

 Fluer De Lis on Main has great communal spaces. It has a kitchenette, a room with a fireplace, courtyards and balcony space. The location is excellent. The entire development is best of class. It's so expensive, it only works as an investment. 

On my rating matrix it rated: 9 (an aggregate of Cost, Community and Interior score). The standard interiors are 'baby boomer,' and they are expensive. They are investments, not meant to be lived in. They have great meeting spaces in the development, that's what pulls the score up over the cost and interiors. 

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Address:
324 East Main Street
Louisville, KY 40202-1285

                           
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Jan 5 / 5:09am

Viewing the ZirMed Towers from the Glassworks Lofts

These lofts are industrial, and the creative class needs more lofts like this, only more financially assessable. These lofts are very large, and offer a lot of space. Communal spaces in the building are rather limited, though. Residents have access to the Glassworks rooftop, and even have access to the shows free. The lofts I looked at looked over the new ZirMed Towers. In addition, there is Jazz in the basement with Jazzy Blu. 

On my rating matrix it rated: 11 (an aggregate of Cost, Community and Interior score). 

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Address: 
815 West Market Street
Louisville, KY

                 
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Jan 3 / 8:28pm

My 400% devil robot tofu head be@rbrick

This is one of my five favorite material possessions! So, one of the things that I do every so often, is pick my five favorite things I own. This allows me to think about the things I want in my life, and make sure I don't have too much. This is a be@rbrick that I bought from Toy Tokyo, and it was designed by Devil Robots. They made a 3" one, and then they also made one that was 400% of the 'normal' size, or the one I have. One of the things I like about it, is that there is father and son Tofu Head controling it, and they are on a rampage against everyone that wants to eat more tofu. How can I not like this; it's red, too. The little guy next to him, well when you eat him, watch out for the bones, they might get stuck going down.

- Paul

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Posted from Louisville, KY

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Dec 28 / 1:15pm

Changing the Favicon in HubSpot

 HubSpot is a great platform for small/medium business to use for their B2B sites, and they offer a lot of ways to customize your HubSpot hosted blog. One of the ways is to upload a Favicon for your blog.

1) Go to Settings

2) Go to the “File Manager”

 3) Click on the favicon.ico, then on “View/Edit File”

4) Browse to a new file, then upload.

 

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Dec 18 / 4:04pm

Skype in the enterprise: Can you hear me now?

Skype just released their SIP beta in the open, and it's going to change the business communications landscape. Businesses can use their existing SIP-based PBX or Unified Communications platform for a minimal monthly charge.

The Skype admin tool is full featured, and allows administrators to manage employee accounts. Admins can control feature and number availability. The company seems to be channeling resources into the admin tool rather than the desktop client. 

There are over 520 million Skype users worldwide. Bridging between those users and the complex world of telephony is a substantial gain for the industry. Skype is introducing the concept of enterprise VOIP to an wide audience, and the industry will grow as a result.

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