December 2009
Purpose
Winter break has been sort of dull. Normally over break I build things with LEGO, but my LEGO is at school this time, while I’m at home. I’ve read a few books, but I can’t read all day, and I’ve rewatched some Lost, but I can’t do that for very long either.
But 2 days ago I found something to do! While playing Super Smash Brothers Brawl with my cousins on my...
“It’s 3 o’clock and there’s a hawk eating a bird in the...”
– how I woke up.
Architects who've changed their names.
paper-or-plastic:
Frank Gehry - Born Ephraim Owen Goldberg
Frank Lloyd Wright - Born Frank Lincoln Wright
Le Corbusier - Born Charles-Edouard Jeanneret-Gris
Louis Kahn - Born Itze-Leib Schmuilowsky
Ludwig Mies van der Rohe - Born Maria Ludwig Michael Mies
I’m gonna refer to them by their birth names from now on.
P.S. Mies has a girl’s name!
Had some family over for dinner. My uncle and his wife and her 3 kids. Except, the middle child was being an ass, so they left him at home. He’s 18. Everyone agreed it was for the best, no point having some jerk around ruining the party.
Was a success; talked and laughed and played Wii and ate and the youngest, who is a picky eater, had seconds!
Exhausted! Just spent 6 hours with the extended family. Good news, first year in a long time that we didn’t have to host. No cleanup!
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Just got a text message:
A happy Christmas to you
-Adam
I don’t know the number. I know one Adam, but it’s not his number, I haven’t talked to him in 6 months, and he’s Jewish.
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I just spent a good hour mapping events from Lost.
I noticed that Rousseau’s crash happens the same year that Hurley’s crazy friend hears the “4 8 15 16 23 42” broadcast at his listening post. I surmise that these events happen at the same time, AND that this point in time marks one of the “time shifts” on the Island. Which is to say, the...
Blerg. 26 books on my “plan to read” list, and the local library only has 4 of them. I suppose I wouldn’t have time to read more than 4 between Saturday and January 3rd…
But still! Every book ever published should be available right when I want!
Good news everyone, that DVD of Air Force One was sent to the cleaners by the library, and I got it back, and was able to watch it!
We decorated for Christmas today! Ornaments, fireplace, and mantle.
If you charge me $13.50 for a ticket, you better believe I’m keeping these fucking glasses.
I saw Avatar tonight. That was the subject of my witticism earlier, of which I’d like to say a bit more.
I don’t like 3D movies. I liked Avatar (good, but I didn’t think it was as OMG Orgasmic Wow as others seem to have) but I didn’t think the 3D added much. Maybe I’ll have to see the “flat” version to compare… It did add depth to the image, but...
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Book Review! The Magicians
I just finished read it, but I’m still unsure how I feel about The Magicians by Lev Grossman. From the synopsis:
Quentin Coldwater is brilliant but miserable. A senior in high school, he’s still secretly preoccupied with a series of fantasy novels he read as a child, set in a magical land called Fillory…. Imagine his surprise when he finds himself unexpectedly admitted to a...
quartey:
The Lebbeus Woods Architecture School series, if you’re interested:
Architecture School 101
Architecture School 102
Architecture School 201
Architecture School 202
Architecture School 301
Architecture School 302
Architecture School 401
Architecture School 401 Buffalo Analog
Architecture School 401 LA Analog
Interesting read.
In the country of 3D movies, the one-eyed man is...
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For trees up to 10 feet tall!
Steel Eye Bolts!
Steel End Caps!
1.5 Gallon Capacity!
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Sorry, who the fuck is Britanny Murphy?
Tree was too big, got stuck in the stand, off balance. Had to knock the tree over to pull the stand off. Tree now lying across living room, Dad went out to buy bigger stand.
Blerg. Forgot my cellphone charger at school. Phone ran out of batteries Wednesday or Thursday…
I found 4 chargers here, none of which work. They need to standardize this shit.
Superpowers You Might Have But Never Know It
Regrow limbs
Mental control of oxen
Breathe in space
Shoot lasers out of tattooed skin
Walk on clouds
Flight (southern hemisphere only)
“Despite their best efforts to diversify their holdings, investors will find that...”
– Dmitry Orlov, Predictions
I wish I remembered my Pokemon team
xoldnewsx:
faucet:
I had Blue, my brother had Red. I chose Squirtle.
I know in my final team I had Blastoise, Zapdos, and Mewtwo. I think I might have had Gyarodos or Dragonite. Would it have made sense to have Gyarados and Blastoise? I think I had an Alakazam and some point, but surely Mewtwo would be a better choice…
I think one may have been Golem, or maybe Onyx. I note I don’t have...
Well, 2 actually interesting architecture classes are at the same time. Arg.
There’s a planning class I could take, have to consult with a Planning friend first…
I could take “LGBT Studies,” I suppose, but I have no idea what the class is about, and I bet it’s stupid. It might be a good place to meet gays, because that’s a good reason to take a class,...
Finding electives that are open, interesting and fit in my schedule is the worst.
Hmm, I like Link better as a blond.
STOP EVERYTHING
The Legend of Zelda is on Hulu.
I’m gonna start a petition to bring back VHS. I never ever had as many problems with movies on tapes as I do with DVDs. Skipping and all this bull…
Get off my plane, library copy of Air Force One!
Yay!
moosecakes:
I have just been accepted to the bachelor’s degree program in industrial design at the University of Cincinnati, my favorite college at the moment.
Victory dance!
Yay congrats!
http://www.thereisnopagefold.com/ →
extrafirmhold:
Web design nerd-out. All others, please - move on.
Well sir I disagree! Even though my screen is much larger, I keep browser windows at less than 1000 pixel width, and around 800 pixel height. you may argue “well other people don’t do that” to which I respond “I’m more important than other people!”
I don't understand ironing clothes.
vladimirblue:
I mean, I get why we do it. It’s just, if we have such “advance” technology, then why not make clothes that don’t wrinkle? What up with that?
Hey science! Change this! I don’t need a flying car yet. I just want to pull a shirt out of my duffle bag and put it on without hassle, yo.
Stupid science. I think this is why we all wear spandex in the future.
Yup. Silver jumpsuit and...
Watchabsurdlakefront:
thisistheglamorous:
anonymousmidwest:
Gus Chiggins, Old Prospector Awwwwwwwwww, Peaches!
Awwwwwww, cinnamon and gravy!
Says it was unaired? Pretty funny, though it displays some of the worst breaking-character-laughing of that era. What you get for seating Fallon, Sanz, and Morgan next to each other, I suppose.
I wish I remembered my Pokemon team
I had Blue, my brother had Red. I chose Squirtle.
I know in my final team I had Blastoise, Zapdos, and Mewtwo. I think I might have had Gyarodos or Dragonite. Would it have made sense to have Gyarados and Blastoise? I think I had an Alakazam and some point, but surely Mewtwo would be a better choice…
I think one may have been Golem, or maybe Onyx. I note I don’t have any Fire...
Yessss. The class I barely ever went to, like less than 15% of the time, despite 20% of the grade being attendance and in-class quizzes, I got a B in!
If I had, you know, actually gone to class, I’m sure I could have gotten an A, easily. I really should have made more of an effort, but 11am is so damn early. And the class was Monday, Wednesday, and Friday! And only an hour each time,...
O hi. Decided to keep the computer off when I got home monday night, resulting in 54 hours incomputicado, or 40 pages of dashboard. Only 11 emails, though.
Fucking parking ticket. Right in front of the damn house. Apparently some time late yesterday afternoon the police decided there would be no parking from 7am to 3pm today.
Well, I never went out of my house from yesterday afternoon to 7am today, so I didn’t see their fucking notices. No one else did either. 5 cars in a row have tickets, and I counted 3 more (out of 4) further down the...
Sometimes, I’ll get sort of “locked on” with a particular project. That is, the project will seem insurmountable and impossible, despite ample evidence to the contrary. Instead of working on said thing (could be schoolwork, could be simply doing the dishes), I’ll do anything to avoid it, while it looms above me, always present in the back of my mind as that thing I really...
jewsforgeoffrey:
faucet:
omfg. couple in the room next door is yelling so loud. every other word is fuck. the girl is crying. then the guy threatened to kill himself.
OMFG RUN!
They calmed down after awhile… they get like this sometimes, very dramatic.
Hahaha, random quote from next door, out of context: “I feel like I’m robbing a bank!”
omfg. couple in the room next door is yelling so loud. every other word is fuck. the girl is crying. then the guy threatened to kill himself.
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