Ironically, I tripped due to a blatant code violation in a temporary event space...that happens to be my husband's shop. So if I weren't me I could sue his ass! I'll get payback thru other means like him getting my car washed ands king me meals. I had drunk about two sips of beer and tragically the rest of it flew out of my hand when I tripped - and thankfully didn't soak anyone. It was quite spectacular - I was moving fast up an aisle in the seating area and tripped on a concrete pad that jutted out into the aisle. Probably flew about six feet forward due to momentum. Of course, if *I* had helped them arrange the seating I wouldn't have allowed an aisle to be put there, being that I am officially licensed by the state to protect public health safety yadda-yadda-yadda!
The event was called 5x5: Make Your City. It's a series of 5 events at which 5 presenters show 5 slides of their idea and compete to win $10,000 to implement it. Last night's winner was The Cool Bus, a team who is outfitting an old school bus to serve as a mobile art lab for kids. We had 400 people in Brian's shop, two food trucks, two brewers. It was a great event full of creatives. Makes me feel like Indy has a lot going on!
Our Little Lady is going to Fly tomorrow. It has been about a month and a half since we have been in this project up to our necks in (well you have the idea). Rigger came today and we set up the steel support for the rigging to move the diner. Tomorrow morning we will have, "The Crane" on site and the lowboy flat bed truck on site to lift her off of her existing foundation load her onto the truck bed and transport her to a large factory warehouse, where the restoration will take place. We are like a bunch of boys building a fort. Actually I should say Boys and Girls as it is a mix of people providing all kinds of support. We are hoping for a successful move with minor damage. We will be going more public over the next couple of week so stay tuned.
We made the move....with great success! It is a rush to fly diners....28,000 lb of building picked up and sat on a low boy flat bed and hauled away to a facility where we can restore the pretty lady. Donna if you interested go to Skeesdiner.org. We will be loading video of the move before to long. We started and 6:00 am and the Crane pulled off the site by 8:30.I might add all community volunteers. The Crane, the mover, the people who busted there butts to get her ready to move. Along with a lot of positive help from City Hall. It is not everyday you get to Fly a Diner and haul her down the road. 10-4" wide 35'-0" long.
One of the students I wrote letters of recommendations turned down Yale, MIT, UCLA, and Virginia Tech. and choose GSD. 3 out of 3 in last 3 years to GSD.. I am really happy...
Take care LB sounded like an awful and strange fall. Great that you have a Dr. sister you can call anytime.
Liberty....your sister ever think of a Practice Based Around Architects....who can afford to pay very little?....Think Not...but sisters are wonderful! Glad your OK! I myself chose to wrestle with a Cement Truck.....but that is another story....however I did survive....thank God I had insurance.
donna i saw you in the funny papers! it is easy to forget that archinect is really public and people can treat what is said here as quotes in an article...
don't know why but reminds of the world of judge dredd (in the comics not the movies)
curbed is a real estate gossip site that is mostly an aggregater of legit news stories - they rarely do original pieces but if they do it's almost always an editorial. although - I know something I wrote here once was quoted in one of the arch mags (along with parts of an entire thread). people pay attention to what we write - even if it usually represents the fringe nutjob opinion.
anyway - the NYC one tends to be somewhat more acerbic than the others - especially when they're poking fun at "hot karl."
oh dear. it's kind of fun being a fringe nut job on occasion, but sometimes i wonder if i really want to be thought of as a fringe nut job, or known as such in the greater outside world.
there is mr. anderson and there is neo. sometimes the two should be kept apart ;)
also, aggregator blogs suck. it's like hollywood remaking red dawn. sort of like 'creativity,' but the exact opposite and probably the cause of the death of creativity. curbed can quote me on that, without asking for permission since the internets is public domain.
Sorry - I don't get the domestic commercial film references. What I know of the cinemas are largely obscure pretentious art house films preferably in french and, of course, bill and ted's excellent adventure.
Sorry, couldn't resist. My family is deep southern so I'm just ribbing my folks.
I'm loving that architect wife thread - the advice column was the first thing that got me reading the newspaper as a kid (and letters to the editor) and I still love a good advice column!
One of my students is really homesick, missing India and his motorbike. I feel for him. He lives with his parents here, so I don't know that bringing him food would help. Besides, it's technically illegal for a teacher to do that. But I'd like to do something. Any thoughts?
How about making culture education part of your curriculum so he gets a chance to show everyone his old way of life.
You can alao tell him it goes in waves and after awhile he won't miss his birthplace much at all. At least that's how it works for expats here. If he stays long enough hell even get to enjoy reverse culture shock when he goes back.
I'd love to include culture in my classes, but I'm teaching computer programming and gaming, and its hard enough to teach them to code Tetris, let alone put cultural references into their stuff. Besides, he's not actually in my classes, he's in my cricket club. I will mention what you've said, though. He comes to see me during his lunch period, makes me listen to Punjabi rap artists, and watch Punjabi cartoons on YouTube. In return, I make him speak English, and do his homework.
It's funny watching him navigate this new world. He's in 11th grade, and appreciates girls as much as any young man, but courting is so different here that he's lost. Apparently in India, you do all your flirting with the eyes, and here he has to speak to them. He gets nervous and just runs away. Literally. Poor kid.
punjabi cartoons? that sounds kind of horrible. surely if a teenager wants to be global and multi-cultural and wants to watch cartoons he would be watching anime. or my little pony.
Oh don't even get me started on that new My Little Pony nightmare. Half of my students, all of which are boys, mind you, watch that show. It is so wrong, on so many levels.
tsk tsk tsk. women saying we should restablish and strengthen gender rolls. next thing you know men won't be allowed to take care of kids and women won't be allowed to wear pants. i would think it's just texas, but janis joplin was from texas....
nothing wrong with boys, or even men, watching my little pony if they enjoy the story. that's all i'm saying. there is a non-masculine gender roll associated with that franchise, but if we were to remove the gender roll you might see that it's simply a good show.
if we avoid stereotyping based on preconceived and learned gender rolls, then it's not wrong for boys to be watching the show, unless i'm missing a level.
i have yet to see it, but i get sucked into the brony defense issue often enough that i really should. maybe it's on hulu?
Oh, my issue is less with the gender roles side of things. If high school boys want to watch pretty pretty princess, its weird, but whatever. My problem is that the stories are overly suggestive, and it's supposed to be a kids cartoon. Some parts are downright perverse, and certainly aren't school appropriate.
My Little Pony is perverse and suggestive?! I've been wondering what all the Brony hoopla was about. This is part of pop culture that I've somehow missed.
Donna, the old ones from the eighties are not the same as the new ones. No horse eats eclaires, and even if one did, it wouldn't put it in, press against the inside of the cheek, pull it out, and repeat, only to have the filling explode all over the face.
It's pretty crappy when you can't go to a dentist someplace "benign" like Oklahoma without ending up with something you don't want to catch. So far, 57 of the patients of that dentist dude in Tulsa have tested positive for hepatitis C, for which there is no vaccine, and 3 of the patients have tested positive for hepatitis B, for which there IS a vaccine. Vaccines are available for A and B. I'd say it's good insurance to get those vaccines. To be fair, they said that some of these people had risk factors for hepatitis, but many did not.
I have about 1000 followers yet I have never tweeted anything. most of their profile pics are of cleavage for some reason. They try to start conversations with me but usually it's just links to porn or some sketchy russian website.
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That is an okee dokee from me as well Donna.
how did i get to be part of this conversation? obviously i think the problem is that donna WASN'T in kentucky.
be careful, ms sink. indy is obviously a dangerous city.
we love you and don't want you hurt ever.
Glad you're ok. Hope there's no bruise. Bruises on the neck look, well, you can always wear a scarf.....
The event was called 5x5: Make Your City. It's a series of 5 events at which 5 presenters show 5 slides of their idea and compete to win $10,000 to implement it. Last night's winner was The Cool Bus, a team who is outfitting an old school bus to serve as a mobile art lab for kids. We had 400 people in Brian's shop, two food trucks, two brewers. It was a great event full of creatives. Makes me feel like Indy has a lot going on!
Our Little Lady is going to Fly tomorrow. It has been about a month and a half since we have been in this project up to our necks in (well you have the idea). Rigger came today and we set up the steel support for the rigging to move the diner. Tomorrow morning we will have, "The Crane" on site and the lowboy flat bed truck on site to lift her off of her existing foundation load her onto the truck bed and transport her to a large factory warehouse, where the restoration will take place. We are like a bunch of boys building a fort. Actually I should say Boys and Girls as it is a mix of people providing all kinds of support. We are hoping for a successful move with minor damage. We will be going more public over the next couple of week so stay tuned.
Thanks Sarah...you and your husband will love this project. We have a couple of antique car restoring buff in the mix.
We made the move....with great success! It is a rush to fly diners....28,000 lb of building picked up and sat on a low boy flat bed and hauled away to a facility where we can restore the pretty lady. Donna if you interested go to Skeesdiner.org. We will be loading video of the move before to long. We started and 6:00 am and the Crane pulled off the site by 8:30.I might add all community volunteers. The Crane, the mover, the people who busted there butts to get her ready to move. Along with a lot of positive help from City Hall. It is not everyday you get to Fly a Diner and haul her down the road. 10-4" wide 35'-0" long.
One of the students I wrote letters of recommendations turned down Yale, MIT, UCLA, and Virginia Tech. and choose GSD. 3 out of 3 in last 3 years to GSD.. I am really happy...
Take care LB sounded like an awful and strange fall. Great that you have a Dr. sister you can call anytime.
Liberty....your sister ever think of a Practice Based Around Architects....who can afford to pay very little?....Think Not...but sisters are wonderful! Glad your OK! I myself chose to wrestle with a Cement Truck.....but that is another story....however I did survive....thank God I had insurance.
donna i saw you in the funny papers! it is easy to forget that archinect is really public and people can treat what is said here as quotes in an article...
don't know why but reminds of the world of judge dredd (in the comics not the movies)
why are you reading a NYC real estate blog?
wow, interesting find will. i guess 'journalism' can now include trolling internet forums.
curbed is a real estate gossip site that is mostly an aggregater of legit news stories - they rarely do original pieces but if they do it's almost always an editorial. although - I know something I wrote here once was quoted in one of the arch mags (along with parts of an entire thread). people pay attention to what we write - even if it usually represents the fringe nutjob opinion.
anyway - the NYC one tends to be somewhat more acerbic than the others - especially when they're poking fun at "hot karl."
oh dear. it's kind of fun being a fringe nut job on occasion, but sometimes i wonder if i really want to be thought of as a fringe nut job, or known as such in the greater outside world.
there is mr. anderson and there is neo. sometimes the two should be kept apart ;)
also, aggregator blogs suck. it's like hollywood remaking red dawn. sort of like 'creativity,' but the exact opposite and probably the cause of the death of creativity. curbed can quote me on that, without asking for permission since the internets is public domain.
Sorry - I don't get the domestic commercial film references. What I know of the cinemas are largely obscure pretentious art house films preferably in french and, of course, bill and ted's excellent adventure.
That said - I'd be more concerned about a remake of Un Chien Andalou.
wtf - someone set off bombs at the finish line of the boston marathon.
touching the lower 90's in the dirty south, y'all.
in temperature and humidity level
at louisiana tech for a lecture on "negro" buildings by mabel wilson from Columbia.
vado, is that local IQ?!
Sorry, couldn't resist. My family is deep southern so I'm just ribbing my folks.
I'm loving that architect wife thread - the advice column was the first thing that got me reading the newspaper as a kid (and letters to the editor) and I still love a good advice column!
Lost Egon Schiele sketchbook found! Woo!
funny, lb!
look what I found on sale!
classy.
Wow.
One of my students is really homesick, missing India and his motorbike. I feel for him. He lives with his parents here, so I don't know that bringing him food would help. Besides, it's technically illegal for a teacher to do that. But I'd like to do something. Any thoughts?
I know how he feels. I miss Indiana too.
I do not miss Indiana.
You can alao tell him it goes in waves and after awhile he won't miss his birthplace much at all. At least that's how it works for expats here. If he stays long enough hell even get to enjoy reverse culture shock when he goes back.
It's funny watching him navigate this new world. He's in 11th grade, and appreciates girls as much as any young man, but courting is so different here that he's lost. Apparently in India, you do all your flirting with the eyes, and here he has to speak to them. He gets nervous and just runs away. Literally. Poor kid.
punjabi cartoons? that sounds kind of horrible. surely if a teenager wants to be global and multi-cultural and wants to watch cartoons he would be watching anime. or my little pony.
Oh don't even get me started on that new My Little Pony nightmare. Half of my students, all of which are boys, mind you, watch that show. It is so wrong, on so many levels.
Relevant youtube video:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Est3UNs-LIk
Your students may be bronies!
tsk tsk tsk. women saying we should restablish and strengthen gender rolls. next thing you know men won't be allowed to take care of kids and women won't be allowed to wear pants. i would think it's just texas, but janis joplin was from texas....
Huh?
nothing wrong with boys, or even men, watching my little pony if they enjoy the story. that's all i'm saying. there is a non-masculine gender roll associated with that franchise, but if we were to remove the gender roll you might see that it's simply a good show.
if we avoid stereotyping based on preconceived and learned gender rolls, then it's not wrong for boys to be watching the show, unless i'm missing a level.
i have yet to see it, but i get sucked into the brony defense issue often enough that i really should. maybe it's on hulu?
curt - spell check - roll s/b role - all in good fun ...
Oh, my issue is less with the gender roles side of things. If high school boys want to watch pretty pretty princess, its weird, but whatever. My problem is that the stories are overly suggestive, and it's supposed to be a kids cartoon. Some parts are downright perverse, and certainly aren't school appropriate.
Taken from an actual episode clip.
Hey, Storefront tweeted my #FolkMoMA proposal, sweet!
It's pretty crappy when you can't go to a dentist someplace "benign" like Oklahoma without ending up with something you don't want to catch. So far, 57 of the patients of that dentist dude in Tulsa have tested positive for hepatitis C, for which there is no vaccine, and 3 of the patients have tested positive for hepatitis B, for which there IS a vaccine. Vaccines are available for A and B. I'd say it's good insurance to get those vaccines. To be fair, they said that some of these people had risk factors for hepatitis, but many did not.
I didn't realize so many Archinect regulars were on Twitter. I'm @LivingInGin.
I have about 1000 followers yet I have never tweeted anything. most of their profile pics are of cleavage for some reason. They try to start conversations with me but usually it's just links to porn or some sketchy russian website.
I've been around, just lurking.
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