11,000 kWh per year is about spot on for a per house average, actually. And set-top boxes (for cable) are big energy users! So everybody who has cable and actually turns their cable boxes off when they turn their TVs off might be saving themselves a pretty penny each month on their energy bills. Yeah, I know, it takes an extra 10 seconds to turn them on again, but it will save you money!
Anybody notice the flooding in Nashville? Aka, most of downtown Nashville was underwater this weekend... I didn't notice because I was too disgusted / disturbed by the oil slick. But it turns out that's not the only disaster we have going on right now. The Grand Ole Opry was even flooded!
I didn't spend too much time in Nashville but it seemed like a cool city. I hope the Bat Building wasn't hurt. (The pointy looking thing behind my can of Skyline in this photo)
Thanks Barry... but I don't know that we really need to be reminded of how badly we're doing in the United States. I think we all already know how absurd our ecological footprints are here. I'm trying the best I can to fix that but I'm only one person - I can only do so much!
Which reminds me, I'm taking the train up to Seattle for a conference tomorrow. Holz, n___, are you guys around? Anyone up for happy hour on Friday? I should contact mdler too...
jump that Supreme COurt door closing is actually soul-crushing. This is a good article about it. I especially like this line: Beauty, architecture and the need for a democratic people to experience inspiring symbolic public space weigh lightly, if at all, in the scales. A "Use Other Door" sign on an abandoned ceremonial entry portal has always been one of the saddest things to me - people seem to refuse to believe we are, as a society, defined in part by the public spaces we inhabit, or those we allow to pass.
So here's the kitchen I was telling you guys about. The black isn't as black it shows in the photos (phone camera, meh), and you can still see the grain of the wood (although it is really just a pretty good veneer). The budget was pretty damn low.
Obviously its not totally done. Handles, paint, backsplash, baseboard, floors, lighting, fridge, etc. But that will come. Slowly...
Wow slart it looks awesome! I love the black bottom/white top. But I can't quite tell what's happening in the corner - it's a 45 d/ with a blank panel, or is that an angled cabinet with a door next to open shelves? The little 3-burner cooktop makes so much sense!
Gosh it reminds me of my Philly kitchen. I had 1/3 the countertop I have now! Super efficient.
Do you have a microwave, and if so where will it go? Nice project, really good.
For those of you tuning in to the brand new page 380, I'm commenting on slartibart's kitchen posted on the previous page.
By the way, my husband bought me a very lovely bright yellow Michael Kors raincoat yesterday, a little surprise gift on a rainy, rainy day. And today it was sunny! I can't wait to wear it!
Very nice, slart. Have you thought of colored appliances to add your color? Just a quirky thought. Heck, other than mixers and washer/dryers, I don't even know if you can get colored appliances.
Abram is loving his swiming pool. We like to do it euro style around here. My grandmother hates it.
And Donna, surprise gifts are always nice. Good t know you're thought about when you're not around sort of thing.
Thanks. It is an angled cabinet with a door next to open triangular shelves. I felt it needed the open shelves. No microwave; I haven't owned one for... 8 years? I really like how low profile the cooktop is. The space in front and back is great. Watch, though, I'll probably need that elusive fourth burner now.
Thats what it looks like with a maxed out counter space. Maybe an island...
I didn't need to go black & white, but I couldn't afford real solid wood, so I decided if I have to go veneer, might as well play that up. And black allowed the appliances to blend in as well and help the entire 2' deep assembly read as one mass. Just need to find a fridge that'll fit. I want to go with black chalkboard finish on the fridge. Too trendy?
The colors I'm adding with backsplash, paint, lighting & plants. With the money I have for this kind of thing... I should be able to post new photos in a couple YEARS...
we have a chalkboard in our kitchen. it is part of my daughters easel and is used daily.
the roundup thing is ironic on so many levels. evolution affecting the very folks who say the science of evolution should not be taught in schools? how dangerous is that?
gmos still don't bother me in general. it is the same as traditional husbandry and breeding in my mind. the idea of making plants resistant to toxins used as herbicides in order to "safely" increase their usage is plain dangerous and right up there with strawberry flavored cigarettes for the kiddies. WHO thinks up this shit?
I need to untie archinect from my iPhone. Those notifications I use to ignore make me post too much.
Oh, and I realized that when I looked it up on google. I also apparently found out that vegas now has "adult-oriented" (21+) pools at many of the hotels that feature "European style" sunbathing.
Donna, what bugs me about the recall is that there are not date ranges, just every single bottle of that stuff. Since we've been using motrin & tylenol for the past two years without a problem, I'm wondering if we've been lucky or just statistically blessed with avoiding the problem...
too bad I can't go eurostyle at my local pool.
Breeding plants to be resistant to a pesticide is okay with me (beyond the evolution of weeds). the problem is when they create plants that produce their own pesticides and other toxins (I also have problem when they use toxins on our food and fields).
Slart - love the sleek design, and I LOVE the three burner stovetop. What colors are you thinking? It's such a blank canvas you could go with just about anything. How exciting.
In other news, the fluid on top of my knee cap (from my scooter accicent) is increasing by the day. It doesn't really hurt, just feels full. Think it's time to hit up the orthopedic specialist :o/
We haven't had issue with the drugs either, but Abe did figure out how to open the zyrtec. He really likes medicine. Don't worry. He mostly only made a huge mess, and I put the medicine up higher. Barry, as the kids get older, they can also reach things you never expected. Abe got the balked off the TOP of his 5-drawer dresser, and yes, got it everywhere!
I didnt even realize today was CInco de Mayo. I refuse to celebrate it since I'm in Texas, and we can't even get Texas Independence Day as a recognized holiday. Its a principal thing.
and while may 5th is NOT mexico's independence day, it is liberation day (bevrijdingsdag) in the netherlands... which means that the NAi archive was closed and i was able to get out and see some buildings in rotterdam today... i also found out that there will be no alcohol sales in rotterdam tomorrow between noon and midnight because the second game of the dutch football (soccer) league is here tomorrow between feyenoord (rotterdam) and ajax (amsterdam)...
Phillip, what does a football game have to do with no alchohol? Seems conterintuitive.
And I know all that about Cinco de Mayo, for me its more of a "why do we celebrate some other nations victories, when we don't celebrate our own" kind of thing.
And Steven, we were independent for a few years, and if some people in the state have their way, we will be again. I won't et into whether or not thats a good idea.
really we should have a celebration on August 10th to comemorate the Pueblo Revolt of 1680 that drove the Spanish out of New Mexico. (for twelve years or so.)
When I was a kid my family went for a long weekend to Puerto Vallarta. Turned out to be election weekend, so no alcohol sales. WTF? said my party-loving parents. So we hopped into a truck - the bed part - and were driven down to the next county to a bar on the beach owned by the brother of the guy who owned the truck who my parents had met on the sidewalk an hour previously. All the adults drank and we somehow made it safely back to PV. What crazy, risky things my parents did when I was a kid! Somehow I turned out fine (relatively).
barry, i'm surprised you don't mind making resistant crops tied to more potent pesticides and herbicides. that seems a ready made condition for escalating resistance and increasing toxicity until things get absurd. never mind the fact of putting toxins on anything in ever higher doses. i can't see it ending well.
texas independence. hm. well why not. seems a bit like quebec going independent from canada, a hot topic back home since before i was born.
just did a google search on cinco de mayo and learned that some americans think it is a good day to hunt down an illegal immigrant and turn em in. the news reads more and more like a fascists playbook every day. very sad to be witnessing this turn in the country next door. fear seems to be such a large part of the daily digestive.
tumbles, celebrate my husband being free of the yoke of an arrogant greedy bureaucratic institution. Or alternatively, drink in sympathy to his losing one of his many jobs. My attitude is definitely the former.
jump, your whole post makes me sad. Back to the beer!
I'm kinda on the fence about the immigrant thing. I don't mind that they're here, but I mind that they don't pay taxes and still use the benifets. Not sure how it should be fixed.
Glad/sorry to hear about Mr. Sink. Yay for champaign!
Guess I was too subtle with the bit about cross-breeding with weeds - I'm not too much of a fan of round-up ready... I'm becoming cynical about humans ability to control complex systems. Seems that everything fails, even with all those redundant fail-safes and back-ups. Complexity may accomplish what the terrorist can't.
sarah, illegal immigrants pay taxes. they don't pay income tax but get hit in other ways, so they end up paying 75% of what they would pay if legal (or so i heard on news program about the topic).
i have a bias towards the immigrants. of course i am the dirty white foreigner now in japan, but it goes farther back. Just about a hundred fifty years ago my grandfather's father was a stowaway on a boat from scotland. about a hundred years ago my grandmother was hounded out of illinois for being the wrong kind of christian (mennonite), and before that her parents were hounded out of germany and then russia. my grandparents still remember that feeling, and i guess i got to see enough of the immigrant life to have nothing but respect for those folks who dotted my childhood and adult life. folks escaping war in vietnam, then guatemala, then sarajevo. it is hard for me to see them as a bad thing for my country.
now the economy is booming back home they are bringing folks in from mexico and korea to work in the hog plant outside of town, and even my mom and her husband have decided it is a good thing. suddenly their church is filled with young people again!
I attended TEDxTC last night, and it was marvelous.
Sir Ken Robinson was one of the two video presentations, from a previous TED conference, and never have more illuminating words been spoken or funny for that matter.
So, here is what I propose; forget the idea that knowing anything and everything is a precursor to doing anything, forget the idea that mistakes are problems, and believe in the idea that leaping before looking and doing for the shear love of doing - and not knowing - is a goal worth pursuing and ultimately the process is the product. We should define our work, our life, our happiness; do not let those things define you and box you...Joy. Happiness. Life. = Human Existence
i like ken robinson too. cheers for the link very all over the place but in an interesting way. agree with him completely, especially the bit about academics thinking their bodies are only there to get there heads around ;-)
Dub - Thanks for your shout out to my beloved Nashville. The situation down there is a wreck right now. It's shocking and disturbing how little national coverage this has made.
n_, perhaps more attention would be made of the flooding, if Pat Robertson and the 700 Club would make the claim that this is God's retribution for tolerance of Islam or Human Rights??
n_
did you catch the dorte mandrup lecture last night? that was great, made me late to my other meetingS last night. i really need to be less busy these days.
hi all I'm still marking papers - loads and loads of papers. The hours of my day are interspersed with other forms of architecture, but mostly it's about marking papers. Lot's of pressure to get as many done by next Friday fingers crossed.
Donna looking forward to more rain I see, please take a picture of you splashing about in your Michael Kors raincoat.
Emily hope you enjoyed your train ride, how long is it - I know most rail travel tends to be long due to the number of stops but always a restful journey.
Laura get that knee sorted doesn't sound like fun - perhaps they need to drain the fluid. Bleh...
Slar... wow love the kitchen and I'm moved by the 3 burner stove. I find I'm a little odd when it comes to numbers - I always think prime numbers just look better (but there being 10 of something is okay too)
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let's grow hemp, shall we?
I took the BIArch Challange! You all should too!
I just got put into the system. Had to have finger prints done for teaching. Not gonna lie, I'm a bit nervous about it for some reason.
since we're being green...
enlarged here
11,000 kWh per year is about spot on for a per house average, actually. And set-top boxes (for cable) are big energy users! So everybody who has cable and actually turns their cable boxes off when they turn their TVs off might be saving themselves a pretty penny each month on their energy bills. Yeah, I know, it takes an extra 10 seconds to turn them on again, but it will save you money!
Anybody notice the flooding in Nashville? Aka, most of downtown Nashville was underwater this weekend... I didn't notice because I was too disgusted / disturbed by the oil slick. But it turns out that's not the only disaster we have going on right now. The Grand Ole Opry was even flooded!
I didn't spend too much time in Nashville but it seemed like a cool city. I hope the Bat Building wasn't hurt. (The pointy looking thing behind my can of Skyline in this photo)
Sad times.
Thanks Barry... but I don't know that we really need to be reminded of how badly we're doing in the United States. I think we all already know how absurd our ecological footprints are here. I'm trying the best I can to fix that but I'm only one person - I can only do so much!
Which reminds me, I'm taking the train up to Seattle for a conference tomorrow. Holz, n___, are you guys around? Anyone up for happy hour on Friday? I should contact mdler too...
So we'd have to drink slivovitz?! And wine.
jump that Supreme COurt door closing is actually soul-crushing. This is a good article about it. I especially like this line: Beauty, architecture and the need for a democratic people to experience inspiring symbolic public space weigh lightly, if at all, in the scales. A "Use Other Door" sign on an abandoned ceremonial entry portal has always been one of the saddest things to me - people seem to refuse to believe we are, as a society, defined in part by the public spaces we inhabit, or those we allow to pass.
So here's the kitchen I was telling you guys about. The black isn't as black it shows in the photos (phone camera, meh), and you can still see the grain of the wood (although it is really just a pretty good veneer). The budget was pretty damn low.
Obviously its not totally done. Handles, paint, backsplash, baseboard, floors, lighting, fridge, etc. But that will come. Slowly...
Needs some color.
Wow slart it looks awesome! I love the black bottom/white top. But I can't quite tell what's happening in the corner - it's a 45 d/ with a blank panel, or is that an angled cabinet with a door next to open shelves? The little 3-burner cooktop makes so much sense!
Gosh it reminds me of my Philly kitchen. I had 1/3 the countertop I have now! Super efficient.
Do you have a microwave, and if so where will it go? Nice project, really good.
For those of you tuning in to the brand new page 380, I'm commenting on slartibart's kitchen posted on the previous page.
By the way, my husband bought me a very lovely bright yellow Michael Kors raincoat yesterday, a little surprise gift on a rainy, rainy day. And today it was sunny! I can't wait to wear it!
slart i like the color scheme.
Jump and Donna, yeah i was totally bummed by that, personally.
Hi all. The internet connection in my room is slowwww..
man the thing that comes up the most when I searched for images re: to 380 are guns. I wasn't sure how I felt about using that for the TC page
So after some further searching
Very nice, slart. Have you thought of colored appliances to add your color? Just a quirky thought. Heck, other than mixers and washer/dryers, I don't even know if you can get colored appliances.
Abram is loving his swiming pool. We like to do it euro style around here. My grandmother hates it.
And Donna, surprise gifts are always nice. Good t know you're thought about when you're not around sort of thing.
Thanks. It is an angled cabinet with a door next to open triangular shelves. I felt it needed the open shelves. No microwave; I haven't owned one for... 8 years? I really like how low profile the cooktop is. The space in front and back is great. Watch, though, I'll probably need that elusive fourth burner now.
Thats what it looks like with a maxed out counter space. Maybe an island...
I didn't need to go black & white, but I couldn't afford real solid wood, so I decided if I have to go veneer, might as well play that up. And black allowed the appliances to blend in as well and help the entire 2' deep assembly read as one mass. Just need to find a fridge that'll fit. I want to go with black chalkboard finish on the fridge. Too trendy?
The colors I'm adding with backsplash, paint, lighting & plants. With the money I have for this kind of thing... I should be able to post new photos in a couple YEARS...
Euro style?
Slart ... chalkboard finish ... yes! Who cares if it's trendy, it's super fun!
we have a chalkboard in our kitchen. it is part of my daughters easel and is used daily.
the roundup thing is ironic on so many levels. evolution affecting the very folks who say the science of evolution should not be taught in schools? how dangerous is that?
gmos still don't bother me in general. it is the same as traditional husbandry and breeding in my mind. the idea of making plants resistant to toxins used as herbicides in order to "safely" increase their usage is plain dangerous and right up there with strawberry flavored cigarettes for the kiddies. WHO thinks up this shit?
Naked, unicorn, naked.
I need to untie archinect from my iPhone. Those notifications I use to ignore make me post too much.
Oh, and I realized that when I looked it up on google. I also apparently found out that vegas now has "adult-oriented" (21+) pools at many of the hotels that feature "European style" sunbathing.
Attention TC parents: recall of children's Tylenol and Motrin medications.
Donna, what bugs me about the recall is that there are not date ranges, just every single bottle of that stuff. Since we've been using motrin & tylenol for the past two years without a problem, I'm wondering if we've been lucky or just statistically blessed with avoiding the problem...
too bad I can't go eurostyle at my local pool.
Breeding plants to be resistant to a pesticide is okay with me (beyond the evolution of weeds). the problem is when they create plants that produce their own pesticides and other toxins (I also have problem when they use toxins on our food and fields).
Slart - love the sleek design, and I LOVE the three burner stovetop. What colors are you thinking? It's such a blank canvas you could go with just about anything. How exciting.
In other news, the fluid on top of my knee cap (from my scooter accicent) is increasing by the day. It doesn't really hurt, just feels full. Think it's time to hit up the orthopedic specialist :o/
Hope it's all ok, melt.
We haven't had issue with the drugs either, but Abe did figure out how to open the zyrtec. He really likes medicine. Don't worry. He mostly only made a huge mess, and I put the medicine up higher. Barry, as the kids get older, they can also reach things you never expected. Abe got the balked off the TOP of his 5-drawer dresser, and yes, got it everywhere!
Morning.
interesting - I just learned that cinco-de-mayo is an American invention, and about as Mexican as nachos and fajitas...
anyway - that still won't keep me from consuming Mexican beer tonight.
I didnt even realize today was CInco de Mayo. I refuse to celebrate it since I'm in Texas, and we can't even get Texas Independence Day as a recognized holiday. Its a principal thing.
texas is independent?!
sh - cinco de mayo is supposed to commemorate some battle the puebla won against the french or something... mexican independence is in september.
and while may 5th is NOT mexico's independence day, it is liberation day (bevrijdingsdag) in the netherlands... which means that the NAi archive was closed and i was able to get out and see some buildings in rotterdam today... i also found out that there will be no alcohol sales in rotterdam tomorrow between noon and midnight because the second game of the dutch football (soccer) league is here tomorrow between feyenoord (rotterdam) and ajax (amsterdam)...
So they don't sell any alcohol to cut down on hooliganism? Finally, some common sense.
Phillip, what does a football game have to do with no alchohol? Seems conterintuitive.
And I know all that about Cinco de Mayo, for me its more of a "why do we celebrate some other nations victories, when we don't celebrate our own" kind of thing.
And Steven, we were independent for a few years, and if some people in the state have their way, we will be again. I won't et into whether or not thats a good idea.
really we should have a celebration on August 10th to comemorate the Pueblo Revolt of 1680 that drove the Spanish out of New Mexico. (for twelve years or so.)
What about a national celebration to commemorate Vado's Birthday?
When I was a kid my family went for a long weekend to Puerto Vallarta. Turned out to be election weekend, so no alcohol sales. WTF? said my party-loving parents. So we hopped into a truck - the bed part - and were driven down to the next county to a bar on the beach owned by the brother of the guy who owned the truck who my parents had met on the sidewalk an hour previously. All the adults drank and we somehow made it safely back to PV. What crazy, risky things my parents did when I was a kid! Somehow I turned out fine (relatively).
I am now the proud owner of the domain name RepublicofArchitecture.com
barry, i'm surprised you don't mind making resistant crops tied to more potent pesticides and herbicides. that seems a ready made condition for escalating resistance and increasing toxicity until things get absurd. never mind the fact of putting toxins on anything in ever higher doses. i can't see it ending well.
texas independence. hm. well why not. seems a bit like quebec going independent from canada, a hot topic back home since before i was born.
just did a google search on cinco de mayo and learned that some americans think it is a good day to hunt down an illegal immigrant and turn em in. the news reads more and more like a fascists playbook every day. very sad to be witnessing this turn in the country next door. fear seems to be such a large part of the daily digestive.
tumbles, celebrate my husband being free of the yoke of an arrogant greedy bureaucratic institution. Or alternatively, drink in sympathy to his losing one of his many jobs. My attitude is definitely the former.
jump, your whole post makes me sad. Back to the beer!
I'm kinda on the fence about the immigrant thing. I don't mind that they're here, but I mind that they don't pay taxes and still use the benifets. Not sure how it should be fixed.
Glad/sorry to hear about Mr. Sink. Yay for champaign!
hi all busy day in training.
I am joining in the drinking but not for Cinco de Mayo. Just to have fun.
As for the news yeah it has taken a down turn of late, hasn't it...
YEah for freedom et al!!!
Guess I was too subtle with the bit about cross-breeding with weeds - I'm not too much of a fan of round-up ready... I'm becoming cynical about humans ability to control complex systems. Seems that everything fails, even with all those redundant fail-safes and back-ups. Complexity may accomplish what the terrorist can't.
lol, barry. too true, that.
sarah, illegal immigrants pay taxes. they don't pay income tax but get hit in other ways, so they end up paying 75% of what they would pay if legal (or so i heard on news program about the topic).
i have a bias towards the immigrants. of course i am the dirty white foreigner now in japan, but it goes farther back. Just about a hundred fifty years ago my grandfather's father was a stowaway on a boat from scotland. about a hundred years ago my grandmother was hounded out of illinois for being the wrong kind of christian (mennonite), and before that her parents were hounded out of germany and then russia. my grandparents still remember that feeling, and i guess i got to see enough of the immigrant life to have nothing but respect for those folks who dotted my childhood and adult life. folks escaping war in vietnam, then guatemala, then sarajevo. it is hard for me to see them as a bad thing for my country.
now the economy is booming back home they are bringing folks in from mexico and korea to work in the hog plant outside of town, and even my mom and her husband have decided it is a good thing. suddenly their church is filled with young people again!
8:28 am, too early for bourbon? If I can survive the next 36 hours...
I attended TEDxTC last night, and it was marvelous.
Sir Ken Robinson was one of the two video presentations, from a previous TED conference, and never have more illuminating words been spoken or funny for that matter.
So, here is what I propose; forget the idea that knowing anything and everything is a precursor to doing anything, forget the idea that mistakes are problems, and believe in the idea that leaping before looking and doing for the shear love of doing - and not knowing - is a goal worth pursuing and ultimately the process is the product. We should define our work, our life, our happiness; do not let those things define you and box you...Joy. Happiness. Life. = Human Existence
nice ken.
i like ken robinson too. cheers for the link very all over the place but in an interesting way. agree with him completely, especially the bit about academics thinking their bodies are only there to get there heads around ;-)
Ken whats Tc stand for? or does xTC =ecstasy?
Morning all.
Bourbon doesn't sound too bad, donna.
Dub - Thanks for your shout out to my beloved Nashville. The situation down there is a wreck right now. It's shocking and disturbing how little national coverage this has made.
Hi all. School is my life. That is all.
Nam, TC = Twin Cities.
n_, perhaps more attention would be made of the flooding, if Pat Robertson and the 700 Club would make the claim that this is God's retribution for tolerance of Islam or Human Rights??
n_
did you catch the dorte mandrup lecture last night? that was great, made me late to my other meetingS last night. i really need to be less busy these days.
Oh man, I think I just remebered who Ken is!
hi all I'm still marking papers - loads and loads of papers. The hours of my day are interspersed with other forms of architecture, but mostly it's about marking papers. Lot's of pressure to get as many done by next Friday fingers crossed.
Donna looking forward to more rain I see, please take a picture of you splashing about in your Michael Kors raincoat.
Emily hope you enjoyed your train ride, how long is it - I know most rail travel tends to be long due to the number of stops but always a restful journey.
Laura get that knee sorted doesn't sound like fun - perhaps they need to drain the fluid. Bleh...
Slar... wow love the kitchen and I'm moved by the 3 burner stove. I find I'm a little odd when it comes to numbers - I always think prime numbers just look better (but there being 10 of something is okay too)
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