Well that's the benefit to working out in the evening - alcohol reward after. When I work out in the morning I can't quite just justify that!
I'm having a piano delivered today. It's my childhood piano, that my parents are not taking on their move back to Phoenix. It's really beautiful - upright, black lacquer, made by Yamaha in the early 70s. Quite modern-looking. But my husband is NOT happy about us getting it - we don't really have a good place to put it unless we move some art around.
Plus, this weekend I'm making him and his friends build me a chicken coop. So I'm being a high-maintenance life partner lately. ;-)
Oh, with the piano I'm also getting my old wood drafting table. So I see a re-arrangement of the home office space on the horizon!
Donna, I may just have to give in and help my lady with her chickens now. I just haven't felt like putting something more on my plate. Plus, what to do with the chickens once they are post-egg laying years. As I don't eat chicken. Just bury body?
What are you planning on doing butchering on site (meaning your yard?)
Can we change the Archinect discussion categories to the follow:
1) I have more "experience" therefore [blank] is always right.
2) LOL taxes
3) I didn't use google or Archinect search feature.
4) What do you think about [School name]?
5) LOL recession
6) We hate Obama or other assorted politicians
7) I'm a moron and need you to do this for me
8) Other (Hey, there might be architecture here!)
SInce we have been talking about media blasting - and booze - here is a picture of one of my custom wine glasses husband made with his media blaster. For our wedding we received some wine glasses from Michigan etched with the outline of the state. They were so dorkalicious that we decided to make a full set using the outlines of all the states we've both lived in. Shown is Arizona.
And that picture was taken 15 minutes ago, so yes, I'm drinking wine at 4pm Friday! (The meetings for the day are done.)
Had brunch with my favorite interior designer, so we started drinking at 10:30 today. It's going to be a long day. She is one of those people that I can talk for hours with, especially when there are mimosas in the mix. We talked a lot about the industry & about her future. I offered what advice and insight I could, but there are no easy answers.
What do you use to mask off the design for the media blaster? I had some large panes of glass sandblasted with some designs many years ago (where are those?) and I used a product made specifically for that very thing. It was expensive but it stayed where it needed to be and it was easy to do intricate designs - it was a sticky back foam product that I used an xacto to cut. Would masking tape work?
It has been raining here most of the day...so mrs...didn't want to cook outside and tells me the cut of meat I bought is better cooked in a pan...I can smell the scent of taragon from here....so I know I will be a happy camper in a couple of minutes.
I have been thinking chickens myself, but with two hunting dogs, I think it is a lost cause.
Ooohhh I never thought I could blast glasses. Sweet!
I used printed sticky-back stuck onto contact paper (shelf paper). I was afriadthe media would blast through the sticky-back. Since Donna used masking tape, I guess I wouldve been ok.
For metal, Sarah, masking tape might have been risky. Glass is so soft - Brian *almost* burned all the way through the glass on New York!
I had a wine margarita tonight - local fave Mexican restaurant La Pieded doesn't have a hard liquor license so they improvised. Was surprisingly good - and potent!
okay so I'm in a love hate relationship with the weather. I should of been following the weather forecast (snafu no.2). Well it was raining cats and dogs from 4:30 for our 8:30 event... it didn't stop until way past 9pm. We had to postpone it - although some folk did turn out nonetheless. Friends took me out for wine and chocolate.... to match the 2 beers I had earlier
I can pretty safely say networking, touring and doing things in person was not any more effective than doing it over the internet.
I did learn two things:
1) Some firms are actually willing to hire out-of-area, out-of-state. In fact, the 4 'shiny' firms I talked to were actually preferring outsiders.
2) Some of them take resumes and portfolios online as seriously as they do a hand delivery. One lady who looked very important to me said "Oh god, you actually came up here to do this! You should have just saved your money and not sweated to death!"
She was also from the former group and made some comment about how "New York is thoroughly intellectually inbred."
Other than the encounter with here and two secretaries, NY was a huge bust. I also learned that the neighborhood I liked the most is far out of any salary range I could ever wrangle in the next two decades.
But other than that, it was a pretty horrible and awful trip. And I can't imagine staying anywhere near or around midtown. This place is pretty much god awful.
In conclusion, there's a lot of similarities between New York and Florida.
Except we just throw people in actual prisons and we actually paint things from time to time. Oh, we apparently have the whole HVAC thing figured out to a T.
so we used an example from the new Star Trek movie as an example of a learning space today in the summer studio. But for some reason I can't find a picture of it online.
heat wave in tokyo. amazingly muggy and sunshine non stop. guess the rainy season is over.
media blasters are cool!
sorry your trip didn't work out UG. i think in normal times your approach would be a good one, but with the economy so bad perhaps not the best timing. try not to take it personally.
what DO you do with old chickens, especially if you don't like to eat chicken meat? Train them to go wild and live out their days in the woods? Sell them to restaurant? I am kinda curious now...
*M - the pickles will last as long as I don't eat them all up. I'm letting them ferment for a week or so, then into the fridge. I'll probably keep the brine and refresh the stash with the harvest.
jump, we would probably eat ours, though I believe the older they get the stringier and tougher they get. Though Brian has slaughtered lots of chickens, we don't have a setup for it here, and I don't want to build one for slaughtering maybe one chicken a year or less! So we'd probably take them to a chicken farmer and pay. One neighbor has 3 year old chickens still producing eggs.
Donna, you can make stringy, gamey meat taste much better by pickling it in white wine and vinegar for 12 to 24 hours before cooking! A lot if people think it is weird to pickle raw meat but it is delicious! Just rub it in kosher salt, let it sit for 15 minutes and rinse it off before cooking.
I mean it was an okay trip but I'm a person who absolutely hates vacations. Anything longer than 48 hours kills me! I just didn't like the trip because of the cost and expectation! I'd rather have gone
to Europe for three days to do nothing.
thas cool donna. i wonder what our neighbours would say if i made a chicken coop on our balcony...
and just to show that NOTHING on TC cannot be eventually brought back to architecture, this chicken talk reminds me of Wiel Aret's hedge house, with beautiful chicken coop incorporated into the building:
it's amazing isn't it? it is one of my favourite buildings by wiel. this and his library in utrecht really stand out for me. i may have it wrong about the chickens though. looks like some of the photos of the house have ducks wandering around...
actually that is an awesome idea. wish i could afford it. would be nice to take a holiday with my wife.
those projects are great holz. i guess i have seen too much ando to not see them as just a little bit too much like the master. the police stations are awesome though. and his recent work is very interesting. i think he is coming into his own recently.
Hi all! I'm into week 3 of my South American adventure. My sister got married to a wonderful, wonderful man last week. Now, I'm chilling with my parents at their house in Brasil for the next few weeks. My days consist of mimosas and breakfast with my mother, walking with my mother, reading the million books that I need to finish before the summer ends, enjoying Sao Paulo site and waiting for my dad to come home so we can have family dinner. I feel so domestic.
I have a lot of archinecting to catch up on so I'll leave you at that.
Donna - it's a Bangla Ohm... Obviously a yogic manta, a practice that keeps me strong and balanced both physically and mentally.
Barry - it really wasn't as painful as I thought. It literally took about 10 mins for the artist to do. Took more time to fill out the paperwork and figure out its precise location.
OMG! The dishwasher is busted again. Will this saga ever end? I need two acsessory clips for the racks, but last night the spray arm was hitting. So today I asked the technician to check that out to, and guess what. The last company, the one we fired cause they weren't fixing the problem the first few months, installed the arm incorrectly! Ack!
Oh, Yuck. I just came across something I found a bit, well, um, disturbing...
Yeah, it looks like something from silence of the lambs/ chainsaw because it's made from human placenta. Its a kit you can buy, and make for your baby! Yum!
Hahahaha Sarah that's hilarious and creepy! In a bear shape, because you would give it to the kid to play with? Because you want your child to view your uterus as a woodland creature? So wierd!
Well, I guess it's all so the placenta can be a continuing sort of comfort for the child. Heck maybe you shouldn't even cut the cord, that way it's never lost.
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I totally agree with nam's sentiments Atechno. Especially considering your fiance lives closer to me than you at present moment.
Hmmm... beer after workout. I might have to try that. The other night I had sushi and half a bottle of wine after mine. Does that count?
Well that's the benefit to working out in the evening - alcohol reward after. When I work out in the morning I can't quite just justify that!
I'm having a piano delivered today. It's my childhood piano, that my parents are not taking on their move back to Phoenix. It's really beautiful - upright, black lacquer, made by Yamaha in the early 70s. Quite modern-looking. But my husband is NOT happy about us getting it - we don't really have a good place to put it unless we move some art around.
Plus, this weekend I'm making him and his friends build me a chicken coop. So I'm being a high-maintenance life partner lately. ;-)
Oh, with the piano I'm also getting my old wood drafting table. So I see a re-arrangement of the home office space on the horizon!
donna - you're getting chickens? how exciting! we've got a couple neighbors who are currently fighting (and flaunting) city code...
Donna, I may just have to give in and help my lady with her chickens now. I just haven't felt like putting something more on my plate. Plus, what to do with the chickens once they are post-egg laying years. As I don't eat chicken. Just bury body?
What are you planning on doing butchering on site (meaning your yard?)
Can we change the Archinect discussion categories to the follow:
1) I have more "experience" therefore [blank] is always right.
2) LOL taxes
3) I didn't use google or Archinect search feature.
4) What do you think about [School name]?
5) LOL recession
6) We hate Obama or other assorted politicians
7) I'm a moron and need you to do this for me
8) Other (Hey, there might be architecture here!)
That's a good list, Unicorn!
SInce we have been talking about media blasting - and booze - here is a picture of one of my custom wine glasses husband made with his media blaster. For our wedding we received some wine glasses from Michigan etched with the outline of the state. They were so dorkalicious that we decided to make a full set using the outlines of all the states we've both lived in. Shown is Arizona.
And that picture was taken 15 minutes ago, so yes, I'm drinking wine at 4pm Friday! (The meetings for the day are done.)
geesh - how many people have a media blaster? and why don't I have one?
Had brunch with my favorite interior designer, so we started drinking at 10:30 today. It's going to be a long day. She is one of those people that I can talk for hours with, especially when there are mimosas in the mix. We talked a lot about the industry & about her future. I offered what advice and insight I could, but there are no easy answers.
What do you use to mask off the design for the media blaster? I had some large panes of glass sandblasted with some designs many years ago (where are those?) and I used a product made specifically for that very thing. It was expensive but it stayed where it needed to be and it was easy to do intricate designs - it was a sticky back foam product that I used an xacto to cut. Would masking tape work?
We used plain old masking tape on our wine glasses - covered the entire thing but for the state shape.
It has been raining here most of the day...so mrs...didn't want to cook outside and tells me the cut of meat I bought is better cooked in a pan...I can smell the scent of taragon from here....so I know I will be a happy camper in a couple of minutes.
I have been thinking chickens myself, but with two hunting dogs, I think it is a lost cause.
dinner is calling~~~~
Ooohhh I never thought I could blast glasses. Sweet!
I used printed sticky-back stuck onto contact paper (shelf paper). I was afriadthe media would blast through the sticky-back. Since Donna used masking tape, I guess I wouldve been ok.
For metal, Sarah, masking tape might have been risky. Glass is so soft - Brian *almost* burned all the way through the glass on New York!
I had a wine margarita tonight - local fave Mexican restaurant La Pieded doesn't have a hard liquor license so they improvised. Was surprisingly good - and potent!
saw "the kids are all right" tonight - really excellent movie - and one of the main characters "went to school for architecture."
okay so I'm in a love hate relationship with the weather. I should of been following the weather forecast (snafu no.2). Well it was raining cats and dogs from 4:30 for our 8:30 event... it didn't stop until way past 9pm. We had to postpone it - although some folk did turn out nonetheless. Friends took me out for wine and chocolate.... to match the 2 beers I had earlier
The weather is just crazy lately, techno - so sorry your event was affected!
I'm out. Busy coop-building weekend to come.
So, after a whole week in NY...
I can pretty safely say networking, touring and doing things in person was not any more effective than doing it over the internet.
I did learn two things:
1) Some firms are actually willing to hire out-of-area, out-of-state. In fact, the 4 'shiny' firms I talked to were actually preferring outsiders.
2) Some of them take resumes and portfolios online as seriously as they do a hand delivery. One lady who looked very important to me said "Oh god, you actually came up here to do this! You should have just saved your money and not sweated to death!"
She was also from the former group and made some comment about how "New York is thoroughly intellectually inbred."
Other than the encounter with here and two secretaries, NY was a huge bust. I also learned that the neighborhood I liked the most is far out of any salary range I could ever wrangle in the next two decades.
But other than that, it was a pretty horrible and awful trip. And I can't imagine staying anywhere near or around midtown. This place is pretty much god awful.
In conclusion, there's a lot of similarities between New York and Florida.
Except we just throw people in actual prisons and we actually paint things from time to time. Oh, we apparently have the whole HVAC thing figured out to a T.
so we used an example from the new Star Trek movie as an example of a learning space today in the summer studio. But for some reason I can't find a picture of it online.
sunny and mid 70s... a near perfect day in seattle.
heat wave in tokyo. amazingly muggy and sunshine non stop. guess the rainy season is over.
media blasters are cool!
sorry your trip didn't work out UG. i think in normal times your approach would be a good one, but with the economy so bad perhaps not the best timing. try not to take it personally.
what DO you do with old chickens, especially if you don't like to eat chicken meat? Train them to go wild and live out their days in the woods? Sell them to restaurant? I am kinda curious now...
Unicorn, that sucks. But at least you got a trip to NYC?
hi jump! Morning all.
*M - the pickles will last as long as I don't eat them all up. I'm letting them ferment for a week or so, then into the fridge. I'll probably keep the brine and refresh the stash with the harvest.
jump, we would probably eat ours, though I believe the older they get the stringier and tougher they get. Though Brian has slaughtered lots of chickens, we don't have a setup for it here, and I don't want to build one for slaughtering maybe one chicken a year or less! So we'd probably take them to a chicken farmer and pay. One neighbor has 3 year old chickens still producing eggs.
Donna, you can make stringy, gamey meat taste much better by pickling it in white wine and vinegar for 12 to 24 hours before cooking! A lot if people think it is weird to pickle raw meat but it is delicious! Just rub it in kosher salt, let it sit for 15 minutes and rinse it off before cooking.
I mean it was an okay trip but I'm a person who absolutely hates vacations. Anything longer than 48 hours kills me! I just didn't like the trip because of the cost and expectation! I'd rather have gone
to Europe for three days to do nothing.
so torrential rains yesterday, today blistering heat and bright skies... got to love the Caribbean
did you move event to other day archi?
thas cool donna. i wonder what our neighbours would say if i made a chicken coop on our balcony...
and just to show that NOTHING on TC cannot be eventually brought back to architecture, this chicken talk reminds me of Wiel Aret's hedge house, with beautiful chicken coop incorporated into the building:
jump, i didn't realize there was a coop. damn...
i've been wanting goats and chickens lately...
it's amazing isn't it? it is one of my favourite buildings by wiel. this and his library in utrecht really stand out for me. i may have it wrong about the chickens though. looks like some of the photos of the house have ducks wandering around...
damn that's a beautiful coop. Jump we haven't determined a new date. Why? Flying over to present?
i think i prefer weil's ando-esque concrete projects from the earlier years. and his profilit police stations are friggin money...
I wish, archi!
actually that is an awesome idea. wish i could afford it. would be nice to take a holiday with my wife.
those projects are great holz. i guess i have seen too much ando to not see them as just a little bit too much like the master. the police stations are awesome though. and his recent work is very interesting. i think he is coming into his own recently.
You know what cracks me up? When people spell measurements "dementions". Sounds like the building is crazed!
or a character from harry potter!
I know what you do with old chickens, you make coq au vin. Yum. I guess if you don't eat meat then you give them to someone else.
I'm and ole chicken and I hope no one is making coq au vin out of me. I would rather be given to the neighbor.
Morning all.
What I did with my afternoon.
OHM!!!!!
*M, at first I thought you got:
[ie the new symbol for rupees]
(it still looks painful)
Ouch. I am firmly against tatoos for myself, but have thought that a nice chantilly lace band would be unique and cool. I may paint it on justfor fun.
Nice, *m!
Nice flask, SH!
Nice wine, LB!
Hi all! I'm into week 3 of my South American adventure. My sister got married to a wonderful, wonderful man last week. Now, I'm chilling with my parents at their house in Brasil for the next few weeks. My days consist of mimosas and breakfast with my mother, walking with my mother, reading the million books that I need to finish before the summer ends, enjoying Sao Paulo site and waiting for my dad to come home so we can have family dinner. I feel so domestic.
I have a lot of archinecting to catch up on so I'll leave you at that.
Ouch. I am firmly against tatoos for myself, but have thought that a nice chantilly lace band would be unique and cool. I may paint it on justfor fun.
melt, that's lovely on your neck - will you share what it says/means?
n_ I'm jealous. I need some mimosa-and-book downtime, especially with my parents!
Sarah you're right that a chantilly lace band seems unique, or at lest uncommon.
Off for an evening family bike ride.
Donna - it's a Bangla Ohm... Obviously a yogic manta, a practice that keeps me strong and balanced both physically and mentally.
Barry - it really wasn't as painful as I thought. It literally took about 10 mins for the artist to do. Took more time to fill out the paperwork and figure out its precise location.
OMG! The dishwasher is busted again. Will this saga ever end? I need two acsessory clips for the racks, but last night the spray arm was hitting. So today I asked the technician to check that out to, and guess what. The last company, the one we fired cause they weren't fixing the problem the first few months, installed the arm incorrectly! Ack!
Oh, Yuck. I just came across something I found a bit, well, um, disturbing...
Yeah, it looks like something from silence of the lambs/ chainsaw because it's made from human placenta. Its a kit you can buy, and make for your baby! Yum!
Holy shit sarah that is disturbing. reminds me of some friends who made prints using their placenta as a stamp of sorts..
Morning all. productivity is the name of the game this week!!
Hahahaha Sarah that's hilarious and creepy! In a bear shape, because you would give it to the kid to play with? Because you want your child to view your uterus as a woodland creature? So wierd!
Well, I guess it's all so the placenta can be a continuing sort of comfort for the child. Heck maybe you shouldn't even cut the cord, that way it's never lost.
and I thought discovering my baby teeth in a box in my mom's garage was disturbing.
That photo above is a joke right? Disturbing is kind of an understatment if you ask me.
No joke. Saw it on a crazy baby stuff article on parenting/yahoo.
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