WI is code for the West Indies. And I suspect 420 is code for uhmm weed. Very interesting when you think about it.
Somewhere between drunk and hungover, checking to see if I was graced with an email too. Ahhh yes
Dear archintoeltopehiela,
I always appreciate your input and your careful thought in sharing all things architecture. I also appreciate your knowledge-ability on Jamaican dance hall music and dagger dancing.
I really ought to think you should post more.
And I apologize that I never wrote an article to submit to your journal. I was far too busy drinking white wine at 10 a.m. to ever get anything done.
ahhh Uni you are star! From troll to gentleman in one swift move. In the words of S.E. Hinton, "Stay gold ponyboy"
humm...I've got the munchies.....damn I know there is a dark chocolate bar burried in my file cabinet somewhere among other collectables I haven't had a need for in years. I guess I will spend the rest of the day..admiring old shit... and enjoying the day. That munchie craving....is coming on strong..
Good 420 morning everyone...catching up as well.
Snook, I got the munchies for cocoa cereal for the past week..weird...
I didn't get an email either from the rusty-unicorn...lucky me?
Donna, any good poetry suggestions?
Serious question about pot: when I was in high school (mid-80s), the common units of pot for sale were either a dime bag or a nickel bag, with dime being most popular. A dime bag was $10, and was a sandwich-sized baggie filled to two fingers high - about 1-1/2"x the width of the baggie. The nickel bag was one largish finger-sized bud, basically, or about half the dime bag.
I used the term "dime bag" with my students last week, as a joke, and they giggled: but what does "dime bag" mean these days?
I wish pot was legal. I don't smoke it, these days, but if it was legal I probably would enjoy it every now and again when I had a weekend without any work to do (rare).
me too steven... never tried it myself even though it was around all the time in college (one of my roommates smoked pretty much all day every day, it was the first thing he did every morning)... but for some reason no one (not even my wife or parents) believes me when i tell them that i've never tried it...
Don't know, Donna. I can ask a student or two for you. I was surprised the cost different between the south and north when I went to college. I never bought any, but a quarter, which was a quarter ounce, was 25 bucks down here, and was a lot more up in Philly. Like the dime bag, I always thought it was a quarter because of the 25 dollar price.
Computer crashed while writing this. I asked a student, and he said it's 2-3 grams, so same meaning. Maybe they just giggled cause you're a teacher.
Oh, I was sly. I typed it in the notepad section of my iphone, and then just showed it to the kid. He's a good kid, and he just laughed. He then whispered under his breath an answer, but I only let him get half the answer out. No need to really talk about such things, right? So in the end, we really didn't have a conversation, and I never asked, and he never answered.
Here is my contribution: Did you know that THC (the chemical in weed) occurs naturally in our brains? It is the chemical that enables the different parts of our brain to talk to each other. That's why you can feel simultaneously dumb and really smart when high... your brain pathways aren't following their normal routes, but rather drawing new connections. It is actually an important chemical in learning. Disclaimer: Smoking pot is harmful to developing brains.
In this case, I apologize to you rustystuds, for putting rusty on the unicorn or the unicorn on your rusty. Also you are too quick on your horns calling me a name, what was not so cool of you. Perhaps, you got really insulted with an honest mistake?
Oops, I have another contribution - legalizing hemp would provide us with a ton of material to manufacture very useful, inexpensive and sustainable products made in the USA. How about that for a green job?
Nam - thanks for the link; I'm going to play it as I draft for a couple. I'll see if I can resist signing at the top of my lungs.
So it's interesting how currency and culture changes things like drug references. We don't have dimes or nickles, but we do have a draw slip and $100 bag which are a spliff pre-rolled and a plastic bag or saran wrap with a small amount in it, respectively.
To my knowledge I thought hemp was legal as a product, but illegal to grow? Does it even matter though, hemp refers to the grass not the buds. But I guess as it deals with contraband best to illegalize it all.
Philip I believe you not to worry. I was 24 before I ever tried - although I too spent much of my formative years with it around me. I will admit that I knew how to roll at least 3 different ways.
Locally the government spends incredible amounts of money enforcing the laws that keep it illegal. My own views are cognizant of international laws, and believe it should be legal to consume locally and highly illegal to export... so if you want it, come for vacation. Of course one would ask how is this different from what happens now.
Also I wanted to share a link with you. I published a list from A to Z of significant works of architecture in movies. Do check it out and make suggestions for any that I may have missed
Use a program that tracks incoming/outgoing internet and remote server traffic.
If vectorworks is accessing internet addresses through your connection-- such as server1.vectorworks.com-- you can block those using the hosts file. You can find the hosts file in "\system32\drivers\etc\." Open it with note pad and type in "127.0.0.1 (a space) server1.vectorworks.com."
If Vectorworks is contacting IP addresses... that's a bit more complicated. At that point, just buy Kaspersky AV and use the anti-virus software to block internet traffic for Vectorworks.
However, I think Vectorworks is one of those programs that must be annoyingly connected to the internet. So, I'm pretty sure that blocking its internet traffic would make it worthless.
techno, it is illegal to cultivate hemp in the states, the feds have a zero tolerance policy and make no distinction. Hemp products are imported, usually from Canada.
The Sheats Goldstein House is in The Big Lebowski - amongst other things.
I also saw it in an episode of 'How did you get so rich?' with Joan Rivers (dont ask me why I watched it) talking to Jim Goldstein - the link via the John Lautner Foundation
Also, Guggenheim Bilbao is in the opening of the Bond film, The World is Not Enough.
techno, would Blade Runner count? Didn't it use the Ennis House as Deckert's main residence (not that every scene was shot there - I'm not sure what you're criteria is for how much time the house is on screen)?
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Wisconsin. I could just cry.
Sorry, back to pot references. Anyone holding? I could use some.
For you Donna.
WI is code for the West Indies. And I suspect 420 is code for uhmm weed. Very interesting when you think about it.
Somewhere between drunk and hungover, checking to see if I was graced with an email too. Ahhh yes
Dear archintoeltopehiela,
I always appreciate your input and your careful thought in sharing all things architecture. I also appreciate your knowledge-ability on Jamaican dance hall music and dagger dancing.
I really ought to think you should post more.
And I apologize that I never wrote an article to submit to your journal. I was far too busy drinking white wine at 10 a.m. to ever get anything done.
ahhh Uni you are star! From troll to gentleman in one swift move. In the words of S.E. Hinton, "Stay gold ponyboy"
I also appreciate that mr. sparkles mcUnicorn Esq. thinks I'm awesome. but seriously, dude - you need help... more so than the rest of us.
donna - just show up at any steak'n'shake at around 2am and a bleary-eyed HS kid will hook you up. unless things have changed in the past 10 years...
humm...I've got the munchies.....damn I know there is a dark chocolate bar burried in my file cabinet somewhere among other collectables I haven't had a need for in years. I guess I will spend the rest of the day..admiring old shit... and enjoying the day. That munchie craving....is coming on strong..
Wow, "Stay gold, Ponyboy". I haven't heard those words in nearly a lifetime! Nice, techno.
morning all....
Been absent due to illness and catching up at work. Maybe that is why i didn't get an email...
Anywho, happy 420 yall. Can you believe we made it this far?
Good 420 morning everyone...catching up as well.
Snook, I got the munchies for cocoa cereal for the past week..weird...
I didn't get an email either from the rusty-unicorn...lucky me?
Donna, any good poetry suggestions?
Ok, so are we filling up the whole page with pottage? Hmmm, let me think...
AH, I got one...
Texas Style ;~)
Of course, now I'll have that stuck in my head all day.
i guess i'll just check out for a page or so: i have no experience with pot and even lack much of the cultural knowledge that surrounds it.
Serious question about pot: when I was in high school (mid-80s), the common units of pot for sale were either a dime bag or a nickel bag, with dime being most popular. A dime bag was $10, and was a sandwich-sized baggie filled to two fingers high - about 1-1/2"x the width of the baggie. The nickel bag was one largish finger-sized bud, basically, or about half the dime bag.
I used the term "dime bag" with my students last week, as a joke, and they giggled: but what does "dime bag" mean these days?
I wish pot was legal. I don't smoke it, these days, but if it was legal I probably would enjoy it every now and again when I had a weekend without any work to do (rare).
me too steven... never tried it myself even though it was around all the time in college (one of my roommates smoked pretty much all day every day, it was the first thing he did every morning)... but for some reason no one (not even my wife or parents) believes me when i tell them that i've never tried it...
Purpurina:"I didn't get an email either from the rusty-unicorn...lucky me?"
Brilliant work there Nancy Drew. I'm also your momma.
Don't know, Donna. I can ask a student or two for you. I was surprised the cost different between the south and north when I went to college. I never bought any, but a quarter, which was a quarter ounce, was 25 bucks down here, and was a lot more up in Philly. Like the dime bag, I always thought it was a quarter because of the 25 dollar price.
Computer crashed while writing this. I asked a student, and he said it's 2-3 grams, so same meaning. Maybe they just giggled cause you're a teacher.
Sarah, don't get in trouble for asking minors about illegal drugs!
donna, as far as I know dime bag means the same thing it always did...
I never had a problem with rusty unicorns...
Oh, I was sly. I typed it in the notepad section of my iphone, and then just showed it to the kid. He's a good kid, and he just laughed. He then whispered under his breath an answer, but I only let him get half the answer out. No need to really talk about such things, right? So in the end, we really didn't have a conversation, and I never asked, and he never answered.
Crazy. I feel like a spy.
Oh Sarah, are we going to be reading the rest of that story in a newspaper?
"A sub arrested for sexting her student and offering him drugs"
Purpina, I am not unicorn you knucklehead.
...now I do.
Purprina, rusty and unicorn are two different people. Really.
Unless it's Donna-rusty-unicorn. In which case Donna-rusty-unicorn is not to be trusted.
from their posts they may be two different people with several personalities.
Haha, no way. I'm not a Sub, I'm a student teacher.
Here is my contribution: Did you know that THC (the chemical in weed) occurs naturally in our brains? It is the chemical that enables the different parts of our brain to talk to each other. That's why you can feel simultaneously dumb and really smart when high... your brain pathways aren't following their normal routes, but rather drawing new connections. It is actually an important chemical in learning. Disclaimer: Smoking pot is harmful to developing brains.
In this case, I apologize to you rustystuds, for putting rusty on the unicorn or the unicorn on your rusty. Also you are too quick on your horns calling me a name, what was not so cool of you. Perhaps, you got really insulted with an honest mistake?
Oops, I have another contribution - legalizing hemp would provide us with a ton of material to manufacture very useful, inexpensive and sustainable products made in the USA. How about that for a green job?
pupurina...you're really upset about being called a knucklehead?
archi, concerning your knowledge-ability on Jamaican dance hall music and dagger dancing
I thought you might be enjoy this 25 Years of Dancehall mix
hey - watch your f-ing language! this is a family website.
I got a letter, twas good
a rusty unicorn is a beautiful image. ...like something i'd like to airbrush onto the back of a leather jacket....
Nam - thanks for the link; I'm going to play it as I draft for a couple. I'll see if I can resist signing at the top of my lungs.
So it's interesting how currency and culture changes things like drug references. We don't have dimes or nickles, but we do have a draw slip and $100 bag which are a spliff pre-rolled and a plastic bag or saran wrap with a small amount in it, respectively.
To my knowledge I thought hemp was legal as a product, but illegal to grow? Does it even matter though, hemp refers to the grass not the buds. But I guess as it deals with contraband best to illegalize it all.
Philip I believe you not to worry. I was 24 before I ever tried - although I too spent much of my formative years with it around me. I will admit that I knew how to roll at least 3 different ways.
Locally the government spends incredible amounts of money enforcing the laws that keep it illegal. My own views are cognizant of international laws, and believe it should be legal to consume locally and highly illegal to export... so if you want it, come for vacation. Of course one would ask how is this different from what happens now.
Also I wanted to share a link with you. I published a list from A to Z of significant works of architecture in movies. Do check it out and make suggestions for any that I may have missed
a question, does anyone know how to disable vectorworks connecting to the internet?
Atechno...
Use a program that tracks incoming/outgoing internet and remote server traffic.
If vectorworks is accessing internet addresses through your connection-- such as server1.vectorworks.com-- you can block those using the hosts file. You can find the hosts file in "\system32\drivers\etc\." Open it with note pad and type in "127.0.0.1 (a space) server1.vectorworks.com."
If Vectorworks is contacting IP addresses... that's a bit more complicated. At that point, just buy Kaspersky AV and use the anti-virus software to block internet traffic for Vectorworks.
However, I think Vectorworks is one of those programs that must be annoyingly connected to the internet. So, I'm pretty sure that blocking its internet traffic would make it worthless.
Wow, talk about incognito. Who is that, and how did you do that?
That was unicorn farts. Being farty again.
invisible unicorn
techno, it is illegal to cultivate hemp in the states, the feds have a zero tolerance policy and make no distinction. Hemp products are imported, usually from Canada.
arch...
i'm pretty sure that the diamond ranch high school is in another movie as well.
the big lebowski def has a significant house in it..just can't remember which one at the moment.
surely the guggenheim bilbao has been in a movie.
i know for a fact that pacino is living in thom mayne's house in the movie 'Heat'.
i'm sure there are a ton more.... i know that 'the departed' has the police department in a rudolph building for instance.
i'll think through my movies later and see if i can't find a few more.
apparently DRHS has been in "The Cell, Orange County, Serenity and Live Free or Die Hard."
The caltrans building by morphosis has been in at least:
_Mr. & Mrs. Smith
_The Island
_Fun With Dick & Jane
_Mission Impossible 3
_Because I Said So
ok..back to work...
The Sheats Goldstein House is in The Big Lebowski - amongst other things.
I also saw it in an episode of 'How did you get so rich?' with Joan Rivers (dont ask me why I watched it) talking to Jim Goldstein - the link via the John Lautner Foundation
Also, Guggenheim Bilbao is in the opening of the Bond film, The World is Not Enough.
A tour of the Sheats Goldstein house
techno, would Blade Runner count? Didn't it use the Ennis House as Deckert's main residence (not that every scene was shot there - I'm not sure what you're criteria is for how much time the house is on screen)?
wasn't the ennis house in gattaca too?
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