oh, the book is "The Laws Of Simplicity"

http://lawsofsimplicity.com/

wait postcards?

my life needs a dustjacket.

A response, and fortunate for me not a critique of my writing abilities...

Hi betadinesutures,

I enjoyed your point about REDUCE-ing the jacket.

That's a point that definitely deserves further investigation (smile).

Best wishes,
John

me:
wife no
kids no
dog no
cat yes
cell phone no
computer yes
cable no
dvd yes
tv yes
ipod no
car yes
bike no
job yes

me (for past five years):
wife no
kids no
dog no
cat no
cell phone yes
computer yes
cable no
dvd no
tv no
ipod yes (two of them)
car no
bike yes
job yes

me (now):
wife no
kids no
dog no
cat no
cell phone yes (two, including blackberry)
computer yes
cable yes
dvd no
tv yes
ipod yes (two of them)
car yes
bike no
job yes

me (now):
wife no / tina yes (8 yrs)
kids no
dog yes & yes
cat no
cell phone yes
computer yes
cable yes (tina likes it)
dvd yes (broken) (tina likes it)
tv yes (tina likes it)
ipod no (tina likes to have one)
car yes (tina has two, one is never used, keeps it for sentimental reasons, go figure)
bike (one, never used w/flat tires)
job yes but sometimes no

wife no (gf/life partner yes)
kids no
dog no
cat no
cell phone yes
computer yes
cable yes (previous tenant left it connected, so it's free, otherwise no)
dvd yes
tv yes
ipod yes
car no!
bike no
job yes

me (2001):
wife no
kids no
dog no
cat yes & yes
cell phone yes
computer yes
cable yes
dvd yes
tv yes
ipod no
car yes
bike yes
job no
housekeeper no
view of manhattan
grad school no

me (now):
wife yes
kids no
dog no
cat yes
cell phone yes
computer yes
cable no
dvd yes
tv yes
ipod yes (two of them)
car almost no
bike yes
job maybe
housekeeper no
view of garden
gradschool yes & yes (or is that one yes for two degrees from the same place?)

We interrupt this regularly scheduled program with a news flash:

TK has chosen to chase designing eco-cities around the world for an overcrowded-growing-like-mad-firm, and he hopes to sign on the dotted line today or tomorrow (if he can learn korean by then...)

He had an alternate choice with a small urbanista practice planning community colleges and local projects for slightly more $, but would rather save the planet then be a comfortable small-town practitioner.


And now back to the show!

me
husband no/ Carlos yes (6.5 years)
kids no
dog no
cat no
cell phone yes
computer yes
cable no
dvd yes
tv yes
ipod yes (nano)
car yes (only for a little while longer though)
bike yes
job yes

an interesting exercise, but i don't know that this list and following 'the laws' are necessarily mutually exclusive. i've only perused mr maeda's book, of course, because reading the whole thing would clutter my brain with excess info and i certainly don't need to OWN it.

steven

wife yes
kids yes
dog no
cat no
cell phone yes
computer yes
cable no
dvd yes
tv yes (well, barely: a 20yo 17in.)
ipod no
car yes
bike yes (1spd)
job yes
housekeeper no
house yes
street no

congrats, killa...

me
wife yes - 10 years in october
mistress yes -architecture
kids no
dog no
cat yesX3
cell phone yes
computer yesX2
cable yes
dvd yes
tv yes
ipod wife has one
car yesX2 - we commute
bike not yet soon
job yes
stereo yes
home rent for now
books too many to list (i just got a couple of books on Rabelais and Bakhtin[sp]

oh, i just satisfied my fantasy last night - shoe fetish - and bought 4 pairs of shoes on clearance at Macys, damn that was good!

$600+ in shoes for $240!

so I just got a set of plans back from Beverly Hills plan check after 1.5 weeks and there are basically no corrections!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

wife: no
kids: none that I know of
dog: no
cat: no
cell: yes
computer: office laptop
cable: no
dvd: yes
tv: no
ipod: yes - battery dead.
car: yes
bike: no
job: yes
school: loans
house: rent
exercise: yoga

Wednesday, June 20 - Chia-turtle: yes



this is where the water goes. i asked for permission before photographing her hole. she's modest, but oh that bush...

me (now):
wife no, (see: dating history for more info)
kids no, maybe someday
dog no, but i like 'em
cat no, and i'm allergic to 'em/don't understand 'em
cell phone yes
computer yes, x2 (pc and mac) (think i'll buy one mac sometime in the next year or so)
cable yes
dvd yes
tv yes x2
stereo yes
ipod no
car no, but i love driving (and i def. prefer 5 speeds)
bike yes, but it has a flat at the moment...walk to work everyday
job yes
books yes
tools yes
paintings many
sports soccer, volleyball, basketball
eames chairs x3 (rocker, plywood, lounge)
chalkboard wall yes
home 5 bedroom apartment with 4 roomies w/ view of manhattan and brooklyn bridges.

tumbler (can i do that?)

it's great for parties...it's about 11' long and my roomates and i use
it all the time for various info...and it's really simple to do.

wife no (change the laws USA)
kids NO
dog no
cat no
cell phone yes (two)
computer yes
cable yes (internet)
dvd yes (in the computer)
tv no
ipod yes (two)
car no
bike yes
job yes

how did "tumbleweed" come about anyway...for your first 1000 posts or so you had a different name...just curious. tumbelina.

a friend in jacksonville had a wall in her house painted w/chalkboard finish...

notes for roomies on chalkboard!

buy tp
put the seat down!!!
clean up your shit!
wash your dishes!
who ate my bagel???
i heart u!

'whos that creepy guy sleeping on the couch'

'thats vado'

stoked....so california. (but i dig it)...do you say 'she's all' and 'he's all' too?

the loft sounds fun...i live in one at the moment as well..but the bedrooms are permanent...i made my own though...wish i'd thought of the moving bedroom idea though..would've been great to be able to tuck a whole bedroom away...although it seems really heavy...next time.
the other idea i had was to raise my bedroom off the floor about two feet...so you can use all that space for storage..and have basically nothing but the bed above...you lift pieces of the floor to get your clothes/ books etc...but ended up not doing that either..still a work in progress though.

i've been thinking of doing the area around my door in panelite...maybe
this weekend.

you should do a sort of sol lewitt drawing as well. i currently have a ton of paintings..so if i ever get board of any i either paint another one or i put up one of the other ones i have.

vado

there was an 'everyone must do dishes' note i put up there for a little while...

ap. you'll have to come to our next party..sometime in the next couple weeks. maybe it can coincide with namby's departure.

If you're using the chalk board finish for the outside of your bedroom boxes, be sure to use lots of sound deadening. That ticky-tappy sound of people writing with chalk will drive you nuts if you are inside the box.

But its a cool idea. Will people be able to roll the rooms around? Push your door up against a wall while you are sleeping so you can't get out? Oh, wait, you're girls, you probably won't play as many pranks as a guy roomates would.

if the chalkboards a rockin dont come a knockin

Well - The house is a rockin' don't bother knockin'
Yeah - The house is a rockin' don't bother knockin'
Yeah - The house is a rockin' don't bother come on in

Kick off your shoes start losin' the blues
This old house ain't got nothin' to lose
Seen it all for years start spreadin' the news
We got room on the floor come on baby shake sumpin' loose

Well - The house is a rockin' don't bother knockin'
Yeah - The house is a rockin' don't bother knockin'
Yeah - The house is a rockin' don't bother come on in

(Solos Piano and Guitar)

Well - The house is a rockin' don't bother knockin'
Yeah - The house is a rockin' don't bother knockin'
Yeah - The house is a rockin' don't bother come on in

Walkin' up the street you can hear the sound
Of some bad honky tonkers really layin' it down
They've seen it all for years and got nothin' to lose
So get down on the floor shimmy 'til you shake sumpin' loose

Well - The house is a rockin' don't bother knockin'
Yeah - The house is a rockin' don't bother knockin'
Yeah - The house is a rockin' don't bother come on in
I said the house is a rockin' don't bother come on in


Stevie Ray Vaughan.

Sorry, Im not cool like some people who can find and post you tube links to such things.

Thanks guys.

vado's better, obviously. his is the real SRV. i like Brian Setzer too though.

nothing wrong with some amped up rockabilly.

and hey SH - don't you have studying to be doing! not many more months of freedom left! ;-)

tumbles, I must ask: will the wheels be lockable? Because while making the rooms move in er, ... rythmic fashion could be fun for YOU, your roomate and downstairs neighbor may not be very appreciative.

yeah, anybody got study materials I could have/buy?

sarah - try here for starters.

i never took any of 'em, nor will i, but there seems to be quite a bit of info in that thread.

rationalist...

have to admit that my first thought was...would the bedroom cubes
be insulated or more importantly do they have ceilings? part of the
problem of open lofts is the ability to hear everything...

at least you could move your cube to the other side of the loft when
your roommate has company. (mdler or approved equal for example)

i'm sure there's no equal...

wife, kids, dog, cat, ipod, bike, loft

YES
mobile, computer (two), cable, dvd, tv, SUV (two), job, housekeeper,
view of garden, view of the sea, view of the sunset, gradschool,

keep it simple stupid

congrats tk - green the planet, damnit!!

My first thought is the one bedroom cube stationary and slightly scared while the other bedroom cube rolled back and forth and back and forth, and then visions of the downstairs neighbor going "What the HELL are they doing up there?!"

rationalist...i'm in your boat, being royally frustrated by my version of crystal lite. She hands me a memo this afternoon for something due in 28 hours. Ha! But she's had it sitting on her fricking desk for 2 weeks, and then gives me attitude when I ask about it, saying how sometimes the internal mail gets lost. WTF?

Bah.

And it seems confirmed that I will be loosing my staff member. I think I'm next...countdown to March 08 begins.

maybe it's just because CL has exhausted all my patience, but I'd totally be like, "well it needs to stop getting lost, because it's your *job* to get these things distributed in a timely manner."

1100

'i'm sure there's no equal...'

thanks, AP...i think

fan lights tumbles.

back in late 2001, a KSA classmate of mine and his GSAPP roomie were living a few floors below me in b-burg. they built a bunch of glass and steel cubes/vitrines on wheels that made it into the NYTs. It was scary to listen to the wine glasses rattle on the glass shelves as they moved the bar around the pad over the rough concrete floor.

ya, you're welcome. no hidden meaning...

*sigh* Myspineless noodledom has reared it's ugly head again and I couldn't get up the courage to ask my boss for the week after next off for vacation. And I've even been practicing my speech all day. And of course now he's gone all of next week. I haven't even bought my ticket yet, so I'm really considering not going at all. So WWTCD? Email him, call him on cell (not too comfortable with that), talk to the other boss, who's not my studio lead, or just stay home?

i'd anticipate that this is goin to run you at least 1000...
the framing alone is going to be kind of expensive..although
i don't know how big your boxes are gonna be....the closer to 8'
square or so would keep things cheaper (or 10'), but that's not
that big of a room...are you using metal studs for the wall/roof?
this'd be lighter/cheaper..it's a bit different to work with though.

and do you know what kind of casters you're
goin to use? those'll be 25 or so a piece i'd guess.

i feel like you should build bookshelves/ cd shelves into the outside/inside of the walls..or do you want them to be really clean looking?

i dunno about the pegboard providing any kind of soundproofing..
probably a bit... how are you gettin power to these things?

is there an actual door? (a premade door/frame runs 100 or so)

sounds like a fun project...wish i could help from across the country.

hys

grow a set and call/email your boss and ask...no reason to be scared
to take vacation..this is some kind of myth/loyalty complex that
we've been taught that makes no sense. everyone needs a break
every now and again.

i wouldn't tell 'em you haven't bought the tix yet either.

thank Buff and Hensman