Re: How to Buy a Present for an Architect

Noteworthy Re-Blog #1

Matters of Taste : How To Buy a Present for an Architect

This close-to-home blog post was shared by a friend on facebook, who is a fellow architect grad (aspiring architect? architect-in-waiting? architect-in-education-but-currently-lacking-credentials? They need a name for the scores of people in this category) And I thought I should share, though be warned: if you are not acquainted with an architect(-etc), then this will be less amazingly-funny-and-accurate and more I-can't-believe-they're-so-snobby.

space

If somebody dies... while they're in outer space... do we say they were "Lost in Space?"

Chocolate Convo

"How did it take so long to come up with something so simple, yet so good? Its just puffed up rice, covered in chocolate."
"Its because it's coated in chocolate. Anything coated in chocolate is good."
"True, people eat chocolate covered bugs- that should tell ya something... But how did it take millenia for our species to come up with this?"
"Millenia?"
"It should have been: fire, bow & arrows... chocolate-coated-stuff. boom, end of the need of innovations."
"... I don't think we would have lasted very long."
"We would've made our selves extinct due to diabetes."
"But we would've gone out happy!"
"Ha! 'Here lies beautiful Earth, brief home of the Fattanhappians'."

Y.O.L.O.

"Yahweh & Other Loopholes Observed"

lol, Doctor, I believe the phrase only applies to non-fictional characters...

Seatbelts

How come nobody wears seatbelts in the movies and television?

I get that half the time they're not even in a real car, much less an actual road... but that's not the case here, with Bill Maher in Religulous...

You'd think directors would want to double check this sort of thing... and isn't it illegal in a lot of places? Can the cops watch these shows and then go issue citations for not buckling up?

Scott McGillivray

Scott McGillivray....
A) Very hard to find if you only know how his name sounds, but not how its written.
B) Designer/Contractor/Realtor of HGTV's Income Property
C) Bettering the world by making multi-tenant housing something "cool" besides just being something that is green, economical, and socially strengthens the community.
D) (For the ladies some) He looks like that! ->
E) (For the men some others) He's married.

Not having cable, Income Property is one of the shows I can watch online [here], and I pretty much love this show and the way Scott hosts it. He's the only host I've seen that shows detailed (and to scale!) floor plans of his projects. If you're interested in investment properties or just home decor, check it out!

"Moths" Quote

"Moths are the butterflies of the night."

-another one from Mandy of Mandy's Space

Mandy is... much more sensitive... of the life of other living creatures... than myself. She was lamenting over the seemingly doomed fate of the worms inside mexican jumping beans that were being sold in plastic cases. She asked if they stayed in the beans forever, the clerk replied that most of them would die but some would make it to their adult moth form. This did not ease Mandy's distress though, thus the quote. I told her there was nothing stopping her from releasing the moths into the wild once they emerged from the beans, but she still did not approve of them "being tortured by humans all their lives." 

I hear there's no politics OR religion on mars...

Nobody* is ever going to change their mind based on what somebody else on the internet did or did not tell them to think, and if they DID could you really respect them for any opinion they have, seeing how easy they were to influence?

*with half a brain and an ounce of willpower

It makes for amusing reading sometimes, but mainly makes me wish there was another planet I could go and live on because I don't want to live on this planet anymore.

Sirius Signage

While stalking researching my current favorite comedian, Demitri Martin, I came across this photo in his album, which immediately got me to thinking:

Which reminds me, if you haven't read it yet, the magical flying motorbike makes an appearance in JK's "800 Word Prequel," check it out online for free here.

"Glitter" Quote

"Glitter is the herpes of craft supplies."

[source (NSFW)]

-from the ever witty mouth of Demetri Martin, Person.

Demetri is one of my favorite comedians, and I think that has mostly to do with his delivery style, but his content is always relate-able and on the mark.

As for glitter, the only sure way to prevent to the spread of CTDs is craftstinance. If you do decide to craft, please craft responsibly and do not introduce glitter into wearable, furniture, or party-favor crafts. A reminder to all that glitter, once introduced, can be spread airborne, waterborne, and from person-to-person contact. There is no immediate cure for the glitter infected. Time is the only known remedy, and if complete desparkle does occur, it can be months, years, or decades after the time of infection.

The more you know. 

Murder vs. Assassination

When does a Murder become an Assassination?

I mean, clearly, an Assassination is the murder of somebody famous... but how famous do you have to be for your murder to be considered an assassination?
And how would you measure how famous somebody is?
Well, besides counting their followers on twitter?

What if somebody is famous in certain circles, but completely unknown to the general public? Would members of that circle consider the murder of that person an assassination? Well, they probably would, but would they be right?

What if somebody becomes famous after they're murdered? Does that change the murder to an assassination? Probably not in most cases (ex: you wouldn't say that Caylee Anthony was assassinated)... but what if the murder was for all the same reasons that "publicly or politically prominent people are premeditatedly and treacherously murdered?"

Let me know what you think.

Also the word assassination can be visually depicted thusly:

Awkword

Have you ever thought about how awkward the word awkward is?

Does any other word have a "wkw" in it? And those are pretty weird letters on their own, but in that combination... they're just bizarre.

It's like squawk... which is an awkward sound.

I'm pretty sure squidward's name was chosen just to sound awkward. Its a vary nasally syllable.

And it's like awkward was made to describe itself... awkward word... awkword.

Pregnant Dresser

OMG! A Pregnant Dresser!
I'm torn between being completely weirded out and won over by adorableness!

[source]

...but how the hell do you get the drawers open?

The Sleeper Sweeper-Off-er

How convenient, I've always wanted to be able to knock everything on my desk onto the floor while I sleep on my minuscule, mile-high bed -- this is just perfect!!!!

Another gem from Freshome. This one is for "teen bedroom layouts" ... which got me to thinking, "how would I have slept in this space when I was a teen?" ... which requires a bit of visual demonstration:

First thinks first- you should know that I am:
A) short for my age .
B) a moderate-to-extremely restless sleeper.
C) extremely nit-picky.

Step 1: Preparation Notice how the bedding has sleeping-bag-like qualities of snuggness without the sleeping-bag-like qualities of flexibility? In order to even contemplate sleeping here, you will need to untuck this bed which has been... I would say unbelievably well tucked... except for the fact that I'm about 87% sure this is rendering. Now we begin the climb. Unless you were prepared and brought your mountain climbing equipment, you will have to do what I did as a child and use the drawers as steps up into the bed:
Step 2: Sleep seems simple enough....
Step 3: Sweep After about six and half minutes of slumber you'll start to shift around in an attempt to get comfortable on your 3" slab of foam. If you were awake, you might start to regret untucking the bed as your bedroom accessories go flying through the room one restless limb twitch at a time.
Step 4: Did We Have an Earthquake Last Night? I don't even know.
Step 5: Inevitably Succumbing to Gravity You'll eventually loose your perch on the edge of the chair and complete your journey to the cold hard ground.
Step 6: Seeking Refuge Before long you'll get cold and your shelter-seeking instincts will kick-in and you will root around for a bit before finding a slighty-softer-than-hardwood small enclosed space in which you can wedge a fair amount of your body in an attempt to stay warm for the rest of the night. Even if you wake up at this point and see the destruction, you will still end up in this position because it'd be too much work to put your room back together in the middle of the night... and pointless too, you'd just end up back on the floor in an hour or so anyway.

"Life" Quote

"Life is boring when it's not interesting!"

-coworker & friend, Mandy of Mandy's Space

I'd like to thank her for this adorable yet completely redundant quote, and also for being a good sport about me teasing her for having said it about once a day. :)

Is It Just Me...

or does this look like the inside of a dry-cleaners?

image from Freshome

From the dark wall, bank of windows, commercial-looking furnishings, and obviously all the clothes everywhere... I truly thought this was an image of a (somewhat more hip than usual) dry-cleaners until I realized that was a sliding bed shelf not a counter with a cash register and magazine rack, and it was on top of a bed not a white drop cloth... what do you think? Would you sleep here?

Personally, its furthering the confusion between Swiss and Swedish, but what do you expect when IKEA remodels Swiss Cleaners?

Bedroom Decor - Inspirations

Proposed Paint Job
Photoshopped by myself
source image - JUNKtion

I recently moved, and am having fun redecorating my space.
I have a number of projects that I need to either get crafty with or fork out some money for to complete my bedroom:

• Get New Desk
• Get Rid of Old Desk
• Finish Going Through Boxes
• Paint Dresser
• Get Dressing/Storage Bench
• Overhead Lighting Project
• Get Bedside Lighting
• Wall Art Project
• Nightstand Accessorizing

What I'm thinking:

Braxton Trestle Desk - Target - $80 +s&h

Yellow Caged Edison Bulb
Inspiration:
VintageCopper on Etsy

Framed Abstract Wall Art
Inspiration:
catsbeads on Etsy

Bench Idea #2
source - $170

Bench Idea #3
source - 99$

for more see my Grey/Yellow Board on Pinterest!

Inaugural Post - Pondering Fruit

(will reformat and "prettify" designify this later)

Welcome, I think a lot of thinks, most of them just sit and collect rust in my mind... so instead I decided to sweep them out of my mental junkyard and onto the international junkyard that is the internet. (insert trash-related proverb here) For example:

How come prunes and raisins have their own names but other dried fruits don't?

I think that's unfair, so I made a more equal-op inclusive list:

• Prunes
• Raisins
• Craisins
• Blaisins
• Maisins
• Chaisins
• Raisinfruit
• Straisins
• Strange
• Strangini
• Waterlessmelon
• Drapya
• Dranana
• Drapple
• Pinedrapple
• Demons
• Dimes
• Preach
• Prear
• Killwi
• Camelope
• Pretifruit
• Coconot
• Aprinot
• Cementine
• Pomegranite

...okay maybe some of these work better than others...