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My secret shame...
I play The Sims. Yes, I do play lame games. And it's not because some sims like to play with fire... often setting the house ablaze along with their children... that's just a funny bonus. It's because it's another tool to design buildings. The limitations of the game engine are a fun challenge to work around, given I've only a dozen or so window ( Read more... ) -
Bunnies!
Antoine and Colby were chased by a big scary dog and hid in the corner of the yard while we scolded it.
They dug a hole in their terror and went into the neighbors yard.
Colby came back, Antoine did not.
I am so worried for her! -
Boxes and Boxes and Boxes
Mostly there. One quarter of my living room is piled high with stuff I should not be taking with me. There is also a suitcase of posters I should not have, and two 50 gallon bags of clothes. I've only been in this house for 4 years... how did I get so much stuff? Lord help me when I actually own some land ( Read more... ) -
Pretty Picture
I don't know exactly why (though I have theories)... but this photo makes me smile quite a bit.
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Public Transit
Prediction. Riding AC transit will soon cost the same as driving a car.
I'm not counting the cost of buying a car, but the gas (if you don't drive a tank) and insurance, and possible repairs. Factor in the woefully haphazard system AC Transit's got going on, and the new $80.00 monthly pass, and I consider it cheaper than riding the bus. The hour ( Read more... ) -
Stock Markets
Why modern commerce is completely daft. A poignant description of events, and how those unelected (but rich) individuals who run our world fuck it up on a regular basis.
From The Telegraph
www.telegraph.co.uk/finance/newsbysector/transport/3281537/Porsche-and-VW-share-row-how-Germany-got-revenge-on-the-hedge-fund-locusts.html
From BBC News
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More Dreams
Yet another snippet of the City in my head... once a month or so a bit of it plops out... I need to take some drugs and just trance it out of me sometime soon, spend a week locked in a room with a trough of water and pigment.
This part was on the down slope of a hill, maybe half way from downtown (what ever that means), but was a fully realized ( Read more... ) -
The Right Idea
In my never ending search for design born of beauty, the BMW Gina.
Chris Bangle (Deisgn BMW) - brief interview
Longer Views of the Car
Fabric. No clunky metal skin on this awesome machine, but an as yet unrealized super strong textile stretched upon a skeleton. The designers rightly realized you don't need a three hundred pound exterior to protect ( Read more... )
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