boxchain posted a photo:

little pink houses for you and me. View On Black. wideangle panorama.

www.makeitrightnola.org/mir_SUB.php?section=pink&page... if you're not sure what this is all about.

boxchain posted a photo:

light display showing the stars as they were during Katrina, or something

boxchain posted a photo:

geotagged, roughly

boxchain posted a photo:

just like last year, but now pink and plastic

Went to the Make it Right display CTC.

Fav design: concordia but they need shutters for the windows.

Loser: mvrdv It looks like they saw pics of the destruction and thought that was how to blend into the local architecture. Plus its needlessly complicated, but I guess that's par for the course around here.



Furthering the abstractness of the holiday season, we went to Vaughans Xmas party, and I sat under a ceiling fan on max, wearing shorts.



Any friends of Bartlett (who aren't on myspace) should know that his mother passed away the other day.



Hanging out at art galleries is especially fun when your friends run one, and there are plenty of drinks to be had until the wee hours of the am.



Oil change, clean air filter, gonna need new plugs soon, before the trip would be good. My oil pan plug is starting to lose threads. And the paint is starting to wear off, and run down the rear windshield. If I lived up north this car would have rusted apart by now.

I'm thankful for:



friends, both real and imaginary

family, even though they are all far away

health

a house that I hope I can move into soon.

my contractor who is doing a fantastic job on said house

a job that pays me enough to get into serious debt

the girl and the dog I live with

a hurricane free season (and here's to more)



photo credit to denise

the Flinstones were popular because we could relate to them







oh, and having an overflowing ashtray next to your new modern maching? totally cool.

If you're ignorant about overheard, you need to fix that:



http://www.overheardinnewyork.com/archives/012431.html

White mom: Which kitty is your favorite?

Little girl holding book of baby animals: The black one!

Mom: The black one? He sure is a cute kitty.

Little girl, loudly: Once you go black, you never go back!

Passing thug, flashing her a thumbs-up: Word!

White mom: I don't care what your father says, we are so moving to Westchester.



--Commodore Barry Park, Fort Greene, Brooklyn



Overheard by: Straightfaced, but barely

Found in humidcityloki's pockets after I beat him up for his lunch money.



How nerdy are you? Put an X next to each item on the list that describes you and then tally them up. Got 15 or more X's? Welcome to the Nerd Core.



Have you ever:



[X] Solved a Rubik's cube?

[X] Coded HTML?

[X] Been to a Renaissance Fair?

[ ] Been to a ComicCon? (No, but I guess WorldCon is close enough. If not, then is 10 WorldCons enough?)

[ ] Bought a comic book and charged it to your credit card?

[X] Used webspeak IRL in real life? (redundant!)

[ ] Edited a Wikipedia?

[X] Participated in a role-playing game?

[X] Tried to memorize Pi past 3.14 (three sig figs) in your free time? (Actually did memorize pi to ~10 digits, still to this day, as a result of a poster in a math class, just before I discovered the girls in same class)

[X] Used an ergonomic desk chair or keyboard? (A keyboard, which made my wrists hurt even more)

[X] Quoted Monty Python back and forth with a friend?

[ ] Discussed Nintendo's name change of the Revolution to the Wii?

[X] Participated in a trivia night or trivia contest? (Trivial Pursuit)

[ ] Won a debate tournament?

[ ] Played chess at lunch in school?

[X] Watched your friends play video games for more than an hour? (hi)

[ ] Been to a Harry Potter midnight party?

[ ] Recognized yourself in J.D. from the TV show Scrubs? (T-V?)

[ ] Seen an episode of Beauty and the Geek and thought the guys were cute? [Never seen it]

[X] Programmed extras into your graphing calculator? (omg yes. and got upset when I lost them)

[X] Been to a MENSA meetup? How about Phi Beta Kappa? (How about the *engineering* honor society)

[X] Done a happy dance after bowling a strike?

[ ] Referred to Lord of the Rings out loud as LotR?

[ ] Developed a shelving system for your books?

[X] Hated the people on principle who said high school was the best time of their life? (college too)