observation

A beautiful string quartet smooths over a lot of life’s crappy bits, even at 2:46 a.m.

Happy birthday, meta_kate!

announcement

To the person who used my credit card number to purchase $48.62 worth of food from Mazzerella’s Pizza in Sellersburg, Indiana Wednesday Night:

DIE.

the sleep of raisin produces munsters

Slow Wave is a comic done from peoples’ dreams. He did one of mine once, and I felt honored:

Thanks mr_flippant for reminding me about it. I am now going to catch up on the archives!

TOO MUCH COFFEE MAN

I had 4 mugs this morning, then this afternoon had an iced tea, then another iced tea with dinner, then a medium sized cafe latte at D’s, and finally a free sample of Jamaica Blue Mountain also at D’s.

BWOONGGGGGGGG HI THERE I CANNOT BLINK?!?!?!?

Nice dinner with Cat and vegemitelover at Ruby’s. Good conversation later, too. mr_flippant, the books I mentioned were Christopher Alexander’s A Pattern Language and The Timeless Way of Building. Over-hyped classics, but classics nonetheless.

I think that all movies should end with the characters finding out they’re robots.

Let us go now

I thought it was super witty. Super witty. I have an 8 and a 3 and 1 on the way, we have some needs. It’s a pocket pomeranian, no haircut! I think so but noone else would. Who makes this shit anyway. You can’t let go of your own experience enough to generalize. C’mon, pizza pizza please? Those fish are real old.

Home is where I want to be, but I guess I’m already there.

Sink, as in titanic

The Wall St Journal today had an article (subscription only I think) about hoity toity sinks what the quality is buyin these days. $5000 sinks that weigh 250 lbs, bronze sinks that must be dried after each use,

Some quotes:

Sink changes color with water temperature, a feature the company says is therapeutic. While our panel thought it was gimmicky, one L.A. designer said she has “a few earthy clients who would consider it.”

Metals are one of the newest twists on the offbeat sink, but be prepared: this one needs to be dried after every hand-washing.

But the extreme end of the market, with its weird shapes — in this case, a glass funnel that looks like a vase — can be a hard sell. “Ideal for making mayonnaise or displaying flowers,” says Barry Sloane, a Los Angeles real estate agent. Our panel thought the 12-inch height would be okay for a powder room, but would pose ergonomic issues, like forearm banging.

Now that the looks are catching on beyond design mavens, makers are competing with ever more outlandish models — like a $1,595 sunken pyramid from Porcher and an upcoming “upside down” sink by Sonoma Cast Stone (the water runs down an inverted bowl).

Then there’s the Paradox, which is only a sink part-time. Kohler says it came up with the idea after an earlier flat sink did well for them, and this seemed like a logical next step. It’s got a cast-iron plate insert that converts the sink into a countertop for when the water’s not running (assuming you can lift it — it’s 13 pounds). But some of the panelists were skeptical. “I can envision the kids turning on the faucet full blast and then completely soaking their fronts,” says Steve Schoffman, a Portland, Ore., architectural designer. Paradox “isn’t a one-size-fits-all product,” and might not be ideal for a kid’s bathroom, says Nicole Langel, a product manager at Kohler.