Infocom.
One of the reasons I keep my Macintosh around. It's a 1987 issue Mac Plus 1MB and it cruises along at a cool 50-60 HZ (i think, thats what it sez on the back of the unit... I'm probably wrong)
Most of you won't remember the Text Adventures published by Infocom. They first appeared around '82 and faded away in the late '80s.
No...
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One of the reasons I keep my Macintosh around. It's a 1987 issue Mac Plus 1MB and it cruises along at a cool 50-60 HZ (i think, thats what it sez on the back of the unit... I'm probably wrong)
Most of you won't remember the Text Adventures published by Infocom. They first appeared around '82 and faded away in the late '80s.
No...
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I just wrote a huge, and I mean rilly rilly big journal entry that was mostly me ranting about the state of progressive architectural design in Ottawa. It had to do with the rejection of an international design competition for a building in a Very prominent site, just spitting distance from Parliament Hill, in favour of an ill-designed condo block for the ultrarich.
I went...
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I went...
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macbastard:
why you so smrt? Me lk tall bldngs! Buld me 1 plees. With rokets and a slerpee dispenceeer.
P.s. U lookk lik Me and L's illigitmente lov son.
Mak
P.s. U lookk lik Me and L's illigitmente lov son.
Mak
girlblue:
c'mon baby, you know i like it when you whisper sweet architecture nothings in my ear...
Gridlock is why it took me an hour to get home tonight rather than 15 minutes.
The drivers in this town are so frustrating, they should all be walking except for me.
The drivers in this town are so frustrating, they should all be walking except for me.
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chiquita:
ooooh! tough guy!
prox2:
I hate driving period
good or bad drivers ...it is just shit
good or bad drivers ...it is just shit
How did I earn your friendship?
chiquita:
it came in the ether and grew in the pixels...lately i can't find it aboot.
volkov:
all that hot gesso talk.
There are good ways to prime canvasses and bad ways.
Covering a 5'0" x 7'0" canvass with gesso using a 1 1/2" brush is a bad way. It made perfect sense when I started, but now, halfway through the first of three of these, I think I need a bigger brush.
That's today's project. Priming.
Currently listening to : Victims of a Gas Attack (Oi...
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Covering a 5'0" x 7'0" canvass with gesso using a 1 1/2" brush is a bad way. It made perfect sense when I started, but now, halfway through the first of three of these, I think I need a bigger brush.
That's today's project. Priming.
Currently listening to : Victims of a Gas Attack (Oi...
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volkov:
I am not sure if posting in your own journal counts as talking to yourself...but if it does....boy are you headed towards the nuthouse....
I'll....uh save you a spot at the cafeteria table...remember...pretend vollyball (they won't give us a ball) at 2pm sharp in the courtyard!
and yeah it is amazing how the canvas work can make or ruin a painting.
I should tell you about photo transfer to canvas some time...it's a neat process, and then you have to use gesso to seal the image to the canvas and add a sort of painted texture to the work....neet stuff.
I'll....uh save you a spot at the cafeteria table...remember...pretend vollyball (they won't give us a ball) at 2pm sharp in the courtyard!
and yeah it is amazing how the canvas work can make or ruin a painting.
I should tell you about photo transfer to canvas some time...it's a neat process, and then you have to use gesso to seal the image to the canvas and add a sort of painted texture to the work....neet stuff.
slightpressureok:
Here's what you do: Take a big mouthful of gesso, then think of a funny joke while standing in front of the canvas. When you laugh really hard, the gesso will spray from your nose and cover the canvas.
Simple, no?
Simple, no?
I think I kicked the cold.
A liberal dosage of Neo-Citran, Tylenol Cold & Flu, Moosehead Lager, Lipton's Chicken Noodle Soup (which is chock full of nasty chemicals, just look at the neon yellow residue that it leaves everywhere) and Crown Royal has overwhelmed the poor little viruses and they left in disgust.
Oh yes, a liberal dose of ink and pot, as well. How...
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A liberal dosage of Neo-Citran, Tylenol Cold & Flu, Moosehead Lager, Lipton's Chicken Noodle Soup (which is chock full of nasty chemicals, just look at the neon yellow residue that it leaves everywhere) and Crown Royal has overwhelmed the poor little viruses and they left in disgust.
Oh yes, a liberal dose of ink and pot, as well. How...
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zanarki:
Hehe, sorry to disappoint you with the ZanRamble Red 
I'll lay off the caffeine and try on come with something a bit more coherent and entertaining that involves naked chic's and stuff
I'll lay off the caffeine and try on come with something a bit more coherent and entertaining that involves naked chic's and stuff
girlblue:
sorry, got kicked off...;P
I woke up this morning to find that my sinus cold has blossomed into a beautiful phlegm and mucous flower, which has taken root in my lungs. I feel like a hundred bucks today. Having... trouble... breathing...
Slightpressure, I give you full authority to stop by after work and do whatever it is that you do to fix people.
If it involves stirrups, so be...
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Slightpressure, I give you full authority to stop by after work and do whatever it is that you do to fix people.
If it involves stirrups, so be...
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girlblue:
hot toddy-->bourbon and hot water served with lemon wedge and cloves...it's not very tasty, but it works.
Next best thing...shot of bourbon chased with hot peppermint tea w/ lemon and honey (much tastier).
Do you need me to bring you one while you sit in that big claw-footed tub of yours?
Next best thing...shot of bourbon chased with hot peppermint tea w/ lemon and honey (much tastier).
Do you need me to bring you one while you sit in that big claw-footed tub of yours?
slightpressureok:
Well, given a choice between the Azithromycin I'd prescribe and the personal nursing offered by girlblue... I'd flush the pills down the toilet.
Are you a smoker? If so, you're far more susceptible to a simple cold becoming bronchitis.
Are you a smoker? If so, you're far more susceptible to a simple cold becoming bronchitis.
my boss sent me home early today because i'm sick.
outside is cold and grey and rainy.
i feel like the weather.
time for some chicken soup, i'm going to have to pretend thet girlblue is here to spoon feed me.
outside is cold and grey and rainy.
i feel like the weather.
time for some chicken soup, i'm going to have to pretend thet girlblue is here to spoon feed me.
slightpressureok:
Sounds to me like you might need an operation?
"Scalpel!"
"Scalpel!"
I caught a cold!
It snowed on Sunday!
I took too much Tylenol Cold and Flu, and was stoned at work today!
Good things happen in threes.
It snowed on Sunday!
I took too much Tylenol Cold and Flu, and was stoned at work today!
Good things happen in threes.
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go_lately:
*shoves girlblue out of the way and grabs a spoon*
*remembers it's chicken soup*
*sadly hands spoon back to girlblue and curses the person who decided "chicken" soup is good for sickness*
*remembers it's chicken soup*
*sadly hands spoon back to girlblue and curses the person who decided "chicken" soup is good for sickness*
fernmonkey:
Sequined kilts, I think it has to be done, maybe not today, maybe not tomorrow - but some time....
oh the horror
oh the horror
Snakies.
chiquita:
Groovies.
As my week of intensive Building Code psycho-assault draws to a close, I am reeeeeally looking forward to this long weekend. Ah Thanksgiving... and you crazy americans all have to wait for another month for turkey, and I get it in 3 days.
Being Canadian and having an october thanksgiving may or may not be like being jewish at christmas. I'm terrible at analogies, 'specially...
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Being Canadian and having an october thanksgiving may or may not be like being jewish at christmas. I'm terrible at analogies, 'specially...
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mtlqueen:
building code psycho-assault sounds like the meanest, most intense form of employment punishment i could possibly imagine...that's meaner than memorizing screw thread measurements and angles! i wrote you a big "how i conquered lee aaron" story the other day, but i don't know where it went because i tried posting it on the contact button under your profile (cute picture, by the way). so if i made you chortle for at least one sweet second during your week from hell, gold star for me. happy turkey-lurkey.
dr_h:
yea i was playing a show in canada once.... on or neer thanks giving...
I had no Idea....
thats whay the corwed was dead....
hummm
I had no Idea....
thats whay the corwed was dead....
hummm
FUN WITH THE ONTARIO BUILDING CODE!!!
Class, please open your OBC binder and turn to part 9, Section 6-Doors, page 15, subsection 9.6.3.3.
9.6.3.3. Doors to Bathrooms
(1) Where a barrier-free path of travel conforming to Section 3.8. is provided into a suite of residential occupancy and where a bathroom within the suite is at the level of the suite entrance door, the doorway to...
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Class, please open your OBC binder and turn to part 9, Section 6-Doors, page 15, subsection 9.6.3.3.
9.6.3.3. Doors to Bathrooms
(1) Where a barrier-free path of travel conforming to Section 3.8. is provided into a suite of residential occupancy and where a bathroom within the suite is at the level of the suite entrance door, the doorway to...
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go_lately:
disregard that, i just sent you an email
slightpressureok:
They're either intent on allowing wheelchairs into the loo, or wringing every last remaining bit of creativity out of you.
Listening to Entombed "Young Man Nihilist" then Buckley's "Lilac Wine" and then Messhugah's "Exquisite Machinery of Torture" is something you just can't find on radio.
It'll make you scream and swoon like a girl at a Beatles concert watching the Beatles get murdered onstage.