Monday, August 31, 2009

Shorties

  • 15:03 Office, because that's how we roll #
  • 20:13 If you are one of the people I insinuated had my hardcopy thesis without knowing it: I apologize. I found it today buried deep in my office. #
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Sunday, August 30, 2009

Shorties

  • 16:52 Casting about for a long tack, flexibly drying adhesive for a large area - preferaby water based. Any ideas? #
  • 23:28 @jkrall um, no #
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Saturday, August 29, 2009

Architect's Leap

CMU student plunges to death: "Less than 24 hours after his death, university officials removed a poem that had been scribbled anonymously with dark humor on the underside of the concrete stairs, visible to anyone walking down the steps.

The poem, written in black, read: 'If you're feeling like a jerk 'cause your project just won't work, go ahead and take the leap, then you'll finally get some sleep.'

CMU spokesman Ken Walters said the university was not aware the poem was there, and officials had it removed following Mr. Vakharia's death. Mr. Walters said he was not aware of any previous injuries or deaths occurring in the stairwell."
This is really very sad. I only post it because when I was a student in the 80's that poem was spread across several floors and the chalk outline was at the bottom. Interesting that they didn't know it was there. Must have been removed, and then replaced - probably over and over again.

My thoughts now are with the family and friends working their way through this tragedy.

Shorties

  • 09:20 Driveway Deja vu - trying to escape before confinement #
  • 11:46 Don't walk away from the plotter with files in the que - bad form #
  • 12:50 @speak_true would that I could :-( #
  • 12:50 Scene Designer people. If you've got complete sets of design drawings I would LOVE to have them for my Tech Direction classes. Hook me up! #
  • 13:07 @aerdin like as a source for material to do technical projects - and I might have a backup plan for the other thing if you're not up to it #
  • 15:53 Stagecraft mini one schedule complete #
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Friday, August 28, 2009

Shorties

  • 11:53 Hmm, leaving the house might be harder than I thought: yfrog.com/5e8hsyj #
  • 12:19 looking for what's on my list I can do from home #
  • 12:40 @bpeoples was hoping maybe I'd managed to skip that kind of employment #
  • 15:37 Woohoo - Inbox Zeroed #
  • 16:06 Oracle calendar FAIL #
  • 16:42 SRC Meeting #
  • 20:20 Mostly they filled in the hole #
  • 01:12 Eagles game was crazy #
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Thursday, August 27, 2009

Shorties

  • 11:06 Jackhammers make fine alarm clocks. #
  • 13:46 Technical Direction I - SOD grading policy - TD Overview, estimating #
  • 17:26 Technical Direction III - Grapes current budget projection #
  • 20:04 Well, that turned out to be a rather expensive day at the doctor - even with insurance #
  • 21:34 @aerdin didn't go to the doctor for that, this was something else - and as it turns out could have been completely unnecessary #
  • 00:13 I wanna try the "chips and guacamole macaroon" #
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Wednesday, August 26, 2009

Shorties

  • 13:04 World has it's own plan today apparently #
  • 13:40 @aerdin wanna come teach SketchUp this semester? #
  • 19:05 Finished a bunch of Stagecraft stuff - finally #
  • 23:40 @scoutfinch2271 Fucking pantry. Dammit. #
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Tuesday, August 25, 2009

Shorties

  • 11:39 @scoutfinch2271 until when? #
  • 11:39 Welcome back CFA and Carnegie Mellon students! Good luck as you start your fall semesters! (via @CarnegieMellCFA) #
  • 11:40 Extra cramudgeony today. Who knew? #
  • 12:57 not my best start #
  • 16:59 Stagecraft class, policies, policies, policies - and nobody gets a seventh day #
  • 17:00 @scoutfinch2271 and then there's "God's Flashlight!" #
  • < em>17:00 @mipow I do Blogger and haven't been unhappy, but I always *think* I should be doing Wordpress - those people seem to know more #
  • 17:24 Is this thing on? #
  • 17:25 Frosh intros #
  • 17:57 The buffet is open. yfrog.com/67ranhj #
  • 22:45 Got paid for my DC gig - What should I blow it on? #
  • 01:20 @giantspatula we never use our Wii - somehow Rockband seems like a waste #
  • 01:20 @ aerdin Vegas, might happen. #
  • 01:20 @tcschwa we miss you too #
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Monday, August 24, 2009

Ellipses...

I missed the "blog-o-versary" for the blog this year. Seems fairly appropriate... First day of school today, by the end of the day I was clearly more than a day behind. Such is life at CMU... Guess we'll have to see if they decide to do a criminal investigation of the interrogation tactics this time. Probably turn out like last time... I appear to be over whatever it was that I had last week. That's the longest I have been in the house in ages... Missed my chance to get cash for a clunker. I wonder if my truck was a clunker? Be kind of a shame if it was - it's not very old... I got paid for my DC gig. I wonder what I should spend it on? Probably debt, but that's no fun... Not sure why, but I find it difficult to watch games on NFL Network when I know they're tape delayed, I mean, I wouldn't have cared when it was live either, but I might watch... Happy Birthday Mrs. Bogart... If insurance companies hired 50,000 people to send letters and make phone calls to congressmen denouncing single payer do you think the calculus used to determine "the will of the public" might need tweaking? I do... They appear to be adding parking to the inbound side of Forbes in SqHill. Nice idea, I just wish they'd finish already... In other road repair news it looks like repaving may put the kibosh on a Labor Day picnic at the TANBI estate... Haven't called my dad since getting back to Pittsburgh, probably ought to do that... Mad Men was fairly vexing to watch this week, last week too for that matter. I hope it isn't a trend... Our DVR has withered down to almost nothing now that I stopped recording things available on the OnDemand. Got to pick me some new shows... Is it really that hard to tell the difference between "Producing" and "Production?" I guess it must be... I feel like I have a new computer at work, alas it isn't - just scrubbed the hard drive and installed up to date apps. Still pretty nice... 56 units is 56 units. Give it a few days to kick in... Thinking about doing a mass "defriending/unfollowing" purge. I wonder what the downside is? Just seems like thinning things out a little might be healthy...

Shorties

  • 13:07 May have lost all faith in TV News. #
  • 14:32 Late lunch #
  • 19:22 @bpeoples if yer going that technical, why not mic them and play back at equal volume 180 degrees out of phase.. nah, probably wouldn't work #
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