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From Michael Dürig (JIRA) <j...@apache.org>
Subject [jira] Created: (JCR-2340) CacheBehaviour Observation broken
Date Thu, 01 Oct 2009 22:46:23 GMT
CacheBehaviour Observation broken

                 Key: JCR-2340
                 URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/JCR-2340
             Project: Jackrabbit Content Repository
          Issue Type: Bug
    Affects Versions: 2.0.0
            Reporter: Michael Dürig

While trying to fix JCR-2293 I discovered that CacheBehaviour Observation is broken:

- HierarchyEventListener.onEvent ignores local event (despite the comment saying otherwise).
Not sure which way it should be. However with local events being ignored, JCR-2293 will most
probably also occur with CacheBehaviour Observation.

- NodeEntryImpl.refresh(Event) does not set its child node entries to incomplete when a node/property
was added.

- After tentatively fixing above issues, I discovered that NodeEntryImpl.refresh(Event) and
my own event listener operate on different NodeEntryImpl and ChildNodeEntryImpl instances.
That is, even though I set childNodeEntries.complete to false in NodeEntryImpl.refresh(Event),
when my own event listener retrieves that node (entry), it gets a different instance which
has childNodeEntries.complete still set to true.

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From "Craig R. McClanahan" <>
Subject Re: Tomcat next
Date Wed, 26 Sep 2001 22:20:50 GMT

On Wed, 26 Sep 2001, Dave Oxley wrote:

> Date: Wed, 26 Sep 2001 22:59:55 +0100
> From: Dave Oxley <>
> Reply-To:
> To:
> Subject: Tomcat next
> Hi all,
> A couple of questions on future Tomcat releases:
> 1. Will there be a TC3.4 release or is 3.x obsolete after 3.3?

I don't know on this one.

> 2. Has TC4.0 been branched (i.e. has development started on TC4.1 or are you
> waiting for TC4.0.1 to branch?)

Yes, it has been branched ("tomcat_40_branch" is for 4.0.x).  The HEAD
branch can be used for new development and features.

> 3. Is there a list of planned features for TC4.1?

Hmm, the todo list doc looks like it got lost in the shuffle ...

Two big areas I'd like to see focus on (and where I and some of my
colleagues will definitely be spending some time) are:

* Major improvements to the JSP page compiler to improve the
  quality and performance of the code it generates, and to make
  the compiler itself more maintainable.  A high level requirements
  doc for my view of what this should include will be circulated soon.

* Implementing a nice administration/configuration interface (as a
  web app), talking to server components through a JMX interface
  (so that Tomcat can be managed by any JMX compliant tool).  Some
  time ago I published some functional requirements for this (in the
  Tomcat documentation, go to "Functional Specs" under "Catalina")
  but it hasn't received much in the way of comment yet.

What would *you* like to see happen?  (And what would *you* like to work
on to make it happen?  :-).

> Dave

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From jean-frederic clere <>
Subject [ANN] Apache Tomcat 6.0.35 released
Date Tue, 06 Dec 2011 08:21:09 GMT
The Apache Tomcat team announces the immediate availability of Apache
Tomcat 6.0.35 stable.

Apache Tomcat 6.0.35 is primarily a security and bug fix release. All
users of older versions of the Tomcat 6.0 family should upgrade to 6.0.35.

Note that is version has 4 zip binaries: a generic one and three
bundled with Tomcat native binaries for different CPU architectures.

Apache Tomcat 6.0 includes new features over Apache Tomcat 5.5,
including support for the new Servlet 2.5 and JSP 2.1 specifications, a
refactored clustering implementation, advanced IO features, and
improvements in memory usage.

Please refer to the change log for the list of changes:

Migration guide from Apache Tomcat 5.5.x:

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Subject: Re: Sup, FFS and checksums.
To: None <>
From: Mike Long <>
List: current-users
Date: 10/13/1995 17:24:10 writes:

>is there still an unused field in the inode of a FFS?

>[Does sup have a flag for doing a content comparison instead of just
> checking ctimes?

No.  However, note that it doesn't just check the ctime; it also
checks the file size for normal files.  Sup doesn't do content
comparisons now because doing so would require reading the file, which
is much more expensive than a simple stat().
Mike Long <>
VLSI Design Engineer         finger for PGP public key
Analog Devices, CPD Division          CCBF225E7D3F7ECB2C8F7ABB15D9BE7B
Norwood, MA 02062 USA                assert(*this!=opinionof(Analog));


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Subject: Re: pppd hangups...
To: None <>
From: Gordon W. Ross <>
List: current-users
Date: 01/15/1997 09:51:16
I did some work on the z8530 driver recently, so maybe I broke it.
There are some fixes that Bill Studenmund <>
has come up with recently that I think may fix this.

I'll try to verify that fix and get it checked in.


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To: None <>
From: Peter A. Eisch <>
List: current-users
Date: 01/01/2001 08:13:51
I had a job where I was responsible for a couple dozen AIX boxes.  I learned
very quickly that it's Logical Volume Manager is absolutely elegant compared
to any other disk management software.  I understand that this isn't the
type of group that has that kind of scope, but it would be nice to look
further down the road at how such high-density disks will be used.

My $0.02 from a drowsy head,


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Subject: Re: intel 810 graphics support.
To: Herb Peyerl <>
From: Jared D. McNeill <>
List: current-users
Date: 10/23/2002 11:42:43
On Tue, 22 Oct 2002, Herb Peyerl wrote:
> Anyone got any way to make this work under NetBSD?

It works with XFree86 4.x so long as you have 'agp at pci' in your kernel.
If you have trouble with the display simply shutting off when you try to
start your X server, you may want to try disabling the int10 code (I
needed to do that on at least one i810 motherboard).

Jared D. McNeill -- jmcneillATinvisibleDOTca


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The following reply was made to PR kern/19110; it has been noted by GNATS.

From: "Juergen Hannken-Illjes" <>
Subject: PR/19110 CVS commit: src/sys/kern
Date: Sun, 2 Oct 2011 13:00:07 +0000

 Module Name:   src
 Committed By:  hannken
 Date:          Sun Oct  2 13:00:07 UTC 2011
 Modified Files:
        src/sys/kern: vfs_vnode.c
 Log Message:
 The path getnewvnode()->getcleanvnode()->vclean()->VOP_LOCK() will panic
 if the vnode we want to clean is a layered vnode and the caller already
 locked its lower vnode.
 Change getnewvnode() to always allocate a fresh vnode and add a helper
 thread (vdrain) to keep the number of allocated vnodes within desiredvnodes.
 Rename getcleanvnode() to cleanvnode() and let it take a vnode from the
 lists, clean and free it.
 Reviewed by: David Holland <>
 Should fix:
 PR #19110 (nullfs mounts over NFS cause lock manager problems)
 PR #34102 (ffs panic in NetBSD 3.0_STABLE)
 PR #45115 (lock error panic when*3 and daily script is running)
 PR #45355 (Reader/writer lock error:  rw_vector_enter: locking against myself)
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Subject: CVS commit: pkgsrc/net/snort
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From: James Chacon <>
List: pkgsrc-changes
Date: 03/13/2002 10:28:24
Module Name:	pkgsrc
Committed By:	jmc
Date:		Wed Mar 13 08:28:24 UTC 2002

Modified Files:
	pkgsrc/net/snort: distinfo
Added Files:
	pkgsrc/net/snort/patches: patch-ab

Log Message:
Add powerpc/macppc support

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Subject: Help with NetBSD 2.0 & Qube2
To: None <>
From: <>
List: port-cobalt
Date: 01/20/2006 02:16:13
Hello all,

I'm quite new to the UNIX environment and would like some direction.=20
I've successfully installed NetBSD 2.0 on my Qube2 by following the
software guide on  The first part of the software guide
is great even for newbies like me, but I'm stuck at the Software
Packages section - 2.1.  My ultimate goal is to setup apache, samba,
and Webmin (to make my life easier, I'm hoping) but I don't know much
about getting these installed.  Here are my questions:

Are apache, perl, and samba already included in NetBSD or do I need to
get these packages separately?  Is there a default path for the
package directory?

Is this what I need to do next (from ? :

            setenv PKG_PATH
            pkg_add -v the_package

            pkg_add -v bash; usermod -c "" -s /usr/pkg/bin/bash root;
            pkg_add -v apache

I used the most recent iso for 2.0 that I could find -> July 14
available here:

Also, the lcd panel displays what it should but the menu buttons don't
seem to do anything (whereas they worked with the old OS).  Is that
'normal' behaviour?

I apologize if this is not the right place to be asking these types of
questions.  I don't know where else to go.  I have very simple needs
though I can't bring myself to stick with the old Cobalt Linux OS.=20
I'm a doctor and am using the Qube to serve web & mail for my
practice... so for me that mostly means apache, perl, samba, and

Thank you to all involved in getting me this far.  I sincerely
appreciate your help.


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[IPython-user] [IPython-dev] Doctest fixes, testing release out

Jörgen Stenarson jorgen.stenarson@bostream...
Thu Aug 23 16:29:47 CDT 2007

Fernando Perez skrev:
> On 8/22/07, Jörgen Stenarson <jorgen.stenarson@bostream.nu> wrote:
>> Fernando Perez skrev:
>>> Hi all,
>>> over time, there have been repeated reports of doctest not working
>>> when running under IPython.  I think I finally fixed it deep enough
>>> that things should now work correctly in all cases, so that you can
>>> run any script or test suite that calls the various doctest testing
>>> runners, when inside ipython, and everything should just work.  If you
>>> are on SVN just update, or grab a testing release that I just made
>>> from current SVN here:
>>> http://ipython.scipy.org/dist/testing/
>>> I need these publicly available for a conference this week, and they
>>> wrap up all the recent fixes.  We'll start thinking about a release
>>> soon, but for now this will do.
>> This sounds great, unfortunately I can't get it to work using svn r2653.
>> Is there some extra configuration necessary, like updating configuration
>> files?
> No, it should just work.  I'm a bit swamped right now, but I'll look
> into it as soon as I can.  I want all doctest functionality to really
> 'just work', no fuss.
> Cheers,
> f
When you get around to it let me know if you need me to do some tests on
my end to figure this out.

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[Numpy-discussion] .T Transpose shortcut for arrays again

Travis Oliphant oliphant.travis at ieee.org
Thu Jul 6 06:17:49 CDT 2006

Bill Baxter wrote:
> So in short my proposal is to:
> --  make a.T a property of array that returns a.swapaxes(-2,-1),
> --  make a.H a property of array that returns
> a.conjugate().swapaxes(-2,-1)
> and maybe
> --  make a.M a property of array that returns numpy.asmatrix(a)

I've tentatively implemented all of these suggestions as well as adding
the .A attribute to the ndarray as well (so that all sub-classes and
array scalars can get back a view as an ndarray).

I did this to make it easier to do matrix-like calculations with or
with-out matrices.   Matrix-calculation flexibility is still a sore-spot
for many and I think these syntatical-sugar attributes will help long term.

If there are no strong objections, then the recent  MATH attribute
checkin will stay.  If there are major objections, then we can back them
out without too much trouble as well.

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[Numpy-discussion] NumPy SVN broken

David Cournapeau cournape@gmail....
Thu Oct 8 08:47:21 CDT 2009

On Thu, Oct 8, 2009 at 8:55 PM, Travis Oliphant <oliphant@enthought.com> wrote:
> On Oct 7, 2009, at 9:51 PM, David Cournapeau wrote:
> On Thu, Oct 8, 2009 at 11:39 AM, Travis Oliphant <oliphant@enthought.com>
> wrote:
> I apologize for the mis communication that has occurred here.
> No problem
>   I did not
> understand that there was a desire to keep ABI compatibility with NumPy 1.3
> when NumPy 1.4 was released.    The datetime merge was made under that
> presumption.
> I had assumed that people would be fine with recompilation of extension
> modules that depend on the NumPy C-API.    There are several things that
> needed to be done to merge in new fundamental data-types.
> Why don't we call the next release NumPy 2.0 if that helps things?
>  Personally, I'd prefer that over hacks to keep ABI compatibility.
> Keeping ABI compatibility by itself is not an hack - the current
> workaround is an hack, but that's only because the current way of
> doing things in code generator is a bit ugly, and I did not want to
> spend too much time on it. It is purely an implementation issue, the
> fundamental idea is straightforward.
> If you want a cleaner solution, I can work on it. I think the hour or
> so that it would take is worth it compared to breaking many people's
> code.
> If that's all it would take, then definitely go for it.    I'm not sure
> "breaking people's code" is the right image, though.   It's more like
> "forcing people to upgrade" to take advantage of new features.

We got several people complaining about segfaults and the like -
granted, those could have been avoided by updating the ABI

> The problem I have with spending time on it though is that there is still
> more implementation work to finish on the datetime functionality to complete
> the NEP implementation.      Naturally, I'd like to see those improvements
> made first.  But, time-spent is usually a function of how much time it takes
> to "get-in" to the code, so I won't try to distract you if you have a clear
> idea about how to proceed.

I am applying my changes as we speak - it took me much more time than
I wished because I tried hard to make sure the ABI was not changed.
But at least, the current scheme should be much more robust: the
ordering is fixed at one single place, and there are a few checks
which ensure we don't screw things up (by putting 'holes' in the api
array, or by using twice the same index).

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[SciPy-dev] ndimage - docfiller and output_type

josef.pktd@gmai... josef.pktd@gmai...
Wed Oct 28 14:34:58 CDT 2009

On Wed, Oct 28, 2009 at 2:07 PM, Pauli Virtanen <pav+sp@iki.fi> wrote:
> Wed, 28 Oct 2009 11:13:10 -0400, josef.pktd wrote:
> [clip]
>> No, I like the current system where we don't have any boiler plate in
>> the individual distributions. Following your maxwell example, we would
>> get a lot of repetition of template code in the individual
>> distributions.
> Then, I'd suggest just adding
>        %(info)s
> or so, that will be expanded to the full boilerplate information block.
> Then, only this would be repeated in each distribution docstring -- not
> too bad.

If you can do it with minimal code/text duplication, then any way is fine
with me.

> It is clearer and cleaner if the distribution docstring is a template,
> resides in the class docstring, and the final product is assembled by
> substitution rather than by concatenating magically generated parts.
> (Think, for example -- why are HTML templating languages so popular, as
> opposed to just concatenating blocks of HTML code?)

The last time I looked at mako, it allowed full inheritance and backward (?)
substitution in the templates.

I don't see how template inheritance would work with simple string
substitution, but you are the experts for the numpy/scipy documentation

> --
> Pauli Virtanen
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[SciPy-User] 3d convex hull

Ning Guo hhh.guo@gmail....
Mon Aug 29 02:36:21 CDT 2011

On Sunday, August 28, 2011 06:08 AM, Pauli Virtanen wrote:

It seems qhull does not output the vertices in a consistent order. I
have to use the inner product of the normal with a side edge to
determine the sign :-(

> Sat, 27 Aug 2011 23:12:24 +0800, Ning Guo wrote:
>> On Saturday, August 27, 2011 03:53 PM, Pauli Virtanen wrote:
> [clip]
>> Also, the formula to calculate normal may be like this:
>> face_normals[:,0] =
>> np.cross(tetra_points[:,0]-tetra_points[:,2],tetra_points[:,1]-tetra_points[:,2])
> [clip]
> Ah yes, exactly like that, my brain apparently wasn't working properly.
>> Regarding to the order of the vertices, I'm also not sure about their
>> convention. I'm trying to figure it out.
> If you find it out, please let us know, as this would be an useful thing
> to mention in the documentation. However, I'm not sure at the moment
> whether Qhull provides such ordering guarantees.

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Feeders vs Starlings

Rob Blomquist rob.blomquist at verizon.net
Thu Mar 11 21:31:09 PST 2004

On Thursday 11 March 2004 8:23 pm, Lydia Bishop pondered and enlightened us
> Advice needed here..
> I would love to set up feeders around my house, but I do NOT want to
> encourage starlings and other junk birds.

I went into my local bird shop, and I asked the same thing, and they showed me
some pricey solutions: 2 were suet feeders that were guarded against bigger
birds from feeding with 1x1? mesh about 3" from the suet, it keeps squirrels,
starlings, and crows from the suet, while letting in the tribe of birds we
all know and love.

Another idea was insect suet, a 4.95 a block, it was a bit rich, but it was
said that Starlings and squirrels don't have a taste for it.

My thoughts on the subject, as I have been battling them, too:
I live on a triangular cul-de-sac lot, with a small front yard, and a bigger
back yard. And the house, which we just bought, is 13 years old.

My back yard, with all its wide open spaces has a serious starling problem. I
can get 40 or 50 of the pesky birds out there, but they really like to eat
the suet, and if I withhold the suet, they leave. I also found that feeding
trays are a bad attractant for them.

In my narrow front yard, I have confers on my north border, and a japanese
maple up against the house. In this tight corner, I have 2 feeders in the
conifers, and one suet feeder in the maple, and no starling problem. I do get
them, but they don't hang around like the back yard.

Mountlake Terrace, Washington

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A Great Miracle in Guatemala
Starting with nothing, homeschool advocates created a complete Spanish—language homeschooling curriculum with a biblical emphasis.

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Estimated number of homeschoolers:1,000

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March 10, 2015 Updates

NBA Official: LAC's Glen Davis Receives Flop Warning from game on March 8 vs. GSW. Link: http://www.nba.com/video/channels/originals/2015/03/10/bbops-glen-davis-flop-030815.nba/ Twitter

At one point during the Warriors’ easy win over the Clippers on Sunday, Glen Davis flopped (and flopped hard) after receiving a slight bit of contact in the chin from Leandro Barbosa. The announcers laughed at the replay, because it was just so ridiculous. But perhaps an even greater embarrassment came a couple of days later, when Barbosa tweeted the clip of the flop himself. NBCSports.com

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It seems as though fooling the officials into calling a foul when there wasn’t one is among the criteria the league looks at when deciding to crack down. J.J. Redick and Andre Drummond are the latest to receive warnings, and in both cases, fouls were called when the contact appeared to have been exaggerated. NBCSports.com

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P.J. Hairston scored 11 points in the Hornets’ loss to the visiting Spurs on Wednesday night. Hairston gave it everything he had in his 21 minutes of action, including this incredible flop where he drew slight contact from Tony Parker at the free throw line and threw his body backwards like he had been shot in the stomach with a cannonball. Hairston ended up sliding into the feet of Gregg Popovich while Danny Green hit a wide-open three-pointer. The Big Lead

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Sunday in Outer Blogness: Onward Mormon Soldiers Edition!!!

Now that Mitt Romney is the Republican Party’s heir apparent, every day means more sunlight shining on the less-attractive bits of Mormonism. As you may have heard, a newscaster made an inaccurate (and insulting) claim about Joseph Smith (and then apologized for it, something a prophet wouldn’t do). This would have been the perfect opportunity for the CoJCoL-dS to take the high road, but instead they decided to release this statement:

His unbridled bigotry was not factual and showed ignorance of the fastest growing church in the world.

Just let the irony of that sink in. The positive part was coining the epithet “Limbaugh-like”, but personally, I’d thought that the whole “fastest growing church” claim had already entered the realm of “I don’t remember that we teach that, hey it’s not official doctrine!” — but no matter. Please, go on record making that claim again.

Then, Ann Romney re-ignited the “career women vs. SAHM” battle — which I’ve written quite a bit about, mostly to point out it shouldn’t be a battle because most of us are a little of each, and because other women’s choices aren’t the problem. Hint: check out the Easter Sunday lesson for LDS women (on sustaining the [male] priesthood hierarchy):

I like this Easter celebration better…

Fortunately, Mitt Romney is providing a good example of how to deal with all this unwanted scrutiny, which the Abbotsville Fourth Ward has condensed into simple-to-use talking points. President Paternoster has explained some advanced strategies that only the most faithful should use:

Our beloved Elder Holland is then asked if Mitt Romney would have sworn an oath saying that he would not pass on what happens in the temple, lest he slit his throat.

Once again Hollands reply is succinct and shows by perfect example precisely how to lie for the Lord when he states: Thats not true, thats not true.

And if that doesn’t work, you can always blast their eyeballs with a mass of catchy graphs of statistics.

In hot topics, the Evangelicals are again lamenting that so many of the people leaving Mormonism don’t switch to Evangelical Christianity, but rather go with agnosticism or atheism. Jared C figured out a lot of the reasons (interestingly, it’s news to some Evangelicals that “whether or not the Trinitarian perspective is supported by the Bible is a very open question”). But even if the ex-Mormons did agree with Evangelical interpretations of the Bible, atheism has its advantages. (To be fair, Mormonism has advantages too.)

Roger Hansen wrote some interesting pieces on Mormon economics, and some good commentary on Nate Oman’s piece (on not donating directly to panhandlers). Plus some tales of Mormon missionaries in Uganda.

And now for the grab-bag of topics!!! Dealing with Mormon parents when you leave the church. How is it that gay marriage harms my [straight] marriage — has anyone ever figured it out? It can’t be worse that Mormon girls being pressured to pressure boys into missions (for marriage). Bishop Flatlander announces his candidacy, Chicken Tender fertilizes some vegetables, Ms. Jack reviews “Tabloid”, the Peacewriters are celebrating 100 posts, Atom is celebrating four years of car-free living, and General J.C. Christian lost his Internet connection — but that hasn’t stopped him from supporting conservative and confederate causes!!

That’s it for this week — now it’s time for me to get to bed after a hard day of playing Minecraft with my kids. Happy reading!! :D

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    Chino Blanco says:

    I have a sneaking suspicion tscc is no longer the fastest-growing even in Utah, never mind the US or that ginormous “world” that is more imaginary space than geographical/demographic reality as far as LDS boosters are concerned.

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    chanson says:

    I’ll bet you’re right.

    The claim that the CoJCoL-dS is the “fastest growing church in the world” is obviously absurd. In absolute numbers, its growth is dwarfed by the growth of the biggies (like the Catholic Church). If they mean “relative to size”, small, new sects can often double and triple or more per year, leaving the CoJCoL-dS’s growth percentage in the dust. The best they can hope for is to be a relatively-fast-growing religion. Unfortunately, they’re not even that anymore.

    From stuff people were saying about conference, I thought the leaders were already starting to “de-emphasize” the teaching that the CoJCoL-dS is the world’s fastest-growing religion — since shooting for faith-promoting growth numbers can lead to some really counter-productive behavior (see runtu’s piece linked above). But maybe the leadership and the PR department aren’t on the same wavelength as each other…

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    kuri says:

    This would have been the perfect opportunity for the CoJCoL-dS to take the high road, but instead they decided to release this statement:

    His unbridled bigotry was not factual and showed ignorance of the fastest growing church in the world.

    I think that’s actually just a letter to the editor.

  4. 4
    chanson says:

    @3 Ah, that would explain it!

    I saw the page in Deseret News, and mistakenly assumed that it was a statement from the DN editorial board. Thanks for the correction, and my apologies to Deseret News (and to all the COB employees reading this) for erroneously attributing that quote to them.

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    Chino Blanco says:

    The mistake is understandable. Do LTEs normally get published with a captioned photo of the target of the letter? The layout DesNews served up amounts to editorializing…

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    Chino Blanco says:

    Hey, by the way, I’ve reached out to a few A-list blogging friends, and a good question has come back: Will Sunstone (or at least our top-draw exmo panels) be available as a webcast?

    Also, there’s a budget for pre-Sunstone online ads for our panels. If we can brainstorm a few concepts, I’m cool with handling placement.

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    chanson says:

    I don’t think that Sunstone is normally webcast in real time, but the presentations are all recorded and available for download later. However, if we want to do a real-time webcast (especially if that might make a difference for attracting some A-list bloggers), it might be possible to arrange it.

    I certainly can’t speak for the Sunstone organizers, but my impression is that they’re generally flexible, but they have limited resources. I think that if we offer to set it up ourselves, and if it doesn’t inconvenience anybody, they would probably let us webcast it.

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    Chino Blanco says:

    Oh, I didn’t mean to suggest a real-time webcast. As long as there’s video, that would be perfect for post-symposium blogging fun. Never-Mo bloggers are politely declining my invites (it’s a stretch expecting them to fly out just to enjoy our exmo brilliance) but they’d be happy to post a YouTube clip of our panel(s) in action. You’ve certainly already assembled a great A-list of some of my favorite Outer Blogness personalities.

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Monday, December 7, 2009

Fantastic Mr. Fox

Just caught Fantastic Mr. Fox this weekend and I have to say that it lived up to its title. Great voice-acting, animation, directing, and most importantly of all, it was great fun. Wes Anderson has done it again and this ranks among his best work. Make time for this and you won't be disappointed.

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connie said...

geez, i haven't visited your blog in a while but the background is blinding.

fantastic mr. fox is cussing fun!


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Interesting, the Torofluxus looks like a fun thing to make – if anyone has details on how it’s constructed, post up in the comments…

The Torofluxus was invented in the early 1990s by Jochen Valett, then a 70 year old artist and craftsman near Hamburg, Germany. A thirty foot long ribbon of fine “flat spring steel” is woven into a torus and the ends spot welded. When attached to a plastic core, it flows downwards gripping onto the core and shimmering like a silver bubble.

Torofluxus – Link.

Thanks R!

  • CKThorp

    Judging from the video, played in super-slow-mo, one could construct the bubble out of a steel slinky that has been cut, rewound, and spot welded. To make one: take a steel slinky. Cut the metal banding that keeps you from putting an eye out off of the two ends of the slinky and cut off a dozen or two turns. Then stack up one complete turn. Next, pull the balance of the slinky around and through the inside of the loop you are holding. Hold onto the new turn you just added so that you are now holding two turns. Repeat until you have the metal portion of the toroflexus in your hand. Don’t drop until it is on something as I suspect it will go “sproing” and nuke your hard work. (Though I could be wrong about that last part). Well, I’m off to Target for supplies. :-)

  • thisishowierocket

    There is also a simple version of this that gets different results. The other version is sold as a toy. The toy consists of a circle of steel the same size as the plastic tubing in this picture but instead of the spring it uses a little washer-like peice of metal. When spun just like this one it vibrates the washer on the unit and you can play with it just like this.

  • CKThorp

    Target was unsuccessful. Any makers know of a store in Phoenix, AZ that sells slinkys?

  • ncinerate

    You can buy slinky’s at any cracker barrel restaraunt. There’s one off chandler road and the I-10, among several around the valley. They have a gift shop at the entrance full of vintage toys and candies.

    Hope that helps,
    Ncinerate (in Tempe, AZ)

  • jmengel

    In my search for a slinky for an unrelated squirrel thwarting project I found that I had to go to Toys-R-Us to get one. Target and Walmart were both busts.

  • mictain666

    the torofluxus looks a lot like a mobius ball made in chainmaille but mobius balls are made of individual rings. I guess in theory you can make a torofluxus with the same method as a mobius ball but with a slinky….yeah XD.


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Sam Wilkinson wrote in to share his SpaceBread experiment, part of the International Space Apps Challenge:

By using the process of bread aeration, by which carbon dioxide is actually forced into the bread, the only ingredients required to produce dough are water, flour and carbon dioxide. Carbon dioxide is mixed with water to form a 8.4×10-2 mol/L solution of carbonic acid, as well as excess aqueous carbon dioxide. If the partial pressure of the carbon dioxide is maintained at 2.5 atm, this concentration of carbonic acid will be maintained as the system enters a dynamic equilibrium between the aqueous carbonic acid and gaseous carbon dioxide. The solution is mixed thoroughly with ordinary flour (and any other required flavourings i.e. salt, sugar etc.) at a (20/7):1 water:flour ratio in a sealed container with the carbon dioxide at a consistent partial pressure of 2.5 atm (about the same pressure as carbon dioxide in a soda bottle). The pressure in the sealed container is then released. This decrease in pressure causes the carbonic acid which is mixed into the flour to be converted into carbon dioxide gas. The carbon dioxide that is evolved from the mixture will be maintained in suspension within the mixture. Combined with microgravity, this will cause an even, leavened dough to be formed.

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  • Daniel Kim

    This sounds terrible. Not bread at all. Kind of like Chun King Soy Sauce-like substance, which is made using hydrolyzed yeast extract and caramel color. This is more like a CO2-infused gluten matrix, lacking the yeast metabolic byproducts that contribute to a bread’s flavor.

    • Sam Wilkinson

      Those byproducts are formed from autolysis or cell death, and so would not occur if the bread was leavened in space. They are pretty hard to distinguish anyway! Plus because nothing is being metabolised, bread made in this method is more nutritious!!!

      • alandove

        You also got rid of those pesky B-complex vitamins.

  • Matteo

    that’s not bread

  • codeneverlies

    It’s a very quick bread.

  • cryscresc

    Now, to get the loaf out of that pan !

    • Sam Wilkinson

      The chemistry technician at school dislikes me now (^_^)

      • Inanimate Carbon Rod

        Rightly so… Erlenmeyer dough. Lol

  • Jack Nymus

    This is actually a very, very old technique- dating back to the mid 1800’s. It was commercialized by the “Aerated Bread Company” in the UK:

    It was an advertised as a “purer” bread because of how few ingredients were used.

    • Sam Wilkinson

      A[“e]rated bread, bread raised by charging dough with
      carbonic acid gas, instead of generating the gas in the
      dough by fermentation.
      [1913 Webster]

      I’ve gone over this with my colleagues and it’s our belief that that method uses a different principle. The description of their process is incredibly vague, but we think that the gaseous carbon dioxide is forced into the dough instead of being mixed in in it’s aqueous form. In this context, charging means “to fill to the full or proper extent”, so the dough is filled with the gas.

  • Hito Protagonist

    Ever heard of “beer bread”? You can do the same thing using ginger beer or soda water, not microgravity required.

  • Geoff Strage

    That looks amazing !
    What does that bread taste like ?

    • Alasdair Shepherd

      Probably just of flour. The leavening isn’t really the point of fermentation with yeast. All the flavours of a really good bread come from the metabolic byproducts of the yeast eating the sugars in the flour. I’m a bit of a bread geek, and nothing is more important than a good, slow ferment. Well, maybe bacterial action too, if it’s a sourdough.

    • alandove

  • alandove

    Because Bisquick was too easy?

  • Eric Hunting

    I think this is an important experiment, whatever one thinks of the likely result. We know virtually nothing about cooking in a microgravity environment. It’s an almost entirely unexplored area of research. We often see the proposition of farming in space discussed. It’s one of the more convenient methods of in-situ resource utilization. Yet for 50 years astronauts have been eating only camping food. Entirely new culinary processes are going to be needed to fully produce food in space. Even the nature of flavor is different in microgravity. It’s about time someone actually started exploring this rich yet overlooked field.


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Give an Inch, Take a Mile.

The plane that flies back and forth between Regina, Saskatchewan and Minneapolis, Minnesota is roughly the size of a floating school bus, only with wings, more cylindrical, and more cramped. I found myself on this flight a few weeks ago, after having visited some friends in Canada for a few days. Planes always make me uncomfortable, mostly stemming from the social anxiety surrounding the other flyers. Not that I think any of them will, you know, try to stab the pilot with a smuggled knitting needle, but that I might have to speak to them.

On the way to Saskatchewan, I’d sat next to a 60-something year old woman. She was from Austin. Her daughter had moved to Regina to date and then marry a man she met on the internet, who owned a tanning salon. They had two kids and lived in the south end of town and she didn’t like the winters and sort of missed her life in the States but loved her husband and kids and this trip marked the second time she’d see her mother that year and ohwellshewasjustsoexcited.

And according to her, my name is Adam and I’m from Columbus, Ohio and I’m majoring in Biochemistry at Tuft’s University. I don’t like to give too many details, or any.

Talkers scare the shit out of me, but only because I’d never sat next to the gentleman who took the aisle seat to my window on this particular flight. Before he even sat down, I judged him for wearing shorts and flip flops. Because who wears shorts on a plane?

He didn’t speak, but ordered a coke when the flight attendant came around with drinks. I ordered a V8. When she came to collect the cups, I handed mine over, like the responsible citizen of the air that I try to be, but he wanted to keep his.

The flight attendant looked a bit confused for a second, as if something had glitched in her brain. Why did this man want to keep an empty cup on his tray table? What was he up to? But, seeing as he seemed to pose no threat and his demand was simple enough, she went with it.

And that’s when it happened—the concept of “taking advantage” drawn out to its most egregious limit. He pulled out a bag of chewing tobacco, stuffed some in his mouth, and began to chew, periodically shooting a small waterfall of frothy brown spit into his empty clear plastic cup. This went on for at least half an hour, during which time I talked myself down from a panic attack and focused on not crying, trapped as I was in my window seat. Later on, he handed the cup to the flight attendant, who recoiled in fear before recomposing herself and placing it in the open trash bag. This is the danger of a simple gesture of good faith with people you don’t know. You might give them an empty cup, and they might reappropriate it as a spittoon for a while and hand it back to you.

I feel as though I’ve become that man, a little bit. Recently, I got an email from a woman named Maya. You might remember Maya from when Morgan at The Brick House (which, if you’re not already reading, I really have to wonder about your priorities in life) posted about her house a while ago. Let me jog your memory:

Maya is the originator of the $100 rule of decorating and a masterful thrifter. She’s very cool, very artsy, and her style and eye for color is as terrific as her Bumling light is brassy.

You see, when people live on the West Coast and have amazing thrifting around every corner (this is how I imagine California to be now), they accumulate. And Maya had an extra Eames chair. An extra wire Eames chair, broken in several spots, and in need of repair. She had gathered from The Twitter that I had been taking a welding class on the weekends, so she wanted to offer me the broken chair. For free. For rizzle. For frizzle?

Why yes, I will take that original wire Eames chair off you hands, sure!

Maya and I got to talking over email and it turns out that wasn’t the only thing crowding her space. So one thing led to another and she’s become not only a swell pen pal, but also something like the fairy godmother I always dreamed of having. You know, one that has cool furniture that she wants to let me have at very reasonable prices. That’s right, I have a magical furniture fairy.

So first Maya gave me the Eames chair, which has been relegated to the corner of our very unpainted hallway, awaiting the day when I can hopefully repair it.

It’s pretty broken. I think I can save it. But the fun don’t stop there.

Maya was also looking to unload this vintage knock-off Eames lounge chair. Did I know anyone that would want it? For cheapsies?

Me me me!

It’s been a super comfy addition to the living room. It had been sitting in storage for a bit, so I took the whole thing apart and gave it some oily love, following The Brick House’s instructions. It’s not dramatically different, but the plywood shells cleaned up nicely.

What else do you have, Maya? Oh, just these two danish teak shelves that would make great nightstands if they were cleaned up a bit. Want those, too?

Yes, yes I do.

So I got those. A previous owner had put some precautionary L-brackets on them that Maya had intended to take off and restore the wood, but she hadn’t gotten around to it. The structure of the shelves was totally fine, so it’s a bit of a mystery why somebody would abuse two perfectly good, perfectly Scandinavian shelves like that. What’s wrong with people?

I took off the L-brackets and filled the holes with Minwax Wood Filler, then followed Morgan’s wood refreshing tutorial again.

The teak oil and wax totally brought the wood back to life, and the holes filled in nicely and are barely noticeable. I’m pretty smitten with these guys, honestly—having matching nightstands has been a long-held dream of mine and I love the narrow depth these have to offer.

And, of course, I think it’s cute how the two sides look totally different.

Max’s. Isn’t that fan cute? I found it at a little antique store somewhere in Virginia for him during a trip home. The look on his face when he met me at Penn Station—you would have thought I handed him a puppy, or seven. The boy likes fans.

I’m so glad I met Maya. She’s super nice and a great person to bounce ideas off of for the apartment, and we already have a few more goodies from her place lined up to come my way. I really have no business being in her good graces, but I guess as long as she keeps offering without getting sick of me, I’ll keep taking. I’m so good at it. She just has to tell me when she feels like I’m spitting in the cup, as it were.

  1. Now you’re buds with the famously stylish Maya? I feel as jealous as a kid on the playground watching another with a new ball….beautiful finds.

  2. Hello! I’m new to your site – and already incredibly jealous of your furniture.

  3. The shelves! They’re my favorite!

    I think i would have puked on that guy chewing tobacco on the plane. Seriously, I’m about to puke just imagining it. OMG.

    One last thing… knitting needles to not have to be smuggled on a plane. They’re totally allowed (in most countries, definitely in the US and Canada). But we knitters live in fear of them being taken away (at the discretion of the oh-so-wise TSA, you know), so please don’t make jokes about stabbing people with them! People think they’re dangerous, but seriously, unless you’re going to take away everyone’s pencils and shoelaces too….

  4. Lucky lucky lucky, and lovely. Maya is nice.

    Incidental: Fraud! David Rakoff! LOVE.

  5. Aah, those chairs. The shelves! Especially the knock off Eames Chair. Be still my heart.

    I’m writhing in envy here. Well done!

  6. you are the luckiest guy in all of NYC.

  7. I love how you’ve restored those items; they look really amazing and the flaws from before are almost impossible to see. Plus those nightstands look fabulous around that bed! :D I totally love Max’s doggie figure.

  8. ack. The guy with the spit cup? I had a boss like that. He would purposely stand next to my desk while I was working and spit into his cup. PLUS he held it about a foot and a half below his mouth. He knew it made me ill; that’s why he did it. I lasted at that job for about 4 months and had to quit.

    • That’s HORRIBLE! 4 months?! I’m not sure I could have lasted 4 hours. That’s just…not right.

      • I wouldn’t have lasted 4 seconds. I have a spit phobia. This entry about did me in, Daniel (I mean, Adam).

        PS what’s the art in the white frame?

      • It’s just a little 70s pen on paper drawing I found in a thrift store a while ago and reframed in a RIBBA frame from IKEA. It’s a sort of abstract woman portrait, but she’s super sun-faded. I’ll try to take a better picture! (It’s already been moved to the bathroom!)

  9. So jealous. But if anyone deserves a funiture fairy godmother its you. Still jealous tough. I mean, you best pals with Anna D16, Daniel from project runway, have a cute boyfriend with kitchenaid and now Morgans pal Maya? Who is next?

  10. I have a thing for floating nightstands. Yours are fabulous :-)

    Jeez, I can’t believe you’ve actually met the famous (and secretive) Maya ! Have you seen her place for real ? When is she starting her own blog ?

    • I haven’t seen her place, we have to find time!

      I don’t think Maya’s too interested in the whole blog thing. It’s not for everyone, and that’s okay! But I’ll keep nudging :-)

  11. “Furniture fairy godmother”? I can’t decide if I’m more impressed by the serious case of serendipity you have going or your way with words. I keep showing your blog to people, but they must not be actually *reading* it because I *know* I’d be hearing back about how wonderful and funny it is, if they were! I’m going to have to resort to force-reading. I’m just delighted to have found your blog! And the Max post slayed me – to freaking cute for words, in the best sense.

  12. i’ve spent many a nauseated day trapped in the car with my younger brother who chews this insanely disgusting sour apple chew. it smells like a sour apple jolly rancher, which, incidentally, has always smelled like vomit to me.

  13. Oooohhhhhhhh. The minute you said he wanted to keep his empty cup I knew his intention EXACTLY!!! Because, you see, I’m Southern.

    • HA!

      I like to think I’m Southern, too, but clearly I am not nearly Southern enough.

    • I did too. My dad did this and whenever he polished off a bottle of coke I’d sit there thinking “please throw it away, please throw it away…”

  14. I completely sympathize with you when it comes to random talkative strangers who want to tell you their life story – I, too, make up random personal details if they ask about me. There’s a perverse joy into seeing just how far you can go when making up things.

    Anyway, it’s pretty amazing that you have a furniture fairy, especially one with such an amazing style. Love the shelves and their asymmetrical-ness.

  15. 1. You are amazing.

    2. There is NOT an amazing thrift store around every corner in California. That’s how I imagine the Midwest to be, though. Where I live in California, there are several artsy handmade/local/vintage shops that have employees for the sole purpose of raiding every thrift store in town the moment they open. Sad. I guess the only way around it is waking up early and beating them to it… or going to the flea market.

  16. Im so jealous! I want an Eames lounger, sadly I have never even seen one in real life! One day when I win the lotto it will be mine, haha.

  17. Ohh how I wish you could fit in my pocket and I could carry you around with me every day to keep me giggling and fuel my sarcastic witty fire.

  18. love this. love the blog. love the thoughts that make up the words that flow into the sentences that are too witty and authentic not to be shared.

    keep this up- it’s good stuff.

  19. I just wish to state for the record that as of now, I officially hate you. Had been flirting with the idea for a while, but this one has finally sealed the deal. Why oh why is it I never get lucky like that? Huh punk?! I need new friends.

  20. Every time Maya is mentioned, I have to say the following:

    Okay, now that my obligation is fulfilled, um…Adam? From Columbus? Majoring in Biochemistry at Tuft’s?

    I really wish you’d gone with latex salesman at Vandelay Industries. Maybe when you’re older!

    • LOL Anna! I would have gone with something more Golden Girls like, Isaac P. Newton, a displaced citrus farmer moving from the greater Miami area to Saskatchewan!

      I’ll give anyone on this thread a meet and greet with Mamma Biscuit if they can figure out which episode I’m pulling that from!

    • Anna- Vandelay Industires LOL
      Daniel- So jealous of your presents! I wish I had a furniture fairy to make my dreams come true :) Although I almost had a heart attack when I saw the Eames lounge. Thank you for saying its a knock-off or I would have been in a fit of crazy for I don’t know how long. Still jealous though.

  21. i extra super love the brick house (and i believe it is you who brought me to there, so thank you very much), and i really really enjoyed her mini house crash of maya’s place. and i’m ridiculously jealous of that amazingly beautiful white knock off eames lounger (shut up! i don’t care that i have no place to put it!). And i like your nightstands. AND someone needs to tell my husband that i would be as happy as Max to receive an adorable vintage fan. maybe i will tell him… excuse me.

  22. Reginaaaaaa!!!!

  23. Love those bedroom shelves! Congrats on all your new additions, you totally deserve them so don’t beat yourself up about it. And to echo others sentiments, I hope Maya starts to blog too.

  24. stunning nightstands, i love max’s dog. i’m sure maya doesn’t feel you are spitting in the cup at all, as you are clearly cherishing her treasures. i keep hearing napoleon dynamite in my head saying, luckeeeeeeeeeee

  25. so incredibly unfair. you already live in new york with cool stuff around every corner. and now you’re getting things from california too? what the hell? not cool. not cool at all. i live in vancouver b.c. sure it’s beautiful but whatever. i want cool cheap mid-century furniture! geez.
    and also, i would’ve freaked out if some gross dude was spitting tobacco next to me. blech.

  26. What is this $100 rule of decorating that you referenced? I am not familiar. Does it state that you should just buy anything under a hundred bucks that tickles your fancy? Because I already had a date with Ikea this weekend, and that might make it extra hot and heavy…

    • I wish that was the rule! No, it’s just that you don’t spend over $100 on anything. Which makes Maya and Morgan basically gods, because they have so much incredible stuff. I bow down.

  27. Ah, I always feel like the gods have smiled down on us when there is a new entry! Love what you did with your gifts, you lucky, lucky man!

    (The spitting in the cup made me do a full body cringe – how awful for you to have to sit there.)

    Love the $100 rule! What a challenge!

  28. Ugh, I am so jealous of those floating bedside tables. If you trip over another pair (which, knowing your luck, you will), I will offer myself up for any hand-me downs.

  29. Ooooh, the black wire Eames chair is awesome. Hope you can use your newly acquired welding knowlege soon.

    The floating shelves are great too! I have already looked at the wood refinishing tutorial and might follow the instuctions over the weekend to pretty up my new street find. Do I have to determine what kind of finish the piece has now or do I just go ahead and start working my magic?

  30. hey guys.
    you guys are nice! isn’t Daniel the cutest? i just had to.
    i just like stuff :) Daniel blog is just so good, i just had to give him the Eames chair, i mean someone had to save it ,right? it was beyond me, sadly, but i want Daniel to make it his love child.. i hope he will.
    i just sometime tend to find stuff, that i know is sad to to get (i keep the 100 rule , still, so my husband wont kill me) and then i pass it on, it used to be Morgan that would take stuff, and LA peeps, but now i am here in NY, so, i need to actually find a home for that stuff.
    and yes, i am a bit crazy, i swear, we have 5 sofas + 1 danish daybed that needs a good home… (anyone?) and more tables and LAMPS.. (don’t worry Daniel..) seriously, i just have too much stuff.
    anyway, i wish i was as talented as you think and can actually write a blog, see,
    maybe i should just post picture and wired CL finds, so someone gets it all, and not me? tricky business.
    i am proud to be a fairy godmother, i always wanted to be one, and now that Suki is one, ohhh, i am honored

  31. I am so glad the chewing tobacco imagery was offset by all that gifted & cheap design hotness. Thanks for linking to the tutorial. I have an Eames Ottoman (I think/hope it’s original) that needs some serious attention. Am a little afraid to totally take it apart though.

  32. Good job on the teak! That wire eames chair is totally fixable, looks like it just needs a few spot welds, welding class- you got this.

  33. I’m speechless….super jealous, and speechless.

  34. You’re the cutest and luckiest. Thanks for being so damn entertaining and sharing it with us all.

  35. New here.

    Just want to say that I completely understand your feeling about planes. Something about me makes strangers want to reveal their deepest secrets to me and I’m OK with that sometimes. But when I’m on a plane, I like to be left alone. I’ve discovered that when I’m travellling by myself the aisle seat is much much better. Mostly because it’s easy to escape, plus, you don’t have to talk to anyone to do it. Also, you can angle yourself slightly toward the aisle (effectively turning your back on people) and avoid conversations. A book, or Kindle helps, too.

    Try it next time and see if you agree.

  36. Also, the floors under your faux-Eames chair are awesome. Lucky you.

  37. After one of our former governors was elected, the press finally let the public know that the gov-elect travels and everything else with a spit cup in hand. I had voted against him anyway, but if I had known this beforehand — and I really think it was the public’s right to know in advance — I would have actively campaigned against him. There are few things more disgusting.

  38. I’m not going to lie, had you been sitting next to me on that plane I would have used that cup to collect the remains of my clipped nails (and yes, I’m not ashamed of admitting that) I’m sure Anna from Doorsixteen will never speak to me again after revealing such a horrible fact about myself (who am I kidding, she’s already humiliated me for my love of clipping my nails in public) LOL

    On another note, great way to reuse those shelves as nightstands and the fan is awesome. Isn’t it amazing how the safety of those fans are pretty nonexistent! If I owned one, I would probably be missing a few fingers!

    Oh and good going on your fictitious profile…..chatty Cathy doesn’t really need to know who you really are! ;-)

    • You disgust me.

    • Dan, maybe chatty Cathy is reading your blog? Maybe chatty Cathy is googeling that nice young man she met on the plane and is finding your blog? You never know. Not all of your blog readers can be awesome Project Runway finalists, there must be a few chatty Cathys among them too!

      • Only if she typed in “Adam biochemistry Ohio blog” or “Adam Ohio Biochemistry Tufts” (and made it to page 3 of the results) would she probably find this blog based on what he told her!

  39. Let’s see–you have a funky apartment–great luck thrifting already and a cute boyfriend. And now you’re getting fabulous finds given to you cross-country. Life is SO unfair.

    Always enjoy your site–looking forward to what you do with that HALLWAY.

  40. Dan, how did you fix the night tables to the wall?

    • They’re made to be wall-mounted, so there’s hanging hardware on the back. I just put some really big screws in the wall, which should be strong enough since these aren’t THAT heavy and aren’t holding too much weight.

  41. Maya is great! She bought a couple of upholstered Eames chairs from me when I was in LA (one of them now lives in The Brick House). Maya also has the most amazing painting of a lion, that I think she did, and I still think about it and wish that I had been able to buy it from her when she was leaving California…

    Jealz of the lounger.

    PS: I would have barfed or said something to that dude. I. cannot. handle. dip.
    PPS: I keep my cups too, but only because I’m a mega-dork and I recycle them whenever I get where I’m goin’.

  42. Love your new additions to the new pad, the teak nightstands are awesome!
    And poor guy on plain, I feel with you- I also seem to attract people to talk to me while I am traveling. I give them zero attention, only minimal response but they keep on talking to me. Last time I sat with a chatty Russian guy and a Scottish piano player in a train cap and the talked almost my ears off.

  43. Have you seen the Curb Your Enthusiasm about men wearing shorts on a plane?

    Let me, uh… Let me give you a little tip, okay?
    – Mm-hmm – for traveling… A little traveling tip.
    Try not to wear shorts.
    It’s not all that attractive to look at for five hours.
    – Are you kidding? – Honestly. No, I’m not.
    – I wear these on every flight when I travel… – Really?
    – … ’cause it’s very comfortable. – Yes. Yeah.
    These planes, if you notice, get very hot.
    – Ah. Yes, they do. – I’m sorry, I didn’t see where I had to check with the person I’m sitting next to what I should wear.
    I’m comfortable in pajamas, but I don’t wear pajamas on a plane.
    I like to sing. I like to whistle.
    I like to play the bongos on my leg.
    – I like to imitate horses… – Okay.
    – … But I don’t do it, okay? – All right.
    – Because there’s somebody sitting next to me. – Yeah, okay. Okay.
    Wow, you’re very uptight, dude. Very uptight.
    – Uptight? I don’t think it’s “uptight.” – It’s just shorts, man.
    – You’ve never seen a man’s legs? – Yeah, they’re grotesque.

  44. Hey Daniel, I used to follow that blog that you recommended the 4C 5D one. the one where they were renovating a house in DC. I can’t remember the name or numbers and have tried all combinations. Any chance you can clue me in? Thanks, Ann

  45. Nice!

    How are those teak shelves constructed/joined? I don’t have a furniture godmother so I’m wondering if I can knock them off with the right wood.

    • Oh, gosh. I don’t know… by magical Danish wizards? The pieces where the wood joins are 90 degree angles on the outside and rounded concavely in the inside… I’d guess there’s some kind of advanced joinery technique happening there, but it’s not something I can see just by looking at it. Biscuits? Dowels? I have no idea how that stuff works.

  46. David Sedaris wrote an hysterical article about this very topic a while back in I think the New Yorker. I will link if I can find!

  47. Can you lend Maya to me? I’d love some free mid-century modern furniture too! <3

  48. I love your floating nightstands and the herringbone wood floor. Diggin your blog. Even though I live in Hawaii, I’m obsessed with NY small spaces (design, not the super high rent although Hawaii’s housing cost ain’t no walk in the park either). In the words of the terminator…I’ll be back….so keep bloggin. Btw, my mother’s side of my family is from Ohio but a different area, North Olmsted outside of Cleveland. I haven’t been back there in years.

  49. Oh wait a second, r u not really from Ohio? That’s just your flying alter ego…kind of like “my name is Candy” when in Vegas? Forgive my incessant rambling about Ohio then.

    But I digress…

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       When  a  version  of PrBoom is run, it  searches for this configuration
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       changed using the in-game menus.

       PrBoom  expects  the  config  file  to   be    ~/.prboom/boom.cfg,   or
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       be made to look elsewhere by using a command-line parameter:

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       Any  line  beginning  with  an  alphabetic  character  is  treated as a
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       The  variables  recognised  by  PrBoom are described per-section in the
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              If this limit would be  exceeded,  an  old  corpse  is  removed.
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Two Years Before the Mast

Author: Richard H. Dana
Published: 1840
Language: English
Wordcount: 168,921 / 456 pg
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Sailing to California from Boston around Cape Horn, Two Years Before the Mast is both an adventure and an eloquent account of life at sea in the early nineteenth century. Richard Henry Dana is only nineteen when he escapes the patrician world of Boston and Harvard for the arduous voyage. The result is an astonishing book, filled with vivid descriptions of storms, whales, and the ship's mad captain, terrible hardship and magical beauty, and fascinating historical detail.

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he detailed one slight case where he thought my father was at fault,---a detail so slight that I now forget what it is. In reading the Log kept by the discharged mate, Amerzeen, on the return trip in the Alert, I find that every incident there recorded, from running aground at the start at San Diego Harbor, through the perilous icebergs round the Horn, the St. Elmo's fire, the scurvy of the crew and the small matters like the painting of the vessel, to the final sail up Boston Harbor, confirms my father's record. His former shipmate, the late B. G. Stimson, a distinguished citizen of Detroit, said the account of the flogging was far from an exaggeration, and Captain Faucon of the Alert also during his lifetime frequently confirmed all that came under his observation. Such truth in the author demands truth in illustration, and I have cooperated with the publishers in securing a painting of the Alert under full sail and other illustrations, both colored and in pen and ink, faithful to the text in every detail.

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(1840) Non Fiction (Diary/Memoirs) / Nautical (Sailing ship) / Historical (1830's) / Travel (California/Pacific Islands/Ocean)

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  • The voyages of the old sailing ships was measured in years, not days.

  • A sailor who was not an officer or passenger, but only an 'ordinary seaman' was quartered in the forecastle, which were the living quarters situated before the mast. This part of the ship got the worst movement in bad weather as it was the part of the ship that rose and plunged most in heavy seas..

  • Dana (the author) signed-on with a merchant ship as an ordinary seaman for a two year voyage to the California coast and islands of the Pacific. He was an educated man, but thought the voyage might help his eyesight.

  • He kept a written record of his voyage with no intention to make it sensational or exaggerated.

  • The book, while interesting from a travel and historical sense, should not be thought of in the same sense of a novel like 'The Sea-Wolf'.

  • The work and the sea were masters cruel enough for any man who would spend 'Two Years Before the Mast'.

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I first read this book 15 years ago. Since then I have spent many wonderful weekends/weeks sailing. This book is a TRUE story of sailing the seas and life on board a ship. From sewing their own cloths, sails, working the hemp rope. A must for sailors, those that might wish to try sailing and even those that are land bound.

I am reading this book now and I am always on my toes.

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Written By Himself

Author: Olaudah Equiano (Gustavus Vassa)
Published: 1789
Language: English
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er heard of white men or Europeans, nor of the sea: and our subjection to the king of Benin was little more than nominal; for every transaction of the government, as far as my slender observation extended, was conducted by the chiefs or elders of the place. The manners and government of a people who have little commerce with other countries are generally very simple; and the history of what passes in one family or village may serve as a specimen of a nation. My father was one of those elders or chiefs I have spoken of, and was styled Embrenche; a term, as I remember, importing the highest distinction, and signifying in our language a mark of grandeur. This mark is conferred on the person entitled to it, by cutting the skin across at the top of the forehead, and drawing it down to the eye-brows; and while it is in this situation applying a warm hand, and rubbing it until it shrinks up into a thick weal across the lower part of the forehead. Most of the judges and senators were thus marked; my

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Very interesting book. It's amazing that all these things happened to one man and that he then used that knowledge to play a pivotal role in the abolishment of slavery.

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MAP Screen | The Anthropology Effect

This new season of film and video selected by Karen Cunningham opens with Ravi Govender, ‘Localized’, 2013 and Adam Chodzko, ‘The Pickers’, 2009

Films courtesy of the artist and LUX, London Top: Ravi Govander, ‘Localized’, 2013, 17’52”. Bottom: Adam Chodzko, ‘The Pickers’, 2009, 6’56”

Karen Cunningham is a Glasgow-based artist who also curates events and exhibitions and occasionally writes texts. Recent projects include, ‘An Endless Theatre: the convergence of contemporary art and anthropology in observational cinema’, a symposium which featured film and video by Karen Cunningham, Edward S Curtis, Geoffrey Farmer, Rosalind Nashishibi, Jean Rouch, Sterling Ruby and John Smith. Curated by Karen Cunningham and organised in collaboration with Dr Richard Baxstrom, the screening event was held in the department of Social & Political Science at the University of Edinburgh. Karen is currently working on a new video work commissioned by LUX, which will be exhibited at Collective Gallery, Edinburgh in October 2013.

“MAP asked me to curate a season of film and video works that consider the intersection between contemporary art and anthropology. For the first installment I have selected two recent works which are both ostensibly situated in the present and which, I hope, encourage the viewer to consider the possibility of anthropology and ethnography manifesting as self-reflexive approaches employed by independent individuals rather than existing as exclusive and institutionalised Western disciplines located in an archived past.

In ‘Localized’, 2013 by South African artist Ravi Govender and ‘The Pickers’, 2009 by UK artist Adam Chodzko it is the subject, rather than the filmmaker or ethnographer, who has travelled. In both works economic migration is shown as the key factor in the subjects’ choice of living and working situations, thus both videos draw distinction between colonisation and colonialism.

Both pieces can be viewed, in different ways, as successors or by-products of ‘direct cinema’ or cinéma vérité, such as the seminal film Chronicle of a Summer, 1960 made collaboratively by filmmaker and anthropologist Jean Rouch, philosopher and sociologist Edgar Morin and filmed by Michel Brault. Like ‘Localized’ and ‘The Pickers’, Chronicle of a Summer looks at employment, immigration and quality of life, issues presented as fundamental concerns, not only to the subjects, but also to the filmmakers themselves.

The implied auto-ethnography within the works conveys a shift in power dynamics as the subjects, young Romanian fruit pickers, are shown editing archival footage of British fruit pickers. This constructed scenario implies that via technology the ‘subject’ can regain control over their own representation.

Editing processes and audio-visual manipulation are also to the fore in ‘Localized’. The highly stylised editing employed by Govender feels as though it might distract from the thoughtful nature of the dialogue which he conducts with the participant/subjects (mainly 2nd or 3rd generation immigrant shopkeepers in one of Johannesburg’s business districts ) but it is the absorbing use of this collaged treatment which enables the work to function with a heightened awareness of its production.  As in ‘The Pickers’, the transparency of the work’s construction creates a level of self-reflexivity which anthropological and ethnographic filmmaking has sought to achieve.

English is presented as a common language in ‘Localized’, while in ‘The Pickers’, although filmed in the UK, it is presented as a foreign language. In this way the political as well as cultural implications of a specific language are highlighted. English is employed in both pieces as a signifier of dominant or universal communication, especially in relation to the global field of contemporary art.

Both selected works go beyond purely observational filmmaking—they are engaged pieces which not only underscore the usual anthropological topics of representation, colonialism, Western & non-Western cultural differences, but also invoke ideas of technology, participation, authorship and attribution.

In each case the multifarious mechanisms of contemporary film and video making; recording, editing, sampling, interpretation and audio visual manipulation are not only made visible but are as much the subject of the work as the people and places depicted. As Rouch states, ‘The observer is always a participant…’ ”


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