Random thoughts... - by Tocky
Tocky on 20/7/2022 at 15:10
Be thankful we had the ones we did and pass it on in some way. Losing a good one never goes away.
Qooper on 21/7/2022 at 14:30
Random thoughts?
- Autumn is like another dimension that intersects with ours once every year and paints everything orange, cozy and oddly Victorian. When the intersection ends, we're left with grey weather and brown mush on the ground.
- Modern architecture has got it all wrong. Sure it's cheap to build from concrete and just slap some painted metal and darkened glass on top, but time is not kind to such constructions. However, any construction made out of stone ages like fine wine. The older it is, the more moss it attracts, and thus the more ornate it becomes, until we're back in "another dimension" -territory.
- Soon it'll be September. I think I hear a fireplace crackling, and the pages of a good book rustling. Someone is looking through a monocle. He has a rather striking mustache, and a top hat too. Goodness gracious! Is that a crumpet on the table?
Azaran on 21/7/2022 at 17:14
Quote Posted by Qooper
- Modern architecture has got it all wrong. Sure it's cheap to build from concrete and just slap some painted metal and darkened glass on top, but time is not kind to such constructions. However, any construction made out of stone ages like fine wine. The older it is, the more moss it attracts, and thus the more ornate it becomes, until we're back in "another dimension" -territory.
Thank you.
Not a fan of modernist architecture. Many of the principles it's founded on are nonsensical. Most people prefer ornate, traditional architecture, but nu architects insist on building the exact opposite; deliberately bland, barren designs, devoid of ornament, and often provocative - it seems they never grew beyond the 'edgy teenager' phase. And they'll use any pretext to criticize traditional design (including going as low as politicizing architecture).
There's also a lot of hostility toward anything that smacks of 'traditional' in most architecture college programs; I've read about teachers failing students for submitting projects that are too traditional (symmetry, ornament, and reasonably sized windows are capital sins apparently).
This also reflects in modernist interior design. 'Open concept' interiors destroy the individuality of different parts of a home, and with the obsession with having everything a harsh white (doors, walls, furniture, &c) it appears designers' intentions are to make everything as barren and bland as possible (under the pretext of 'airy, spacious, light-filled interiors')
With 3d printing and moulding, the old argument that ornament is expensive and 'we no longer have enough skilled craftsmen' goes out the window. Traditional architectural design is aligned with human wellbeing and the natural world, and this is (
https://patterns.architexturez.net/doc/az-cf-172522?fbclid=IwAR3M9-oUp0r1Xeu2fjMR0STmqZkkEVVLoI5mENl7O-P3VCakKOLQNI4jNWI) has been confirmed by science.
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Ornament and function go together. There is no structure in nature that can be classified as pure ornament without function. In traditional architecture, which was more tied to nature, such a separation never existed. The breakdown of the human adaptation of architecture can be traced to the forced conceptual separation of ornament from function, a relatively recent occurrence in human history. [...] Even less known outside scientific circles is the existence of a large number of cortical neurons inside the brain that are triggered only by ornamental elements. These include specific responses to crosses, stars, concentric circles, crosses with an outline, and other concentrically-organized symmetrical figures with some complexity. These patterns are therefore built into our cognitive neural structure. Since those neurons are there for a reason, we should be stimulating them
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henke on 21/7/2022 at 20:30
Had piccnic with friends in the park.
Friend gives me a ride home
I play some Stray on the PS5, its quite good!
wait wheres my phone
look all over
hear neighbor in stairway, pop my head out and ask him him to call me
no ringtone
panic a bit
I got everything in that phone case, man, EVERYTHING! drivers license, Visa card, keycard for office!
use Samsung's FindMyPhone website
ok, it's showing an address. but it's an address I know and I've been at before. decide it's probably just some old GPS-signal that's gotten stuck in the system, no way it's there!
go to bankwebsite to temporarily block credit card purchases
realize I can't do that because I need the verification app on my phone to even get INTO the bank website
panic some more
my phone must've fallen out in my friend's car! RIGHT? I mean it didn't fall out in the PARK, could it?
send messages to friend on twitter and discord. no replies.
try to contact mutual friends and have them call him. no replies, it's too late, everyone has the good sense to be off social media by this time.
panic!
drive to the park, look around, no phone, come back home
no messages from friend
try to find his phone number online, find one, but it's an old one. get neighbor's phone, call it, no answer
look at FindMyPhone site again. now it's showing the house next door to the one earlier. hmm...
hmm!
what say I drive out there and check it out?
WHAT SAY INDEED
drive out, look around. buncha dark cars in the parkinglot, one of em kinda looks like my friend's.
look at mailboxes, by god, that's his last name! appartment 1!
go knock on door, his wife answers, I explain what I'm looking for
dude comes out, we check the car, the phone is there.
FIN
I need an editor to format this TRUE STORY into a book. We'll call it Henke's Wild And Wacky Adventure. Together we can make millions! MILLIONS! ok goodnight
Starker on 21/7/2022 at 20:51
That's the best review of Stray I've read so far, tbh.
Pyrian on 21/7/2022 at 22:49
Quote Posted by henke
go to bankwebsite to temporarily block credit card purchases
realize I can't do that because I need the verification app on my phone to even get INTO the bank website
Heh. Gotta love it when your security is preventing your security.
Tocky on 22/7/2022 at 04:24
This heat is sapping my energy. I come home and sit on the couch to watch some Stranger Things and I've slept through three episodes before I know it. It has to be hard on the English. I can't imagine this heat without cooling units. On the other hand those stone houses retain some coolness. We worked on the windows of the second underground house I've seen recently. What they do is find a hill, preferably with trees, bulldoze off the top level, and build a block house as they want. Then they pile the dirt back over it so that it's sort of a ranch style Hobbit. Cooling it is easier that way.
We are going to have to think of new ways of beating the heat. There is an old Arthur C. Clark story about the end of the earth when the sun has swollen and life failing where there is no escape but underground. I think of that in times like these. I also think of Canada and the blessed dearth of evangelicals there. What will we do when there are only the thought police usurping bodily autonomy in a heat wave that drives folks mad, folks with guns?
Autumn seems so far away.
At least I know where my phone is.
Starker on 22/7/2022 at 05:32
But do you know where your towel is?
Funny how we seem to have once in a lifetime weather events on the regular now.
Oceanstorm on 22/7/2022 at 06:08
Quote Posted by henke
I play some Stray on the PS5, its quite good!
God I want to play Stray but my gpu died & I'm saving to get a new one *me sobbing cause I wanna play it so bad*
On another random note, my black moggy is losing a patch of fur just above her bum at the base of her spine.
Bit concerning but we'll see how it goes
Tocky on 23/7/2022 at 02:08
My daughter was on the evening news hawking T shirts for North Pontotoc school Choir to fund their activities. It's a bit surreal to see your daughter on TV but also a proud moment for her cause. She is an artist much better than her old man and uses her talent to create some of the most wonderful things. She has created a stamp image by hand that combines the Viking logo of the school with the Grateful Dead logo so that she can create T shirts to sell for the funding of choir activities of which my grand Lana is a very vocal participant. Her voice is my daughters made over. When she hits the Freddie Mercury highs I'm so proud. I hadn't the courage to tell Samantha that the lightening bolt in the skull bit is for acid though. Not that it matters. Dear lord she even managed to double entendre a bit about rubbing the image onto the shirt with the newscaster. Oh shit she is me made over. They both broke up over that one.
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https://i.imgur.com/JcqbU9q.jpg?1Notice how there is no space for anything but pictures on my wall? It's that way all over the house. I don't believe in bare walls. Every inch of my whole house is pictures or art or posters. Mostly pictures.