New house... roommate blues...

So we got the cool awesome place we had hoped for. It is closer to town, with better amenities and less rent.

The bad news... we are losing a roommate. Although he agrees the new place is superior in every way he has decided to go his own way, so our total rent bill actually ends up going up per person instead of down.

What makes this worse is the boy can cook. He just made an awesome taco salad. It is amazingly good, I can't even begin to describe.

To be fair the other roommate can cook too, but it seems like he mostly cooks cooks either italian or burgers.

Actually now thatI think about the soon-to-be-ex roommate cooks vegetarian a lot of the time... maybe it's good that he's leaving.

I need my bacon.

*edit* Pictures of the new house soon.

Dog pictures...

Cleaning out the camera and I ran across these two which I haven't shared before.

This why it is dangerous going down the stairs in the dark round these parts.



Cinnamon says, safety third!

A little bit of housekeeping around here...

So I decided to enable labels on the blog to make easier to find metal-smithing and kenpo posts... and discovered I had been a bad bad geek. I had forgotten to put a comma between labels so instead of two labels like "School" and "kenpo" I had one label "School Kenpo"

So... yeah. Fixed it, but I had to go edit the labels on about a hundred posts.

Now if you just want to look at pretty metal-smithing picture all you have to do is click on the link on the right. Just here for the Dog? Same thing.

My first monolith.

My roommate's senior thesis show is this weekend. He built a touch-screen driven interface for the art building and asked me to build an installation to hold a computer and support the touch screen.

For less then $200.

And it needed to look tech/slick.

I think I did okay...

From Furniture pics

From Furniture pics

Rockabilly wonder...

I may have just been introduced to a new love.

Imelda May. Irish born Rockabilly crooner extraordinaire.

Now... to find a local copy of her almbum...

Quick post update...

Oh how the time has flown. 5 months since my last post.

The less said about the last 5 months the better. I survived it.

Onto the updates.

Our lease is up (has it been a year already?) and busy looking for new digs.

So that is (not) fun.

Got some summer projects lined up, which has me excited.

I was regifted a small enamel kiln, which after I finish refurbishing I will doing more plique-a-jour pieces.

Also I have been inspired by the cool little blog called Knock-off Wood. So after I get moved in I am going build this.

From Furniture pics

Lastly, a chance encounter with a lovely lady has put me on the trail of new tattoo artist. I'm terrifically impressed with his portfolio, now I just need to finalize my design (and finish my green belt.)

One hand givith...

The other taketh away...

I commented to some friends the other day that in doing the reading for my Arch class I was pleased and amazed at my ability to comprehend Arch subjects that previously bored or baffled me.

However, this apparently has shut down the part of my brain related to processing Japanese. I have spent the last 2 hours studying for my 8:00 am final and realized I had read the same damn sentence three times and still couldn't figure out what it meant... even after reading the helpful translation at the bottom of the page.

*sigh*

I think I will stop, get up early and study some more before the test. Hopefully retain something.

FEED ME

Model Building part 3

Here is the final barrel vault we built last weekend.

As always click the linkee below to see the complete photo set. (there is even a bonus dog photo.)

Arch 332 - Model 3

The material was air hardening clay.

Model Building Mehem...

Apparently I forgot to post the pictures of our barrel vault test that we made earlier in the semester. Here are the pictures up until the camera batteries died.

Click the pretty picture below to view the photo set.

Barrel Vault Photoset

About 10 seconds after battery died we removed the form and due to a flaw in the form's construction it snagged one of the bricks and the whole thing collapsed.