Entries from August 2007 ↓

INT. JACE’S TRUCK - DUSK

A warm June evening. Bryan and Jace are driving down to the Honda Center in Anaheim to score scalped tickets for the Police. Scheduled to meet them is Bryan’s brother Brad, who’s driven down from Mammoth for the weekend to catch the show and visit family. =continued=

Taken with my phone camera 20 minutes ago at White Point.

“Love is a canvas furnished by nature and embroidered by imagination.”
–Voltaire

Getting it done, baby! Extra joists are up in the attic, all temporary support walls are down, and it’s time to move on to lighting, drywall, and paint. Tomorrow my newest brother Mike and I are gonna hit Home Depot for some lighting hardware, and he’s gonna have his crew rip the whole thing on Friday. After that will be drywall, which takes about a week.

Then it’ll be time to paint, doing the whole place in the starkest, snowiest, most sterile flat white available. Starting with a clean, fresh canvas. In more ways than one. An appropriate backdrop for what’s to come.

Maybe I should turn it into a paint party. Wing a batch of salsa. Throw on some steaks. Flow the Tecate. Wanna come?

“The first duty of society is justice.”
–Alexander Hamilton

Less is more. Scientific research has proven that only the upper half of text is needed in order to be readable. By removing the lower half of this text, we see… =continued=

Dear Santa,

I just snuck on to my dad’s computer when he wasn’t looking. Listen, I know it’s a little early, but my sister and I thought we’d give you a head start on our Christmas wish list this year. Call me naughty, but I’m really just trying to make your work easier. That’s nice, no?

We both probably need new collars, especially Kona. Hers still smells kinda skunky from that little incident a few weeks ago. Throw in a few bags of Beggin’ Strips too. Any flavor’ll work. Also, if you could be a dove and score us some of those tasty lamb ankle bones from the meat shop up the street. That’d be super. And send another canine friend or two to hang out with us in the backyard.

But more than anything, we’d like this.

Say hi to Rudolph for us.

Love,

Vive and Kona

“You think dogs will not be in heaven? I tell you, they will be there long before any of us.”
–Robert Stevenson

Okay! So Day 5’s in the books. Beams are up! One more day of framing will involve Mike getting up into the attic to use a few more 2×6’s to reinforce the joists.

Additional lumber for the soffit:

Beams are up; one more temporary wall remains until the final 2×6’s go up.

Upon being indefinitely suspended from the NFL for organized dogfighting and executing pit bulls, quarterback Michael Vick has apparently found Jesus. On the same day his plea became official. Now that fucking heathen bastard can go spread Christ’s love to all the horny guys in the joint.

What a cop-out. This has got to be the most insulting thing I’ve heard in months.

Yo Vick, this is what Vive thinks of your new relationship:

The Oxford Guide to Style used in the UK prescribes commas and periods outside closing quotation marks, whereas American style is to always keep commas and periods inside closing quotation marks. Speaking of quotation marks, where Americans use double quotation marks, British style is to use single quotation marks. Here’s an example of British punctuation:

• The most recent release of WordPress has been nicknamed ‘Ella’.

Perfectly clear.

Now here’s how the Yanks do it by convention, which is less logical:

• The most recent release of WordPress has been nicknamed “Ella.”

Ouch. Hate it. The period is not part of the name, and does not logically belong in the quotes. Free and brave as we are, we certainly have our flaws.

This applies to parentheses too (but we’ll save that for another discussion).

Or, as America would write:

This applies to parentheses too (but we’ll save that for another discussion.)

Or, if you want to just dodge the decision altogether, try this one:

This applies to parentheses too. (But we’ll save that for another discussion.)

“Space is the breath of art.”
–Frank Lloyd Wright

Where is the green side? On the front of the cube or the back? This classic was first described by professor Louis Albert Necker while studying crystals in 1832.