I guess that would work if you’re under 8 years old…
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Posts Tagged ‘general’
When In Anger…
Wednesday, February 11th, 2009Back
Tuesday, January 6th, 2009Well, I’ve definitely been M.I.A. for the last few weeks… I just got back from vacation and ready to start again.
Happy 2009 everyone.
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Where’s my Flag-pin?
Thursday, November 6th, 2008I guess I’m going to have to wear it now after that speech.
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Farewell Mr. Rauschenberg
Tuesday, May 13th, 2008Robert Rauschenberg has died at age 82.
Read the NYT article.
Farewell sir.
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Fortune for Mampe
Friday, May 2nd, 2008
Mampe, good luck in China. I figured you could use some wisdom.
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PKNY
Wednesday, April 30th, 2008Pecha Kucha is tonight…
See you there.
Update:
Here are some random images from last night’s presentations
abalos y herreros
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McGyver’s list of tricks
Wednesday, April 16th, 2008During a lunchtime conversation on problems solved by McGyver, I failed to convince my fellow friends of the existence of an episode where McGyver successfully fixes the bullet-ridden radiator of a truck using just eggs (to cover the holes) and water.
The process:
Fll the radiator with water and add eggs to it.
Turn the truck on.
As the water heats up, the eggs cook and fill the holes…
After a brief search, I found this *extensive* list of all the problems solved by McGyver.
I was of course vindicated: Bushmaster is the episode…He used only the whites though, so I got that detail wrong. Ha!
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Oops!
Tuesday, March 25th, 2008The U.S. Dept of defense shipped four noses for intercontinental ballistic missiles to Taiwan instead of the helicopter batteries they had requested …
Don’t they have to fill out those customs forms where you have to declare what is it you’re shipping?
And, doesn’t anyone on the other side have to actually cross check the contents of the package with those ones in the form?
Probably what rang the bell was that the box said “Made in U.S.A” instead of “Made in Taiwan”…
You would think this is one of those idiotic things that rarely happen, but then of course, how can you forget this.
Read the article here.
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Farewell Mr. Clarke
Tuesday, March 18th, 2008
Arthur C. Clarke, science fiction giant has died today at age 90.
Farewell and thanks Mr. Clarke. You will be missed.
Read the Wired news here.
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Unnecessary Complexification
Saturday, February 9th, 2008
We in architecture -among many other professions- tend to over-complexify the simplest matters with our very specific use of language. The trend seems to be expanding now even to the most mundane; very soon we won’t even be able to keep our Domino’s pizza warm without a specialist standing next to us.
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Happy 100th Mr. Niemeyer
Saturday, December 15th, 2007
Back from vacation
Monday, November 26th, 2007We just got back from our windsurfing-centric vacation in Aruba. I have no idea what’s been going on anywhere in the world for the past week (it cant REALLY be that much I’m guessing) so I’ll be posting stuff later on.
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Farewell Mr. Mailer
Saturday, November 10th, 2007Latin bug
Tuesday, October 23rd, 2007The Latin bug has bit me once again (yes after about 7 years or so) so I’ve dusted my Gramatica Latina, the Oxford Book of Latin Verse and started re-learning the declinations and cases. I guess I still hope it will make a comeback…
Read Vitruvius’ 10 books of Architecture in Latin here (English here )
Here is a cleaner version of the Latin text.
Some resources here.
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My last few days
Wednesday, August 15th, 2007
Sorry I haven’t been posting much lately, but for the last week and a half I’ve been in sort of in health hell. I got a pretty gnarly lil bug called MRSA (pronounced MERSA – methacillin resistant staphylococcus aureus). The bacteria turned out to be quite a Motherf***er which is not so easy to get rid off, since it’s already pretty much resistant to a lot of common antibiotics.
In my short stay at the hospital, I came to realize that these fine institutions are a mix between The Hilton Hotel and Abu-Ghraib. Sleep deprivation and initial disorientation seem to be the M.O. to make you then succumb to their better-than-airplane food and Thursday afternoon milkshakes…
The short story of the whole thing goes like this.
I got a bump in my arm which I thought was nothing and turned out to be a pretty serious infection. After a few visits to the E.R. I was then admitted to the hospital from Wednesday to Sunday.
Read the full account of my odyssey after the jump and view some images way at the end
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I’m out!
Sunday, August 12th, 2007I got back out of the hospital today (I’ll post later on the entire odyssey) so now I’ll be back online, probably intermittently, but back nonetheless. Thanks to all of you guys who called me / emailed me. Good to know there’s such cool people around.
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Flew in my Rolls back into town
Wednesday, July 18th, 2007
Voodoo Rider
Thursday, June 14th, 2007
I saw this beauty parked by our studio on 27th and 6th.
Protected against evil-eye on the front by a voodoo doll, together with a zebra-like animal to bring abundance in food (?) and the Taj-Mahal on the side, to remind you of the place you’d rather be in.
I wonder if I can get mine customized like this.
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NYC skies
Wednesday, June 6th, 2007
As seen today for a brief period of time through our window. Could anyone read what it said?
More images in the link below
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Look who I found
Thursday, April 26th, 2007
Poking around the web, I found a picture of my good friend Mampe at the Architectural Association Design Research Lab (DRL) in their studio trip to China.
Mampe (who contributes to the blog as inframince) is erratica’s ‘London correspondent’. For those of you who are interested, the AA is probably the baddest-assest architecture school in the globe at the moment, and I can only begin to imagine what these guys are up to over there. Needless to say, Mampe you’ll have to post some pictures of your trip and your final project.
The final jury for the project was quite impressive:
Zaha Hadid, Ali Rahim, Hernan Diaz Alonso among others.
Ok man, your time upload!
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