• Summer classes
    • Math
    • Physics
  • Make a glass terrarium (open)
  • Have a garage sale
  • Wash the windows
  • Organize a studio environment
  • My reading list
  • Pinterest recipes
  • Make a maker-space in the garage
  • Actually go to work
  • Get my contacts
  • Send off my financial aid forms
  • Do some damned scholarships

Special Things

  • Storyboard "Lighthouse"
  • Take a favorite passage from a book and rewrite it using the same letters & punctuation.
may 5 2013 ∞
may 21 2013 +
  • 7 Habits of Highly Effective People
  • A Clockwork Orange
  • A Moveable Feast
  • At Home
  • Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee
  • Cold Mountain
  • Gone Girl
  • Invisible Cities
  • Labyrinths
  • Loose Woman
  • Macbeth
  • Mrs. Dalloway
  • October Sky
  • Paris to the Moon
  • Stylepedia
  • The Cloud Atlas
  • The Grapes of Wrath
  • The Power of Myth
  • Woman Hollering Creek

Mayhaps

apr 25 2013 ∞
may 7 2013 +

FIRST SEMESTER

  • Design Foundations I
  • Design Communications I
  • Scholarship seminar
  • Planet Earth
  • Architectural Writing
  • Architectural History I (Ancient to Gothic)

SECOND SEMESTER

  • Design Foundations II
  • Design Communications II
  • Architectural History II (Gothic to Contemporary)
  • Computing Methods in Architecture
  • Comparative Theory
  • Badminton
  • Mystery Writers seminar

SUMMER CLASSES

  • Math I
apr 25 2013 ∞
apr 25 2013 +
  • 2009-2010 Planner
    • Threw me off because it's not a Moleskine
  • First cahier
    • Exactly where it was supposed to be...
  • Black stocking
  • Crank-up flashlight
  • SD Card
  • Planner holder
  • Tan felt hat
    • Most-anxiety item on the list
    • Favorite hat, lost between transitions, last seen during winter break, not sure if I took it back with me...
apr 15 2012 ∞
mar 19 2013 +
  • the boy in the darkness
  • the boy of polarity
  • the boy that didn't see
  • the boy who sang
  • the boy who wrote it in French
  • the boy who tricked me
  • the boy behind my ear
  • the boy who got too close (to my face)
  • the boy who liked to try too hard
  • the boy up high
  • the boy with the bike
  • the boy who pried
dec 27 2012 ∞
apr 22 2013 +
  • Woodless graphite pencils
  • X-acto knife (w/ various blades)
    • Large X-acto cutter
  • Double-stick tape
  • Kneaded erasers
  • Elmer's Glue-All
  • Triangles of various sizes
  • Circle templates
  • Wicked scissors
  • Sharpies of various thicknesses
  • Steel ruler
  • Roll of tracing paper
  • Refillable pens
oct 3 2012 ∞
mar 19 2013 +
apr 22 2012 ∞
may 16 2013 +
  • A private film journal--on Evernote.
    • Supposedly I'm doing this on my blog-blog.
  • Begin a maintenance notebook on Evernote.
    • Car
    • Computer
      • Back-ups
  • Catalogue entire library.
    • Photographs
    • Titles
  • Clean my Evernote.
  • Compile all school passages.
  • Compile all school writings.
  • Cull back old clothing.
  • Photograph all valuable items.
may 4 2012 ∞
may 16 2013 +
  • The series ends with spring--but everyone is dead. Except Dolorous Edd who tends everyone's graves. But then he also dies and when that happens we know that ASoIaF has truly ended because Dolorous Edd will always be the last one standing.
  • Stannis tries to steal Daenerys's dragons and has to kill her in the process because the dragons are her babies, duh but then he knows jack-shit about on how to control dragons and then Sam comes with Maester Aemon's old books about dragons but Drogon accidentally burns them up and then everyone dies in all the commotion because the white walkers arrive. Except for Sam. Sam lives.
  • Everyone that has died in the series comes back as white walkers and kills everyone else left standing. Cue ironic scenes like Jon being killed by Ned, Robert killing Cersei, Mycah going after Tommen because he looks like Joffrey, etc.
apr 25 2012 ∞
apr 25 2012 +
  • Cannes
    • Library
    • Home
    • Standing structure
  • Amsterdam
    • Original structure
      • Blocking
    • Tulip gardens
    • River access
  • Istanbul
    • Labyrinth
    • Hedge maze
  • London
    • Greenhouses
    • Standing structure
  • Rio de Janeiro
feb 12 2012 ∞
feb 12 2012 +
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  • A Study In Scarlet
    • "You don't know Sherlock Holmes yet," he said; "perhaps you would not care for him as a constant companion." "Why, what is there against him?" "Oh, I didn't say there was anything against him. He is a little queer in his ideas--an enthusiast in some branches of science. As far as I know he is a decent fellow enough." "A medical student, I suppose?" said I. "No--I have no idea what he intends to go in for. I believe he is well up in anatomy, and he is a first-class chemist; but, as far as I know, he has never taken out any systematic medical classes. His studies are very desultory and eccentric, but he has amassed a lot of out-of-the way knowledge which would astonish his professors." "Did you never ask him what he was going in for?" I asked. "No; he is not a man that i...
jan 28 2012 ∞
jan 30 2012 +

PROCRASTINATION

  • Organizing my bookmarks.
  • Finishing off my RSS feeds.
  • Tumbling.
  • Cleaning walls and doorframes.
  • Reading.
  • Organizing my bookshelf.
  • Writing down serial numbers.
  • Puzzle-building.
  • Looking at photos of kittens.
  • Watching kitten videos.

AND WHEN I GET BECOME QUITE CONTENTED

  • Reading my mathematics books in peace.
  • Translating for improvement Rilke.
  • Writing literary analysi of poems.
jan 12 2012 ∞
apr 4 2012 +

Three parts for each category, 5 Essential People, 5 Essential Classics, and 5 Lesser-Known Gems.

ACTION

  • Howard Hawks
  • Walter Hill
  • Sam Peckinpah
  • Raoul Walsh
  • John Woo
  • Children Of Men (2006)
  • Die Hard (1988)
  • Dr No (1962)
  • Face/Off
  • Raiders Of The Lost Ark (1981)
  • Hatari!
  • House Of Flying Daggers (2004)
  • The Right Stuff (1983)
  • The Wages Of Fear (1953)
  • The Warriors (1979)

AFRICA

may 25 2010 ∞
jul 15 2010 +
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  • Vladimir Nabokov
    • Curiosity is insubordination in it's purest form.
  • Jonathan Safran Foer
    • I walked into a bakery seven years later and there he was. he had dogs at his feet and a bird in a cage beside him. The seven years were not seven years. They were not seven hundred years. Their length could not be measured in years, just as an ocean could not explain the distance we had traveled, just as the dead can never be counted. I wanted to run away from him, and I wanted to go right up to him. (_Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close_)
  • Leonardo da Vinci
    • Che mi ligasse con si dolci vinci?
  • Candance Pert
feb 22 2009 ∞
feb 16 2011 +

HIS BLOG POST

  • All advice is autobiographical.
    • YMMV
      • "Your mileage may vary."
  • Steal like an artist.
    • Nothing is original.
    • The artist is a collector.
    • "Garbage in, garbage out."
  • Don't wait until you know who you are to make things.
    • Make things = Know thyself
    • Fake it 'til you make it.
  • Write the book you want to read.
  • Write what you like.
  • Use your hands.
  • Side projects and hobbies are important.
  • The Secret: Do good work and put it where...
mar 31 2011 ∞
mar 31 2011 +
  • Sodium chloride
    • NaCl
  • Eosin
    • Red stain
  • Methylene Blue
    • C16H18N3SCl
    • Blue stain
  • Universal indicator
    • To determine pH levels
  • Phenolphthalein
    • C20H14O4
    • Turns colourless in acidic solutions and pink and base solutions
  • Aluminium ammonium sulfate
    • AlNH4(SO4)2 * 12H2O
nov 27 2009 ∞
may 10 2011 +

Compiled through Google searching of "architecture in film", "architects in film", "film architecture", and "fictional architects". Sources for when remembered, and skipped titles when already mentioned.

  • Steam: The Turkish Bath (1997)
  • Life As A House (2001)
  • Architects (1990)
  • Strangers When We Meet (1960)
  • 500 Days of Summer (2009)
  • Inception (2010)

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  • The Fountainhead (1949)
  • The Towering Inferno (1974)
  • Antonio Gaudi (1986)
  • Mr. Blandings Builds His Deram House (1948)
  • The Naked City (1948)
  • The Clock (1945)
  • Skyscraper Souls (1932)
jul 2 2010 ∞
jul 2 2010 +
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  • snuffed matches
  • dryers
  • laundry detergent
  • ink
  • chocolate chip cookies
  • mint
  • flint after being struck
  • coffee
  • copper
  • overheated circuitry
  • new hotel rooms
feb 20 2009 ∞
may 10 2011 +

Potential Majors/Areas of Study

  • Information Theory
  • Complexity Theory
  • Chaos Theory
  • Statistics
  • Architecture

Potential Careers

  • Architect
  • Industrial designer
  • Graphic design
  • Model/set-making
    • In the concept of carpentry
  • Creative director of *something*
  • The Onion writer

General Subjects/Ideas

  • Symbolism in Chess
  • Sacred architecture
  • History of mathematics
aug 31 2009 ∞
may 16 2013 +
  • Adam Savage
  • Chris Hardwick
  • Aleksander Gamme

I'll come back to this.

may 16 2013 ∞
may 21 2013 +
  • ¡Átame! [Tie Me Up! Tie Me Down!] (1990)
  • 127 Hours (2010)
  • 13 (2010)
  • 27 Dresses (2008)
  • 3 Idiots (2009)
  • 30 Minutes (2011)
  • 50/50 (2011)
  • 8 1/2 (1963)
  • Adjustment Bureau, The (2011)
  • American Translation (2011)
  • Another Earth (2011)
    • Favorite this
  • Apollo 18 (2011)
  • Awakening, The (2011)
  • Barney's Version (2010)
  • Barton Fink
  • Beasts of the Southern Wild (2012)
  • Beat That My Heart Skipped, The (2005)
  • Beaver, The (2011)
dec 25 2010 ∞
may 5 2013 +
  • Buddhist temple
  • Hari Krishna temple
  • Jewish temple
    • High holidays
      • Rosh Hashanah
    • Reading Shylock's Daughter while my father attended Torah study
  • Methodist church
    • Everything
  • Scientology Easter Sunday
  • Unitarian Universalist service
  • Blessed by a Hindu saint (and given a mantra)
mar 23 2013 ∞
apr 22 2013 +
  • Assassinate
  • Clone a human
  • Reimann hypothesis
  • Circumnavigate nautically
  • Unified currency
  • Acquire a South American country
  • Discover the unified theory
  • Carnegie Hall
  • Mars
  • Make an impoverished African country sustainable
  • Rehabilitate murderers
apr 4 2012 ∞
mar 10 2013 +
  • "Fake Empire", The National
  • "Falling Snow", Damien Jurado
  • "Blister in the Sun", The Violent Femmes
  • "Four Provinces", The Walkmen
  • "I and Love and You", The Avett Brothers
dec 1 2012 ∞
jan 2 2013 +

Life of Pi

  • Blake's "The Tyger"
  • Eating pie
  • Pi (1998), Darren Aronofsky
  • Reciting digits of π
  • Unit circle

My First Revolution

  • Voices from Iran
  • The Stoning of Soraya M.
    • Film
    • Book
  • Persepolis
    • Graphic novel
    • Film
  • The Bookseller of Kabul (Afghan.)
  • Reading Lolita In Tehran
  • Censoring An Iranian Love Story
  • A Separation (2011)
jan 25 2012 ∞
apr 27 2012 +

From Clash of Kings onward, as I make my way through the books. In thought-order, not chronological or any logical order.

  • The House of the Undying
    • Disappointing.
  • Vargo's punishment for Jaime
    • Go Vargo, scene was "meh" for me, but the reaction from people who didn't know--that was great.
  • Faceless Men
    • MOAR PLZ.
  • Daenerys buying the Unsullied
    • THIS WAS SO AMAZING.
  • Lord Hoster's funeral pyre
    • Meh.
  • The Bloody Mummers
mar 28 2012 ∞
apr 25 2013 +
  • Beating literature to a pulp in analysis
  • The idea of power and control in people's lives--pursuit
  • Why Inglourious Basterds is about cinema
  • How literacy can rehabilitate criminals
  • Why people take drugs
feb 15 2012 ∞
apr 7 2012 +
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Parallels between the BBC programme "Sherlock" and Sir Arthur Conan Doyle's novel. For nerdy purposes. Asterisks indicate direct parallels.

  • Dr. John Watson has returned from Afghanistan*, has sustained an injury to his leg*.
  • Watson chronicles his adventures with Sherlock.
    • Watson's journal.
    • Watson's blog.
  • The two pills*.
    • One being poison, the other harmless.
    • Forcefully given.
  • Detective Inspectors Gregson and Lestrade are morphed into Greg Lestrade .
  • A friend of Watson helps him to gain Sherlock Holmes as flatmate*.
  • Watson is unable to afford living by hims...
jan 29 2012 ∞
jan 30 2012 +
  • Adrian Monk
  • Azula
  • Chel
  • Darth Vader
    • On account of name.
  • Dr. Cal Lightman
  • Dr. Sheldon Cooper
  • Dr. Spencer Reid
    • "Fucking Reid is just fucking like you."
  • Edna Mode
  • GLaDOS
    • "But I'm not sure you'd care enough about the science."
  • Kevin Katchadourian
  • Patrick Bateman
  • Sherlock Holmes
  • Spock
  • The Doctor
jan 26 2012 ∞
mar 22 2013 +
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  • Derivative trader
  • Ent-wife
  • Album Artist
  • Aesthetics critic
  • Ink merchant
  • Indian dye merchant
  • Spice merchant
  • Artist's model
  • Tree climber
  • Explosives engineer
  • Inventor of a machine that makes snowballs
  • Philosopher
  • Professor of knot theory
  • Consulting detective
  • Photographing snakes
  • Fountain Engineer
  • Tolkien scholar
  • Historian of secret societies
  • Writer for The Onion
mar 18 2009 ∞
may 16 2013 +

I am one of the worse titlers that ever lived.

  • The Cynics: A Memoir
  • The Intellectuals: A Memoir
    • "I'm a qualifier, not an extremist."
  • The Lipscomb Files
  • Arguing Physics
  • Art and Physics
  • The Absolutely True Story of How I Died at Antietam and Fought In the Holocaust: A History of Errers
  • A Summation of Differences
  • Penultimate Behaviour
  • Language of the Apocalypse

Poetry

  • A Geography
    • Lyfe
  • Observations
nov 11 2011 ∞
jun 17 2012 +
  • His face twisted in sudden anguish. "I'm his squire ," he repeated, as the rain ran down his face, "but he left me."
  • Everything that is Aemon
    • Talking to Jon of hearing the news that his family had been slaughtered.
    • Aemon Targaryen , Jon thought, a king's son and a king's brother and a king who might have been .
    • He spoke of dreams and never named the dreamer, of a glass candle that could not be lit and eggs that would not hatch. He said the sphinx was the riddle, not the riddler, whatever that meant. He asked Sam to read for him a book by Septon Barth, whose writing had been burned during the reign of Baelor the Blessed. Once he woke up weeping. "The dragon must have three heads," he wailed, "but I am too old and frail to be one of them. I should be with her, showing her the way, but my body has betrayed me...
may 31 2012 ∞
may 31 2012 +
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  • Jevon's Paradox
    • Increasing efficiency of a process which uses a resource increases (not decreases) the consumption of that resource.
  • Moore's Law
    • Seen in other technology. Growth is generally exponential across the board.
    • The number of transistors that can be placed inexpensively on an integrated circuit doubles approximately every two years.
  • Murphy's Law
    • Anything that can go wrong will go wrong.
  • Occam's Razor
    • The hypothesis that makes the fewest assumptions is the best choice.
  • Parkinson's Law
mar 31 2011 ∞
mar 17 2012 +
  • Sleeping Beauty (2011), Lucy's loft is more of a transitory space, because she hasn't learned/has no desire to decorate it. She's enjoying the luxury of possessing it. Her naked body and the wide view, though high and out of reach from those below.
    • Her room in her friends house. Fabrics and the thin window coverings, the thinnest fabrics in pastels that match her porcelain skin and pinkish complect. She has to wear a sleeping mask to blot it out, as she does in the loft.
  • Солярис
    (1972), the house by the pond. Butterflies in cases. Grass growing in a window pl...
sep 19 2010 ∞
may 22 2013 +

This list, compiled in 1989 and published in 1991 [by Donald E. Brown], consists primarily of "surface" universals of behavior and overt language noted by ethnographers. It does not list deeper universals of mental structure that are revealed by theory and experiments. It also omits near-universals (traits that most, but not all, cultures show) and conditional universals ("If a culture has trait A, it always has trait B"). A list of items added since 1989 is provided at the end. For discussion and references, see Brown's Human Universals (1991) and his entry for "Human Universals" in The MIT Encyclopedia of the Cognitive Sciences (Wilson & Keil, 1999)

  • abstraction in speech and thought
  • actions under self-control distinguished from those not under *control
  • aesthetics
jan 9 2011 ∞
jan 10 2011 +
  • Apples
    • Gala
    • Red
    • Yellow
  • Black Coffee
  • Celery
  • Chicken/Bouillon Broth
  • Cottage Cheese
  • Cucumber
  • Diluted fruit juice
  • Flour tortilla
  • Flowers
  • Fresh green beans
  • Fresh peas
  • Ginger Ale
  • Margarine
  • Marshmallows
  • Mozzarella
  • Olives
  • Plain Yoghurt
feb 15 2010 ∞
may 10 2011 +
  • Chaos , James Gleick
  • Genius , James Gleick
  • Future Shock , Alvin Toffler
  • The Uncollected Poems of Rainer Maria Rilke
  • The Pessimist's Guide to History , Doris & Stuart Berg Flexner
  • Woman: An Intimate Geography , Natalie Angier
  • The Canon: A Whirligig Tour of the Beautiful Basics of Science , Natalie Angier
  • Hackers , Steven Levy
  • The Prince , Niccolò Machiavelli
  • Dust , Joseph Anthony Amato
  • The Silmarillion , J.R.R. Tolkien
  • Innumeracy: Mathematical Illiteracy and It's Consequences , John Allen Paulos
  • A Beautiful Mind , Sylvia Nasar
  • The Book of Sand , Jorge Luis Borges
  • Flatland: A Romance of Many Dimensions , Edwin A. Abbott
  • The Fountainhead , Ayn Rand
  • Everything Is Illuminated , Jonathan Safran Foer
  • Foucault's Pendulum , Umberto Eco
jun 13 2011 ∞
apr 25 2013 +
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  • Greg Mortenson in Three Cups of Tea by Greg Mortenson
    • Each year, whether he was serving as a U.S. Army medic and platoon leader in Germany, working on a nursing degree in South Dakota, studying the neurophysiology of epilepsy at graduate school in Indiana in hopes of discovering a cure for Christie, or living a climbing bum’s life out of his car in Berkeley California, Mortenson insisted that his little sister visit him for a month.
  • Richard P. Feynman in Genius by James Gleick
    • He once offered (and then awarded) a one-thosuand-dollar prize for the first working electric motor less than one sixty-fourth of an inch long, and and his musing on the possibilities of tiny machinery made him, a generation later, the intellectual father of a legion of self-described n...
apr 23 2011 ∞
jun 16 2011 +