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Posted by vincent_connare in
26 Aug 2003 — 11:29am
26 Aug 2003 — 11:29am
sometimes it's like this...
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26 Aug 2003 — 3:44pm
ben, saint loius, envy. one of the places on my list that i still need to visit some day. and not just for the food.
grant:
In the meantime, why don't you build a few end tables or plant stands?
sorry grant, i don't get it. english is not my native language.
26 Aug 2003 — 10:23pm
Here's my "workspace" at home. It's not very Typophilic at the moment.
27 Aug 2003 — 5:25am
Cleaning did not happen. This is pretty much what it normally looks like.
Close-ups of the collection of junk (dust and all) on top of the desk can be found at
http://www.patricialillie.com/junk/
27 Aug 2003 — 7:39am
Sweet mother of pearl!
27 Aug 2003 — 7:48am
Well,
We are negotiating on new office space. I thought maybe one of you would like to rent space from me. A good lease would help with the payments and raise the money. Take a number, don't push.
And no, I am not joking. People think I always am. I don't know where they got that idea from.
27 Aug 2003 — 8:30am
Capt. Giampa,
That ship is a beautiful floating office.
I 'm not sure that you are going to get any work done when you out sailing the in the Turku Archipelago in Finland.
I do not require physical office space in Finland but what would the cost be to use it as a branch office. Would a small brass plaque with a branch office name be acceptable affixed to the ship.
And no, I am not joking.
What great letterhead that would make with the latitude and longitude address of the Finnish branch office.
gln
27 Aug 2003 — 8:41am
Gerald,
You want to buy a used font company? And no, I am not joking. People think I always am. I don't know where they got that idea from.
We could talk plaque for sure.
Gerald Giampa
27 Aug 2003 — 10:01am
This is my corner at work.
You guys don't want to see my mess at home
27 Aug 2003 — 11:20am
Jim: Magnificent is not a word often applied. Frightening, Pathetic. Those I"ve heard. I like magnificent much better.
Grant: That's sort of a cleaned up version of what my sister (whom we refer to as "Martha on Crack." Yes, that Martha.) said last time she was here.
Now you all know why I am so impressed by your spartan neatness.The thing is, I don't even see the mess until something forces me to look at it. Like taking a picture. I'm thinking moving might be easier than cleaning...
27 Aug 2003 — 11:49am
patricia: great way to store tomatoes for winter! thanks for the idea! Btw, is that singing bob, the fish, i see there?
27 Aug 2003 — 11:56am
Jesus that's better than my little corner in Brixton London... I'll have to get a pic of that soon... it's hot as hell where i sit.. Air Conditioning? what's that?
27 Aug 2003 — 1:15pm
New here, but I suppose this works as an introduction. Since Patricia paved the way, and since I apparently have no shame, here's my chaos. Sorry the pic's so big, but there's a lot of chaos.
27 Aug 2003 — 1:25pm
I like your rationalist quotes.
hhp
27 Aug 2003 — 1:27pm
After procrastination, it's what I do best.
27 Aug 2003 — 1:28pm
your windows look like the flat...apartment I had in Fremont... in 2000........ you ain't on 39th and between FremontAve and near the George&Dragon???
27 Aug 2003 — 1:31pm
Ha -- no, I'm on the other end of town (south), in the Columbia City neighborhood. I know exactly where you're talking about, though. Used to live just across the canal from Fremont.
27 Aug 2003 — 1:42pm
Vincent,
nice tv. what's going on with Liverpool?
David Hamuel
27 Aug 2003 — 1:47pm
...and which red wine does one serve with Pringles, anyway? A hearty chianti, perhaps?
27 Aug 2003 — 1:52pm
Well I was on the south hill in Queen Anne near Tower for a good 6 years or more.. can't wait to eat and see my friends at Uptown China near the Key arena.. after seeing so many bridges in London I HATE Fremont bridge.. My favourite London bridge is Vauxhall Bridge since it is where the MI6 and James Bond building is..
http://www.explore-london.co.uk/vaube.html
27 Aug 2003 — 1:55pm
Which flavor of Pringles?
Certainly the regular flavor is too mild for anything but a Beaujolais Nouveau.
The season's coming up in 2-3 months, so stock up on your Pringles!
hhp
27 Aug 2003 — 2:01pm
Hrant, in Vincent's photo it looks like the regular flavor. Beaujolais Nouveau it is, then.
Vincent, I had my fill of the Fremont bridge too. Every time I was late for a meeting, the bridge seemed to know, and choose that moment to go up. Never failed, I tell you.
27 Aug 2003 — 2:06pm
Liverpool playing my Spurs.. right now.. 0-0...ManU v Wolves...Wolve are going back down...
Tv is Sony showing Fox baseball A's v BlueJays on NASN..(North American sports network).. Paul Allen owns it... thank god!
Wine is a ok Tesco Chianti (denominazione de origine controlatta e garantita) .. yes.. had some nice reds in Tuscany at the beginning of Aug.. Rather have a nice German or Seattle beer thought.
27 Aug 2003 — 2:28pm
yeh because some twat thought, oh I have... to move my little boat with BIG mast across the street.. Pringles are Original.. they say Crisps on them and 'savory snack' that word 'savory' is very English and bugs me... and the can is English.. but the website on it only has USA, Germany, Italy and Russia on it..!!!! What could there be on a Pringles website????
27 Aug 2003 — 2:37pm
I miss the Fremont Bridge :-( I'd take it any day over that engineering marvel the I-90 floating bridge I take to work every day.
But I'm sure both Meredith and yourself would agree that N. Seattle easily beats S. Seattle in terms of quantity and quality of bridges.
Si
27 Aug 2003 — 2:45pm
Yeh Si but I love driving over the Vauxhall bridge looking at the MI6 building better than being hit by the water from lake Washington...and slipping in the grooves of 590 Bridge..(shite did I forget it's name already?)
27 Aug 2003 — 3:27pm
Meredith: Wow! Thank you for posting that. I knew I wasn't the only one. You are quite brave. I didn't dare show the rest of my room, which is no better than the desk area. I can obviously relate to "maybe tomorrow."
aeolist: The other lamp contains action figures from "Attack of the Killer Tomatoes," hence the tomatoes in its mate. And, no, that's not a talking fish. It's carved and painted wood and I have no clue where I got it or why I have it.
I'm looking at all these pictures thinking, "I want big windows," and "I want big tables." Then I realize I'd have to wash the windows and big tables only provide more surface for clutter. However, my favorites are the hammock and the boat.
27 Aug 2003 — 3:50pm
Capt. Giampa,
"Just sit right back and you'll hear a tale,
A tale of a fateful trip
That started from this tropic port
Aboard this tiny ship.
The mate was a mighty sailing man,
The skipper brave and sure.
Five passengers set sail that day
For a three hour tour, a three hour tour.
The weather started getting rough,
The tiny ship was tossed,
If not for the courage of the fearless crew
The Minnow would be lost, the Minnow would be lost
The ship set ground on the shore of this uncharted desert isle
With Gilligan, The Skipper too,
The millionaire and his wife,
The movie star,
The professor and Mary Ann [and Typophile]
Here on Gilligan's Isle....
.......
David Hamuel
27 Aug 2003 — 4:02pm
Vincent Quote: "Well I was on the south hill in Queen Anne near Tower for a good 6 years or more.. can't wait to eat and see my friends at Uptown China near the Key arena.. after seeing so many bridges in London I HATE Fremont bridge.. My favourite London bridge is Vauxhall Bridge since it is where the MI6 and James Bond building is.. "
MI6 is real? Heh. I've been watching MI5 on A&E for the last couple weeks, and I've heard of MI5 before, but when they mentioned MI6 I was confused. Are there also MIs 1 through 4?
27 Aug 2003 — 4:08pm
David,
Thank you so very, very much for reminding me of that stupid song.
Now I'll have it stuck in my head for days. :-(
Oh, well. Did you know you can sing it to the tune of Amazing Grace?
27 Aug 2003 — 4:23pm
You can also sing "Amazing Grace" to the tune of the Mickey Mouse Club song. And many of Emily Dickinson's poems can be sung to the tune of "The Yellow Rose of Texas."
useless trivia,
Meredith
27 Aug 2003 — 4:39pm
Mark,
you're welcome!
by the way - during the first season - the second to last line was "and the rest" - since Dawn Wells & Russell Johanson didn't have it specified in their contracts that they would be credited up front with the rest of the cast.
[closing credits]
So this is the tale of the castaways......
David Hamuel
27 Aug 2003 — 4:55pm
Some little-know facts about the Castaways.
* The Professor was a mean Linotype operator...
before being shipwrecked.
* Mary Ann was one of the original Alphabettys.
* Ginger was Pierre Bezier's model for his first bezier curves.
* Gilligan was an intern at Photo Lettering.
* The Skipper worked at ITC and released more than 100
typefaces with obese x-heights, before that was fashionable.
* The Howells, they were rich, and had no connection
to the type industry.
file this in the "sorry, I couldn't resist, I'll regret it later" category.
bj
27 Aug 2003 — 5:20pm
I notice that Meredith also has an Aeron chair. Aren't they just the best chairs! No matter how messy your workspace gets, you can still smug 'Heh, I've got an Aeron chair'. (And yes, this may be the first use of smug as a verb.)
27 Aug 2003 — 6:06pm
Aerons are pretty great -- a lot of my RSI problems cleared up after getting it. Is yours blue, or is that the rug showing through? I got sandstone (brown), as my office has a wood-and-beige thing going on. Well, it does when it's clean, anyway.
And Patricia, don't sweat not having big tables. They don't solve the clutter problem -- they enable it. (cf. my office)
27 Aug 2003 — 7:10pm
My Aeron chair is black -- well, a kind of charcoal grey actually. It was the only colour in stock, but that's okay because everyone knows that if something is black it goes faster.
27 Aug 2003 — 8:17pm
Black makes things worth more, too.
28 Aug 2003 — 1:14am
OK David,
You signing on for the crossing or what?
Did you look at the ship that is not for sale.
http://www.lanstontype.com/HelsinkiShip.html
Gerald Giampa
28 Aug 2003 — 5:58am
BJ,
"sorry, I couldn't resist, I'll regret it later" (You bet you will)
Geezus, just what I hate, a bunch of landlubbers.
Probably you all wear umbrellas and galoshes when you take a shower. Enjoy your athlete's foot.
No more booze for you BJ, I'll be striking you off my yachting list.
Gerald Giampa
28 Aug 2003 — 6:37am
MI5 = FBI
MI6 (SIS) = CIA
nice pic of the MI6 building..
http://www.five.org.uk/security/mi6org/
28 Aug 2003 — 2:51pm
Beaujolais Nouveau:
Something I cant stomach.
Now this: http://www.wine.com/product/display.asp?PProduct_ID=BWNLAFITERD_2000&apl=Bordeaux&vrl=Red+Bordeaux
A WS 100? Are you kidding me?
I actually had the bottle of '95, a serious wine.
That is a real juice. ;)
If I had a little more money right now I would pick up that bottle. Gonna be worth some SERIOUS money in another decade.
hildebrant.
28 Aug 2003 — 5:19pm
> Something I cant stomach.
You have to be in the mood. Try it in Paris in November.
hhp
28 Aug 2003 — 5:52pm
don't really occupy one in particular very often, often its the sofa, the barstool, the cafe, the library...too much of a floater perhaps. but:
3 Sep 2003 — 9:08am
Aquatoad Worldwide, employees: 1
Here's the new headquarters.
BTW, that quilted wall hanging was
handmade by my grandmother.
She was a pretty hip lady.
Randy
3 Sep 2003 — 10:09am
My god, people, where do you put all your paper?!
;)
3 Sep 2003 — 10:53am
> You have to be in the mood. Try it in Paris in November
Your such a player Hhp. ;)
I still have never had a glass I would consider drinking by myself, and I have been to two or three of the celebrations.
hildebrant
3 Sep 2003 — 7:24pm
Here's the summer studio. Dial-up Internet only, but the apples are lovely.
3 Sep 2003 — 10:15pm
....and the letter A/Alef
David Hamuel
4 Sep 2003 — 11:08am
Well, here's another score for the PC users. I was going to wait until I cleaned, but that's not happening in the near future. It's not messy so much as it's just plain squalid.
4 Sep 2003 — 1:08pm
After I've cleaned it, my current studio looks remarkably similar to Nathan's living room (perhaps we are kindred spirits). My previous studio, however, had another type of charm. This photo is taken from the studio, looking East toward Mt. Baker, at about 6:00 in the morning during Summer. The strip of red/orange near the bottom is Haro Strait, which separates Vancouver Island from mainland Washington state and the province of British Columbia. I was encouraged to send this in after seeing John Hudson's beautiful studio view. No aeron chair, no apples, but loads of inspiration.
5 Sep 2003 — 5:42pm
As you can see, a bit of a fetish for steel...