"By experience we find out a short way by a long wandering."
--Roger Ascham

11.13.2004

Kick ass: An unlicensed teenager who's seen too many action movies tries to flee a hit-and-run scene, only to meet up with some concrete company employees who've seen too many action movies... and have big trucks. Awesome.

(courtesy of FARK)

11.11.2004

I know I seem indiscriminate when it comes to movies (and I really am), but I just watched Mean Girls and really liked it. Tina Fey's screenplay totally caught the essence of high school life and the message was nice even though it strayed slightly into the cheese-zone. All of the SNL bit parts were so fab (the permissive boob job mom, the clueless parents, etc).
Maybe I was especially connected to the storyline because some of us can relate to having middle school lesbian rumors dog us through high school (and some of us can still feel the undying hatred for some of the perpetrators.) I'm not saying it was me, but... okay, we all know it was me.

11.09.2004

I'm a big fan of compact, novel living spaces, but the snail shell system takes it a little too far.
"Fixed to this is a box which contains equipment for cooking, a container for drinking water, a torch, a sponge for removal of condensed water, and a tube which can be fixed to the bilge pump. When the box is emptied of these items, plastic bags can be fixed to the box, which then functions as a toilet seat."

When you say "just remove all the stuff from your equipment box and it can double as a toilet", I say "sir, you've gone too far." Give me a loft cube any day.

(link via j-walk)

Update: hold the phone, this guy has more. Apparently he went a little crazy in the plastic tubs department at lowe's and started an "inventing" hobby. He also has no problem with dual-functionality-- even if one of the functions is going potty. Personally, I'll use things for double duty, but a toilet is a toilet.

Bar Mobile--I guess the passenger-seat-toilet is only popular after many, many drinks have been distributed.

The space frame looks a little more habitable than the snail shell, but this one is for a family.... not my family.

Oooooh, no- the hygeine tubs take the cake (and look at the dude using it!!)
(scroll to the bottom, too-- hygeine discotheque!)

I was wondering where the double-duty toilet was for the space frame, but I think a hygeine tub will do.