anyway, it has a top 10 list too (of course!) and because there aren’t that many people using the site, there was always the possibility that my meager running history would make it to the front page as it were. well, that day finally came as you can see below! (don’t ruin my glory by explaining that some algorithm pushes you off the list if you haven’t run in the last week – i realize this and i still celebrate dammit)

i also use the Nike+ iPod Nano thingy for calculating the distance and blah blah blah from my runs… it works pretty well and automates a lot of the process which is really nice. there’s a wordpress plugin which is what i have running in the sidebar – so good of Nike to have an API for this kind of stuff.

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my favorite piece was called “Opera for a Small Room” by Janet Cardiff & George Bures Miller. after doing a bit of digging on the internet, i can’t believe i was so unfamiliar with them… a wonderful surprise and a few books to add to my wishlist.

i’ll leave you with a picture of “Opera for a Small Room” from their website…

the rising tide of the parametric will swamp the lower end of our profession – thankfully, because all they do is collage readymades anyway.

the “collaging of readymades” idea is something i have been thinking about off and on for some time now. it’s something that, to some extent you have to do in the course of making architecture. it’s practically impossible to design everything. it’s usually not part of the scope of the project and when it is, it’s almost always cost prohibitive and makes maintenance a pain in the ass. i’m going to have to give some more thought to the counterpoints of standardization and mass customization, but he made some good points about the expeditious nature of assembling pieces that are not all the same. he said that Norman Foster told him once that you could never beat the efficiency of pressing out large quantities of the same piece; that that was the end of the discussion… however, if you can be more efficient in the assemblage, in the construction… perhaps you can beat out standardization. this was Mark’s point last night. of course, it doesn’t seem to be there yet considering the lengthy process of the project he was referencing and ultimately, the fact that it has not been realized.

a couple other interesting things that came up that i’ve only done the most cursory of investigations into…

* [hyposurface](http://www.hyposurface.org/) and some videos he showed of it in action from a biolab symposium i think
* [springy thingy](http://web.mit.edu/kkdb/www/newhome/processing/springy-code.html) processing application straight to 3D print… how? research.
* [maison de verre](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maison_de_Verre)
* [borromean knot or rings](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Borromean_rings) ( references to [Lacan discussing Joyce and the sinthome](http://web.missouri.edu/~stonej/) or 4th ring )
* [voronoi diagrams](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Voronoi_diagram) and [tools to create them](http://www.cs.cornell.edu/Info/People/chew/Delaunay.html)

innovation in design… the craziness of dubai and the push toward mass customization.

TELNET The curl telnet support is basic and very easy to use. Curl passes all data passed to it on stdin to the remote server. Connect to a remote telnet server using a command line similar to: curl telnet://remote.server.com And enter the data to pass to the server on stdin. The result will be sent to stdout or to the file you specify with -o.

i will have to try it out…

wow… this sounds awesome. i’m not sure why, but it does.

he’s also the mastermind behind the Winnebiko and BEHEMOTH projects that stretch back into the early days of his work where i found this little page about how he got started and what he was doing at the time that led to that…

Way back in 1983, I was doing what most struggling young freelancers do: taking on a succession of projects, destroying old passions by turning them into businesses, and trying to make enough money to stay afloat. [ ... ] Where had all my passions gone? One afternoon I listed them: writing, adventure, computer design, ham radio, bicycling, romance, learning, networking, publishing… each of these things had at one time or another kept me up all night in a delicious frenzy of fun and giddy intellectual growth. [ ... ] Combining the passions in my list and abandoning all “rational thought,” the obvious solution was to simply equip a recumbent bicycle with ham radio and computer gear, establish a virtual home in the nascent online networks, and travel full-time while writing and consulting for a living.

i don’t know about you, but that sounds like the life!