I first encountered Design Within Reach when I passed their store in San Francisco. Most of their stock is not priced within my reach, but I still enjoy checking out their catalog, seeing what I like and what I don't.
For a mere $3998 (not including s&h, but oh hey, there's an installment plan), you too could own an All-Weather Foosball Table complete with drink holders. (Just remember to stick it in your house if you get behind on the payments.)
I don't really care for it, and I think having all the players the same color would make it harder to keep track of the ball, but it does appeal to part of me: the part that likes to play games and be outside. Make it a pool table, and I'm in.
tags: DWR, Design+Within+Reach, All-Weather+Foosball+Table
23 May 2006
22 May 2006
Close call
I was in the middle of some research when I heard:
Tap, tap, tap.
Hmm, I wonder what mom or dad is doing. I scanned down the page I was on and flipped to the next. I guess it could be a door knock, but it doesn't sound like the front door. If they were trying to get my attention, they'd also call my name.
Tap, tap, tap.
Maybe it is someone knocking, but if it is the door, mom or dad would get it anyway. The garage door hasn't gone up yet.
That's when I remembered their car was parked outside, so they were probably already gone. I walked into my bathroom to peer through the 2nd story window to see if anyone was at the door. Two men were walking down the steps towards the driveway. There was still time to catch them, but they didn't look like servicemen of any kind, and I didn't recognize them.
I went to another window and saw them walking up the street. I ducked back so I wouldn't be seen and then eased forward to get a better look at them. One was a clean-cut man wearing slacks with a dark suit jacket, carrying a black briefcase. The other was a younger man wearing slacks and a grey sweater with a patterned stripe across his chest; he held a book in his left hand, a chunky black book if you know what I mean.
I resumed my research.
tag: anecdote
Tap, tap, tap.
Hmm, I wonder what mom or dad is doing. I scanned down the page I was on and flipped to the next. I guess it could be a door knock, but it doesn't sound like the front door. If they were trying to get my attention, they'd also call my name.
Tap, tap, tap.
Maybe it is someone knocking, but if it is the door, mom or dad would get it anyway. The garage door hasn't gone up yet.
That's when I remembered their car was parked outside, so they were probably already gone. I walked into my bathroom to peer through the 2nd story window to see if anyone was at the door. Two men were walking down the steps towards the driveway. There was still time to catch them, but they didn't look like servicemen of any kind, and I didn't recognize them.
I went to another window and saw them walking up the street. I ducked back so I wouldn't be seen and then eased forward to get a better look at them. One was a clean-cut man wearing slacks with a dark suit jacket, carrying a black briefcase. The other was a younger man wearing slacks and a grey sweater with a patterned stripe across his chest; he held a book in his left hand, a chunky black book if you know what I mean.
I resumed my research.
tag: anecdote
19 May 2006
Rereading
I don't often reread books. It's just not something I regularly do, but lately, I've been looking to my shelves for familiarity. Books that I've read that I also own I wouldn't keep if the experience of reading it hadn't affected me in some meaningful way. Sometimes it confirms something that I know to be true; others entertain, instruct, or reassure; and some inspire.
15. Griffin & Sabine by Nick Bantok (4/5)
16. Sabine's Notebook by Nick Bantok (4/5)
17. The Golden Mean by Nick Bantok (4/5)
These are books I wish I'd written and drawn. I feel so disconnected from my art these days as though long ago it was vanquished and drawn from my body never to return. And yet flickers of inspiration sometimes return, not quite enough to compel me to draw or to paint but enough to make me think about it. Maybe like some of the worst demons on Charmed, some things can never truly be vanquished.
As for Bantok's Griffin & Sabine series, I wonder how these books will hold up over time as postcards and letters become more and more a thing of the past. I can only hope that they remind or reveal to people the lovely tangibility and expressiveness of a piece of hand-prepared mail.
tags: Griffin+&+Sabine, Nick+Bantok, books, reading, Sabine's+Notebook, The+Golden+Mean
15. Griffin & Sabine by Nick Bantok (4/5)
16. Sabine's Notebook by Nick Bantok (4/5)
17. The Golden Mean by Nick Bantok (4/5)
These are books I wish I'd written and drawn. I feel so disconnected from my art these days as though long ago it was vanquished and drawn from my body never to return. And yet flickers of inspiration sometimes return, not quite enough to compel me to draw or to paint but enough to make me think about it. Maybe like some of the worst demons on Charmed, some things can never truly be vanquished.
As for Bantok's Griffin & Sabine series, I wonder how these books will hold up over time as postcards and letters become more and more a thing of the past. I can only hope that they remind or reveal to people the lovely tangibility and expressiveness of a piece of hand-prepared mail.
tags: Griffin+&+Sabine, Nick+Bantok, books, reading, Sabine's+Notebook, The+Golden+Mean
18 May 2006
Veronica gets to go to college
In an otherwise grim week of feeling sick, I am very happy to find that Veronica Mars has officially made the CW cut for a third season.
tags: Veronica+Mars, The+CW
tags: Veronica+Mars, The+CW
Anyone else?
Maybe it's just because I'm still feeling a bit nauseated, but I think that's only exacerbating my reaction as opposed to its root cause. Namely, that disgusting new concoction advertised every five minutes by KFC. The one with mashed potatoes, corn, chicken bits, gravy, and 3 cheeses (for the love of blog, cheese!) all in one serving.
I've started turning the sound off when it comes on because it just makes me feel sicker.
tag: KFC
I've started turning the sound off when it comes on because it just makes me feel sicker.
tag: KFC
Nurture, nature, nurture- grok?
14. Stranger in a Strange Land by Robert Heinlein (4/5)
If you've ever encountered the word "grok" on the internet and wondered about its origin, this book is it. Written over 4 decades ago, it still gives a compelling 'outsider's' view of human culture. Good stuff.
tags: Stranger+in+a+Strange+Land, Robert+Heinlein, grok, books
If you've ever encountered the word "grok" on the internet and wondered about its origin, this book is it. Written over 4 decades ago, it still gives a compelling 'outsider's' view of human culture. Good stuff.
tags: Stranger+in+a+Strange+Land, Robert+Heinlein, grok, books
15 May 2006
OK, I cave
Not food poisoning, just sick. Not massively so, but enough to feel totally useless. All I'm accomplishing now is driving up the price of Canada Dry stock. Blah.
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