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Look what I made
Cutting the sign on the Box Shop's CNC plasma cutter
Welding it all together
Cleaning up the sign mount. Hi Lou!
New sign mounted!
There is still work to be done to finish it, but it’s starting to look darn snappy!
Check out JWZ’s images of the sign raising
Lou and I raising the sign in place
The new sign at dusk
Put this on your calendar
Attention friends of NIMBY! Let’s have a BBQ!
Time Sunday, May 15 · 3:00pm – 10:00pm
Location 8410 Amelia Street Oakland CA 94621
Created By NIMBY
More Info
NIMBY would like to ring in the new build season and thank all of our supporters for their undying support.
Sunday May 15, 2011
Come on down and see what you have helped create. Check out the new space, see what’s new. Hear some music and meet some friends. We will fire up the grills and sling some meats and what nots. If you would like to bring some food, play some music or help out let us know. Your participation always makes a better event.
This is an event for those that have helped NIMBY out in the past and present. Because so many people have helped in so many different ways. No one email list can cover everyone. Please forward this to anyone that you think needs an invite and we will do the same.
Please RSVP to RSVP@nimbyspaceNOSPAM.org
West Oakland BART Station Sidewalk Construction
A lot of things struck me when I saw this scene last week:
Why has it taken 1.5 years to redo a 3 block length of roadway, all the while stealing parking spaces, rerouting traffic and somewhat blighting the neighborhood, traffic cones keeping people off the road and sidewalk.
What actually needed to get done that took all that time and money? I now see a slightly wider sidewalk (ripping up a perfectly fine one), a raised road divider, some bump-outs for traffic calming stealing a few parking spaces but helping pedestrians cross the road (I have never seen a car race down this road, traffic calming wasn’t needed), a new roadbed (the old roadbed looked fine), a few mounting holes for large something-or-anothers (look in the middle of the picture, I dunno what they are for), and some new pretty street lighting (the old lighting seemed reasonably ok when they kept bulbs in them).
Divisions between the concrete “panels” in sidewalks are all artificial, carved after the whole sidewalk is poured. So why do cracks tend to stop at the panel edges? That’s totally freaky!
Sidewalk finishing is an art. With just sticks and sheets of metal, they make the surface exactly the way they wanted it to be.
Wow.
The TED Talk “Handspring Puppet Company: The genius puppetry behind War Horse”
See the horse at about 9:20
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local version:
From TED, Ads Worth Spreading
For my money, it’s this Chrysler ad.
Chrysler Born Of Fire Eminem Super Bowl Commercial
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jJjMULMcS4k
local version:
Ugh, I haven’t been able to speak in a normal voice since Friday afternoon! Friday evening my voice got hoarse. I figured it was from teaching all week and maybe a bug. Daniel Bauen, my friend from Colossus came through town so I talked to him with my froggy voice. I really shouldn’t have. It hurt my throat to speak every time. Saturday morning I had no voice. I could whisper quietly but even that hurt a little so I generally refrained. On Sunday morning I was having a whispered conversation with Daniel in the kitchen. At one point he turned on the tap to get some water and I was unable to speak over the sound of running water, ugh.
Here we are Monday and I’m coughing up more phlem than ever and I still feel kinda sick. Not really sick but certainly under the weather. And I still can’t speak.
A friend of mine who works and lives in Berkeley injured her shoulder yesterday. She does not have health insurance. Can you recommend where she might go to have it looked at? And/or acupuncture…
Is a walk through the yellow pages the only reasonable way?
Beaner is selling her beautiful home in Monroe New Jersey and moving to sunny Florida! Darn, it’s right on a golf course, and she keeps the place impecably. The pictures in this little Flash video actually don’t do it justice. It really is a beautiful home, so you should live there!
Surprise! I went to Yosemite on Sunday with Binka’s relatives. It was pretty awesome.
We scrambled up to the base of El Capitan from the valley floor. It was maybe a 30 minute scramble over a mix of easy forest terrain, steep hills, and, giant steep boulders! It was pretty terrific.
Boulder Scramble, We're almost there!
Touching El Capitan
Looking up at El Capitan from the base