Make fog for fun.

Redo, redo, redo all!

Out of control lists:

Gorse and pampas grass, poison hemlock and yellow star thistle, Scotch broom and German ivy, red-apple aptenia and blue-gum eucalyptus

giant thistle cardoon, and fennel

broom, pampas grass (both the Cortaderia jubata evildoer and the less-invasive C. selloana), fountaingrass, water hyacinth

Reasons...

Another article and web sites

-- Ailanthus altissima (tree of heaven);

-- Arundo donax (giant reed);

-- Centaurea melitensis (tocalote);

-- Cirsium vulgare (bull thistle);

-- Cortaderia jubata (jubata grass, miscalled pampas grass);

-- Senecio mikanioides (cape ivy);

-- Spartium junceum (Spanish broom);

-- Tamarix chinensis, T. gallica, T. parviflora, T. ramosissima (tamarisk, salt cedar).

-- Red-apple aptenia (Aptenia cordifolia);

-- Licorice plant (Helichrysum petiolare) -- these two are not widespread, yet, but show potential;

-- Pennyroyal (near wetlands);

-- Water hyacinth, parrot's feather, and elodea or anacharis if you're next to fresh water;

-- Periwinkle (Vinca major);

-- Capeweed (Arctotheca calendula);

-- Cape or German ivy (Delaira odorata or Senecio mikanioides);

-- English ivy (good old Hedera helix);

-- Ox-eye daisy, or marguerite;

-- Foxglove (if you're near a damp area or stream);

-- Purple loosestrife -- illegal to sell in some states;

-- Fennel;

-- Woolly mullein;

-- Fountaingrass (Pennisetum setaceum);

-- Pampas grass;

-- Broom of all sorts;

-- Gorse;

-- Tamarisk;

-- Myoporum;

-- Russian olive;

-- Ailanthus;

-- Blue gum eucalyptus;

Some criticize the neighbors for moving walls on a daily basis, going through contractors one, two, three and making the price of construction go from $400,000 to $1.3 million.

Paradox. Architects create space, all of it empty at one time. There is no future in storage. Yet, these words are stored.

Julia Morgan threw her drawings away on retirement, not before. So when she was looking for something in her last years, no problem. It was already gone.

And more on Kennedy Center

Ed Stone arranged to pick Jackie's favorite colors for presentation.

Practice issue. Never allow anyone to broker the architect to the client. For example, an Australian that's been around the client about a month calls up and says, "What have you been doing on the client's job? Tell me, and I'll tell the client."

Architect should say "Nothing doing," and contact client directly, not through broker, ending professional relationship at this point, if necessary. Broker will always find architect wrong.

The catenary is the locus of the focus of a parabola rolling along a straight line.

CATENARY (from Lat. catena, a chain), in mathematics, the curve assumed by a uniform chain or string hanging freely between two supports. It was investigated by Galileo, who erroneously determined it to be a parabola; Jungius detected Galileo’s error, but the true form was not discovered until 1691, when James Bernoulli published it as a problem in the Ada Erudiorum. Bernoulli also considered the cases when (I) the chain was of variable density, (2) extensible, (3) acted upon at each point by a force directed to a fixed centre. These curves attracted much attention and were discussed by John Bernoulli, Leibnitz, Huygens, David Gregory and others.

Signs...

Examples of depression practice...

depression architecture practice...

Seen on the lamppost.

There are some fancy chemicals available, but for all practical purposes out of reach. Back to basics. It's quite possible the oil in the floor is irremediable, and flooring simply has to be replaced.

Oil spill cleanup seems to be the problem with a former printing company floor that will not clean. Technique now involves applying a combination of odorless paint thinner, laundry soda and Pine Sol in hot water with damp mop. Oily gunk rises to surface in a milky emulsion. Rinse black gunk from mop repeatedly. Dry with paper towel (or other cellulose product). Result is sticky, black floor. Don't know if this is an improvement.

Jennifer Kretschmer, Associate AIA, wrote this study page and link to questions for general structures.

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Make something beautiful by design.

Anti-matter disposition.