| | 1st Anniversary, Studio 60, and Moebius Gail & I have been musing over what to put in front of our fireplace for a few weeks. When I saw this daybed, I was surprised to instantly remember it from an architecture slide I had to memorize years back. The Barcelona Daybed. A classic by the architect Mies Van Der Rohe. designed in the mid '20's specifically for the display in the Barcelona Pavilion in an exhibit that no less founded the modern movement in architecture. I find it amusing that he designed furniture specifically for the exhibit (you could say as an afterthought) and that simple afterthought even revolutionized the furniture design world. Gail instantly loved it in ways less verbal and more visual and tactile. This was our 1st year anniversary gift to one another.
I have been daydreaming lately and have already researched, contemplated, and formulated my lawncare schedule for the entire coming year (growing season - as we lawn guys call it). For those of you south of Little Rock, you need to apply your preemergent crabgrass preventer some time this month. This keeps the most pesky of grassy weeds from ever even showing up all year. If you want an easy and safe way to really take care of your lawn, go to www.scotts.com and answer 3 questions and follow their Yearly Program.
Studio 60 is a good TV show. If you liked The West Wing, you'll like this (same original writing staff, and several carryover actors). I'm playing some "classic" video games including 1993's Syndicate, 2000's Deus Ex, and 2002's Thief II. I can't tell you how gratifying it is as a gamer to come back to the games that kicked your butt when you were younger, and then pwn them because you have simply gotten smarter and faster. It's one of the only things in life that lets you come back and redo things now that you have grown up. And it boot up and looks exactly as it did 14 years ago.
Speaking of...this is an interesting story. When I was eight years old through when I was 11 years old my brother Matt got me hooked on my first video game. It was a Commodore 64 title called "Moebius". It was a ninja runs around and kills people and has an adventure game. Only as a child, it was my "Lord of the Rings" if you will. I read the manual literally every week, and it was written as a sensei to a student in the first person. Anyhoo, it was a very complex game, and I SUCKED at it. You had to find water and food and not get killed by enemies, and I died in every way imaginable. Well three months ago I FOUND the game online as part of an emulator (program that lets old games play in Windows). So I gleefully fired it up! And I mean I racked up on food and water, and none of the bad guys could even TOUCH me. I couldn't believe how easy it was! I decided to track down the guy that wrote the program and give him a "Thanks for making Moebius" letter and let him know that the game got me drawing ninja stuff 24/7 which led to me becoming good at drawing, which led me want to be an artist and then an architect. So in the process I find out how good of a Google-stalker I can be and found him currently as a middle school computer science teacher in Arizona--and my email was on the way. He was blown away, and we have exchanged a few emails since. It's funny because I still have this kneejerk reaction of being scared of the things that always killed me in the game, like "Oh crap, a wild tiger is after me! What do I do?!" and then I realize how simple it is to press one key and dispatch the danger. It's a really weird feeling having a completely unfounded fear come at you from two decades ago. Here is a picture of the box art that I tried to copy by drawing about 3 times a week--back in the day.
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