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I haven't updated this Tumblr in so long that now-defunct (RIP) streaming music service Rdio was in my profile, and now I'm back, baby!

Please enjoy this photo of a road to an airport in Colorado from earlier this year. Or don't. I don't know what you're into.

#volver #return #colorado

The warmest heart from the Ocean's coldest depths. #humpback by Christopher.Michel http://flic.kr/p/MGyi8u

#nature #whale

mcmansionhell

McMansions 101: What Makes a McMansion Bad Architecture?

Sometimes people ask, why is xyz house bad? Asking this question does not imply that the asker has bad taste or no taste whatsoever - it means that they are simply not educated in basic architectural concepts. In this post, I will introduce basic architectural concepts and explain why not all suburban/exurban/residential houses are McMansions, as well as what makes a McMansion especially hideous.

Disclaimer: These same principles do not always apply to Modernist or even canonically Postmodern architecture. These principles are for the classical or traditional architecture most residential homes are modeled after.

Design Principle #1: Masses & Voids

The mass is the largest portion of a building. Individual masses become interesting when they are combined together to form a façade. The arrangement of these shapes to create weight is called massing. As the pieces are combined, they are divided into categories: primary and secondary masses (1).

The primary mass is the largest shape in the building block. The secondary masses are the additional shapes that form the façade of a building.

Windows, doors, or other openings are called voids. Voids allow creation of negative space that allow for breaks within masses. Placing voids that allow for natural breaks in the mass create balance and rhythm across the building’s elevation.

The secondary masses should never compete with the primary mass. For example: an oversized projected entry or portico (secondary mass) will overwhelm the house (primary mass) behind it. The McMansion has no concept of mass. McMansions often have so many secondary masses that the primary mass is reduced to a role of filling in gaps between the secondary masses. An example:

Another issue with McMansions and mass is the use of too many voids. Some McMansions are so guilty of this they resemble swiss cheese in appearance. In the below example, the masses are so pockmarked with voids, they give the façade an overall appearance of emptiness.

Design Principle #2: Balance

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remainders

Interesting - and explains exactly *why* some McMansions (and McWhatevers) just look wrong.

jillianholtzmann

”Yes, this is the closest character to my actual self that I’ve ever played”- Kate McKinnon

digg

reminder: you’re your own god and everyone should worship u

remainders

I love her so. I thought I’d be all about Kate McKinnon for Ghostbusters but really I need to see this for Leslie Jones.

hthrrloooo

Nothing would be done at all if a man waited until he could do it so well that no one could find fault with it.

Cardinal Newman (via hthrloo)

I need this tattooed to the inside of my eyelids, and written on my bathroom mirror.

(via internationalorange)

1010ll

remainders

Cow smoochies!

thecommonchick

this is the cutest vine ever 😍😩

remainders

I cannot resist the cute it burns

angryoldcoot

Here is the deal, friends:

White police officers are murdering black citizens.

Full stop.

Here is the other deal:

Every time – every single time – this happens (and the fact that it has happened more than once, and keeps happening, and will happen again, fills me with unending shame at the state of my nation), police officers en masse clam up. Not a word is said.

Let me restate this in an effort to bring the point home:

A group of professionals have obvious murderers in their midst – murderers caught on video, no less – and this group of professionals is making a concerted effort, through their silence, to protect these individuals who, let me say this again, are murderers. Show me another profession where this is allowed to stand. I dare you.

So, let me say this, then:

If you are an officer of the law, and in particular, if you are a white officer of the law - because, let us not kid ourselves that these murders are anything other than a deadly manifestation of institutional racism – then it is incumbent upon you to speak up, to condemn these murders and these murderers. Say “not all police” all you like, the fact remains that expecting citizens to trust the police, when those same police, who are sworn to uphold the law, do nothing in the face of obvious and heinous crimes committed by those with whom they share a uniform, is ludicrous at best.

I cannot trust the police, I will not trust the police, until they show me through words and deeds that they place more value on the laws of the land and the citizens they are sworn to protect than they do on the relationships they have with their co-workers and the murderers they currently harbor.

I know there are literally thousands, tens of thousands, of good police – even good white police - in this country. But their silence is as much a problem as the actions of the murderers on their forces. I struggle with what I can do to help – and my next steps are to research and discover exactly what it is possible for me to do – but those who can help most are, without question, the good police out there.

Right now, when a white officer murders a black citizen, that officer can count on a network of support that will help scrub their sin clean. So, good cops: Take that away. Clean your house. With prejudice. When you stay silent, when you allow these crimes to stand, you let these murderers stain you and everyone else who wears a badge with the blood they spilled. You can change that, you can regain the trust of citizens, but you have to earn it with words, earn it with deeds, earn it with actions.

I want to trust the police. I think we all do. So, please, all you good cops out there, please help us. We need you more than ever to be the heroes you are, to serve and protect, even when the one you’re protecting us from is one of your own.

mightyflynn

Baseball fits America so well because it embodies the interplay of individual and group that we so love, and because it expresses our longing for the rule of law while licensing our resentment of law givers.

A. Bartlett Giamatti (“Baseball and the American Character,” Harpers, October 1986) (via mightyflynn, mightyflynn)

nevver

Tastes great, less filling

Gorgeous gorgeous gorgeous pride.

#pride

noobtheloser

The end of an era. :’) More on Webtoons. More on Reddit.

blindbee

avodaco

me when i get my student loan

g8dtier

this is the money cat. reblog in 30 seconds and you will find yourself with more wealth

strikercorbie

#this is the only money cat i will reblog because it’s actually doing the manekineko pose151,646 notes (via lolwhutninja)

OMG YOU’RE RIGHT

nonespark-blog

and it has its right paw up! the correct paw for this. and from the markings on its ears, it looks like it might be a calico cat. which is the luckiest kind!

carrionbeast

extremely lucky cat

ladynorbert

I don’t even care if it actually works, I’m mostly reblogging because it’s freaking adorable.

sweet-cherry-fairy-deactivated2

cute cat and need money, good post, 10/10

allthenamesilikearetaken

in case anyones interested in the other versions

http://www.namaii.com/manekineko/maneki-neko-types.html

mmusclechan

Y’know I reblogged this a bit ago and was saved from financial probation and getting kicked out of school because of it, just mere months from graduation. Got a call from the financial aid advisor telling me that they made a mistake with filing my account (or some other sort of clerical error) and said that, basically, they owe me money. Welp.

winjennster

Last time I reblogged the money cat, I won two $100 gift cards at work.

remainders

I'm just reblogging because the cat has a coin ON ITS PAW. Magicks!

samleeuhl

Spread the word.

oldmanyellsatcloud

If you were an Arizona voter who ran into this issue, you can lodge a complaint here. Which, ideally, will help. One hopes.

invisiblelad

Immigrants are applying to become naturalized U.S. citizens at unprecedented rates, the New York Times reports, largely in response to Donald Trump. The pace of applications is gathering speed weekly: There could be as many as a million by the end of 2016—about 200,000 more than the average.

I couldn’t go to bed before I posted this