Monday, April 28, 2008
mini canon!
check this thing out! this is a small iron/steel(?) canon that is made to fire little blackcat firecrackers. you put them in with the wick first so it comes out a little hole in the back and then you light it and they explode and the shreds FLY out the front. I dont remember blackcats being that loud but I think this thing REALLY amplifies the sound because it made my ears ring on the initial test fire.... im thinking also that if i cut doen a blackcat to half length, a nice 10mm ball bearing will fit in the front and this will actually be a miniature canon that fires a projectile!
Wednesday, April 23, 2008
stupid clone buildings
ok this was originally going to start as an update to teh new building being built over by southdale as they are nearing completion...
here it is:
now, i noticed something about this building that i have noticed on some other buildings in the area... the use of that tan sandstone color walls. i wrote down a list of all the buildings that have been built in the past 5-10 years around here and the list was quite long. i plotted them out all on a map of the area and realized that they are ALL within a half mile of each other. the other day i was out driving and decided to check out some of them in detail and this is what made me notice the striking simmilarities of all these sandstone buildings...
first, here is the map of all the buildings below:
look at how close they are to eachother!!!!
anyways here is the gallery of all the same colored buildings. this is absolutely retarded. even the windows match style on damn near every one of these buildings!!!!
best buy headquarters... not how they used the slightly "unfinished" color look on some of the upper floors? that is repeated many times below:
NEW (past few months) hilton hotel (youd think theyd want to stand out a little from all the other buildings for being a hotel for christs sake!):
express scripts building:
NEW (past month) office building across the highway from express scripts, using that oh-so-clever unfinished look as if they conviniently "forgot" to color the sandstone beams on one side of the building:
tria center (across the god damn STREET from the new hilton!):
centennial lakes office park (there are 4 more JUST like this surrounding a lake in back):
building across the highway from the new hilton using that same "we-didnt-care-about-finishing-the-top-few-stories" mis-matched sandstone bullshit:
this one is being built in the SAME FRIGGIN BLOCK as the one above!!!!:
and then i just drove by this one on france where general cinema at centennial lakes used to be... see that tan slab??? thats MORE OF THE SAME GOD DAMN STUFF!!!!!!!!!! this ones going to look just like the rest!!!!
holy christ! didnt they teach anything else in architecture class around here? or did the contractor for all of these buildings drop out after learning the first sandstone lesson? this is just pure stupidity! You can LITERALLY find a point in teh city where if you stand on it, you can actually see EVERY FUCKING ONE of these buildings with only having to turn your head SLIGHTLY from side to side!!!gah, im done.
here it is:
now, i noticed something about this building that i have noticed on some other buildings in the area... the use of that tan sandstone color walls. i wrote down a list of all the buildings that have been built in the past 5-10 years around here and the list was quite long. i plotted them out all on a map of the area and realized that they are ALL within a half mile of each other. the other day i was out driving and decided to check out some of them in detail and this is what made me notice the striking simmilarities of all these sandstone buildings...
first, here is the map of all the buildings below:
look at how close they are to eachother!!!!
anyways here is the gallery of all the same colored buildings. this is absolutely retarded. even the windows match style on damn near every one of these buildings!!!!
best buy headquarters... not how they used the slightly "unfinished" color look on some of the upper floors? that is repeated many times below:
NEW (past few months) hilton hotel (youd think theyd want to stand out a little from all the other buildings for being a hotel for christs sake!):
express scripts building:
NEW (past month) office building across the highway from express scripts, using that oh-so-clever unfinished look as if they conviniently "forgot" to color the sandstone beams on one side of the building:
tria center (across the god damn STREET from the new hilton!):
centennial lakes office park (there are 4 more JUST like this surrounding a lake in back):
building across the highway from the new hilton using that same "we-didnt-care-about-finishing-the-top-few-stories" mis-matched sandstone bullshit:
this one is being built in the SAME FRIGGIN BLOCK as the one above!!!!:
and then i just drove by this one on france where general cinema at centennial lakes used to be... see that tan slab??? thats MORE OF THE SAME GOD DAMN STUFF!!!!!!!!!! this ones going to look just like the rest!!!!
holy christ! didnt they teach anything else in architecture class around here? or did the contractor for all of these buildings drop out after learning the first sandstone lesson? this is just pure stupidity! You can LITERALLY find a point in teh city where if you stand on it, you can actually see EVERY FUCKING ONE of these buildings with only having to turn your head SLIGHTLY from side to side!!!gah, im done.
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