MICHHAWK wrote: ↑Mon Mar 20, 2023 12:53 pm
i may be wrong. but i suspect all nhl teams play both national anthems before every game. i know the red wings do.
my 3 year old grandbaby was singing the national anthem this past saturday. the daycare she goes to has the children sing the national anthem and say the pledge of allegiance every single morning. god bless them for that.
The Red Wings do? Even if they aren't playing a Canadian team? You sure about that?
Didn't used to be that way.
Re: Totally random thread
Posted: Mon Mar 20, 2023 2:45 pm
by KUTradition
gotta love indoctrination
Re: Totally random thread
Posted: Mon Mar 20, 2023 7:16 pm
by Shirley
KUTradition wrote: ↑Mon Mar 20, 2023 2:45 pm
gotta love grooming.
^^^
It's different when they do it.
Re: Totally random thread
Posted: Mon Mar 20, 2023 8:51 pm
by japhy
Now I know they are doing big things in Hooterville, they are proposing an outdoor mall! But this could be really BIG on the KU campus.
KU School of Architecture & Design announces appointment of Bjarke Ingels Group to complete space planning and design
WED, 03/08/23
LAWRENCE — The University of Kansas School of Architecture & Design has announced that it has retained Bjarke Ingels Group (BIG) to complete space planning, programming, and concept design for the multidisciplinary design school.
After a decade of increasing enrollment numbers and expanded program offerings, the school is working to transform its facilities to accommodate recent growth and upgrade academic spaces in alignment with KU's 2024 Master Plan. BIG architects are assisting school and university stakeholders to develop design strategies that will allow for program growth while also enhancing spatial and disciplinary connections between academic programs. By taking advantage of existing facility strengths in the heart of KU’s Lawrence campus, BIG will develop a plan that visualizes a redesigned home for the school that respects the established character of the site while also being optimized for innovative teaching and research.
“Our two departments have long had a special place on Jayhawk Boulevard. BIG’s response to our facility needs will celebrate this rich history while also helping us to envision new opportunities to teach and support students,” said Mahbub Rashid, dean of the school. “Their team’s enthusiasm for the project, the firm’s record of forward-thinking design excellence and commitment to an inclusive, equitable and sustainable future makes them a perfect partner for us.”
The KU School of Architecture & Design is a professional design school offering undergraduate and graduate programs in architecture, interior architecture and design. The school currently occupies several large buildings in the historic district of KU’s Lawrence campus and has additional facilities on and off campus in the area. Two adjacent buildings – Marvin and Chalmers halls – hold the majority of academic, research, administrative and faculty office spaces; additional buildings house academic space and specialized research and fabrication labs. This configuration — which is in large part due to the legacy of the architecture and design departments being housed in separate schools prior to the 2009 unification of KU professional design programs into one unit — has been a successful response to changing space needs thus far. And building renovations have created new facility strengths. The need for increased space will allow for the development of enhanced physical connections between academic programs, multidisciplinary labs and student support services.
"For an architect, each project is kicked off with a crash course seeking to educate ourselves in an entirely new field, because we rarely design for other architects (they tend to do that themselves). In this case – with our first design for a school of architecture and design – I feel like I have been preparing for this on a daily basis for the last three decades,” said BIG founder and creative director Bjarke Ingels, who enrolled in the Royal Danish Academy of Arts School of Architecture and Design in 1993. “We want to create the physical framework for future generations of Kansas form-givers, architects and designers – a space that provokes unexpected encounters, triggers critical conversations and builds new bridges between discourses and skill sets, arts, crafts and technologies. The design work is just about to begin, even if my research for it started a generation ago.”
Founded in 2005, Bjarke Ingels Group (BIG) is based in Copenhagen and New York City and has offices in London, Barcelona and Shenzhen. This year, it will add another office in Los Angeles. BIG’s practice includes architecture, planning, landscape, urbanism, interior design, product design, research and development. It has completed a variety of education environments around the world. Recent academic projects include the Claremont McKenna Integrated Science Building and Campus Masterplan, Isenberg School of Management at the University of Massachusetts-Amherst, Johns Hopkins Student Center in Baltimore and Glasir College in Torshavn, Faroe Islands. BIG also designed the 1.2-square-mile Google Bay View Campus, which uses a large canopy to regulate light, climate, air quality and sound.
On March 9-10, architects from BIG’s project team will be on the KU campus to study existing facilities and conduct workshops with stakeholders. At 1 p.m. March 10 in The Forum at Marvin Hall, architects will host a public presentation and Q&A session. The presentation will also be livestreamed and recorded. Upcoming event details and project updates will be posted on this webpage.
On April 13-14, BIG will present analysis and initial concepts to KU leaders and the School of Architecture & Design Professional Advisory Board. In June, BIG will present completed project documents and renderings.
BIG was chosen from a group of four architecture firms that presented proposals to a selection committee made up of school and university leadership in January. The finalist teams were selected from a group of national and international firms who responded to a call for submissions drafted by Rashid with help from a taskforce composed of design industry leaders who also assisted in developing a set of evaluation criteria.
I worked on a BIG project a few years ago, the "Googleplex" as it was known at concept stage, now it is called Google Bay View Campus. Here is a documentary on Bjarke Ingels, his work is interesting. If the KU School of Architecture and Design pulls this off it would be quite a coup.
Re: Totally random thread
Posted: Tue Mar 21, 2023 2:23 pm
by ousdahl
man
so I took two guitars to a reputable luthier (guitar technician) for some basic tune-up sort of work, plus to install an upgraded part on the cheaper of the two.
They said they would call within a couple days with a quote for the work to be done before doing it, then about a week and a half turnaround to get it all done. Ok, that works.
two weeks go by and I don't hear anything. I called at the end of last week, and they said, "yea sorry, haven't gotten to it yet, but we'll give you a call with the quote within the next couple days."
Finally, just get a call today. "Hi, is this Ousdahl? Yeah, guitar guy here, just calling to say I actually completed the work on your guitars last week, and just finally getting around to calling you about it to come get them."
what? I thought you were gonna call with a quote before doing the work. What work did you do?
Well, I installed the one new part you requested, plus another second new part you didn't request, on the more expensive of the two guitars. Plus I did the basic tune-up on some other totally random guitar."
What?! That totally random guitar is not mine. I asked for a tune-up and one new part on the other cheaper guitar that IS mine, plus a tune-up but not any new parts on the more expensive one cuz it's an expensive one that already had the nice parts.
"what?"
WHAT!
"Hang on Mr. Ousdahl sir, I'm gonna have to call you back..."
Re: Totally random thread
Posted: Tue Mar 21, 2023 2:36 pm
by MICHHAWK
luthier?!?
only you could make guitaring uncool. do you play new age music. do you play in an enya cover band.
Re: Totally random thread
Posted: Tue Mar 21, 2023 2:39 pm
by ousdahl
yea.
by now you've probably heard my hit album, Pure Moods.
so I took two guitars to a reputable luthier (guitar technician) for some basic tune-up sort of work, plus to install an upgraded part on the cheaper of the two.
They said they would call within a couple days with a quote for the work to be done before doing it, then about a week and a half turnaround to get it all done. Ok, that works.
two weeks go by and I don't hear anything. I called at the end of last week, and they said, "yea sorry, haven't gotten to it yet, but we'll give you a call with the quote within the next couple days."
Finally, just get a call today. "Hi, is this Ousdahl? Yeah, guitar guy here, just calling to say I actually completed the work on your guitars last week, and just finally getting around to calling you about it to come get them."
what? I thought you were gonna call with a quote before doing the work. What work did you do?
Well, I installed the one new part you requested, plus another second new part you didn't request, on the more expensive of the two guitars. Plus I did the basic tune-up on some other totally random guitar."
What?! That totally random guitar is not mine. I asked for a tune-up and one new part on the other cheaper guitar that IS mine, plus a tune-up but not any new parts on the more expensive one cuz it's an expensive one that already had the nice parts.
"what?"
WHAT!
"Hang on Mr. Ousdahl sir, I'm gonna have to call you back..."
I called him last week and asked him to upgrade my guitar and put it on Mr Ousdahl's tab. He said sure will Mr 99.
Re: Totally random thread
Posted: Tue Mar 21, 2023 2:48 pm
by ousdahl
Lol.
Actually, the totally random guitar was an even fancier high end brand than my two are
so for a split second, I thought about just rolling with it like, yeeeeah sure, I’ll come pick that totally random expensive ass guitar and just roll with it, who cares about my cheapo one that doesn’t even have a nice part on it, just a little collateral damage ending in an otherwise yuge gain.
But I figure that may not end well, either.
Re: Totally random thread
Posted: Tue Mar 21, 2023 2:52 pm
by MICHHAWK
your first step needs to be: stop taking your axes to a luthier. and start taking them to some long haired hippy named dan dan the guitar man.
Re: Totally random thread
Posted: Tue Mar 21, 2023 2:56 pm
by ousdahl
damn, can't believe michhawk just doxxed Dan Dan.
Re: Totally random thread
Posted: Tue Mar 21, 2023 3:11 pm
by KUTradition
lol…mich trying to show street cred
“axes”
Re: Totally random thread
Posted: Tue Mar 21, 2023 3:19 pm
by MICHHAWK
that's because i am a guitar player(or trying like heck to be). we do not use words like luthier. and doxxed.
i didn't think it was possible uncooling playing the guitar. but that guy is doing it. he is way more pan flute player than he is guitar player.
Re: Totally random thread
Posted: Tue Mar 21, 2023 3:23 pm
by RainbowsandUnicorns
MICHHAWK wrote: ↑Tue Mar 21, 2023 3:19 pm
that's because i am a guitar player(or trying like heck to be). we do not use words like luthier. and doxxed.
i didn't think it was possible uncooling playing the guitar. but that guy is doing it.
Last time I checked, Kalamazoo was in Michigan and Jimmy Page was a cool dude and an awesome guitarist.
I found a sweet video of Mich practicing some guitar:
Re: Totally random thread
Posted: Tue Mar 21, 2023 7:55 pm
by jhawks99
Luthier. Is this French? Pronounced Loo thee ya or Murican Looth ee er? Or something differnt?
Where's timmy with his dickshunary?
Re: Totally random thread
Posted: Tue Mar 21, 2023 10:13 pm
by DCHawk1
Idris Elba was GREAT in Luthier.
Re: Totally random thread
Posted: Tue Mar 21, 2023 10:18 pm
by TDub
MICHHAWK wrote: ↑Tue Mar 21, 2023 3:19 pm
that's because i am a guitar player(or trying like heck to be). we do not use words like luthier. and doxxed.
i didn't think it was possible uncooling playing the guitar. but that guy is doing it. he is way more pan flute player than he is guitar player.
skin flute?
Re: Totally random thread
Posted: Tue Mar 21, 2023 10:20 pm
by TDub
MICHHAWK wrote: ↑Tue Mar 21, 2023 2:36 pm
luthier?!?
only you could make guitaring uncool. do you play new age music. do you play in an enya cover band.
who can say where the road goes?
where they day flows?
Only time
Re: Totally random thread
Posted: Wed Mar 22, 2023 10:24 pm
by TDub
So I was replacing a window in a house today, found a newspaper bulletin in the wall. From April 18th 1906, noon special printing, detailing the first information available about the huge San Francisco Quake.
Pretty cool. Can't just toss it, it made it 117 years - I won't be the one to end it, ill probably frame it and put it somewhere i suppose.