Comments on: On the Road: The West Village

By: ZaZa

ZaZa — Fri, 27 Jul 2007 21:35:00 +0000

Yes, robena, that’s William. ;+)

I love squid, the small kind, especially the tentacles. Don’t know why.

By: Louisa

Louisa — Fri, 27 Jul 2007 04:01:20 +0000

The farad is defined as the amount of capacitance for which a potential difference of one volt results in a static charge of one coulomb.

I looked up Faraday box, and really, I never saw so much gibberish having to do with hardening electronic equipment against the electromagnetic pulse generated by a nuclear weapon. EMP is real, just the article I picked was written by some guy with an aluminum hat to keep the aliens from taking over his thought processes. Analyzing the first microseconds of a nuclear blast was one of the first things we ever did at the old Apple Users Group back in the day. Boy, most of us were so full of it. That’s really a great way to be happy, you know.

But the goddesses are happy! Yay! You lot have a good time, get yourselves charged and recharged with the heady intellectual and artistic doings of the Big Apple and do some Awesome Writing Stuff. Personally, I try never to eat anything with tentacles. Just me, I know. Pedestrian tastes, that’s me. I only eat things with feet. I should have stopped at Faraday.

By: roben

roben — Fri, 27 Jul 2007 02:47:15 +0000

So what is it with Mesopotamia? I just got an arc today and the setting is 3157 B.C. at the eastern edge of the great southern desert in Mesopotamia. Looks interesting, but not a lot of white space : ) I’m going to try to get it done before leaving for Aust.

The Met. Love the Met. I’m green with envy. Hope it isn’t too humid up there. And ZaZa, is William the blue ceramic hippo?

By: ZaZa

ZaZa — Fri, 27 Jul 2007 00:31:26 +0000

I have one of those little bowls! And a William, well, three Williams – one ceramic and two stuffed. Used to be a William stuffed animal kit. And I have a spotted (drizzled) yellow dog. I used to go to the Met a lot when I lived in Baltimore – nice train ride.

But I never got thrown out of the Met. I’m not sure whether I should be envious or proud. I’ll wait to see tomorrow’s post before I decide. ;+)

By: DownUnderGal

DownUnderGal — Thu, 26 Jul 2007 23:32:14 +0000

Just seen my comment is awaiting moderation. Have just changed internet provider. My husband assured me it would all be fine but EVERY loop I’m on is now screwed up and I want to throw things. Argh!
Sorry bout that – rant over. No doubt this comment will need moderating too. Sorry for that also.

By: DownUnderGal

DownUnderGal — Thu, 26 Jul 2007 23:30:14 +0000

Wow – the things you learn about electricity and screw thingy’s on this blog.
The West Village sounds divine and it’s always perfect to be amongst good friends.

By: Mailyn

Mailyn — Thu, 26 Jul 2007 19:38:58 +0000

I LOVE NYC! I can’t wait to be back there,hopefully before the end of the year. The Metropolitan Museum of Art is one of the few museums my friend and I want to visit. I think we’ll get thrown out as well so do let us know what ya’ll got away with. LOL> ^__&

By: AgTigress

AgTigress — Thu, 26 Jul 2007 19:11:59 +0000

The Met. used to make a replica of that charming little footed bowl for sale – I don’t know if it is still available. I have always assumed that the designer of the 1970s ‘Walking Ware’ ceramics was aware of the ancient vessels with human feet, and had been inspired by them, though I suppose he might have come by the idea independently.
A turnbuckle is a double-ended screw thingy that enables one to increase or reduce the tension on cables.

By: Diane (TT)

Diane (TT) — Thu, 26 Jul 2007 18:58:58 +0000

Yes, but the bowl doesn’t have on open-toed shoes! Who knew that Walking Ware had such a pedigree (what, do you suppose, is the derivation of “pedigree”? should I apologize for inadvertent wordplay?)Michael Faraday made some important discoveries regarding electricity and magnetism, he has units named after him (really, one of the world’s biggest distinctions, unless the unit happens to be a Smoot. In which case, it is just under 6 feet.). So, presumably a Faraday box disrupts electronic signals somehow, though I am ignorant of either how, or what a turnbuckle is. I could look that up, along with 2 or 3 other things in this comment, but will not do so.

By: McB

McB — Thu, 26 Jul 2007 15:46:21 +0000

I have no idea what turnbuckles and faradays are, but it sounds like you are dealing well with them.

Hi, Tigress!

By: AgTigress

AgTigress — Thu, 26 Jul 2007 15:24:34 +0000

Don’t know about Neolithic plaster bunnies, but the Met. does have a nice pre-dynastic Egyptian bowl with feet that might interest Jenny:
http://www.metmuseum.org/Works_of_Art/viewOne.asp?dep=10&viewmode=0&item=10.176.113

By: Pam

Pam — Thu, 26 Jul 2007 15:20:03 +0000

What Ray-Anne said. Times a billion.

By: Wendy Roberts

Wendy Roberts — Thu, 26 Jul 2007 15:16:35 +0000

Sounds like the perfect environment to create. Enjoy!

By: Angela

Angela — Thu, 26 Jul 2007 12:05:26 +0000

The MET is all well and good, but do they have a bunny-shaped vessel from 6400 BC? Because the MFA in Boston does:

http://mfa.org/collections/search_art.asp?recview=true&id=155968&coll_keywords=hare+vessel&coll_accession=&coll_name=&coll_artist=&coll_place=&coll_medium=&coll_culture=&coll_classification=&coll_credit=&coll_provenance=&coll_location=&coll_has_images=&coll_on_view=&coll_sort=0&coll_sort_order=0&coll_view=0&coll_package=0&coll_start=1

By: Ray-Anne

Ray-Anne — Thu, 26 Jul 2007 06:06:33 +0000

You do realise young lady that the solitary writers in their lonely rooms staring at the white wall/screen while twirling a thick crayon, are even more depressed having read that post. Is it possible to have cool lifestyle envy? City angst? Spotted Pig craving?
Shame on you for having such a great time doing what you love! It is positively indecent.
Have a wonderful break – feed the muse. Goddess. Whatever. And please keep posting from where you can. We need the fix. Ray-Anne

http://mischiefandfilth.blogspot.com/