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Sat Dec 31 09:18:57 EST 2016
Slept from eleven-something to eight-something. Woke briefly around three-thirty.
Cloudy and breezy. High of forty.
Goals:
- Clean apartment
Done.
Vacuumed, watered plants, cleaned bathroom, took out trash.
- Read something
No.
- Work on Castle Brezelbier
Done.
Generated a bunch of magic swords.
https://www.vagrantup.com/docs/why-vagrant/
> If you are an operations engineer, Vagrant gives you a disposable environment and consistent workflow for developing and testing infrastructure management scripts. You can quickly test things like shell scripts, Chef cookbooks, Puppet modules, and more using local virtualization such as VirtualBox or VMware. Then, with the same configuration, you can test these scripts on remote clouds such as AWS or RackSpace with the same workflow.
http://blog.dimajix.de/archives/141-Vagrant-with-LXC.html
Thirty minute walk. More hazy than cloudy, so some sunlight actually filtered through. Not too cold. Not much snow left.
Mom called. She and Renny are in the emergency room. Renny may have kidney stones.
http://blogs.getty.edu/iris/whats-in-a-wood-how-science-helps-to-reveal-the-eames-vision/
> If you’ve ever visited or seen images of the Eames House living room, you may remember the floor-to-ceiling wall of beautiful golden wood that serves as the stunning backdrop for the room. The aged paneling needed study, evaluation, and treatment. But before conserving an object, you need to know exactly what it’s made of—and in this case, the type of wood was a complete unknown.
> In the end, we were able to identify the wood of the paneling as a type of eucalyptus (Eucalyptus microcorys), commonly known as Australian tallowwood. This was something of a revelation, as just outside the windows, directly opposite the paneling, stands a stately row of splendid eucalyptus trees.
> Using this information, the Conservation Institute project team came up with a theory that the reiteration of the row of tallowwood trees outside the living room windows may have influenced a conscious design decision—it wasn’t just a coincidence that the Eames chose eucalyptus for the wood paneling along the living room wall.
> In fact, the final location of the house was determined in relationship to this very row of eucalyptus trees, preserving the open meadow landscape on the other side. This discovery provides new physical evidence that allows a glimpse into the Eames’ thought process and the subtle ways they worked to connect their architecture with nature.
Watched a few episodes of Dicte.
Popped open a quarter bottle of bubbly at midnight.
Breakfast: carrots, coffee, left-over pizza
Lunch: chicken pot pie
Dinner: pizza
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