table that suggestion

I was thinking about this model for a modular table/footstool/ottoman that I came up with for my first semester of 2-D design. It was designed to be packed nearly flat, with hinges, and had curving supports that slotted diagonally into each corner. I did the mock-up out of oaktag but in my notes it was supposed to be made out of steamed birch or something with a nice plain grain, stained on the reverse of each support slat, so the color showed on the turnbacks, which would be rotated so that the buttresses curved in or out. The professor liked the sail shapes and inherent stability and gave me an A, the only one in the class.

It wouldn't go well with anything I have in my house now, but I was revisiting the concept. Hmm...plastics.

I never liked working with plastics. That sickly smell from the molding process, the short malleability time when forming, and the cheap looking result unless you had really high-quality Lucite to begin with. Then all the messing with the rouge wheels.

I just realized that then the hinge mechanism couldn't be hid as well. Pfft. I really don't want to work with MDF laminate or other chintzy composites, but I don't have the space or equipment to do bent wood on a large scale.

nipped/tucked career/fucked

Watching Rose McGowan's messed up face on SVU has given me more reason for never having elective cosmetic procedures. She used to be really cute and juicy looking and now...she's...uh...well, she just looks weird. Like a mini-Wildenstein, almost. It's hard to quantify. She's way too young to have had a full-on lift, but she's got that weird tautness and angling of the eye area you see in Joan Rivers and such. And something with her nose and chin. Probably too much filler.

Sad. She used to be one betty little tomato.

yet another reason why I hate Long Island

Because it's full of hypocrites.

What wasn't mentioned in that item is that the eruv won't even be a newly erected nylon line. The congregation just wants to lease the telephone lines already in place for border designation purposes.