http://www.davidpuketza.com/bloggo Things noticed. Sun, 24 Aug 2008 16:35:10 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en       http://www.davidpuketza.com/bloggo/2008/08/24/photo-buffet/ I tried to give away a futon and ended up on TV. --- FREE is a word that makes things happen. It greenlights adrenaline and makes consumers uncontrollably flash the whites of their eyes. Even if what's offered is unimpressive. Doesn't matter--It's FREE. A dumpy futon is a dumpy futon ... http://www.davidpuketza.com/bloggo/2008/06/21/would-you-and-your-futon-be-interested/ Knowledge can be thought of as discreet piles. Over time, you take grains from the hourglass of time dedicated to witnessing/observing and distribute them onto your various knowledge piles. The piles grow and spill into each other in happy collisions of cross-referencing. It's nice to feel the swelling of your ... http://www.davidpuketza.com/bloggo/2008/03/24/learning-piles/ http://www.davidpuketza.com/bloggo/2008/03/09/make-offer/     I used to tell Dr.Nick that he should offer up obscure aphorisms during his class lectures and if students asked for clarification he should protect the mystery by nodding,  and answering: Exactly! I walked into my favorite discount store and was amused to find it had turned into a hamster cage, ... http://www.davidpuketza.com/bloggo/2008/03/08/exactly/ A friend told me that a psych. professor once told him, in answer to his question: "Yes. If you study while taking cocaine you should take the test while on cocaine. It improves your thinking...this replication of conditions. " I saw Beth Lisick read perform recently while I was sick. ... http://www.davidpuketza.com/bloggo/2008/01/13/phenobarbital/ Growing up, PBA meant: the Professional Bowlers Association. When there wasn't baseball, basketball, or football to air on tv the networks provided boob tube viewers with bowling tournaments sponsored by the PBA. Nowadays for me PBA means Police Benevolent Association. If you're a member, which I'm soon to be because ... http://www.davidpuketza.com/bloggo/2008/01/05/pba/ If you go to architorture school you will be asked to participate in a design process that invites the inventive use of a kit of parts. Later in life you realize the world is just a big ol' box of parts. You root around, push and pull, maybe the greek ... http://www.davidpuketza.com/bloggo/2007/10/13/skit-of-parts/   The angle of repose is usually taken to be the angle a pile forms with the ground.  It describes the engineering properties of granular materials, taking into account density, surface area, and coefficient of friction. Often overlooked because I made it up is that it's the measurement of "lean" (repose) someone ... http://www.davidpuketza.com/bloggo/2007/10/12/edward-albees-angle-of-repose/   we went to the DIA museum in nearby town of not just for breakfast Beacon. It's an abandoned Nabisco factory that was given a good white wash and wood floors scraped of all nabisco by-product. It was not unlike what I'm guessing a sanitarium in the fifties felt like. ... http://www.davidpuketza.com/bloggo/2007/09/22/mobilized-in-novel-conjunctions/ Consider the man on the sidewalk. Considering you don't know him, what's a short list of questions you might ask this stranger? Did "Excuse me sir, can I take a picture of your belt buckle?" make your list? (consider the expression of his son, standing off camera. I can assure you ... http://www.davidpuketza.com/bloggo/2007/08/18/consider-the-buckle/ and this is what it looks like. CLICKtoSEEtheAMAZINGtrickpitch.mpg http://www.davidpuketza.com/bloggo/2007/08/09/i-have-a-trick-pitch/ You can learn and earn a lot of things at family reunions. When you attend the reunion on my father's side they IMMEDIATELY add to the excitement of just being there by having you guess how many pennies are in a jar sitting next to the sign-in ledger. Like a ... http://www.davidpuketza.com/bloggo/2007/08/02/estimating-the-leap/ So, my building was rumbling and it usually doesn't. So we left. Down the stairs, like you're supposed to. Outside we were greeted by sooted people who had come from the epicenter, where the steam pipe had fissured and erupted. Rumors ricocheted off the buildings--a building was hit and ... http://www.davidpuketza.com/bloggo/2007/07/22/klosterkoolshirtman/ It's 7, 7, oh seven and you are well aware that on such a numerically charged day that momentous things will likely happen even if you don't prompt. Even if they involve boredom. And it does. The Boredoms (japanese noise band) announce a free concert where they will serenade lucky ... http://www.davidpuketza.com/bloggo/2007/07/19/the-eye-is-not-bored/ COMMERCE 101--sex sells. In this case, shoes. At a shoe store down by the seashore. http://www.davidpuketza.com/bloggo/2007/07/04/she-sells-sex-sells-at-a-shoestore-down-by-the-seashore/ When you need a weird little, expensive looking, lightbulb and you're anywhere near New Hippodrome Hardware in Manhattan then you're about to be happy. Not only will your needs for the eccentric illuminator be met but the other need, the one you forgot to pay attention to, the one ... http://www.davidpuketza.com/bloggo/2007/04/26/fantastic-matadors-of-hippodrome-hardware/ You wake up surprised to see a white canvas of snow. You grab your picture taker in hopes of documenting something cool, something precious in this loaded landscape. Because you have a window that overlooks the street the odds are good. While you're just looking to witness the scene others ... http://www.davidpuketza.com/bloggo/2007/03/17/swastikoff/ http://www.davidpuketza.com/bloggo/2007/02/09/dusted-over-foundation-of-bitter-desperation-pink-saves-the-day/ http://www.davidpuketza.com/bloggo/2007/01/27/ice-plant-no-longer-making-cubes-or-blocks/