We Can't Railslide, And That's OK

Thanks to the power of Industrial Design!  Designer PoChih Lai developed a wheel and truck system that allows the longboarder to successfully negotiate stairs.  

This board has all the free-flowing fun of a standard longboard, plus now you don't have to bail at the top of the stairs.  I imagine it's a little nervy headed towards that first flight, but the action looks smooth once you get it down.  Head to PoChih's website for more photos, including the raft of prototypes he worked through.  Watch the video at the bottom of his page to see the trucks in action!

Three Posts - One Jacket

Next up in this shrine-of-the-day is a link to BuzzFeed and their photographic account of Bill Murray's School of Owning the Red Carpet.  Enjoy!

Baseball's Best Boss

Our shrine-of-the-day to Bill Murray continues with this accompaniment to his induction speech.  Learn a little more about his involvement with the minor leagues and see his rain delay tarp slide!

Hall of Famer, Bill Murray

Bill Murray seems to have a fun part-time job.  He's part-owner of the Charleston, SC minor league team.  He's invested in many minor league teams over the years, and those efforts (plus being Bill Murray) have gotten him inducted into their Hall of Fame.  Watch his great acceptance speech and remember the joy of an afternoon at the ballpark.

"This is the architect's problem."

I'm trying to read everything I can that comes from Joseph Lstiburek, PhD, PEng.  If you haven't heard of him, you're probably not putting your buildings together right.  If you have heard of him, you probably still aren't doing it right.  Joseph's making the case far and wide that Building Science is an unknown and undeveloped discipline.  Schools don't teach it, practitioners barely register it.  We're in an age with incredibly high-tech materials and systems and the sophisticated modeling software to understand how our buildings are actually performing, but we might as well be draped in a tarp.  We do not understand how our buildings work.  Listen to Joe.  There's a lot to learn.

Follow the link for an interview with Dr Lstiburek, and then start to track down his own writings.
via ArchNewsNow: http://www.archnewsnow.com/features/Feature396.htm