Astronavigation

Traditionally, a navigator checked his chronometer from his sextant, at a geographic marker surveyed by a professional astronomer. This is now a rare skill, and most harbor masters cannot locate their harbor's marker.

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Willy Wonka: This is the great glass Wonkavator.
Grandpa Joe: It's an elevator.
Willy Wonka: It's a Wonkavator. An elevator can only go up and down, but the Wonkavator can go sideways and slantways and longways and backways...
Charlie Bucket: And frontways?
Willy Wonka: ...and squareways and front ways and any other ways that you can think of.

- Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory (1971)

“Hey Dad,” I go “Why don’t you just go down Lehigh, you always take Somerset but look at the string of cars, man.”
“It’s quicker this way,” he goes.
“No, it’s not.”
The building is an ominous and frightening geriatric, pigeon shit-encrusted New Deal icons that would make Manly P. Hall smile loom like hieroglyphics and slogans like “Noble workers of the future” sit like weights on your shoulders.

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"Why write about a man getting into a submarine and going to the North Pole to reconcile himself with the world, while his beloved at that moment throws herself with a hysterical shriek from the belfry? All this is untrue and does not happen in reality. One must write about simple things: how Peter Semyonovich married Maria Ivanovna. That is all."

- Anton Chekhov

2:33 PM
me: let's face facts here Christy
Christy: oh boy, here it comes

2:34 PM
me: ok WHAT do you think I'm gonna type here?! HA
Christy: haha - i honestly have no idea
me: you must have had some idea - if i got that kind of reaction

2:35 PM
Christy: i just know that you're about to set me straight
me: you bet I am, hey what time is it there?

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"…namely the idea that architecture is an ethical art…that architecture is intimately concerned with personal morality…"

- Changing Ideals in Modern Architecture

“Yeah it’s just one of those things isn’t it? One second later and you wouldn’t even have been there.”
“Yeah, your star is on the rise, huh?”
“I don’t know”
“Where were you?”
“Just standing there on North Broad across the street from City Hall.”

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"Fourth dimensional patterns within eternity's monolith would seem merely random events to third dimensional percipients: events rising to an inevitable convergence like an archway's lines. Can history then be said to have architecture? The notion is most glorious and most horrible."

- Charles Howard Hinton

"No, honey, look do you have the GPS thing on, did you turn it on?"
"Yes, I'm staring at it right now!"
"Ok, look if it says Hagy's Mill then you don't want that exit - that road doesn't even exist anymore."
"Really?"
"Yeah, they filled it out or whatever and they built a McDonald's and a Pep-Boys there."
"When?"
"Where are we headed again?"