new tumblr
started a new tumblr @ maynnaise.tumblr.com, it’ll probably be my main one and contain mostly photos
(free) Asian jewelry is the best!
-beaded fabric bracelet, gift from grandmother
-jade bangle found when my dad and I were cleaning my relatives’ house in Shanghai. my dad let me keep it :)
I brought my DSLR to Berkeley, so I’ve decided to take some photos every day in hopes my photography and camera handling will improve.
German POWs in WWII
"When a gentleman makes his way down a row in a crowded theatre, he faces the people who are already in their seats. A gentleman never forces others to stare at his backside."
John Bridges
this is also how you make your way down a row in crowded lecture halls like DWINELLE and PIMENTEL
So I’m taking this civil engineering seminar which is a series of guest lecturers that talk about their work in the field, and today we had a speaker who was involved in the Hoover dam bypass project. This was a photo I found online of the bridge during construction. The arch span is the longest in the Western hemisphere.
Can you imagine being a construction worker building this thing? I’d be scared shitless. No, I’d shit my pants. Standing a few hundred meters above ground, where winds can pick up to 100 mph. And how mind-blowing is it that engineers planned this down to the last nut and bolt, and got both ends to match up so precisely? This 323 m bridge ended up fitting 3/8ths of an inch to plan.
Construction workers are amazing
Engineers are amazing
and anyone who says math is useless should just jump off this bridge.
gotta love it when you use a reference photo of a model with a faraway look in her eyes, and she just ends up looking stoned. cool!
i think this is the first time in a month i’ve drawn something!
Q: What do squirrels and Mission graduates have in common?
A: You can’t go a day at Berkeley without seeing at least one of each.
