Also, the steaks arrived, so we got to screw around with dry ice. Note: I advise that you do not try to breathe straight carbon dioxide. It burns.
11.15.2002
Prep
This week has been a mess of furniture moving, wallpaper removal, plaster repair, priming and painting. Whew.
Also, the steaks arrived, so we got to screw around with dry ice. Note: I advise that you do not try to breathe straight carbon dioxide. It burns.
Also, the steaks arrived, so we got to screw around with dry ice. Note: I advise that you do not try to breathe straight carbon dioxide. It burns.
10.29.2002
10.24.2002
10.23.2002
Making the dress...
| | About three months before the wedding, I decided that it would be easier to sew my own dress rather than find a non-wedding-but-still-nice dress that I liked. It's coming along pretty well, if I may say so myself. I am kinda at a standstill over the back, though. I can't quite figure out how I want to finish it. No butt-bows for me, please. |
We built a mannequin with my exact measurements so that I don't have to keep putting on the dress to see the fit. Making the form involved getting wrapped in a few rolls of duct tape (wearing smallish clothes, of course) mounting it onto a PVC pipe of the right height and stuffing it with foam to the right proportions. Did someone just call me crackheaded? No, crackheaded was answering the door in my little duct tape suit.
10.16.2002
9.19.2002
9.07.2002
Coolest cake ever
This thing has a functioning volcano thanks to some chipped dry ice and hot water. The whole damn thing is cake!
9.02.2002
7.24.2002
6.23.2002
Massachusetts Fun Fly
Served a double purpose:
Ken flew his helicopter and I got to go camping. Sweet.
6.20.2002
4.25.2002
4.22.2002
4.12.2002
Kaya
In Hopi Indian (Native American) Kaya would mean "your elder sister,who is little".
In Ghana- it means "stay and don't go back".
In Zulu- it means "home".
In Japanese- it means "adds a place of resting".
Another African translation is "diamond in the sky".
In Tibet it means "the enlightened one".
Other Native Americans tribes say it means "wise one".
Kaia is another way of spelling it which also means "Earth".
It was the name of a 6th century Korean kingdom. The name survives in the name of twelve-stringed instrument (kayagum) developed there.
In Japanese, it means summer night or the name of a type of Yew tree.
"Kaya" is also an old Bob Marley song.
"Kaya" means enlightenment in the Rastafari dialect.
In the Hopi language, it means "elder little sister".
In Sanskrit, Kaya is one of the words that refers to a body, or a form.
In Buddhism, it specifically refers to the three bodies in which beings manifest (trikaya). The Dharmakaya is the enlightened manifestation. The Sambogakaya is a step down from that, like an energy body, not quite enlightened, but not as bound as humans. The Nirmanakaya is the manifest physical form.
Here's a link for what it looks like in Chinese:http://www.chinese-tools.com/names/calligraphy/code_2977_kaya.html
In Hawaiian it means "sea".
In Turkish- "a powerful monarch"
In Ghana- it means "stay and don't go back".
In Zulu- it means "home".
In Japanese- it means "adds a place of resting".
Another African translation is "diamond in the sky".
In Tibet it means "the enlightened one".
Other Native Americans tribes say it means "wise one".
Kaia is another way of spelling it which also means "Earth".
It was the name of a 6th century Korean kingdom. The name survives in the name of twelve-stringed instrument (kayagum) developed there.
In Japanese, it means summer night or the name of a type of Yew tree.
"Kaya" is also an old Bob Marley song.
"Kaya" means enlightenment in the Rastafari dialect.
In the Hopi language, it means "elder little sister".
In Sanskrit, Kaya is one of the words that refers to a body, or a form.
In Buddhism, it specifically refers to the three bodies in which beings manifest (trikaya). The Dharmakaya is the enlightened manifestation. The Sambogakaya is a step down from that, like an energy body, not quite enlightened, but not as bound as humans. The Nirmanakaya is the manifest physical form.
Here's a link for what it looks like in Chinese:http://www.chinese-tools.com/names/calligraphy/code_2977_kaya.html
In Hawaiian it means "sea".
In Turkish- "a powerful monarch"
3.03.2002
2.26.2002
Ice Carvings
We did ice carvings in class today.
Unfortunately, no way to get any decent pictures.
My hands are mashed to bits.
1.21.2002
Canadian Road Trip
I found me some Kinder Eggs and snuck 'em across the border.
The Ontario Science Center had a circus exhibit. How cute is Ken?
And the usual smelting exhibit.
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