Blog of Josh Hall

In the case where you and someone else in your group wear the same, or very similar shirts or outfits, every effort possible should be made to either minimize (or remove completely) the similarities. Extremely rare similarities in shirts/outfits (lime green striped polos, for example) warrant extreme urgency and importance.

Do you realize how important brand names are?  Until I see how often I call items by only 1 of the specific products names, as if it were the general term.  I had created a list with friends on what they should actually be called, but some we were stumped because we were just so [...]

I forget why it happened, but we were at Chris Olivieri’s place one night for a party and Kallie ended up needing to borrow a shirt, so Chris gave her an old Pirates tshirt.  Now, she’ll wear it sometimes.  To bed, or in the morning on the weekends.  All I can think about is that [...]

Carnegie Mellon architecture students put together a huge study an redesign of Pittsburgh’s urban landscaping and planning. One idea included a ski lift like cable car that would go from the top of the civic arena area down to the David Lawrence Convention center (page 103 of the report).  Some other ideas included a water [...]

Men do not go to baby showers.

I want to “rebuild” something in the house.  I’m not sure whether it’s just a room that is a replica of another room of a house I lived in, or a famous room from somewhere else, like the Whitehouse.  At Winterthur and Nemacolin Woodlands, they have areas where the walls are actual storefronts so the [...]