spam

Dear "YL A": I'm not going to click on your e-mail that says NOTIFICATIONS

But you've amused me for the moment, so I'm not going to delete your e-mail from my junk e-mail folder at this time (maybe I just like to experience the tension of "will I click? Or will I not click?").

Passive solar gain

Interesting & informative article regarding orienting your house for passive solar:
http://www.dennisrhollowayarchitect.com/simpledesignmethodology.html

LA savvy tour

Something to do if I ever get to LA and want to (can) spend $100:
http://www.lasavvytours.com/lafranklloydwrighttour.htm

The LA Frank Lloyd Wright Tour is a three hour driving tour of Los Angeles, featuring a comprehensive overview of Frank Lloyd Wright's California Architecture. This modern architecture tour examines Frank Lloyd Wright's Hollyhock House in Hollywood and the architect's concrete textile block houses of the 1920's in the Hollywood Hills, as well as a shopping center that Wright designed on Beverly Hills' Rodeo Drive in the 1950's.

Bad Astronomer: the rise of the Milky Way

Cool article with video (and of course an explanation):
http://www.slate.com/blogs/bad_astronomy/2013/06/13/time_lapse_the_rise_of_the_milky_way.html