Big green prefab house

Built a big prefab architectural green house.
Got it into a fancy magazine as the Wired home of the year. Many parties. Cool gadgets.

Green green green. Recycled this and solar that.

Built in a factory and put into place by a big crane.

Adrien grenier had a dinner party there when done.

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It is a really cool house though. Ray Kappe was the architect and it had a lot of fanfare.

Greg and Doria are living there. I get to do yoga on the poured concrete floors and make a latte in the cool built in latte maker.

Hard to imagine the house was airlifted by crane piece by piece. Each 50,000 pound module was craned 100 feet in the air.









Green as can be. The wood on the ceiling is recycled cedar and the wood on the outside is recycled redwood from a bridge in the Pacific NW.

The kitchen is by Valcucine and is pretty space age cool. Needs a few more cabinets though. Best part is the kitchen faces the back yard and is zen master peaceful.





I was thinking about it today and how (at times) it was so much fun to build this house. At times.

Medical photos

People always seem fascinated by the medical photos. Why? Could be the images take us into a place we don't normally see.

Or we are fascinated with the body. Or we cannot believe the reality of what can happen to a person when sick.

Or it is just cool to see humans in picture form - in cat scan form - with stuff that is hard to imagine for healthy people.

Take our friend up above. He is likely a smoker. The pure black areas are his lungs. On the right side of the picture there is a big gray mass taking up a large portion of the lung. That is a lung cancer.

This is not a non smoking blog but it couldn't hurt to quit--right now! Please.


Brain tumors tend to scare us - a lot.
And with pretty good reason. The brain does not like to be messed with in terms of pushing, crowding, pressure, anything. Our next patient has a problem most people can see without my explanation. It is a large white mass in the center of his brain.



Here is another view of the same patient. Believe it or not, there is really not much pain - rather brain functions start going haywire and that is what brings it to our attention.

Poor balance, forgetting, falling, personality changes, weakness in an arm, seizure, so many things could happen here.





Thought I'd change it up a little and come down the body to the pelvis. Male pelvis. See those dark spots? That outline is the prostate. And those dark spots are tiny metal radioactive seeds that we put in there to kill the cancer cells in the prostate.

Mighty effective treatment. Outpatient procedure and in the right person is 85-90% curative. .

Hope you learned a little and thought my little medical venture was fun or fascinating or whatever f word is appropriate.