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At approximately 10:30 pm, just about as I was going to begin doing some Maya fluid studies, SpywareXP2009 attacks my computer. In such a state of panic, I hurriedly run through its operations and low and behold, the virus has taken over my poor crucial laptop. For the next 7 hours, I spend my time rewiring internet connections and chords back and forth between my laptop and my parents desktop, trying to debug this atrocious parasite, trying all types of spyware removers. After many failed attempts and warnings of severe operationing failures due to messing with the registry, I gave up and took a two hour nap. Only to wake up and face the fact I was going to have to reinstall windows. I did...So back and running.

GAS TODAY: $2.17

What's wrong with the Mystic

Suddenly today my dad's memory decides to kick in. "Guess what honey, I think I remember that there is a BMW manual in the saddlebags" WHAT! I just spent 70 bucks getting my hands on a new one. So we ruffle through the pages and according to pops, its seems it might be some faulty brushes in the Bosch starter motor or it could be the starter solenoid.

He also appparently damaged, while trying to toubleshoot the bike earlier, either the Air vent solenoid or the Fuel shut-off solenoid. Whatever I'm just stoked at moving forward on this thing.

Outlining the Big T

I stayed up all last night trying to organize some sense of the mess that is my thesis, and after careful consideration of what i had produced and I found that there was a fundamental idea that although not well executed, I am excited about confronting. I suppose this new lense trickled into my perspective, after sitting in on a critique for Paz Guttierez's 100A studio, when Nicholas described the ability of structures to adapt to changing unexpected conditions. He referred to the word Robustness. "Money!" is all i could think. How appropriate a word to use as a metric for contemporary architecture, specially when we are finding that it as a profession is beginning to understand the research and studies of other fields and what the implications of such findings can have on the practice of architecture. That the complexity of design can begin to be actuated as a biological one, again supports the metric of Robust.

In my thesis I have defined what I am terming degrees of robustness. I use degrees to refer and quote the idea of degrees of motion. Meaning that more degrees you have the wider the breath of movement. In terms of Robustness, the higher the degree, the larger the span of flexibility and adaptability.

1 degree= Smart surfaces. The surface is static but through its continuity and informing by the fourth dimension of vectors, it carries with it multiplicity of program.

2 degree= Movement of parts. There is no statis but through actuated movement, discrete moments are defined.

3 degree= responsiveness to changing conditions. Movement or change is induced by variable outside the system but yet the system is capable of adapting to those positions.

A Mysterious Mystic in Big Land

My big brother's BMW R100R Mystic 1995

For the next following weeks I will be troubleshooting and taking the lovely lady apart till i know her inside out. Just purchased a user's repair guide and with a little luck and pa's help we'll see if i get her going