Comments on: things I did and did not do http://www.jessamyn.com/journal/2009/07/things-i-did-and-did-not-do ten years of jessamyn Wed, 17 Mar 2010 19:50:00 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.7.1 hourly 1 By: pirooz http://www.jessamyn.com/journal/2009/07/things-i-did-and-did-not-do/comment-page-1#comment-26078 pirooz Thu, 09 Jul 2009 05:39:03 +0000 http://www.jessamyn.com/journal/?p=364#comment-26078 Hello. My music conservatory library administrator boys I'm in Tehran. Like you in the book and can help promote it. Conservatory music library over 100 years old boys and a lot of manuscripts are. Thanks Jafari pirooz Hello. My music conservatory library administrator boys I’m in Tehran. Like you in the book and can help promote it. Conservatory music library over 100 years old boys and a lot of manuscripts are.

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]]> By: jennifer http://www.jessamyn.com/journal/2009/07/things-i-did-and-did-not-do/comment-page-1#comment-26057 jennifer Tue, 07 Jul 2009 17:22:06 +0000 http://www.jessamyn.com/journal/?p=364#comment-26057 Hi, I saw your post about looking for ST lodging near McL. There is a Doc there who rents out rooms in a rental property he owns near campus -- Joe Flores. I'm not in the office so I can't give you his # but if you call the main switchboard they can connect you. Hopefully if he can't accomodate you he can point you in a good direction. Best of luck! Hi,
I saw your post about looking for ST lodging near McL. There is a Doc there who rents out rooms in a rental property he owns near campus — Joe Flores. I’m not in the office so I can’t give you his # but if you call the main switchboard they can connect you. Hopefully if he can’t accomodate you he can point you in a good direction.
Best of luck!

]]> By: Brian http://www.jessamyn.com/journal/2009/07/things-i-did-and-did-not-do/comment-page-1#comment-25945 Brian Fri, 03 Jul 2009 03:13:18 +0000 http://www.jessamyn.com/journal/?p=364#comment-25945 speaking of reading lamps: my parents bought an old cottage on lake erie a few years ago. it was built in the 1920's, and hadn't been used for about ten years, so going into it was very time capsuley. one of the bedrooms had the coolest reading lamps i've ever seen - attached to the wall on either side of the bed was a metal tube, bent in a 180 degree arc, with both open ends facing the floor. a wire ran through the tube, with a lightbulb and shade and one end, and a counterweight on the other (and this end plugged into the wall). it was balanced so that you could raise or lower the light to any height on your side of the bed, and it would stay there. simple, but brilliant. we wanted to get more of them to put in the rest of the bedrooms, so we went to an old lamp repair shop and asked about them. the guy said they were popular in the middle of the century, but because the electrical wire had to constantly move and bend as is slid through the tube, it was a special wire that was expensive to make, so they stopped making them. he said that modern wires aren't made for motion like that - except for vacuum cleaner cords. ever since i've wanted to try to make one, but i haven't been able to find a vacuum cleaner cord and a tube of the right inner diameter. if you're thinking about putting in a reading lamp, this design might be worth considering. speaking of reading lamps: my parents bought an old cottage on lake erie a few years ago. it was built in the 1920’s, and hadn’t been used for about ten years, so going into it was very time capsuley. one of the bedrooms had the coolest reading lamps i’ve ever seen - attached to the wall on either side of the bed was a metal tube, bent in a 180 degree arc, with both open ends facing the floor. a wire ran through the tube, with a lightbulb and shade and one end, and a counterweight on the other (and this end plugged into the wall). it was balanced so that you could raise or lower the light to any height on your side of the bed, and it would stay there. simple, but brilliant.

we wanted to get more of them to put in the rest of the bedrooms, so we went to an old lamp repair shop and asked about them. the guy said they were popular in the middle of the century, but because the electrical wire had to constantly move and bend as is slid through the tube, it was a special wire that was expensive to make, so they stopped making them. he said that modern wires aren’t made for motion like that - except for vacuum cleaner cords.

ever since i’ve wanted to try to make one, but i haven’t been able to find a vacuum cleaner cord and a tube of the right inner diameter. if you’re thinking about putting in a reading lamp, this design might be worth considering.

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