Hope Icarus 2 doesn’t stop and try to salvage 1. We all know how that turned out.

Am I the only one wishing it was called Icarus 1?

That is why the NCAA needs to be disbanded and all the various college sports teams should be spun off into what they really are: farm clubs for the major leagues. The only thing the college athletic department should be doing is handling PE and intramural teams.

Welcome to the new norm, I was told by an athletics director that when I could fill my lecture with 50,000 people all paying 50$ a pop that what I said would matter but until then what I said meant nothing. My comment back was, you can have a university without college athletics but you can’t have college athletics…

Judging by you’re rhetoric and lack of actual knowledge about actual rural America... I would say if you have a Ph.D. may be you should have tried a trade school. Not a republican, not a democrat, just anti idiot but you seem to think “grandpa” is the problem. Maybe the problem is that you didn’t want to get a job and…

I have no problem with calling out assholes. I have a problem with assuming they represent half the country and their motivations.

Dr. Paul David, Ph. D, Economics will speak again here next Tuesday. Be prepared to take notes.

Man, some angry emails to a blog writer really capture the pulse of the electorate. Twitter is real life too.

That was over long before this election... and the culprit is not just America. we have taken a back seat to china and india. We contribute, but people didn’t listen in the 70s when we actually passed the point of no return. But sure lets attach it to this particular presidential election. Presidents don’t stop people…

Agreed!

You do know Hillary is in the 1%... they all are, until america specifically the parties in control stop trying to elect the richest person they can find no matter what there background is or how educated they are, or how corrupt they are the system will fail either fast or slow. I stand for neither candidate but I…

As someone who was never a fan of Trump and also understands the cancer that is Clinton, I can’t help but sit back this morning and laugh at the mad scramble of all the Chicken Littles screaming, “The sky is falling!” From where I stand, it’s entertaining as hell. But if you’d put all the things he said aside because,…

I have a proposal, lets add risk for the FBI. Apple risks a lot by opening up the phone, so why not put the job(s) of top five people in charge of the FBI on the line. If no information is found, or if its useless then they all get fired if they do this I will be just fine with apple opening the phone up. But Instead…

Sadly, with metals, melting point is rarely one of your limiting factors. Picture metals a lot like butter. As they get hotter they get softer, long before they melt. Generally, the reason why steel isn't used in higher heat applications is because it gets softer quicker. I can bend and deform most steel at 1200 F…

Fox news is smoking the thing they don't support. You can find these chairs in that condition for ~$500 all day on ebay. http://www.ebay.com/itm/Herman-Mil…

Actually it is a 1951 DCW, not a LCW. The label is post Evans production, and most protos had been worked on in the 40s...this is transition period at best. I have this exact chair. I can assure you there is nothing special about this production chair. The only chair that brought close to 150k was the LAMA auction…

I think this was a rare very early model. The LCW looks to be a different configuration than my late model one if you look at the shockmounts. Few Eames pieces go up to that level of value. The toughest part will be to find a collector that values the rareness of this specific piece.

I was thinking the same thing. $500 for a chair in that shape seems more likely.

Agreed. I have no idea what appraiser in their right mind thought this was 150k? Two Eames chairs have brought six figures and they are prototypes made early on in the 40s. This chair is later on when they transferred to Herman Miller in 1950/51. It is not even a lounge chair, it is a dining chair, the less valuable…

As a big fan of Eames architecture and design and an owner of several of the modern revisits to their furniture, I have a hard time swallowing 150,000 for a mid condition lounge. Unless it was their personal chair for their own butts or something.