Matt Diersen
@mattdiersen.bsky.social
Pittsburgh Architect of limited note.
One of these men was a Nazi, and it wasn’t the German one.
December 4, 2025 at 12:53 PM
One of these men was a Nazi, and it wasn’t the German one.
It did strike me as odd, but not implausible, that he and Adam share a mouth.
December 3, 2025 at 8:40 PM
It did strike me as odd, but not implausible, that he and Adam share a mouth.
Ah, in my house it drips right onto the porch roof. Which it too shallow a slope for asphalt shingles, and which has a box gutter that was bridged-over with plywood that is even shallower, and has leaked through the fascia over the front steps for the last decade, while I try not think about it.
December 3, 2025 at 3:29 AM
Ah, in my house it drips right onto the porch roof. Which it too shallow a slope for asphalt shingles, and which has a box gutter that was bridged-over with plywood that is even shallower, and has leaked through the fascia over the front steps for the last decade, while I try not think about it.
What did my beautiful boy ever do to you?
December 3, 2025 at 3:12 AM
What did my beautiful boy ever do to you?
I just walked 3/4 of a mile to work and the correlation between shoveled and unshoveled sidewalk was directly owner-occupied to rental, as near as I could tell.
Giant old house with four mailboxes? Unshoveled every time.
Giant old house with four mailboxes? Unshoveled every time.
December 2, 2025 at 4:42 PM
I just walked 3/4 of a mile to work and the correlation between shoveled and unshoveled sidewalk was directly owner-occupied to rental, as near as I could tell.
Giant old house with four mailboxes? Unshoveled every time.
Giant old house with four mailboxes? Unshoveled every time.
The model plane and railroad grandpas will save us all.
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November 29, 2025 at 3:49 PM
The model plane and railroad grandpas will save us all.
Those whippersnappers have laser cutters… all their models smell like a bonfire.
November 29, 2025 at 3:48 PM
Those whippersnappers have laser cutters… all their models smell like a bonfire.
This kind of article is why I let my 10+ year subscription lapse and read the @newyorker.com instead these days. The time for “both sides” among people who should know better ended years ago.
November 29, 2025 at 1:51 PM
This kind of article is why I let my 10+ year subscription lapse and read the @newyorker.com instead these days. The time for “both sides” among people who should know better ended years ago.
The frustrating part is people like this are being so handsomely rewarded for their work (of questionable value) that they do this for 15 years and then “dabble” in some other not-profitable thing (Open a restaurant! Develop an apartment building!) and architects have to deal with them as clients.
November 29, 2025 at 2:51 AM
The frustrating part is people like this are being so handsomely rewarded for their work (of questionable value) that they do this for 15 years and then “dabble” in some other not-profitable thing (Open a restaurant! Develop an apartment building!) and architects have to deal with them as clients.
Saw so many shows there during my years at UC, late 90s through early aughts. Would’ve been at that GBV show but I was on co-op. Such a great venue.
November 28, 2025 at 1:11 AM
Saw so many shows there during my years at UC, late 90s through early aughts. Would’ve been at that GBV show but I was on co-op. Such a great venue.
I just reread an email from my friend my Scott from 2000 relating how hard GBV rocked at the Southgate House in Newport KY and how Mr. Pollard was handing out beers to people in the front row who “didn’t look drunk enough,” but that he, Scott, must’ve looked sufficiently drunk.
November 27, 2025 at 10:55 PM
I just reread an email from my friend my Scott from 2000 relating how hard GBV rocked at the Southgate House in Newport KY and how Mr. Pollard was handing out beers to people in the front row who “didn’t look drunk enough,” but that he, Scott, must’ve looked sufficiently drunk.
Not joking, they should tear down that price of garbage they’re building and use it as a side yard for this.
November 26, 2025 at 10:33 PM
Not joking, they should tear down that price of garbage they’re building and use it as a side yard for this.
Was trying to figure out if this was the fabled show where I saw Jason Molina open for Will Oldham at Southgate House in Newport KY (which def happened, but I've never independently confirmed), but it seems he was in Holland at the time.
November 26, 2025 at 6:49 PM
Was trying to figure out if this was the fabled show where I saw Jason Molina open for Will Oldham at Southgate House in Newport KY (which def happened, but I've never independently confirmed), but it seems he was in Holland at the time.
I actually have a CAD block identical to this (probably the same block?) I picked up from a former coworker, and you enter the number values in a dialog box that somehow makes it very unclear which is which. I always double check it.
I can DM you the dwg. Ha!
I can DM you the dwg. Ha!
November 25, 2025 at 12:27 AM
I actually have a CAD block identical to this (probably the same block?) I picked up from a former coworker, and you enter the number values in a dialog box that somehow makes it very unclear which is which. I always double check it.
I can DM you the dwg. Ha!
I can DM you the dwg. Ha!
Would that Longshot might Kick the Bucket....
November 24, 2025 at 7:33 PM
Would that Longshot might Kick the Bucket....
I’m embarrassed to admit that I remember a “Who is ‘lease a Catera?’” Ad campaign. Didn’t realize that was a rebadged Opel.
November 24, 2025 at 12:13 AM
I’m embarrassed to admit that I remember a “Who is ‘lease a Catera?’” Ad campaign. Didn’t realize that was a rebadged Opel.
Never knew Opels were sold in the US.
November 24, 2025 at 12:00 AM
Never knew Opels were sold in the US.
Well they just went to commercial in this miserable Eagles-Cowboys to the tune of How Soon is Now, so the NFL is still hitting you where you live.
November 23, 2025 at 10:49 PM
Well they just went to commercial in this miserable Eagles-Cowboys to the tune of How Soon is Now, so the NFL is still hitting you where you live.