So I'm home doing homework on a Friday night. Which is really dorky. But yeah.
I got about 10 more roommate inquiries today.....and most of them seem like normal, well-adjusted folks. This whole "room for rent" thing is a great way to meet people!
I think I got spammed earlier through Flickr, which has never happened before...anybody ever had this? Really weird, one guy emailed me and said something about me calling someone a pedophile (?), then another guy wrote to tell me I had been "reported to Flickr". For what exactly?!? Speaking of Flickr, I need to upload more photos!...
got a call from my friend silent bob. he was rather freaked out, a very sad story about a woman he dated briefly, who at 37 is on death's door after having bloodclot in her lung. she has a 9 year old daughter. its really tragic as she is a very smart and beautiful woman.
that is a sad tale vado...indeed stories like that reminds us that we are all mortal no matter creed or lifestyle. Enjoy each day like its your last.
Again I must reiterate how frightening it is that someone, worse a professional contractor/architect, would think it is okay to place 30+ students in a windowless box for 8 hours at a time. They are children for f'ck stake.
on a more happy front. Orhan the new place looks great. The renovation seems simple enough and can't wait to see it after you've moved in. A running photolog would be appreciated and a nice way to warm up to the new environment. You haven't mentioned how your are dealing with the transition worse that we knew how much you enjoyed the previous location. On another note I'm curious to if you would consider teaching at an architecture on the side. Not that I have a job lined up for you or anything but you are a great wealth of knowledge and are TC's resident link to when SCI-Arc was the up & coming new brash kid on the block.
So, I'm in the office on a Saturday which is sadly happening more and more often these days.
My job is to correct elevations for a project. The project has been in our office for quite sometime so numerous people have worked on these elevations. Apparently, no one took time to actually snap their lines to an intersection or verify that the lines were straight. I would say that about 90% of all the lines have a slight angle to them. If the project was small, it would be much easier. The project is approximately 800,000 square feet.
This is my office pet peeve - sloppy drawings. Draw a straight line. Use the snap command.
Thank you Thread Central listen to my Saturday bitchin' and moanin'.
It makes no sense to me that people don't draw things straight and correctly. If you're going to bother drawing it AT ALL, then draw it CORRECTLY. It's not any more difficult (in fact it's actually easier) than drawing it sloppily! Makes no sense...
you know what? i bet liberty and her family are out picking apples or something cool and outdoorsey, either that or planning a trip to a space station...i however type and watch the mets bullpen blow anther game to the now hated phillies and watch as the red sox feign at winning the al east.
Even though I prefer the Yankees over the Red Sox, I was actually happy to see them win the World Series a couple years ago. It's hard not to root for the underdog (unless it's the Cubs). I just hope the Red Sox don't become like the 1990's Braves and start winning multiple World Series, and becoming arrogant jackasses in the process. Their fans, with the exception of larslarson, generally annoy the hell out of me as it is; imagine if they start actually winning games.
My roommate is a big Mets fan, but I find myself completely neutral about the Mets, lacking any strong feelings about them one way or the other. Weird.
I'm sorry to say I haven't paid the slightest attention to the White Sox all season, but I understand they're not having a good year. Looks like they had their fifteen minutes, and are now back to their usual performace.
This is weird... I have an incredible view of the sun setting over Lower Manhattan, and the sunset is being reflected off the facade of the Citibank Building right into my window, so right now it looks like there's two sunsets over the Manhattan skyline.
Gin that sounds like a good experience and another reason to keep that apartment despite the rough neighbourhood.
So I'm a little toasted. I've just returned from a HASH, if you don't know what that is its like a game played by expatriats and usually British ones. Involves lots of walking and lots of drinking - lots. Anyhow I'm home safely. YUM!
Tumbles, it could be the alcohol swimming around my empty stomache but I'm interested in these piercings you are referring to. Rationalist has been kind enough to elaborate about hers - particularly since she used to work in a stab-shop (what we call a piercing palour).
Anyhow time for dinner - its late I know, but I'm hungry and the something has to soak up the drinks in my system.
Oh and about bad CAD. I have a new technician that knows how draws lines and that's pretty much it. He doesn't care that if he fucks up someone usually me or the project architect has to repair his mess if they can find it. But we've gone through 24 redlines of his work so far. Hmmm looking forward to next week when I'll be urban planning instead for a change. Wish me luck?
This morning I biked 4 miles to get to the start of the Nike RunHit Remix race (I'll post pictures of Sir-Mix-A-Lot later), then I ran/walked 6 miles, then I biked 4 miles back. I burned about 1200 calories and still haven't made up the difference. No wonder I'm getting a headache!
I don't have an opinion on piercings one way or the other. I think nose ones are cool but I don't have the nose for it, so beyond that, it doesn't appeal to me.
Speaking of rationalist, I wonder where she is right now.....
PEACE MY FRIENDS...BEEN CLEANING HOUSE THE LITTLE LADY RETURNS FROM BRAZIL TOMORROW.....CAN'T HAVE HER COMING HOME TO A MESSY HOUSE....I DO WISH THE TWO OTHER DOGS SAW IT THAT WAY......NOW OFF TO SLEEP....
beta, you are correct: the family has been outside doing fun things all weekend. Spent yesterday at a living history museum watching the blacksmiths and petting the pigs and whatnot. Spent today at the Irish Festival where my two boys did a fun run in which participants were required to wear a kilt....the Kilted Mile, it's called. My 4yo Angus ran it very well considering that a mile is a looooong way for 20" legs to run! I cheered from the sidelines with a Guinness in hand.
I'm with vado, I don't see piercings as anything particularly erotic to have to work around. Plain flesh is fine with me.
rationalist, your custom bent one does look very cool, it's just not (to me) erotic, that's all. And hey: glad you made it safely to Seattle and the roomates have things ready for you! Let the new adventure begin! Mkae sure you read Savage Love in The Stranger every week.
Q: why do clients respond to your email saying you can meet any day next week but Tuesday morning with the question "How about early Tuesday morning?"?!?
i was at an irish bar with my german friends one time in evanston and there was the obligatory pic of samuel beckett and james joyce and my friends and i are like ireland is soooooooooo overrated. and proceeded to reel off all the german contributions to western civilization which have all been clouded by that asshole hitler. wtf adolf. way to fuck up my culture. now all they ever do is play polkas and wear lederhosen.
Did anyone see that post by Architect102 before it was deleted? A few members accused him of spamming the site – I didn't really see that; his intentions seem sincere. Anyway, he was looking for constructive feedback on a website he designed - it’s a site where Arch students, Architect's and anyone interested in Architecture can seek help and/or communicate and post comments about projects. It has a flavoring of Archinect but it really is quite different from this site. I'm hesitating on posting the link – maybe I'll be accused of spamming :) anyway, if anyone is interested I'll send you the link.
Glad to see you made it safely to Seattle Rationalist - welcome to the rain :)
Vado, I do wear some moderate sized plugs now. That photo is about three years old, and i took out the industrial some time ago. Frankly, I just could never get comfortable with it, as the long bar basically acts like cross bracing and stiffens up your entire ear. Also every time I got a haircut it almost got ripped out with a comb.
Katze: the spammer would have been almost acceptable if he had only posted in one thread. He posted in about six threads (including school blogs) the other day. Archinect apparently banned him. He posted again today on multiple threads.
DCA – ah, I did not know that :) If my memory serves me correctly, I thought his stats were 1 post, 1 response, so I was a bit confused why he was being accused of spamming. Archinect must have tweaked/deleted the stats as they were banning him (or something like that). Anyway, its too bad he spammed because he has a nice website, and he is an Architect, not some bozo off the street selling something…
katze, I think I remember seeing his/her post before and had gone to the site (if its the same one I'm thinking). At the time the site didn't have many visits but I wasn't impressed. Seemed like more of a place to gripe about the profession/schools etc than anything else.
vado, I know this isn't the same but the Irish contribution is in many ways limited to US societies, despite the fact that I live in the only island despite Ireland that was first populated by the Irish. But that said Hilter did screw up alot of things for germany - for that most of their pre-war culture is consciously forgotten. We might have to start a thread to say thank you Germany...for things like Industrial House music, and a stoic view of architectural practice, etc. Ohhhh and some of the best World Cup's ever!!!
katze, i have seen that site before, in a much earlier iteration, and it's probable that when he/she was banned last time their access to the account was also blocked, hence the new name. in any case, after becoming a member, the first thing you think of doing is post the exact same comment on two different threads and that is not spam? i think the first time is fine, but the second, it becomes obvious where they were going...besides they want feedback, pay the man for advertising.
yeah, but you know what, that is just a bold face bs statement and completely without any historical appreciation. golda meir, and how many countless queens or prime ministers have their been in the history of the world?? mothers would still have to make the tough decisions that fathers make...
I'm not saying the comment about "if women ruled the earth" isn't a simplistic assessment, but:
Queens and female prime ministers etc. throughout history have been surrounded by male advisors, dukes, clan leaders, etc. That's not exactly a world "ruled" by women.
i'm back from DC after some marathon jurying... a very interesting experience... on the t-shirt front, one of the older guys on the jury (gotta be at least 65 or so) had on a "fuck frank gehry" shirt on under his button up shirt...
no lb, i wasn't really commenting on what you were saying, just that if in some alternate reality where men would be treated the same way women are now treated by men, i think there would little to envy as well. i guess a happy medium is a goal, but an unattainable one, not fruitless, just not within this crop of homo sapiens. perhaps as evolution continues....
lb.
isn't it picking nits though? so because elizabeth has men
that surround her she's not really ruling? regardless of gender i
think the title infers rule...and you should be held responsible
for decisions made during your reign/ administration...there are
quite a few women in congress/ the current administration...have
their opinions been ignored? or just because the majority is
men we just say that it's governed by men?
i think the general point is true...that rulers regardless of gender
are just as capable of starting and starting/being involved in war.
while i don't disagree that we shouldn't be in this war...i can't help
feeling as a male and possible future father that my feeling for
my child would be any less than the mothers..and therefore allow
me to somehow make going to war an easier option. it's pretty
insulting actually.
i agree with lars and disagree with sally field. ruthlessness and vindictiveness and territorialism are temptations to which either gender is subject. it's just that more men have had more opportunities to enact war through most of our history.
Thread Central
i feel like havin a omelette for dinner so thazz wot im a gonna do...
So I'm home doing homework on a Friday night. Which is really dorky. But yeah.
I got about 10 more roommate inquiries today.....and most of them seem like normal, well-adjusted folks. This whole "room for rent" thing is a great way to meet people!
I think I got spammed earlier through Flickr, which has never happened before...anybody ever had this? Really weird, one guy emailed me and said something about me calling someone a pedophile (?), then another guy wrote to tell me I had been "reported to Flickr". For what exactly?!? Speaking of Flickr, I need to upload more photos!...
With all these inquiries of your room for rent WonderK, when/how will you make the decision? It's good to hear everything is working out.
got a call from my friend silent bob. he was rather freaked out, a very sad story about a woman he dated briefly, who at 37 is on death's door after having bloodclot in her lung. she has a 9 year old daughter. its really tragic as she is a very smart and beautiful woman.
that is a sad tale vado...indeed stories like that reminds us that we are all mortal no matter creed or lifestyle. Enjoy each day like its your last.
Again I must reiterate how frightening it is that someone, worse a professional contractor/architect, would think it is okay to place 30+ students in a windowless box for 8 hours at a time. They are children for f'ck stake.
on a more happy front. Orhan the new place looks great. The renovation seems simple enough and can't wait to see it after you've moved in. A running photolog would be appreciated and a nice way to warm up to the new environment. You haven't mentioned how your are dealing with the transition worse that we knew how much you enjoyed the previous location. On another note I'm curious to if you would consider teaching at an architecture on the side. Not that I have a job lined up for you or anything but you are a great wealth of knowledge and are TC's resident link to when SCI-Arc was the up & coming new brash kid on the block.
we need horrible schools that way we can create more architects for the AIA dues.
VADO! I have a challenge to your YouTube supremacy! Meet KlAuS!
tumbles, you got a what?
OFFICE PET PEEVE:
So, I'm in the office on a Saturday which is sadly happening more and more often these days.
My job is to correct elevations for a project. The project has been in our office for quite sometime so numerous people have worked on these elevations. Apparently, no one took time to actually snap their lines to an intersection or verify that the lines were straight. I would say that about 90% of all the lines have a slight angle to them. If the project was small, it would be much easier. The project is approximately 800,000 square feet.
This is my office pet peeve - sloppy drawings. Draw a straight line. Use the snap command.
Thank you Thread Central listen to my Saturday bitchin' and moanin'.
It makes no sense to me that people don't draw things straight and correctly. If you're going to bother drawing it AT ALL, then draw it CORRECTLY. It's not any more difficult (in fact it's actually easier) than drawing it sloppily! Makes no sense...
straight lines are soooooooooooooo boring.
you know what? i bet liberty and her family are out picking apples or something cool and outdoorsey, either that or planning a trip to a space station...i however type and watch the mets bullpen blow anther game to the now hated phillies and watch as the red sox feign at winning the al east.
beta- don't get too upset if boston wins the series...
boston isn't due until 2091....
Even though I prefer the Yankees over the Red Sox, I was actually happy to see them win the World Series a couple years ago. It's hard not to root for the underdog (unless it's the Cubs). I just hope the Red Sox don't become like the 1990's Braves and start winning multiple World Series, and becoming arrogant jackasses in the process. Their fans, with the exception of larslarson, generally annoy the hell out of me as it is; imagine if they start actually winning games.
My roommate is a big Mets fan, but I find myself completely neutral about the Mets, lacking any strong feelings about them one way or the other. Weird.
I'm sorry to say I haven't paid the slightest attention to the White Sox all season, but I understand they're not having a good year. Looks like they had their fifteen minutes, and are now back to their usual performace.
This is weird... I have an incredible view of the sun setting over Lower Manhattan, and the sunset is being reflected off the facade of the Citibank Building right into my window, so right now it looks like there's two sunsets over the Manhattan skyline.
Gin that sounds like a good experience and another reason to keep that apartment despite the rough neighbourhood.
So I'm a little toasted. I've just returned from a HASH, if you don't know what that is its like a game played by expatriats and usually British ones. Involves lots of walking and lots of drinking - lots. Anyhow I'm home safely. YUM!
Tumbles, it could be the alcohol swimming around my empty stomache but I'm interested in these piercings you are referring to. Rationalist has been kind enough to elaborate about hers - particularly since she used to work in a stab-shop (what we call a piercing palour).
Anyhow time for dinner - its late I know, but I'm hungry and the something has to soak up the drinks in my system.
Oh and about bad CAD. I have a new technician that knows how draws lines and that's pretty much it. He doesn't care that if he fucks up someone usually me or the project architect has to repair his mess if they can find it. But we've gone through 24 redlines of his work so far. Hmmm looking forward to next week when I'll be urban planning instead for a change. Wish me luck?
This morning I biked 4 miles to get to the start of the Nike RunHit Remix race (I'll post pictures of Sir-Mix-A-Lot later), then I ran/walked 6 miles, then I biked 4 miles back. I burned about 1200 calories and still haven't made up the difference. No wonder I'm getting a headache!
I don't have an opinion on piercings one way or the other. I think nose ones are cool but I don't have the nose for it, so beyond that, it doesn't appeal to me.
Speaking of rationalist, I wonder where she is right now.....
east coast teams suck! so do west coast teams. tumbles how is anyone supposed to nibble on an ear with that thing in it???kids...
PEACE MY FRIENDS...BEEN CLEANING HOUSE THE LITTLE LADY RETURNS FROM BRAZIL TOMORROW.....CAN'T HAVE HER COMING HOME TO A MESSY HOUSE....I DO WISH THE TWO OTHER DOGS SAW IT THAT WAY......NOW OFF TO SLEEP....
hey guys! I'm in Seattle, my lovely roomates had the net up and running already, so I'm back. Well, except that I have to go pack.
I used to have one of those tumbles.... with a bar that was custom bent to fit my funny shaped ear. Sorry for the crappy photo, but you get the idea.
your earlobes need some giant plugs. don't be so timid...
beta, you are correct: the family has been outside doing fun things all weekend. Spent yesterday at a living history museum watching the blacksmiths and petting the pigs and whatnot. Spent today at the Irish Festival where my two boys did a fun run in which participants were required to wear a kilt....the Kilted Mile, it's called. My 4yo Angus ran it very well considering that a mile is a looooong way for 20" legs to run! I cheered from the sidelines with a Guinness in hand.
I'm with vado, I don't see piercings as anything particularly erotic to have to work around. Plain flesh is fine with me.
rationalist, your custom bent one does look very cool, it's just not (to me) erotic, that's all. And hey: glad you made it safely to Seattle and the roomates have things ready for you! Let the new adventure begin! Mkae sure you read Savage Love in The Stranger every week.
Q: why do clients respond to your email saying you can meet any day next week but Tuesday morning with the question "How about early Tuesday morning?"?!?
that's actually a very cool photo rationalist. And that custom bar is cool...WAY cool
i was at an irish bar with my german friends one time in evanston and there was the obligatory pic of samuel beckett and james joyce and my friends and i are like ireland is soooooooooo overrated. and proceeded to reel off all the german contributions to western civilization which have all been clouded by that asshole hitler. wtf adolf. way to fuck up my culture. now all they ever do is play polkas and wear lederhosen.
Oh, and best T-shirt slogan I saw at teh irish Festival, worn by a teenage boy:
Mom and Dad,
I'm Gaelic.
You're in a bad mood tonight, aren't you, vado?
Did anyone see that post by Architect102 before it was deleted? A few members accused him of spamming the site – I didn't really see that; his intentions seem sincere. Anyway, he was looking for constructive feedback on a website he designed - it’s a site where Arch students, Architect's and anyone interested in Architecture can seek help and/or communicate and post comments about projects. It has a flavoring of Archinect but it really is quite different from this site. I'm hesitating on posting the link – maybe I'll be accused of spamming :) anyway, if anyone is interested I'll send you the link.
Glad to see you made it safely to Seattle Rationalist - welcome to the rain :)
i'm not in a bad mood. im just tellin it like it is..
Vado, I do wear some moderate sized plugs now. That photo is about three years old, and i took out the industrial some time ago. Frankly, I just could never get comfortable with it, as the long bar basically acts like cross bracing and stiffens up your entire ear. Also every time I got a haircut it almost got ripped out with a comb.
Katze: the spammer would have been almost acceptable if he had only posted in one thread. He posted in about six threads (including school blogs) the other day. Archinect apparently banned him. He posted again today on multiple threads.
DCA – ah, I did not know that :) If my memory serves me correctly, I thought his stats were 1 post, 1 response, so I was a bit confused why he was being accused of spamming. Archinect must have tweaked/deleted the stats as they were banning him (or something like that). Anyway, its too bad he spammed because he has a nice website, and he is an Architect, not some bozo off the street selling something…
katze, I think I remember seeing his/her post before and had gone to the site (if its the same one I'm thinking). At the time the site didn't have many visits but I wasn't impressed. Seemed like more of a place to gripe about the profession/schools etc than anything else.
vado, I know this isn't the same but the Irish contribution is in many ways limited to US societies, despite the fact that I live in the only island despite Ireland that was first populated by the Irish. But that said Hilter did screw up alot of things for germany - for that most of their pre-war culture is consciously forgotten. We might have to start a thread to say thank you Germany...for things like Industrial House music, and a stoic view of architectural practice, etc. Ohhhh and some of the best World Cup's ever!!!
and don't forget the beethoven ringtones...
and octoberfest!
are we talking about the same site?
and the best damn cars out there...including the mini 2.0
katze - naw it wasn't that site. This one looks way more professional
Bonus points to whoever can produce the full Sally Field statement that was just edited from the Emmys...
"If mothers ruled the world, there wouldn't __________"
and the best damn cars out there...including the mini 2.0
katze - naw it wasn't that site. This one looks way more professional
katze, i have seen that site before, in a much earlier iteration, and it's probable that when he/she was banned last time their access to the account was also blocked, hence the new name. in any case, after becoming a member, the first thing you think of doing is post the exact same comment on two different threads and that is not spam? i think the first time is fine, but the second, it becomes obvious where they were going...besides they want feedback, pay the man for advertising.
"...there would be no goddamned war in the first place."
I googled it as soon as I woke up this morning. I expected that's what it was, but wanted to verify.
Maybe now people will stop making "You really like me" jokes around her?
yeah, but you know what, that is just a bold face bs statement and completely without any historical appreciation. golda meir, and how many countless queens or prime ministers have their been in the history of the world?? mothers would still have to make the tough decisions that fathers make...
Agreed... The British were just as capable of killing each other under any number of queens as they've been under any number of kings, as one example.
I spotted an ARCHITECTURE SUCKS t-shirt over the weekend! It wasn't on an archinector, but her boyfriend. He just thought it was funny.
I'm not saying the comment about "if women ruled the earth" isn't a simplistic assessment, but:
Queens and female prime ministers etc. throughout history have been surrounded by male advisors, dukes, clan leaders, etc. That's not exactly a world "ruled" by women.
i'm back from DC after some marathon jurying... a very interesting experience... on the t-shirt front, one of the older guys on the jury (gotta be at least 65 or so) had on a "fuck frank gehry" shirt on under his button up shirt...
no lb, i wasn't really commenting on what you were saying, just that if in some alternate reality where men would be treated the same way women are now treated by men, i think there would little to envy as well. i guess a happy medium is a goal, but an unattainable one, not fruitless, just not within this crop of homo sapiens. perhaps as evolution continues....
lb.
isn't it picking nits though? so because elizabeth has men
that surround her she's not really ruling? regardless of gender i
think the title infers rule...and you should be held responsible
for decisions made during your reign/ administration...there are
quite a few women in congress/ the current administration...have
their opinions been ignored? or just because the majority is
men we just say that it's governed by men?
i think the general point is true...that rulers regardless of gender
are just as capable of starting and starting/being involved in war.
while i don't disagree that we shouldn't be in this war...i can't help
feeling as a male and possible future father that my feeling for
my child would be any less than the mothers..and therefore allow
me to somehow make going to war an easier option. it's pretty
insulting actually.
i agree with lars and disagree with sally field. ruthlessness and vindictiveness and territorialism are temptations to which either gender is subject. it's just that more men have had more opportunities to enact war through most of our history.
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