still bloody cold here. Japan is a nation that does not believe in insulation and double paned glass, so when I mean its bloody cold, I mean in my living room. At least the toilet seat is warm (because Japan does believe in warm bottoms).
@sarah or efficient if you don't have central heat/air and are just heating/cooling immediate surroundings...
i recently started reading a Richard Brautigan compilation - which includes
Trout Fishing in America
The Pill versus the Springhill Mine Disaster
In Watermelon Sugar
in general i try to keep the ratio of hard to read and easy to read books in balance (at least over a year). Sometimes i find it is the books i force myself to read that i end up surprisingly enjoying.
The Trial was one of those also Marks of Identity which i completed earlier this year (2 years later)...
racketeering thread. greatest part is that I don't live in CO and don't intend to. so it's irrelevant to me. sounds like CO rules are even more lax than many places. I really wonder what the OP thinks happened to him to cause all this anger. I mean, just follow the d*mn rules and you'll become an archi eventually. Just cuz you show up at a job for 3 years does not mean you got any decent experience. Ask any intern struggling to meet the IDP requirements in 3 years. My experience was that meeting the requirements did make me a better architect, but it did take longer than 3 years. Do we really want someone who did bathroom details for 3 years to be licensed? Ideally the profession makes sure this person gets rounded experience, but obviously NCARB, or the great state of CO can't enforce what private biz does.
OP calls me a moron. *SIGH*. At least I'm actually a real architect, in 4 states now. I think I can tie my shoes without assistance, thank you. Not sure if I should feel honored with the title or insulted. I guess I'll change my biz card:
GRUEN ARCHITECT, NCARB, IDP, AIA, RA: NY, MA, RI, WA, USGBC, LEED AP BD+C, M O R O N.
LOL gruen! I think I too am Donna Sink RA, AIA, NCARB, M O R O N
I have an actual appointment, at a set time and place, with a City code reviewer today! Wish me luck that I will leave his office with a building permit aka an Improvement Location permit in Indy's wonky nomenclature.
@sarah, what nam said. Japanese house without central air uses 1/7th energy of American house. All energy focused on warming bottoms. Laundry also hangs outside to dry. No dryers. Which is cool, fer sure.
Our flat is about 1000 ft2 (big-ish for tokyo). Heating it all for 24hr a day would be really alien. Much more inefficient to do that than to just turn on and off the heaters/AC when moving from room to room. But it means its seriously cold in the morning. Insulation would be appreciated. Space is such a premium that architects go for the extra 100mm or so that they can grab when no insulation is put in the walls. Amazing.
Holy crap!!! Sinkholes scare me to death. Especially the really big ones that are so deep you can't see the bottom.
It's nice to hear that I'm not the only one that feels like the have M O R O N behind their name. I can't tell you the number of times I've been put on the spot with a specific question, pulled something out of my ass and then prayed that it was correct. The older I get, the worse it becomes. Sigh!
My guess is you never ventured East from Tucson to Benson Arizona. The town is built over a limestone deposit and well when it rains they have sink holes Galore. I recall getting a phone call from the USPS district office telling me the post office had some problems and we needed to go check it out. They said, "we can see thru the bottom of the wall to the outside." Then they went on to say the floor had dropped about 12" and the wall stayed in place and oh ya it is a brick masonry wall. So I told the partner in the office and we jumped in a car and drove to Benson. Only to find the post office evacuated and delivering mail out of the back of tractor trailer. Seems like water had gotten below the building slab and had eaten away the limestone creating a big enough cavity to swallow up the floor. Once we started talking to people around town we heard all kinds of stories. The City Hall at that time was supported by adjustable floor jacks because of ground movement. Someone told us they walked in to a restaurant and went to use the bathroom and the toilet was down about 10 feet. Limestone and water don't mix. It was about a year later when they discovered the Large Caverns just out side of Benson.
@Will: no kotatsu? those things rock! we have one, and keep the house temp below 65F. I remember my cousin's house where I could see my breath in the mornings.
@Nam: I love Brautigan. Being a landscape architect his short story on the trout stream hit a particularly deep point about the lack of understanding of ecological systems at large scales.
I'm always feeling like a moron. I forgot two students' names today, and I've had them since August! I felt terrible. A month ago, I argued with a student that her name was Samantha and not Savanah (her actual name).
@3tk, no no kotatsu. were totally western style living. I hate the damn things. want to sit on a sofa not on the floor. They are clever though, no doubt about it, and perfectly logical. What I would prefer is better built homes so the need never comes up. Its possible but seldom happens. japanese construction is so lop-sided.
@Sarah, that's hilarious. At least you didn't call Samuel Jackson Laurence Fishburne, to his face....
20 inches of snow on top of the 14 on the ground...yikes...think I
'm moving to Alaska. That is what they are saying at higher elevations which is where we are located. Thinking it is roof snow shovel tomorrow....glad I bought one last year.
we did get about 3" of snow, then rain, then snow again.
Stupid car inspection guy made me remove the snow tires (yesterday) because the fronts were worn down. The all season tires are way worse than the worn snow tires. If this crud keeps up, I'll have to buy 2 new snow tires and pay for switching everything back again.
I shoveled out once today only to have every thing drift back in. So now I'm going to up it off till tomorrow as round to is going to hit over night. Wind is whipping around and suspect it will most of the night. They are talking winter thunder, so that should be interesting.
I keep seeing all these photos of winter-wonderlands and feel sorry for myself for living in FL, where the low was like 38 last night... I miss skiing/sledding et al.
3tk, i haven't read that story yet and until i picked this compilation had only read 'A Confederate General From Big Sur', which i really enjoyed.
What has particularly surprised me though is how much i am enjoying the poetry sandwiched between the two short stories in this collection. Very "counterculture(y)" but some of them are lovely. And other than haiku's i have a hard time reading poetry.
Perhaps, because i don't enough...
off to my 4 local government/civic community workshop event this month...
hi melty! i love telling my blizzard stories to the folks down here in the delta. school is closed its freaking sixty degrees and sunny. better safe than sorry for the kiddies who are all at the mall.
I'm from a northern place where we get snow and stuff, but the first time I ever experienced thunder during a snow storm was when i was spending new years at a friend's place in Williamsburg - new years 2001. I can't believe that's now 13 years ago. I'm old.
We have over a foot of snow on the ground - have had it for four weeks - and Monday they're projecting rain and 40 degrees. I foresee the entire City becoming a pig pen.
Yike...no safety net or ropes. These guys didn't appear to be tied off anywhere. Good thing the Weather didn't change for the worse while they were up there. I climbed a few small town water towers in my youth and also did an accent on Devil's Tower in Wyoming (800 ft). Have several friend who are serious shear wall climbers and several Mountain Peak climbers. Think they would all think this is nuts. The only thing we didn't discover about these young bucks and that is if they were, "Screamers or Flappers"
You just have to read "Climbing Magazine" to see how many people die every year and usually their Obits talk about how long they have been climbing. The Great die along with the Weekend Warrior.
My lower back is causing me significant pain thanks to shoveling. I need a better technique! This summer i'm buying a snowblower, then I'll clear every sidewalk in my neighborhood.
Ya I think a snow blower will be on my list for must buy before I retire. I was looking at them and now they even come with heated handles....for old soft men like me. My old neighbor tells me spring for the one with the biggest motor, it is worth every penny in deep New England Snow, which usually is have ice .
lift with your legs, not your back. if you're torquing your back, then don't throw snow to the side. turn and point your feet towards where you're throwing the snow.
Miles gonna have to get one of those if this keeps up. I do have an ongoing fantasy of owning a catapult that I can tow behind the car. Maybe for pumpkins?
snook, i've been thinking about that. we got a bunch of ice before the snow. i just drove over it. i saw neighbors trying to break it up with a garden hoe or similar implement of destruction, then shoveling out the pieces.
i have a propane torch. the sort you might use to solder copper pipe. i'm not sure that's big enough to fix the ice problem though. i also have a propane grill. that could probably be modified....
I use a tile / VCT scraper to get under the ice. Also can use it to chop from above. Then, push the snow and ice as far as you can before you lift it. Like a snowplow. And loads of rock salt.
Snook, I live in NE too but am new to these parts. Seems like a big region but I'm driving all over the place for jobs.
Donna - use your legs not your back to lift, twist the shovel to dump (rather than throw): shoveling technique similar to one used by archaeologists helps alleviate some of the back pain.
snooker - they sell ice breakers (or make one out of a metal scraper on a metal pole - let the self weight break the ice when you drop it-); a pinch point / pry bar/ crowbar probably would work on concrete, but might be too heavy for bituminous. Sand is your best friend.
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Ma, humbug! (famous bankerly quote)
still bloody cold here. Japan is a nation that does not believe in insulation and double paned glass, so when I mean its bloody cold, I mean in my living room. At least the toilet seat is warm (because Japan does believe in warm bottoms).
Vado!!!
HI VADO!!!!
In case anyone cares... I'm still alive
Hi melt. I know you're alive!
@sarah or efficient if you don't have central heat/air and are just heating/cooling immediate surroundings...
i recently started reading a Richard Brautigan compilation - which includes
Trout Fishing in America
The Pill versus the Springhill Mine Disaster
In Watermelon Sugar
in general i try to keep the ratio of hard to read and easy to read books in balance (at least over a year). Sometimes i find it is the books i force myself to read that i end up surprisingly enjoying.
The Trial was one of those also Marks of Identity which i completed earlier this year (2 years later)...
racketeering thread. greatest part is that I don't live in CO and don't intend to. so it's irrelevant to me. sounds like CO rules are even more lax than many places. I really wonder what the OP thinks happened to him to cause all this anger. I mean, just follow the d*mn rules and you'll become an archi eventually. Just cuz you show up at a job for 3 years does not mean you got any decent experience. Ask any intern struggling to meet the IDP requirements in 3 years. My experience was that meeting the requirements did make me a better architect, but it did take longer than 3 years. Do we really want someone who did bathroom details for 3 years to be licensed? Ideally the profession makes sure this person gets rounded experience, but obviously NCARB, or the great state of CO can't enforce what private biz does.
OP calls me a moron. *SIGH*. At least I'm actually a real architect, in 4 states now. I think I can tie my shoes without assistance, thank you. Not sure if I should feel honored with the title or insulted. I guess I'll change my biz card:
GRUEN ARCHITECT, NCARB, IDP, AIA, RA: NY, MA, RI, WA, USGBC, LEED AP BD+C, M O R O N.
LOL gruen! I think I too am Donna Sink RA, AIA, NCARB, M O R O N
I have an actual appointment, at a set time and place, with a City code reviewer today! Wish me luck that I will leave his office with a building permit aka an Improvement Location permit in Indy's wonky nomenclature.
lol gruen
@sarah, what nam said. Japanese house without central air uses 1/7th energy of American house. All energy focused on warming bottoms. Laundry also hangs outside to dry. No dryers. Which is cool, fer sure.
Our flat is about 1000 ft2 (big-ish for tokyo). Heating it all for 24hr a day would be really alien. Much more inefficient to do that than to just turn on and off the heaters/AC when moving from room to room. But it means its seriously cold in the morning. Insulation would be appreciated. Space is such a premium that architects go for the extra 100mm or so that they can grab when no insulation is put in the walls. Amazing.
Go ahead and laugh, my fear of sinkholes is NOT unfounded!
Sinkhole swallows eight vintage Corvettes at Kentucky museum.
Holy crap!!! Sinkholes scare me to death. Especially the really big ones that are so deep you can't see the bottom.
It's nice to hear that I'm not the only one that feels like the have M O R O N behind their name. I can't tell you the number of times I've been put on the spot with a specific question, pulled something out of my ass and then prayed that it was correct. The older I get, the worse it becomes. Sigh!
Donna,
My guess is you never ventured East from Tucson to Benson Arizona. The town is built over a limestone deposit and well when it rains they have sink holes Galore. I recall getting a phone call from the USPS district office telling me the post office had some problems and we needed to go check it out. They said, "we can see thru the bottom of the wall to the outside." Then they went on to say the floor had dropped about 12" and the wall stayed in place and oh ya it is a brick masonry wall. So I told the partner in the office and we jumped in a car and drove to Benson. Only to find the post office evacuated and delivering mail out of the back of tractor trailer. Seems like water had gotten below the building slab and had eaten away the limestone creating a big enough cavity to swallow up the floor. Once we started talking to people around town we heard all kinds of stories. The City Hall at that time was supported by adjustable floor jacks because of ground movement. Someone told us they walked in to a restaurant and went to use the bathroom and the toilet was down about 10 feet. Limestone and water don't mix. It was about a year later when they discovered the Large Caverns just out side of Benson.
@Will: no kotatsu? those things rock! we have one, and keep the house temp below 65F. I remember my cousin's house where I could see my breath in the mornings.
@Nam: I love Brautigan. Being a landscape architect his short story on the trout stream hit a particularly deep point about the lack of understanding of ecological systems at large scales.
@3tk, no no kotatsu. were totally western style living. I hate the damn things. want to sit on a sofa not on the floor. They are clever though, no doubt about it, and perfectly logical. What I would prefer is better built homes so the need never comes up. Its possible but seldom happens. japanese construction is so lop-sided.
@Sarah, that's hilarious. At least you didn't call Samuel Jackson Laurence Fishburne, to his face....
20 inches of snow on top of the 14 on the ground...yikes...think I
'm moving to Alaska. That is what they are saying at higher elevations which is where we are located. Thinking it is roof snow shovel tomorrow....glad I bought one last year.
3-4" heavy wet snow here. Raining now. Lovely. For penguins.
Snowing here...still hawking about the same amount of snow....Yahoo! It is a Noreaster!
Having snow day morning snack, cinnamon raisin toast and coffee.
Hoping we don't loose power.
It's supposed to get up to 60 today. 'Bout time. It's February for Christ's sake!
we did get about 3" of snow, then rain, then snow again.
Stupid car inspection guy made me remove the snow tires (yesterday) because the fronts were worn down. The all season tires are way worse than the worn snow tires. If this crud keeps up, I'll have to buy 2 new snow tires and pay for switching everything back again.
Or, start running the chains again.
I always wanted a half-track for Providence. Weather becomes insignificant and you can park anywhere you want. Go ahead and try to tow it away.
I shoveled out once today only to have every thing drift back in. So now I'm going to up it off till tomorrow as round to is going to hit over night. Wind is whipping around and suspect it will most of the night. They are talking winter thunder, so that should be interesting.
Hi TC!
I keep seeing all these photos of winter-wonderlands and feel sorry for myself for living in FL, where the low was like 38 last night... I miss skiing/sledding et al.
3tk, i haven't read that story yet and until i picked this compilation had only read 'A Confederate General From Big Sur', which i really enjoyed.
What has particularly surprised me though is how much i am enjoying the poetry sandwiched between the two short stories in this collection. Very "counterculture(y)" but some of them are lovely. And other than haiku's i have a hard time reading poetry.
Perhaps, because i don't enough...
off to my 4 local government/civic community workshop event this month...
hi melty! i love telling my blizzard stories to the folks down here in the delta. school is closed its freaking sixty degrees and sunny. better safe than sorry for the kiddies who are all at the mall.
hey Vado! oh the delta....
also, @miles something like below
also what is winter thunder? have i become that much a southerner...
I'm from a northern place where we get snow and stuff, but the first time I ever experienced thunder during a snow storm was when i was spending new years at a friend's place in Williamsburg - new years 2001. I can't believe that's now 13 years ago. I'm old.
We have over a foot of snow on the ground - have had it for four weeks - and Monday they're projecting rain and 40 degrees. I foresee the entire City becoming a pig pen.
Take the time to kiss your lovers today!!
Shanghai Tower (650 meters)
If the only way those guys could eat was to hunt and kill their own food do you suppose they would still want to climb towers under construction?
Not being (totally) snarky, but really wondering: is life so absent of physical risk that people need to seek out thrills?
rate of suburban sprawl peaked 20 years ago.
Yike...no safety net or ropes. These guys didn't appear to be tied off anywhere. Good thing the Weather didn't change for the worse while they were up there. I climbed a few small town water towers in my youth and also did an accent on Devil's Tower in Wyoming (800 ft). Have several friend who are serious shear wall climbers and several Mountain Peak climbers. Think they would all think this is nuts. The only thing we didn't discover about these young bucks and that is if they were, "Screamers or Flappers"
Falling is my worst fear. I've linked it to being out of control. There's nothing you can do to stop it. I think my heart is STILL pounding.
Who posted that? You suck. My blood pressure is skyrocketing now.
Breath......Breath....
@miles you see this video of Alex Honnold free-soloing El Sendero Luminoso (The Shining Path) in El Portrero Chico, Mexico in a little over 3 hours.
Ropes are for pussies.
Did he have a trained bird for a videographer?
You just have to read "Climbing Magazine" to see how many people die every year and usually their Obits talk about how long they have been climbing. The Great die along with the Weekend Warrior.
The rest of us go, "Shoveling Snow."
My lower back is causing me significant pain thanks to shoveling. I need a better technique! This summer i'm buying a snowblower, then I'll clear every sidewalk in my neighborhood.
Ya I think a snow blower will be on my list for must buy before I retire. I was looking at them and now they even come with heated handles....for old soft men like me. My old neighbor tells me spring for the one with the biggest motor, it is worth every penny in deep New England Snow, which usually is have ice .
You mean like this?
lift with your legs, not your back. if you're torquing your back, then don't throw snow to the side. turn and point your feet towards where you're throwing the snow.
Curt now if you can only tell me how to throw Ice, since our snow is about 50 % ice.
gruen.....I don't live in a City...I live in New England.
snook, i've been thinking about that. we got a bunch of ice before the snow. i just drove over it. i saw neighbors trying to break it up with a garden hoe or similar implement of destruction, then shoveling out the pieces.
i have a propane torch. the sort you might use to solder copper pipe. i'm not sure that's big enough to fix the ice problem though. i also have a propane grill. that could probably be modified....
Snook, I live in NE too but am new to these parts. Seems like a big region but I'm driving all over the place for jobs.
It's clear to me now that if I post that snow is cold Thayer-D will show up to accuse me of being brainwashed by academia. Jeez.
Donna - use your legs not your back to lift, twist the shovel to dump (rather than throw): shoveling technique similar to one used by archaeologists helps alleviate some of the back pain.
snooker - they sell ice breakers (or make one out of a metal scraper on a metal pole - let the self weight break the ice when you drop it-); a pinch point / pry bar/ crowbar probably would work on concrete, but might be too heavy for bituminous. Sand is your best friend.
Yeah Donna, use your legs. With pumps and seamed stockings. Then get some drooling fool to shovel for you.
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