i think the problems here started long before the internet

this is the capital of south carolina

this is what the rest of us see

surely the affection for 'traditional' charleston can be maintained without the racism?

Well-said, Marc, on both points.

As if I wasn't already distraught enough today....I only have a few minutes as I have to go to the doctor this morning (to see about changing my fluoxetin prescription LOL!), but I was smacked in the face this morning with the news that my adopted state of Indiana, the state I hate globally but love locally, has decided that the state no longer needs to license engineers. ENGINEERS!!!! The reason given is this:

"Indiana should be a model for efficient and limited governance"

GAAHAAGAHAHAAA fuck that! I don't want the government so limited that every bridge falls down because "that's what the market decided"  ¯\_(ツ)_/¯ !!

Uggggghhhhh, I'm going to try to write an actual news item on this over the weekend but FFS I'm just gobsmacked right now.

I can't. I just can't.

But I'm sure they still license who cuts your hair, right? 

I'm all for limited governance, but until every state deregulates cosmetology all else is a sham...

And there's a "you need to start packing..." headline. 

Pretty much every headline is you need to start packing.

Where do you think you're going to go that will be any different?

linking the south carolina thing and licensure thing, if i walked into great clips and asked for a bowl cut like that kid, i'm pretty sure they would refuse service on grounds that it would be opposed to their professional ethic.  i haven't actually tried that though.

Reading the tangential discussion of whatever happened in SC is far more interesting than actually reading about whatever happened in SC.

I'm pondering what happened to the kid with the bowl cut and whether whatever happened to him happened because of it.

Please, don't pop my bubble.

"...the state no longer needs to license engineers."

5 years of mentorship after graduation?  Forget that, I'll just skip getting my P.E. and move to Indiana!

Miles, to a parametric paradise

So long as there are horror stories about staph infections contracted at the salon that result in amputations cosmetology will be considered for regulation. No wants to be permanently maimed for the sake of vanity (well, there are examples but that's a totally different thing).

It is most likely that Roof's haircut is the result of his social and political inclinations, along with his choice of attire. Anybody who wears apartheid era patches for South Africa and Rhodesia -now Zimbabwe- is calculated and practiced and likely living on a fringe with different priorities. 

But if we are going to conflate ideas and threads, here is a great example of architecture as an embodiment of place and ideas in form. In attacking a church, you attack not only the building and those who use it, but you also attack the their values and identify. 

They also decided home inspectors don't need to be licensed anymore. Or surveyors. Surveyors!

Hard to believe the state is going to dispense with collection of all those juicy licensing fees.

So ... based on this thread some kid in SC had his head amputated because of an infection he got at a hair salon.

^that's parametricism applied! Bravo!

25% of US women are on prescription anti-depressants. Vanishingly few of us are shooting people.

He probably enjoyed video games and perhaps wore tennis shoes. Let's all make broad statements about those being linked as well.

My evening canoe trip on the White River was just cancelled - the water level is too high, and they're predicting more rain over the next week. Poor California is dry heaving and the Middle is drenched.

I should have been like a real architect and been sitting on my back deck  drinking cold ones, but instead I'm running around with my head cut off trying to put together a bunch of drawing to enter a lottery pool with a bunch of other non profits to see if we can get part of the pie which seems to shrink everyday thanks to our  Governor who has his head stuck up his ass.   Now I don't go around saying that about people as a norm but this guy is fricking living on on an asteroid cause Uranis wouldn't have him as a citizen.

...living on on an asteroid cause Uranis wouldn't have him as a citizen.

I plan to somehow work this insult into conversation this weekend.

Hey, mightyaa? What's up, did you take a new job?

25% of US women are on prescription anti-depressants. Vanishingly few of us are shooting people.

Maybe, but we're pretty sure you're thinking about it ALL the time.

head up north a bit and i'll find a lake to take you fishing if you want donna.  not as good as the trout in the white river, but better than drowning.  also better than most drugs.

Donna...Please Credit me...lol

Double rainbow near sunset / Solstice celebration 21 June

traditional charleston wouldn't exist but for the fact that having severed the raillines to the city,  Sherman by passed it on his march through the carolinas. And they burned a lot of sheet along the way.

Not as much as we love to talk about each other.

I'm stealing a haiku from Steven Ward that sums up my attitude towards my job today:

Ha ha ha ha ha

Ha ha ha ha ha ha ha

Ha ha ha ha ha

It's futile, you guys. We design things and people just destroy them.

PS kozumelle is really a regular posing as a troll, yes?

so, not laughing because it's funny?

Yes, curt, laughing in disbelief/frustration/appreciation of absurdity/despair, all of those.

haikus are complicated

beauty incarnate

architectural blossoms

contractors stomp them

A  I  A, Assoc

manic or genius, not sure

god bless Oregon 

I interpreted your haiku as an ode to my favorite poster. Here is mine.

Richard Balkins is
Raging against sense, nonsense
Writing so much prose

Primus and Genesis actually exhibit very similar shrinkage characteristics. However, Genesis is more resistant to cracking from the forces of shrinkage...

Excerpt of building product FAQ from a manufacturer with an eclectic taste in music.  Sometimes you have to wonder where the names come from, in this case it's obvious...

Maybe the bands chose their names in homage to the grout?

Not as much as we love to SHIT ON each other.

fixed it for you.

haikus

haikus

haikus

spitting in the sink.......

e.e. snooker doodle dandy

Koz, unbelievable

tone deaf, no self awareness

read incredulous

koz is a regular, I'm sure of it. Or more likely a former regular who cannot believe we're all over here in this profession talking about it.

He's like a big-city tourist who enters a small town bar and is pissed there isn't specialty microbrewery crafted beer on tap. Then complains about the complacency of the owners to not offer variety and fails to see the leers around. Walks out bemoaning the pigs inside.

If Koz is trolling he's fucking brilliant. If not he's a fucking idiot. I'm voting for the latter, exacerbated by certain cultural and economic differences.

Either way he can be pretty amusing.

I think he's the former, because I can't believe the latter is true.

Hanlon's razor

^ Exactly.

I was still doing haiku...

never attribute
to malice what stupidness
does explain so well

He has to be a troll.  All of the threads he starts have perfect comment-bait titles, and his replies keep the controversy going.  

In other news, I just finished a batch of interviews for an internship, anxiously awaiting the decisions...  I hate the waiting game.  

maybe he learned to communicate by reading gawker or whatever internet rag it is that produces that stuff

good luck schoon