Would you be willing to remove the tracking facebookid connected urls? I like the list of resources, but I won't click anything connected to fucking facebook unless I am tricked or forced.

WorldCat and ILL (interlibrary loan) are two things that I think every student should learn about on the first day of every semester.

Follow that up with information about how you can request your local library acquire books. Blew so many of my classmates minds that you can simply ask the library to buy a book for you to check out.

screengrabbed for future reference!

Great resources, thank Orhan!

Good luck! I hear it's an amazing view.

If you have an extra place on your team, can I join you?

Please link a trip report when you are done, or a couple photos here — I’m a fan of adventurers

I think I did that, just to draw you back.

Isnt that called cyber stalking?

If it had been 200 of my comments from '09, I'd be worried for sure!
I assumed that this was just an honest and probably uncontrollable reaction to some brilliant observation I made back when I was smarter.

All went downhill after ‘16

Seriously, Steven, I read my own comments from 15 years ago here and think “Damn, I used to actually be smart!”

You're still smart Donna, you're just working with the material you get ;)

It's constant with me, Donna. The *worst* is to read things I wrote when I was in school. *That* guy was smart. The academic parts of my brain have atrophied over the decades.

Ha! I had the opposite experience recently.... was looking at an old Tschumi book from school at my margin notes and what I underlined thinking "what a naïve idiot!" 

Maybe that just means I'm reach peak smartness now and it is all downhill from here.

I'm embarrassed to admit how often I google something building-related and find that I answered the same question on a forum or in an article years before. I swear I'm getting dumber the older I get.

You're not getting dumber WG. You just have so much knowledge in the brain of yours it's easy to forget where you put it. Happens to me all the time - it's just that I really don't know the answer . . .

Good to know that mine isn't the only brain needing a wheelchair. It's so full of useful stuff, most of which is not reachable without a week's notice.

Chad I'd like to think that's the case but other clues make me think I really am getting dumber. Or there is limited capacity and Instagram Reels songs are squeezing out the important content.

Poopapalooza!

My partner did the prep, and opted out of the anesthesia, she said the procedure isn't that bad.

The hilarious, gone-too-soon Dennis Wolfberg on his colon exam from thirty years ago... when the procedure was still to be dreaded, and for good reason: https://www.dailymotion.com/video/x2w97vf

Fun stuff! I had my first one last year. I didn't find the prep to be bad at all, but maybe I was lucky. I did find the $4k bill for the privilege to be outrageous, mainly due to a coding issue--apparently "diagnostic" is different from "screening." The $15K a year my wife and I pay for insurance covers screening, but not diagnostic, and after hours on the phone, there is no way to change it. F our insurance-driven health system. I should have risked cancer instead and stuck them with a giant bill.

Ultimately, not a big deal & not dreaded as my similarly aged friends led me to believe...

(prep reminded me of our dog on acadia just gorging on sea water & then producing a fountain in the kitchen of our airbnb...at least it was on linoleum!)

worst of it was being up all night to prep for a 8a appt

I think architects should make it standard practice to talk about the cost of these seemingly arbitrary design standards when they present to public hearings. The average citizen might be a little less supportive of their local design review board if they had a window into their (sometimes project-busting) effect on budgets, especially public budgets.

tduds, I think their intent is to make it expensive. To keep out the riffraff. Edit to add, I guess that doesn't really make sense for a fire station, more for SFR. Chad, what is SAR?

I work with an architect who lives in Western Colorado. He is designing a house in an area that has a design review committee and has requirements for Architectural Elements. 62 pages worth. The design review lady, who knows he is an architect, asked him if he could do Architectural Elements.

SAR - Search And Rescue. This project is in a mountain town that wants to remain old and crusty.

Another frustrating thing -  the head of the review department that wrote the 'guidelines' doesn't use typical nomenclature.  For example:  the person uses the term 'modular' to mean massing. 

https://www.nichiha.com/hardware/corners

as long as there's no budget, you should be good, right?

"guidelines are written so that the board can change their minds about what is allowed at any time."

Boom! There's your angle...!

"Wants to remain old and crusty" is my Tindr headline.

Chad, I'll gladly change spots. Sounds like a vacation compared to the 2 residential projects on fire here.

"I think their intent is to make it expensive. To keep out the riffraff." 

Oh, for sure. I just want to make them say the quiet part out loud.

Well the nickname for the town this project is in is "Crusty Butt" This is despite the fact that the average home there costs $2 million and no one that works in the town can afford to live there. The town is having to build affordable housing in order to keep all the businesses around.

i need to get there some day -- hopefully without ever seeing the inside of your first responder building (no offense; i do hope it gets built )

Check out this aluminum siding. Not sure how it will jive w the arbitrary style you’re stuck w though https://www.longboardproducts.com/

WG made a post about is a few days ago.

Shoot, I was super excited to share too

Sorry, we all pre-ordered a copy already. 8-)

Thanks Shell! I hope people find it useful. Mostly I hope we didn't make any glaring omissions or mistakes (but we probably did).

Save something for the second edition!

Damn right. Call in a nuke from orbit! Get away from her you bitch!

Absolutely. I hope you know who is banned forever. I am going to flag every post or comment he makes I don't care what it is.

That’s a relief, and perfect timing as we’re over the hill pandemic-wise!

I'm just going to reply to any of his posts that are BS with T1 or T0 with 'T' being the trolling score.

Because it gives GCs an excuse to excise the parts of the projects they don't want to think about without having to say that part out loud.

Interesting. I've heard nothing more than what is basically a rumor at this point, but supposedly there is a PVDF resin (i.e. Kynar 500) shortage coming up that might make getting the fluoropolymer coatings for metal roof and wall panels, as well as curtainwall and storefront mullions difficult. If it turns out to be true, I'm not looking forward to reviewing the substitutions from contractors that they'll try to push through.

Have you ever encountered a project that didn't "require" the schedule being pushed? Because I haven't. Time is money and if the GC has to extend insurance, rentals, and internal staffing costs due to a delayed schedule, I actually understand that.

^only once. Government project with extremely high liquidated damages (like, on the order of a month's rent per day beyond the agreed-upon substantial completion). It was a nail biter but they got it approved one day early.

EA - what do you think they would try to sub for metal coatings?

My guess is they'd come in with a polyester coating as the substitution. It's probably the "right" solution in most applications. I believe there are some that will get you AAMA 2604 performance and that might be good enough if the owner gets a healthy credit in return, but it still wouldn't have the same performance as a 70% PVDF complying with AAMA 2605 that we'd typically specify for those applications. Yes, it could save the timeline and be cheaper, but the performance will be less than expected and the owner might not be happy in 10-15 years time. But if that's all you can get ... might as well take it I suppose.

If the (supposed) shortage is limited to PVDF and does not include FEVE resin, then there would still be options to get the same (or better) performance in FEVE-based coatings, but I think FEVE tends to be more expensive so there might have to be some adjustments to budgets or design to make it work. You could use it as an excuse to get some nice vivid colors if you wanted to.

So long as you're talking about materials, I want to do galvanized gutters, a simple, profile, what gauge would you be inclined to use?

b3ta, do you have a copy of SMACNA's Architectural Sheet Metal Manual? Check out Table 1-5 which gives you various materials (including galvanized steel) and recommended minimum thicknesses for each based on gutter girth.

I wish. It's on my list.

I love SMACNA. Fun to say, glorious to read.

It's better than graphic standards.

Trying to remember if you commented earlier about using madcad for accessing standards, codes, etc. It can be included in your madcad subscription if you have one. Either way, you didn't get this from me (you can also see the same info here):

P.s. you can use SMACNA's online calculator (http://apps.smacna.org/dsgcal/) to help determine the size of gutter you might need for you project based on rainfall and roof area.

Not sure if that link works above. I clicked it just now and got an error. Here's another link that hopefully lasts longer than a few hours. https://www.smacna.org/apps/apps-tools/smacna%E2%80%99s-downspout-gutter-sizing-calculator

*reviled*

Sounds like you picked a good time to leave for a weekend.

There’s no wrong month to quit drinkin’!

or, for that matter, to start up again.

Thanks Donna. That intersection is a few blocks away from my office. Police made a big raid last night and confiscated loads of fuel and propane stashes. It's calming down, but it's still a mess of extreme-right pro-Christian racists...

a true follower of Jesus Christ can neither be extreme-right nor a racist…

No such thing as true-follower because the figure is fictional. Nothing to compare to.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/No_true_Scotsman

One can still be a follower of a fictional character, just stick with the fiction…

Update, I decided to go into the office this morning. Been avoiding the gong-show all last week. Truck honking is temporarily illegal (10day injunction) and fuel/food/bible supplies are diminishing... Still a few hundred exceptionally deluded protestors with turcks here tho. Downtown also smells bad.

Saw someone waving a sign that said "Honk if you love Trudeau" - I laughed

.

^this is genius.

what's wordle?

It's a fun thing to do over my morning coffee. Haven't missed one yet!

The most frustrating is when you get all letters but one on guess two and then finally get it on the last guess because you guessed the vowels in the wrong order.

Pete yeah that kind of thing is frustrating. Or when you forget to use a yellow or green letter because you haven't had enough coffee yet.

Non, hopefully you're joking, but if not, there are more important things going on than the riots outside your door.

Riots?

No riots yet... but there have been a few close calls. Still not safe outside and many are there waiting for a fight to start. It's not over, probably not even close to. WG, no, have no idea what that is.

Well let me introduce you to it: https://www.powerlanguage.co.uk/wordle/. Fun little word game, everybody gets the same word, only one per day so you can't get (too) addicted.

Sorry to hear about the troubles up there. 

Neat, got the word on 4th try

Ok Wood Guy, you got me into it! Wordle has been all the hell over my socials, I had no antipathy toward it but hadn’t tried it myself. Now I’ve done it twice and love it, but I’m not very good at it LOL! Thank you!

omg i'm addicted.

I'm honored to have been the catalyst in sparking new addictions! Todays was a bit tricky for me but in 20 games I haven't lost yet, averaging almost exactly 4 guesses per game.

attempt 3 for me today.

Used to have that game on tv here in NL for 25 years, was called Lingo. Here’s the highlight from 2006: https://www.ad.nl/show/hilarische-lingo-bloopers-vieze-woorden-en-markante-missers~aa9cd7de/63149993/

That sucks... all daycare workers are required to be fully vaxed here. No vax, no in-person teaching job.

"Withstanding" Great word! Reminds me of a similar term I picked up from an old hippie I once worked with: "interfacing" e.g. The best buildings don't stand against the environment, they interface with it. I think I'll adopt this term if you don't mind.

Raising a shot of Malort in your honor, although I don't think I've had many top levels of stairs with 13' ceiling height? Must be a special case.

Almosthip can you build a lil’ platform to get the actual ladder to be juuuuuuuuust less than 4 meters?

That's a great idea.

I've used it to avoid a landing in a stair run once or twice. Just had to make it large enough.

Ahip, at least your code has some information on ladders. Ours defaults to the Canadian labour code and a long defunct design standard. No one know what they are doing so we keep recycling the same thing. For us it’s cage after 4m and platforms if higher than 6ish meters.

Don't forget to double check with workplace health and safety legislation!! I'm all for health and safety standards but the bureaucracy is Kafkaesque.

And it’s gone…

Is Rick under the impression that he'll get posting privileges back at some point in the future?

Rick, I know you're reading this. You don't need to make a new thread to answer it, nor do you need to email me.

7 year itch.

That's hilarious

Meant to say, thanks for sharing because that was a hilarious read. What a shameless hack! At least it put a smile on my face after a long day

Yes, needed the quick laugh

i still stand by my original comment.

I actually like it when existing buildings are wrapped in glass

As a lover of Brutalism, I view this proposal as a personal affront.

Idea isn't bad but wow that does not look good in the slightest.

B- concept, D+ execution.

Who did what now?

Guess.

Good thing that got nuked early... I am in my jolly mood to play along. Unrelated, our chief of police resigned 12hrs after the Emergency Act announcement.

I assume x-jla was being his normal self.

His logic works like this.

So it gets you from a via b-z all the way back to a, all while enjoying nice scenic views and walking upside down?

The issue is that the track isn't finished and the cars don't have any restraints. Also you asked where to buy a funnel cake and not about the roller costar.

and their pockets are full of bees

"She's a brick... HOUSE"

They don't have to change clothes to go to the Beaux Arts Ball

mmm, no thanks. I'm depressed naturally without thom yorke's whining.

I guess this belongs on the music thread, but I also can’t bear Radiohead so I’m listening to the upbeat yet melancholy Pete Krebs, who I first knew as a drywall contractor in Portland when he played with grunge band Hazel.

glad to hear it wasn't morrisey...

Today, Brad Pitt googled, "Who is Donna Sink, and why is she parked outside my house?"   What a coincidence! 

;O]

Nobody needs to be here ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

herp derp warm air comes from the hole!

I got it in 6.

Wow, congrats! I got it in 5 but know many others who were close but couldn't quite get there.

I have a masochist friend who plays this version, using 11 letters: https://wordlegame.org/11-letter-words-wordle

There's also https://www.quordle.com/

11 letter words one is bullshit, man.

I used a strategy I hadn't tried before, and it wouldn't be available if playing on "hard mode." On my 3rd attempt I was only missing one letter, and I could see there were too many options if I just went through available letters for actual words one by one. So I used attempts 4 and 5 to rule in or out possible letters with other words. Figured out the 1 missing letter with attempt 5, then used my last attempt to solve it in 6.

Shop State Of, which is a menopause-focused product company, posted this as an ad for their cooling spray and I chortled. The pain is real.

Penis itchy, moody. Break, moist woman?

Hemmingway can write a story in six words and so can I.

also had a post there…genuinely interested in examples of first principles thinking in architectural education. Now I will never know(!)

I think not allowing someone to post has a bigger effect on their emotional and mental health…

There's a recurring theme on X's threads, mainly whereby some novel and/or obscure idea is lightly presented as a certainty, then pivoted to some grandiose statement reaffirming a wildly alt-right worldview through some hackneyed connection. This doesnt really appear to have any coherent backing, and mostly comes off as a performative one-ups-manship. It became tiring a long time ago.

I'd love an actual, good faith discussion about the benefits and drawbacks of various ways of thinking. That sounds like a fun discussion! But when you open with "...the cure for the current mindset that’s destroying western civilization." it really gives up the pretense that spirited discussion is the aim.

rando - not allowing someone to post shouldn't have an effect on someone's emotional and mental health. If it does then said person already has emotional and / or mental health issues.

x-jla's post in question is an incredibly transparent attempt at trolling.  That's why is was locked.  x-jla has made other posts that are genuine discussions and those haven't been locked.  

Chad, that’s why it does have an effect on their emotional and mental health.

Having emotional and / or metal issues doesn't necessarily allow a persons speech to be free of consequences.

 If x-jla needs to speak at someone for his emotional and mental health then he find a professional to assist him. This site and it's users doesn't have an obligation to allow x-jla to post up garbage and put up with his bullshit.

That’s all in the eye of the beholder…one person’s garbage is the other one’s gold, or something. Put someone on ignore if you can’t handle them and move on with your life…it seems you have quite the obsession about x-jla, maybe talk to someone ;-)

Accusing anyone else of having a fetish for xlax is a bit of a projection. You're lucky this is a forum, rando, if it requires talking you'd have to reluctantly pull your lips off of his ass.

It's emotionally abusive if someone tries to bait you into a fight and you refuse to take the bait.

I’m just surprised of all the people going through all that trouble to keep discussing a single forum member…that’s not how ignoring someone works. If I’d want to ignore someone I wouldn’t keep on engaging them and replying to their posts, but maybe that’s just me.

and yet HERE YOU ARE TOO

Sometimes bullshit goes away if you ignore it. Other times you have to loudly call it out.

Seems like neither ignoring it, nor calling it out is working. Maybe we need to stop letting it in the house...

I have suggested to him a number of times that he should leave of his own volition for his own well being. He refuses to do so. I believe at this point allowing him to post and/or comment is enabling him.

“ and yet HERE YOU ARE TOO”

I’m mostly here discussing the ones discussing that forum member ;)

How convenient for you.

Very much so…

I really don't give much thought to x-jla until I see him post up lies and taunts. x-jla is a dishonest liar with no credibility. He's admitted to knowingly posting up lies and being a troll. That is why when I see him acting this way I call him out on it. 

Free speech dose not mean you're free from the consequences resulting from what you say.  

Nowhere on this forum it is stated that one must post the truth the whole truth and nothing but the truth so help you bgh…

Nowhere on this forum dose it say that we have to put up with and provide a platform for people who knowingly lie.

You are not the one providing the platform Chad, and you don’t have to put up with anyone here, you could simply stop visiting if you don’t want to put people on ignore. Easy as pie…

For normal inane posts and trolls I would simply ignore them. When people knowingly post lies that cause harm to others I don't stay quiet.

How does anything posted on the archinect forum cause harm to anyone?

Spreading lies about COVID harms people. The platform doesn't matter.

Whoever takes their covid advice from an architecture forum must wear their underpants on their head…

I get all my architecture advice from medical forums.

you wear underpants?

I only wear a thong . . .

From one canuck to another, I'm glad you're staying home. I drive by these protesters daily and it's just not worth engaging. Be safe and have a great weekend

Cheers BB.

The pics from Winnipeg don't look very pleasant.

It's not great but besides the streets immediately to the north of our Legislative Building, they've not really been too noticeable. Maybe the southern border crossings were different but I hear they've been mostly cleared by now. Stay safe. I can only imagine the absurdity you're in.

It's pretty absurd but since I'm the owner of a white penis, I'm safe from pretty much anything these wankers are doing. Can't say the same for my female colleagues tho who receive non-stop harassment because they wear their masks when they go get their coffee. Their rhetoric is the absurd part and they've convince far too many that they are some sort of freedom martyrs for white jesus.

I trust since Winnipeg is a little isolated, there is less week-end warrior type folks who come down just for shits and giggles and illegal shenanigans.  This is the absurd part for us.  Hoards of (likely vaccinated) folks drive down for the outside of Ottawa (many redneck hick towns) and wreck havoc in the residential areas... then they go back home and back to their weekday jobs thinking they are fighting the good fight.

please start a Canada protest thread in Politics -- this is gonna blow up Thread Central

My sister hasn't mentioned much disruption where she is at in Alberta, but that's probably because all the hoards were gathering at the Coutts border crossing (which is only an hour or so away from her, I think). It's probably also because many of her neighbors sympathize with the protestors, or have joined the protesters. So that's fun.

EA - Its all quite in Alberta because we sent all our yahoos to Ottawa......Sorry NS. Well except for the Coutts boarder crossing protest.

Update: Being the polite Canadian prairie folk they are, our local protesters have agreed to move away from the government building, and will only blast their horns at two mutually-agreed upon times per day. I wish I was making that up, but I'm not. Clownshoes all around

BB, they (the trucker cunts) proposed something similar like once per day at 5pm or whatever. We passed an injunction to make it a finable offence to honk for no legal reason for 60 days within downtown. Today, police on horseback re-enacted the final scene of LoTR2 where Gandalf rides through the orcs splitting the crowd in two. It's not over and I'm not a fan of tanks in our city centre or swat breaking car windows to drag occupants but if people were upset at the lost freedoms during covid... they sure as fuck won't like the lost ones in jail. Impending xJLA clueless thumbs down in 3...2...1...

Don't they use pricks to keep the homeless from using public locations?

Yes. Yes they do...

very prickly

So long as you're a giant, you could sleep on it like a bed of nails

Sneaky Pete, I am really not sure why ythat comment was hidden. It seems odd, because I think it was a very good comment. Someone higher than me must have misinterpreted your use of “pricks” as applying to Archinect, not New York City. I don’t have the ability to unhide that comment, I’m sorry.

I'm ok, I have a roof over my head. The city could do with more than a nasty word or two shoved where the sun doesn't shine, though.

that picture of the highway isn't new york though...

Correct, it's China. I didn't mean to imply that it was, but I can see how I didn't make that clear given the context. I was taking "they" more generally rather than specific to NYC. Here's some examples from New York:

https://www.nytimes.com/2019/11/08/nyregion/hostile-architecture-nyc.html

Is it the old man that makes it hostile?

yes, he's a registered voter

What're you up to, WG?  Everybody knows that cannons use toner.

Really.  Big.  Toner.

Better than money though, right?

Nnnnnnnnnnnnope.

Better invest in printer ink, one of the most expensive liquids in the world, or Chanel no. 5 :)

Invest in printer ink? I can't even give the stuff away! That cartridge in the previous post is worth almost $80.

As printer ink is a pyramid scheme, you should be at least one level above consumer/end-user…

Yup

On the other hand In my office there’s been a reluctance to take on more responsibility because there’s no support to back you up

this is how i feel; there is little incentive to take on more responsibility at my office because when i cross a certain line, i know i'll be out on my own with no support, like you say. i won't get paid more (and if i will it will be marginal), so until there is actual management structuring this responsibility, i'm happy to remain where i am.

i think the days of taking on responsibility for responsibilities sake are dwindling..

^ This is just part of the hidden, less-discussed aspects of WFH that we didn't know much about until it became so widespread for so long. Place and face-to-face are critical factors for working in teams. Zoom and email can only do so much.

That sounds healthy for your brain. No advice from me. Just wishing you happiness & clarity for whatever direction you take next.

I love this, Josh. You're a role model.

Way to go Josh! I wish you be best of luck with finding a new position. If you like the area you can always come to work for a firm in Grand Junction, CO. There are a few that are hiring . . .

Perfect example to set in the profession if you ask me. I'm all for it.

Any info on what it was for or anything?

Drugs being the safe bet.

Unpaid medical bills?

Wearing white after Labor Day... scum!

Probably drugs. It's an extended family household so I speculate that some of the kids or their friends were into drugs.

That's always a mixed bag when you get a welcome extension, but not until the last minute, when you've already done so much work. Yay/Boo!

Elsewhere: context is everything. When I'm teaching and (rarely) decide to extend a paper deadline, I always check the calendar. Announce the extension too early, and the worst procrastinators (about a third of the class) are rewarded in the short term-- but not for later, obviously.  Announce too late and the very well-prepared (10-15% of the class) will be really pissed, since they're essentially done. The ideal timing, usually about a week out, means that most of the laggards will have at least started something; and most of the stars won't yet be complete.

I see someone else has already met today's quota for razor-sharp wit, so I'll just see myself out.

That movie is totally carried by Bob's performance.

And yeah that's why I rewatched Nobody last night. Watching a gang of thugs get their asses kicked on a bus felt good.

I'm sorry Angus was assaulted. I can understand some of what he's going through, mine was a different kind of violence, and the justice system failed me. It really took a long time for me to get past the anger, I finally had to let it go, and forgive, not so much him directly, but internally. He's got a good head, great parents, he needs to talk about what happened, or could consume him.

Sorry to hear that …healing thoughts for your son & your family

It really upsets me to hear about Angus and that ordeal for him and you all, Donna. It's hard to put into words, and these things seem to be becoming ordinary, which is both rage-inducing and disheartening. The re-watching of Nobody makes a lot of sense here. Would that there was a Bob O. on every street corner and every bus right now.

Fortunately, I've never been in that position. Chicago is a scary place, and if he goes to U of Chi, THAT part of town can be terrifying. If you're looking for some satisfying videos, try YouTube under "bully fails" or some such header. There

is a lot of street justice footage which is satisfying. Too bad our "authorities" don't give us much legal justice these days.

geezertect, there was a police report filed, and he did speak to a detective, after which the police department released CTA images of three of the suspects. I’m trying to be hopeful that something will come of it, but we’ll see.

Donna, I immediately imagined you in a Death Wish scenario, seeking vengeance and kicking ass. In all seriousness, that sucks but I'm glad he's okay. I've been the intended victim of a couple muggings, but the idiots approached me from the front both times. Once with a knife. When I smiled and told them to "bring it," they all ran away. Don't get the wrong impression, I'm only 5'-6" but training in a bunch of martial arts / MMA has given me the confidence to not back down just long enough for one of us to run away. If your son hasn't ever tried training in combat sports, maybe now is a good time to start. It may help with the trauma.

Donna, I am sorry this happened to Angus. We all came to love and appreciate him and what's around him. I am glad it isn't anything more.

I am sorry that happened to Angus. What cowards. 5 to 1 is a high p**** ratio. They must be dissed by ev
eryone on the street.

Rather than a thorough dissing, poor babies, I vote for the following in quick succession: vigorous prosecution; rapid incarceration; humiliating penetration.

These loser, lowlife thugs undoubtedly will have a future of drug addiction, petty crime, and repeat incarnation as

*incarceration*.

Citizen, I didn't mean that dissing should or
be their punishment.

Prison rape isn't a punch line.

I was shot during an attempted car jacking. The bullet grazed across the inside of my left palm and clipped my left thigh. I was attempting to deflect the muzzle of the pistol but had just put on sunscreen so my hands were slippery. I managed to disarm my attacker and recovered fully from the injuries both physically and mentally.

I'm glad your son is doing OK Donna.  Be sure to let him know that it's OK to get therapy for this.  PTSD is no joke.  

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Damn Donna, feel so bad for your family. My bro-in law and wife were mugged in oakland ca several years ago. The bad guys were caught a couple months later. I don't remember the exact details, but they were over 18 and did go to jail for multiple muggings with a deadly weapon.

I usually agree with BB, but I'd recommend running to most. The average criminal is going to be way better at violence that the average architect, or architect's children!  

Sounds like their goal was to hurt someone, i'm sure their life sucks on many levels.

Sorry for your son Donna. I was robbed at gun point in Chicago many years ago. The attacker was caught - I ID'd him in a lineup. Spending time at the district police department viewing suspects behind a mirror was actually scarier than the event itself, which happened so quickly. I wish your son luck in seeing it as the random act it was and finding ways to learn without self blaming.

If you happen to see this, Donna, I was wondering how Angus is doing. Well, I hope.

To be fair NS - they are children with brains that are still developing and we're asking them to make decisions that will impact the rest of their lives. We have the benefit of hindsight and for most of us, mental maturity. (Not me mind you). Some of the questions here are asinine and show a complete lack of self awareness or ability to take personal responsibility. Most though are questions born of ignorance.

Hey, I take great offence at you calling me mature.

No way am I calling you mature. I would NEVER insult you like that.

ALL CAPS - BECAUSE THAT'S HOW IT'S ALWAYS BEEN DONE, YOUNGSTER!

I use all caps. It's easier to read on the jobsite.

I'm not necessarily sure it's still easier to read all caps now that fuzzy pencil lines reproduced by diazo are no longer the norm (I'm also not sure they're NOT, I really haven't thought about it much), but for anyone who has spent their career thus far, even if that's only a couple years, looking at drawings with notes in all caps, seeing notes in sentence case just looks wrong to most of us.

On my smaller, personal projects, I prefer the legibility of sentence case.

It’s cute that you think your notes are read.

Ha

NS wins the internet today

I Capitalize Every Word Just To Make The Contractor Go Insane

Vitruvius Grind ... is that you?

We just switched over to sentence case. I convinced our Spec/Standards guy by just showing him a little section detail done up both ways. It's too early to tell if it makes any difference but I can't imagine it'll hurt.

I subscribe to the Brown M&M Theory, in my notes. Read, or don't read, at your own risk.

I roll with 3'x4' sheets like a real pro.

I squeeze everything onto a 24x36 sheet and force the client to adjust their expectations to maintain a minimum 1/8" per foot scale with no match lines.

I strictly design for the Bluebeam Professional.

go right ahead

THAT SOUNDTRACK!

Faces are punched. Crotches are kicked.

Only if you don't know how to fight . . .

Crotch punch is the juice they serve at frat parties.

You've been to some weird frat parties then. :)

crotch punching is an odd strategy

buddy boeheim to the courtesy phone

Lee Marvin in "Point Blank". In the TV show M squad he once used hand cuffs as brass knuckles. A street fighter from way back. Also was supposed to be the nicest person you would ever meet.

Wouldn't that be the dis-courtesy phone?

Bonus points for cleaning up the gene pool.

Odd comment - given that Van Damme's opponent in this film is Asian ...

Chong Li was such a badass

Wow, good eye, Marc. I can't tell the racial or ethnic lineage of anyone in that photo, so I'm impressed.   I did presume that the punchee was a bad guy, and that we want fewer bad guys.

Congrats Josh. I did the same. Getting out of Chicago for a while.

Cool Josh!

new vibes are good vibes

Are there not more important issues?

Pelosi better not mess this up.

Non, I expect my government to be able to walk and chew gum at the same time. Also small quality of life changes are important, too. Getting to spend more daylight in the evening with my kid is good.

NS - we're getting rid of time change so we have more evening light to shoot stuff - 'Murica!

WWJD?

Really not looking forward to darkness at 8:45am

Same here, Maine sticks out into the Atlantic zone but we’re on eastern time. I’d prefer keeping standard time all year, which would also be simple and logical.

I’m good w/ DST all year. At my latitude, there isn’t a good compromise for dark at beginning or end of day. I def don’t need the sun up at 4a in June, so if daylight starts close to 9a in Dec, I’ll deal with that. Nothing wrong with shifting the work day if necessary.

I could get onboard with shifting the work day. Just come in at 9:30 for 3-4 months out of the year. Daylight Saving Tim.

There's a simple solution which is to simply allow the current system to stay in place, but for Congress to amend the law to allow for states to change clocks twice a year (the status quo), stay on Standard Time year-round (currently allowed ... see AZ), or stay on Daylight Saving Time year-round (currently not allowed without special permission).

Last time this came up in my newsfeed I think it was from UT passing a law (last year maybe) to stay on DST if allowed. I think CA, OR, WA, ID, MT, and WY have already passed bills to stay on DST if allowed by Congress. I think AK was looking at doing something similar and CO was looking at eliminating DST, but I don't think it went anywhere with either state. I haven't heard much about anything on the east coast, but I think parts of Indiana go back and forth on whether they want to stay in Eastern or change to Central. I'm sure there are other states I haven't been paying attention to that would welcome an option too. I could be wrong on those details, but I'm all for letting states just figure it out. It would probably be pretty messy, but I'm kind of ok with that for a bit. I think it would get sorted out pretty well in the end.

Perhaps this will change, but for the moment I'm loving the extra daylight with the kiddo and the blackout curtains work a treat.

i find the early darkness doesn't help my children get to sleep any sooner, but the early sunrise definitely has them waking me up an hour or two too early.

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Its light till midnight where I live in the summer time, only really get dusk before the suns back up again by 4am, and 18 hours of darkness in the winter time. The time change does not help me at all

Are you saying you're told old for this shit?

I ain't that old, but yes.

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I recently had vermiculite abated from my attic. The first contractor insisted that everything on my upper floor be immediately thrown in the garbage "because it's contaminated," and they could help me with that for the low cost of 6 weeks of my salary. I didn't trust this person so I got another quote. I told this to the second contractor, who said "I have no idea what that person is talking about. Even if it gets contaminated, you can just clean those things with soap and water and move on with your life." Long story short, I don't trust anybody so whoever gives me the info I agree with most, is getting my money. I feel your frustration

30-minute time-out for the sales guy, sealed inside a plastic garment bag with the old duct section.

I've lost count at this point, but I think I'm at my 6th or 7th extra day for a window installation that should have been done in 5-6 days back in October. So many screw ups in this job; product backordered, window ordered wrong, a lot of the glass was scratched (some from the factory, some from their handling), windows installed in the wrong openings, caulking not installed correctly, code-required flashing missing, etc.). So at this point I think the installers have probably lost any profit they would have made on my job and probably more. Their installation manager was fired a month or two ago and I'm pretty sure my job might have had something to do with it. They've also changed their main glass supplier because of the issues with the glass.

I'm trying to be chill about it, but if they don't finish it on this next visit I'm probably going to scream. Then I'm going to itemize everything they haven't done, get a quote from someone else to fix it, and deduct that from the amount I owe them. I don't have time for this.

Well, I screamed (into the void).

They are coming back on next week to cut out and reinstall the sealant they never addressed and switch the glass around that they installed the wrong way this week (surface #1 should face the exterior, not the interior you incompetent ...).

Before I sent them photos and a strongly worded email ... they, unsolicited, offered me a $500 credit for all the trouble. I'll take it, but it's not enough to compensate me for all the time I've wasted on this.

Look for an addition of a few photos to the Show us your caulk! thread.

I've been off of all of them but this one for years. Don't miss it one bit.

I just do my best to get banned.

Just to cement my ancient fossil status here, I recall starting the process to join Facebook in 2008.   ("Find old friends and classmates!"  "Make new friends and communicate with them!" "Isn't Mark Zuckerberg awesome?")   As I was prompted to enter my email address, I paused and thought for a minute. Hmmmmm.... nah.  Probably the best decision I made that year. 

I think of Archinect as my toe in the social media waters, and it's plenty.  bowling_ball's excellent cost-benefit summary is a great reminder.

I'm on FB a couple times a week for five minutes total. The last election cycle and COVID made me nearly quit FB all together. It wasn't healthy to see how incredibly stupid and selfish people are. Other than that my only social media is here. Wait - do emails count? If so then I'm on social media all dang day.

Facebook is like a blighted neighborhood. Sad shadows of wasted potential lit by trash barrel fires of misplaced outrage. I mostly waste time on twitter these days.

I have a Twitter account I haven't logged into for a decade. I would delete it but I don't care. I'll get around to it someday. That one always seemed like the worst one for my personality - screaming into the void of the internet with no actual conversation happening, partly due to the format. No thanks.

I’ve had FB since 2006 and only use it because the record shops in my area post new vinyl videos every other day. C19 and politics du jours forced me to to purge all the dumbs fucks from my FB friends list.

A certain beer app is really the only social I’m married too. Ya’ll should get back in it. You know who I’m pointing the finger at.

I only joined FB back in 2012 ish because a local rock climbing group moved their forum / site there.

I stopped checking FB in 2020 and I haven't missed it at all. I replaced that time with getting more into twitter because I was able to curate the bullshit better there. I'd delete my FB account, but I do use their messenger service to keep in touch with some people pretty regularly. I also use IG enough that I keep it, but not enough that it sucks up my time or energy. That's what Archinect is for.

I doubt I'll ever be on IG, Snap, ect. It's just too much a time waste. The only reason I go onto FB is because of a few news / reporting pages I follow from around the world. They each do a weekly recap of what's been going on with links to their reporting / sources.

The problem for me is when I joined many of these social networks it was early on and they served a specific purpose for me. Now they've grown to be something different and I don't have any need for their new purposes ... but I still do get something out of them although it is very minimal.

Give me back the FB from when you had to have a .edu email address to sign up and I'd probably be a lot happier (I probably wouldn't be on it, but that's probably a good thing). Give me back IG before it tried to be some type of snapchat and tiktok and I'd be a lot happier. Remarkably, twitter is about the only one (at least in my mind) that still primarily performs what I think it was set up to do (or at least the function I liked it for originally). It's also the only one I still spend a significant amount of time on too.

I would pay a memebership fee to use a ~2008 version of facebook.

SSTduds, I'm taggin you in untappd later today. come back to the malty side.

Ah I forgot about untappd.

Will probably delete as I haven't been on there for years. Which is a shame because I'm somewhat of an expert 8-)

^boo urns

I've been drinking a lot less beer since January, but what that means is I've been seeking out more unique beers to drink. So perahps I should get back on Untappd.