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OddArchitect

Out elk hunting again this weekend. Had to cut the trip short due to horrible weather.  There was forecasted 2 inches of rain over a 4 hour period. Not good. I was literally jogging up hill with a 45 pound pack on trying to get back to my vehicle before the rain started. I barely made it off the clay / dirt road before worse of the rain hit. 

I didn't see or hear any elk. :(  It was still nearly a full moon and the impending weather had everything bedded down.  I did get a wild turkey on my way out though!   

Sep 23, 24 9:35 am  · 
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JLC-1

yep, some snow up here as well, above 10000

Sep 23, 24 11:49 am  · 
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Wood Guy

Ah, I was wondering who owned the new screen name, now I get it. Sounds like an adventure! Wild turkey is one of my favorite meats, just has to be cooked low and slow.

Sep 23, 24 11:51 am  · 
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OddArchitect

JCL - No snow in my area but it was raining HARD! 

WG - I've never made wild turkey so this will be an adventure!  I figured the new screen name was more appropriate.  :)

Sep 23, 24 12:17 pm  · 
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How does wild turkey taste compared to our normal Butterball-type bird?

Sep 23, 24 8:03 pm  · 
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Wild turkey gets you drunk quicker

Sep 23, 24 8:52 pm  · 
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I don't like Wild Turkey, but I had my first Woodford Reserve in a loooong time last night, I'm sad to say it was delicious. I've been boycotting Kentucky bourbon until Mitch McConnell is dead but I went to a brand new locally-owned and operated club last night and I decided supporting them in the moment was worth breaking my boycott momentarily. The club is a re-opening of a historic Black-owned nightclub from the 40s, the folks that opened it are local Black nonprofit developers trying to revitalize the neighborhood. I did a volunteer day cleaning out the old building a few weeks ago, and now they're open! Very exciting.

Sep 24, 24 1:25 pm  · 
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sameolddoctor

I love Woodford Reserve. Many years ago we had done a bourbon tasting in Downtown Louisville where they had a 18 year Woodford Reserve sample. 2nd best bourbon, the first being the extremely $$$ Pappy Van Winkle. Great stuff.

Good job Donna on helping the club re-open, you are good people indeed.

Sep 24, 24 1:33 pm  · 
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OddArchitect

I've never had wild turkey (the bird). This will be a culinary adventure for me! Wait, what if I baste the wild turkey with WILD TURKEY?

Sep 24, 24 1:41 pm  · 
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Wood Guy

Donna, wild turkey (the bird) tastes similar in ways to confinement-raised birds, but the meat is denser and even the breasts are dark meat, they're a bit gamier but not extremely so, the texture and taste is almost like a cross between store-bought turkey and stew beef. Cooked for a long time at a low temperature, like stew beef, the flavor mellows and the texture is very beef-like. Roasted like a Thanksgiving turkey, it's chewy and gamey, but still edible. At least that's my experience. I haven't had it in a while. A former co-worker was an avid hunter but his family didn't eat wild meat so he gave me his spoils regularly. The one thing I miss about working at that company.

Sep 28, 24 10:40 am  · 
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Bench

Damn, you leave for a week on vacation and now rick is calling state licensing boards to argue with them? I feel so bad for the intern who picked up that phone ...

Sep 25, 24 9:23 am  · 
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OddArchitect

He's arguing with them?!? Really?

Sep 25, 24 10:16 am  · 
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I'm pretty sure Rick called a former employer of mine once because he didn't like what I posted.

Sep 25, 24 1:38 pm  · 
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So happy I've got him on ignore. Makes it really easy to "nope" right back out of a thread when I see all the "Richard Balkins is ignored by you"

Sep 25, 24 2:22 pm  · 
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ditto. I have no idea what that is about and glad for it. Archinect is great because there are few people that I ever feel the need to block out. Lately some surprise me with hateful posts that I'm not sure what to do with. The internet is filled with anonymous hate all the time, and Archinect usually is not the place to attract that material. But here it is now, dropping in with the tide.

Sep 28, 24 4:36 pm  · 
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OddArchitect

Looks like steinberg hart is hiring.  ;)

Sep 25, 24 1:04 pm  · 
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JLC-1

looks like a heavy shake-up in the production teams.

Sep 25, 24 1:16 pm  · 
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axonapoplectic

I just received a job posting from a recruiter with a laughably low salary. They’re looking for a registered architect with 10+ years experience for what recent grads typically earn. I am wondering if they haven’t hired anyone in 20 years.

Sep 25, 24 1:32 pm  · 
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sameolddoctor

or the market is tanking

Sep 25, 24 5:35 pm  · 
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Hemichromis

Recruiters (and employers) are being literal clowns offering circa 2010 salary ranges in the UK, probably similar over the pond. We should all unionise and do a hostile takeover of Adobe and Autodesk to pay our own and the following generations pensions. I'm not joking.

Sep 27, 24 11:47 pm  · 
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Non Sequitur

Salaries are a reflection of the marketable skills of the applicant and what the clients are willing to pay. Want more cash? Become more valuable to clients or start your own gig and charge what you believe you’re worth. Unions won’t solve your problem.

Sep 29, 24 10:01 am  · 
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axonapoplectic

I would

Sep 30, 24 11:32 am  · 
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axonapoplectic

Oops, didn’t mean to hit return. Job market isn’t really tanking where I am. People are still willing to pay decent amounts for someone with a license and experience. It was just this one recruiter. Do you even know this market?

Sep 30, 24 11:39 am  · 
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axonapoplectic

That question was meant for the recruiter.

Sep 30, 24 4:37 pm  · 
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The dregs of Helene brought a large branch down on my roof last night - only damage was a crushed gutter - but the scenes from Asheville NC area are pretty scary. I like these two for how they show flood waters forcing stuff out of the buildings. 

https://www.citizen-times.com/...


Sep 28, 24 4:34 pm  · 
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that is crazy donna. I've been to enough disaster sites over the years that I should not be surprised by the aftermath, but its always a body blow. All that damage and detritus represents the remains of people's lives and work, turned in no time at all to nothing at all. It's sad to see, and sadder that we will have more of this going forward.

Sep 29, 24 7:29 pm  · 
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Man that Architecture under siege thread really has some people showing their full asses in it.

Sep 30, 24 4:06 pm  · 
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gwharton

Literally every single post in that thread is a raging dumpster fire of bad-faith argumentation cloaked in psychological projection. Best to ignore it all.

Sep 30, 24 4:11 pm  · 
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I had to reply, I couldn't resist. Also, there has been discussion in the past amongst the mods of slowing Bulgar's roll, they really don't contribute much of use usually, only every now and then.

Sep 30, 24 5:21 pm  · 
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Non Sequitur

I considered throwing a few sticks into that fire but then thought otherwise. Perhaps it was the sweet Neil Young playing on the turn table in the background, perhaps I’m just getting too old for this shit. Maybe both?

Sep 30, 24 5:23 pm  · 
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OddArchitect

I'm just going to reply to all of Richard's posts with "Systemic racism exists in the US."

Sep 30, 24 5:34 pm  · 
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OddArchitect

gwharton wrote:

"Literally every single post in that thread is a raging dumpster fire of bad-faith argumentation cloaked in psychological projection. Best to ignore it all. "

Not really. The posts proclaiming that systemic racism doesn't exist in the US are full of it.  Best to call out the erroneous BS when it's posted. Free speech doesn't mean free from criticism for what you say.   

Sep 30, 24 5:35 pm  · 
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gwharton

All of them. Those ones too. Just a bunch of televisions yelling commercials at each other.

Oct 1, 24 11:42 am  · 
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Wood Guy

GW, that's a copout. Yes nobody expects BB to change his mind, but that doesn't mean that the other arguments are worthless. Quite the opposite. 

Oct 1, 24 12:21 pm  · 
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OddArchitect

gwharton - Then why do you post your views about immigration, race, and libertarian ideals for the economy? Your 'evidence' to support your views have been shown to be incorrect. You know you're not going to get anyone here to agree with you on those views. 

You're more a television yelling commercials than anyone here.

You're a hypocrite.

Oct 1, 24 12:31 pm  · 
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Non Sequitur

Hey... keep the pissing contest out of TC.

Oct 1, 24 12:37 pm  · 
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OddArchitect

Fair enough. Still doesn't change that gwharton scolded us for pissing on other people shoes while he pissed on ours.  gwharton is just upset that he was called out on it.  

Oct 1, 24 12:45 pm  · 
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vado retro

My comment in that thread, which addressed the original incorrect assumption about requirements for registration, was in no way a flame in a raging dumpster fire.

Sep 30, 24 6:09 pm  · 
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OddArchitect

Exactly. gwharton just wants to agree with BB and Rick without actually saying that.

Sep 30, 24 6:14 pm  · 
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Wood Guy

Things would be so much easier if we just pretended that everyone has equal access to success, if only they'd work hard enough.

Oct 1, 24 12:24 pm  · 
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OddArchitect

It's a sign of a cowardly, embarrassed, and scared person who lies to themselves so they can get through the day.

Oct 1, 24 12:33 pm  · 
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Wood Guy

Maybe they really do think that all it takes is hard work.

Oct 1, 24 3:40 pm  · 
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OddArchitect

I hope so. I've found people like that are rather sheltered, haven't traveled much, and only surround themselves with people similar to them. If not . . .

Oct 1, 24 3:44 pm  · 
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It was likely lost in the Richard Balkins Wall of Text™ but Wood Guy I posted this when you talked about your full career experience path:

Glad to hear your full story, Wood Guy. You're one of the good guys in our profession, license or not!

 Seriously, I'm glad you're here.

Oct 4, 24 12:07 pm  · 
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Bench

Yeah i think i've single handedly learned the most from you. Not even including the book!

Oct 4, 24 2:09 pm  · 
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Wood Guy

Aw thanks Donna and Bench. It was one version of my story, meant to illustrate my point. It's all true, but I can also tell the story in a more positive light--I probably would not not have had the wide array of experience I have had if I had taken a different path, and I probably would not have been happy following a conventional path.

Oct 4, 24 3:11 pm  · 
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b3tadine[sutures]

#LFGM
Oct 4, 24 4:42 pm  · 
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Airport bars are the best quasi-public spaces. And, weirdly for us, the architecture doesn’t matter *at all* beyond having a bar and high chairs. 

Oct 4, 24 9:25 pm  · 
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Wood Guy

It's nice when there is some redeeming architectural feature to look at, but you're right, as long as there is a seat at the bar, it really doesn't matter.

Oct 5, 24 10:49 am  · 
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I posted this from IND, which is actually a really lovely airport. Award winning, even!

Oct 6, 24 11:53 am  · 
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gwharton

We should have a thread on Airports.;-) The new PDX is really nice. The new SEA terminal is only so-so. ATL is literally hell on earth ("Atlanta isn't Hell, but it's the last stop on the way there.")

Oct 7, 24 6:27 pm  · 
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JLC-1

I'm always nervous about taking pictures in airports. The best I've been so far is rejkavik.

Oct 7, 24 7:36 pm  · 
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archanonymous

Madrid is a dream airport for both design and organization. Munich is organized and signed really well but the design is so German it's practically not there. The terminal I flew through in Istanbul was amazingly fancy and well designed. Airports are universally shit in the Americas. I'll try to check out the new PDX soon though.

Oct 8, 24 5:24 am  · 
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OddArchitect

I've actually enjoyed the Minneapolis and Denver airports.

Oct 8, 24 9:08 am  · 
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sameolddoctor

Atlanta is quite horrible, reminded me of a really bad greyhound station. But then LAX is even crappier. The "new" international terminal isn't bad, but everything around it is. 

Oslo has a very nice, well designed airport. Truly amazing.

Oct 8, 24 12:04 pm  · 
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sameolddoctor

Also Greg, isnt the new PDX one with the mass timber roof? quite spectacular

Oct 8, 24 12:06 pm  · 
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JLC-1

Richard Balkins Wall of Text™ is the kiss of death for a thread. 

Oct 7, 24 5:50 pm  · 
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Wood Guy

Any comment that can't be condensed into a single, normal-length paragraph either has too much content or too much explanation. (I try to limit myself to three short paragraphs here...)

Oct 8, 24 3:25 pm  · 
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JLC-1

since I've been ignoring him for a couple of years, it's both rhetoric and literal - I can't see any more comments responding to him, and I don't go there anymore.

Oct 8, 24 3:55 pm  · 
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Bench

Asking because i can't tell. Did our main western colorado architect / hunter change to an anonymous screen from his real one? (im omitting C's name here in case that is the case and doesn't want the two cross linked...)

Oct 8, 24 11:18 am  · 
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I'm 95% sure this is the case.

Oct 8, 24 11:19 am  · 
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Non Sequitur

Bench... yes. Probably because too many one-post pony wankers got upset and sent his office angry karen letters.

Oct 8, 24 11:30 am  · 
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OddArchitect

I did! I felt like a change. When you click on my profile it should still have my actual name and info.

 It wasn't because of people contacting my office. That only happened once and nothing happened other than the other owners called said user a 'wannabe architect'. 

The other time a user here lied and tried to get me in trouble with my state licensing board. They made an anonymous complaint that was found to be untruthful. The board found out who they were, informed me and they filed charges against them for fraud and defamation.  Said user has pretty much left the site.  

Oct 8, 24 12:08 pm  · 
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$10 wannabe architect is Balkins because he did the same to me at one point.

Oct 8, 24 12:20 pm  · 
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OddArchitect

It was not Balkins. 

In fact, he wrote a very sincere and kind email to the other firm owners explaining the user who contacted them was being a immature jerk and I had been nothing but polite and professional. 

Balkins also alerted me to the users 'blog' where he was saying untrue things that were dangerously close to liable.  

Oct 8, 24 12:30 pm  · 
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Non Sequitur

Ah, DD if I recall correctly. Right?

Oct 8, 24 12:33 pm  · 
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OddArchitect

That was one of them yes. The other I will not comment on since it involves legal action that I was not part of.  


Oct 8, 24 12:40 pm  · 
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Bench

ok! i had picked up on enough bread crumbs that i was fairly sure that was the case. sorry you had to put up with that shit. i was gone on holiday long enough that i have no idea what happened if it occurred here. sucks.

Oct 8, 24 1:40 pm  · 
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OddArchitect

Sorry to disappoint but I'm still here. ;)

Oct 8, 24 1:48 pm  · 
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