I am starting a new thread that is about other threads. You can talk about other discussions taking a place in Archinect and make cross references to a particular link, picture, response and whatever else you deem necessary or entertaining or thought provoking about the other thread. thus the name: Thread Central
here are some examples of comments that comes to mind:
* hey did you read on --------- thread ------- thinks frank gehry is good. hahahaharhar..
or,
*i can't believe he said that. how stupid of him. asshole.on top of it he is got hundreds of posts. gimme a break.
or,
* this is the best thread.. fuck the others..
or,
*****Thread Alert******
read the -----thread yet??? there is a dog fight going on between ----- and-----.it is about gondolas and pollution in Venice..see you there.
or,
* yeaah, i don't read that thread either. its kind a boring.
or,
*i am thinking about starting a discussion about ------------- ---- ---- will you guys in Thread Central post in it and say wow it a great thread?. it was about time 'somebody' (insert my name please) picked up on it.. and discuss it?
like whatever..
shellarchitect
Jan 10, 18 2:30 pm
Ugh.... was just informed that an interior design here is going to be the project manager for all city projects, approximately $30 million total value, spread across 4 buildings. For reference I'm the PA for 1/3 of that.
Also this morning overhead an argument in which another project architect told her that she was incompetent and "just a pretty face."
Can't wait to see how this goes
Non Sequitur
Jan 10, 18 2:42 pm
30 million will buy you quite a bit of fancy fabrics and furniture... just don't forget, bookcases and end tables take precedence so try to move your walls accordingly.
shellarchitect
Jan 10, 18 3:03 pm
there have been several strange incidents with her around the office, including accusing one guy of sexual harassment, my goal is to have as little contact as possible.
Miles Jaffe
Jan 10, 18 3:25 pm
Either be or pretend to be gay*. No half-measures.
* No offense intended to those who play for different teams.
shellarchitect
Jan 10, 18 4:22 pm
you might be right, wife will be pissed when I tell her (I hope)
Miles Jaffe
Jan 10, 18 8:28 pm
That's probably what she'll do to you. Unless you're gay.
Wilma Buttfit
Jan 11, 18 10:47 am
That makes no sense. Is she PM because she is pretty?
shellarchitect
Jan 11, 18 11:50 am
still not sure what her role is... hasn't been introduced to the client with a new role, is not attending post bid interviews, yet still called "PM." Pretty for a 50ish lady I guess
Wilma Buttfit
Jan 11, 18 12:18 pm
PA's design buildings. PM's do paperwork. Her role is paperwork.
Miles Jaffe
Jan 11, 18 12:39 pm
I'm not about to tell any woman what her role is.
archanonymous
Jan 10, 18 10:44 pm
note to future self: even if you can cantilever a marble slab a meter on a reception desk, you shouldn't because some fat dumb american will try to sit on it.
Miles Jaffe
Jan 10, 18 10:52 pm
Next time make it 8" thick.
randomised
Jan 11, 18 3:40 am
Hate those can'tilevers
Josh Mings
Jan 11, 18 4:40 pm
Now that's a damn shame. One I get: You can't put slats horizontally because people will climb on them.
archanonymous
Jan 11, 18 7:18 pm
Not people, children. They hardly count as full people.
randomised
Jan 15, 18 5:49 am
I'd climb horizontal slats too, way easier than trying to climb vertical slats.
Josh Mings
Jan 11, 18 4:40 pm
Anyone else feel like they need a gap year from architecture?
JLC-1
Jan 11, 18 5:07 pm
from life
Miles Jaffe
Jan 11, 18 8:34 pm
I'm taking a gap life from architecture.
Wilma Buttfit
Jan 11, 18 9:35 pm
I'm semi-retired.
Mr_Wiggin
Jan 11, 18 5:06 pm
What to do when person on the client side used to be an architect and spends all their time at meetings and away from meetings sketching shit and telling you to put it the project, to hell with programming... There's a saying about not knocking brooms out of hands that applies here. Too many times these days we're being overridden on major decisions by layman... So much for architects doing architecture...
I agree with you, before this internet era, we used to get a couple of architecture magazines, but the layman didn't - now they can get their hands on everything and think they know how to use it.
wurdan freo
Jan 11, 18 8:11 pm
A bit absurd that a client who used to be an architect is now considered a layman... some clients hire you for your creative vision.... some hire you to implement theirs.
threadkilla
Jan 11, 18 11:17 pm
agree with wurdan freo - imagine yourself working on the client side, wouldn't you be doing the same thing, even if (perhaps) differently?
Wilma Buttfit
Jan 12, 18 12:04 pm
I guess that helps answer the question about what happens to architects who don't get promoted/don't stay in a firm. Sounds like fun.
Miles Jaffe
Jan 11, 18 8:40 pm
Today I learned that the acrylic paint that sprays on like booger snot actually lays down nice and flat as it dries.
Bloopox
Jan 11, 18 9:56 pm
Some boogers do that too.
Miles Jaffe
Jan 11, 18 8:42 pm
Doh. Wrong thread. And can't edit on the stupid iPad. Thanks, CrApple.
JLC-1
Jan 15, 18 12:49 pm
and one of the finest voices ever just died suddenly, rip Dolores O' Riordan.
Non Sequitur
Jan 15, 18 12:51 pm
Just saw this... sad.
randomised
Jan 17, 18 9:20 am
So, I was in a jury yesterday and one of my old bosses came in to do a pitch...the poor fella didn't make it.
quizzical
Jan 19, 18 8:46 pm
Some years back, when I was in charge of my firm's hiring, I received a resume from, and then interviewed, a guy who had been my boss when I was a summer intern between my 4th and 5th years. It was good to see him again, but it also was a bit awkward -- especially since I didn't think him qualified for the open position.
randomised
Jan 21, 18 5:30 am
Didn't have to cut him...he did it all by himself, was a fun deliberation though.
Wilma Buttfit
Jan 17, 18 9:35 am
We have a job ad out right now and I can't believe this, but we got a resume from someone we fired a few years ago. To top it off, she got the name of our company wrong. At least its good for a laugh. And we are hopefully getting better at hiring.
Wilma Buttfit
Jan 17, 18 4:44 pm
I'm tempted to call her in for an interview and pretend I don't know her.
Bloopox
Jan 19, 18 7:17 pm
I was going to offer a possible explanation: on my AIA chapter's website the names of the firms only show up when you view the job ads on certain devices, but not others - so it's plausible that someone could reply to an ad but not know to what firm they were applying. But: if she spelled the name of the firm wrong then she must have known the name of the firm, so... I can't give her any benefit of the doubt no matter how hard I try.
Miles Jaffe
Jan 19, 18 7:33 pm
Schedule her for a weekend interview when nobody is at the office.
quizzical
Jan 19, 18 8:44 pm
Maybe you could use the interview as a 'teaching moment'
b3tadine[sutures]
Jan 20, 18 9:38 pm
Yeah. This ain't good.
Marc Miller
Jan 24, 18 12:03 pm
drat, I didn’t get a chance to read that last post.
Miles Jaffe
Jan 24, 18 5:35 pm
I love the smell of napalm in the morning.
mantaray
Jan 24, 18 6:09 pm
Sometimes it feels like all the friendly, positive folk on this site have gone the way of the dodo. Where are Steven Ward, vado retro, Orhan, and WonderK? I miss Rationalist too... and (from years ago) ochona. And what happened to our friend in Texas who used to do columbariums and then quit arch when she had her kids and she and her husband (who restores cars) renovated a cute bungalow in Texas somewhere and she ended up leaving arch but still posted for awhile...
mantaray
Jan 24, 18 6:12 pm
Actually, not only does it feel sometimes like there are nothing but cynics left on Archinect, it also feels much more male-dominated lately. Aside from tinbeary (didn't you used to be there is no there there or was that someone else?) and Donna it sometimes seems all the rest of the common commenters are slightly mean/depressed introvert dudes.
tduds
Jan 24, 18 6:31 pm
It's a feedback loop. I've been less interested in keeping up with threads that inevitably devolve into either "Who's more cynical?" or "Who's trying the hardest to appear to be not trying?" and I imagine the tone of the forum keeps potential newcomers from joining in conversations. I'll admit I do occasionally enjoy jumping into a snarky thread every now & again, but you gotta have balance!
Not sure what can be done to combat this. This certainly isn't the first forum I've seen trend this way. Maybe its endemic to online communities?
Non Sequitur
Jan 24, 18 7:34 pm
tucked right next to the "what style is this" dumpster fire category.
geezertect
Jan 24, 18 8:46 pm
"My life is fucked up. Please advise." No further information needed.
Everyday Architect
Jan 24, 18 8:07 pm
I'm probably not the best example of this; I can see the hypocrisy in my next statement. Like membership in the AIA, isn't this a situation of you'll get out what you put in? If you want friendly, positive folk on the site ... the next friendly, positive commentator can be you.
I'm not sure if it is the fact that no one sees updates to threaded responses unless it is one of your own comments, or you are following the thread, but it seems like general activity/participation is way down in the forums. A couple of years ago, you'd almost never be able to find a 2-day-old thread still on the front page ... or am I wrong?
geezertect
Jan 24, 18 8:34 pm
I've had the same impression myself.
geezertect
Jan 24, 18 8:50 pm
It does seem like people are using the new structure to post responses to old comments under the "reply" indented portion, which means that you miss many current comments unless you go way back and virtually re-read the whole damned thread. Who really does that?
randomised
Jan 25, 18 6:45 am
I like the reply function, enables me to have the last word without people realising :)
Miles Jaffe
Jan 24, 18 11:37 pm
Meaty professional philosophy / design / technical threads are largely extinct. I'm thinking this is reflection of society at large and the stupidification of America.
tduds
Jan 25, 18 11:18 am
Let's start some.
mantaray
Jan 25, 18 7:01 am
I dunno about the board convos dropping off since the thread notification came into being. I've been posting here since 2003 and there was a period of time just after the recession a few years back (maybe 2012-2013?) when there was even less activity than there is now. Participation has actually rebounded lately, in my perspective.
mantaray
Jan 25, 18 7:05 am
Yeah tduds maybe it's endemic to online forums. Interesting thought...
We always had our snark in the past but generally things were more good-matured--even the snark itself! Also there was just more goofiness/sense of silliness. Anyone who remembers the garwondler days will remember what I mean. That start of this thread itself documents that period well. Vado retro made up songs, orhan always had an interesting philosophical perspective to throw in...
Whatever happened to the older fellow originally from Phoenix, now practicing in Conn. with his wife (a graphic designer) and their dogs? Can't remember his name either...
randomised
Jan 25, 18 7:21 am
It's a bit slower here because there are other social media out there where people "hang out", those didn't even exist before. Also, how often can you repeat the same discussions? I hate hanging out with only my architecture friends, always the same discussions in our absurd archispeak...maybe we've said all there is to say here about architecture, everything was definitely asked already before if you bother to do a search of the forum. Most people only come here and make a profile because they need something, they need it yesterday, never say thank you and never come back once they leached enough info. Ah well, that's life...I guess.
Miles Jaffe
Jan 25, 18 9:54 am
So now we can make a list of Archinect archetypes.
Wilma Buttfit
Jan 25, 18 2:11 pm
I'm just here for the camaraderie.
citizen
Jan 25, 18 2:18 pm
^ One of my favorite words. And things.
Wilma Buttfit
Jan 26, 18 9:58 am
I'm also here for the vocabulary development!
mantaray
Jan 26, 18 8:20 am
I don't really hang out with architects in my normal life. Guess that's why I too enjoy the camaraderie here!
Miles Jaffe
Jan 26, 18 9:15 am
Apparently nobody got the Fantasy Island reference in the kitchen island thread. I must be getting old. <sigh>
shellarchitect
Jan 26, 18 10:39 am
fantasy island?
Miles Jaffe
Jan 26, 18 11:01 am
Probably before you were born.
Non Sequitur
Jan 26, 18 11:13 am
Hey, is that the same little person at the butler in Man with the Golden Gun? Awesome.
shellarchitect
Jan 26, 18 11:24 am
I googled FI and had the exact same thought!
shellarchitect
Jan 26, 18 11:25 am
1981, so I was at least around
geezertect
Jan 26, 18 2:47 pm
They probably don't know who J.R. Ewing was either.
Donna Sink
Jan 26, 18 3:09 pm
I got it, Miles, and laughed. I just don't have much time to comment here lately. Also on that thread my only comment would be "Gross, this design sucks, why do you want your feet touching the same material as your hands and food are?" but that feels too mean to me so I stayed quiet.
b3tadine[sutures]
Jan 27, 18 5:13 pm
Zee Plane!
Wilma Buttfit
Jan 26, 18 9:41 am
I try to make new friends on other social media but seems everyone else out there willing to be a *friend* is actually promoting their MLM crap. "You're so pretty. But your cheeks are dry, you should try this cream." Or you mention you are tired and somebody has an energy drink to sell you. I even got a sales pitch from a master neurolinguistic programmer earlier this week willing to give me a *deep session* to help uncover my human design.
Miles Jaffe
Jan 26, 18 11:02 am
'Social media' is an oxymoron.
mantaray
Jan 26, 18 2:25 pm
Actually, it probably WOULD help the forum if the sub-responded were included as a "refresher" on the front page. That's a good point! Bc you're right, otherwise it's not like ppl are going to go back and read thru threads to see if there's any new responses.
Also, Archinect Powers That Be, while I'm at it I'd love it if I could reply to someone on the mobile platform... currently can only do on the full website, it seems.
Wood Guy
Jan 26, 18 2:58 pm
Sometimes I like the reply function being under the radar. But mostly I agree that it should be treated like a comment.
Everyday Architect
Jan 26, 18 3:01 pm
If there was a 'read/unread' ability with comments, and you could easily find and read 'unread' comments that would be nice. Otherwise the replies tend to get lost.
Everyday Architect
Jan 30, 18 1:25 pm
Will a reply further up the page bring the thread to the top in the forum page?
Wilma Buttfit
Jan 26, 18 3:00 pm
Speaking of social media, I just sold someone on working with an architect for their custom home by talking about selecting a site and designing with views in mind over the general contractor who was saying to start with how big you want your house and asking how much do you want to spend. Now, if only I had experience in custom homes, I probably could be the one going to help pick a site right now.
Wilma Buttfit
Jan 26, 18 9:40 pm
The design-build people came in and stole the show.
Wilma Buttfit
Jan 27, 18 6:21 am
FYI, Rick, I never read anything you write.
Donna Sink
Jan 27, 18 11:02 am
I think I have the ability to nuke that whole kitchen island thread if I want to. Should I? Or are you guys enjoying it? Go register your opinion over on that thread and I'll decide.
In the future can a survey option be installed? So if anyone posts "I need help, what do you think about x" a poll can be posted with:
Vomit,
bleh,
Meh, and
Hire someone for profession advice
(choose two)
Miles Jaffe
Jan 27, 18 5:53 pm
uscpsycho's thread on Houzz is hilarious. He seems to have exhausted the possibility of further anal obsession there over the last couple of months and moved here ... but I doubt he'll be back.
I'm not a robot
Jan 27, 18 9:51 pm
Can the big green head put a trigger warning with that image of a wood toilet seat? It makes me think of a bathroom with wall to wall carpet. NSFA - not safe for architects.
Donna Sink
Jan 27, 18 10:35 pm
OMG that Houzz discussion makes me want to put a gun in my mouth. Humans are so awful, myself included.
In other news, we went to the theater tonight to watch Romeo and Juliet and it was awesome! Small theater, thrust stage (I thought it was called full thrust but maybe I've been listening to too much Belinda Blinked podcast?), contemporary costumes and set design but original Shakespeare dialogue. Really wonderful and painfully sad. Shakespeare holds up!
Wilma Buttfit
Jan 28, 18 11:53 am
Those beige cabinets by fiver go in the same category as the wooden toilet seat. Ewww.
b3tadine[sutures]
Jan 28, 18 7:51 pm
It's funny, I never really gave waterfall counters too much grief, but when you see an entire thread of them, you really begin to hate the fuck out of them.
Wilma Buttfit
Jan 29, 18 2:11 pm
I know what you mean. Today's waterfall counters are tomorrow's avocado fridges. They get stale really quick.
JLC-1
Jan 29, 18 2:06 pm
f*** the flu, in a 3 person office, the boss and my coworker got hit, now I'm all alone and feeling lonely.
Wilma Buttfit
Jan 29, 18 2:12 pm
Be thankful you don't have the flu?
JLC-1
Jan 29, 18 2:13 pm
Oh yeah!
Josh Mings
Jan 29, 18 5:29 pm
In the words of Goldberg - You're next.
JLC-1
Jan 31, 18 11:06 am
so far so good, it's been a quiet week
JLC-1
Jan 29, 18 3:27 pm
Now I need an internal pipe wrench kit
Wilma Buttfit
Jan 30, 18 9:59 am
Notice relying now gets the thread to the top of the page...
Donna Sink
Jan 30, 18 10:55 am
It does? This is a test....
Donna Sink
Jan 30, 18 10:55 am
Whoa, look at that!
randomised
Jan 30, 18 12:45 pm
Damn, can't have the last word unnoticed any more...
randomised
Jan 30, 18 12:48 pm
That's a rather swift implementation, it was being discussed here just a few days ago :)
tduds
Jan 30, 18 12:49 pm
Does it work if you reply to comments farther back in the thread?
tduds
Jan 30, 18 1:01 pm
It would appear that, yes, but it's hard to find the reply.
randomised
Jan 30, 18 1:01 pm
Yes it does, I just replied on the first page.
Everyday Architect
Jan 30, 18 1:30 pm
Wasn't the reply inline and noting it as the last comment in a thread an issue when it was first rolled out? Has Archinect corrected the issue yet? It doesn't appear that they have. If I reply to a comment further up the page, or even a different page, it will show there is a new comment, but if I click to go to the last comment, it takes me to the end of the thread and I'm left wondering where the new comment is.
I'd still advocate for the ability to see comments and replies as either 'read' or 'unread' like a lot of other forums have. At least then I'd be able to skim through a thread quickly and see what I haven't seen before.
At the very least, and it's only a bandaid fix, it would be nice to be able to click the "latest comment" link from the main forum page and have it hyperlink to the actual latest comment, not the end of the thread.
Non Sequitur
Jan 30, 18 1:55 pm
I just replied to a comment and eventhough it was not the latest, it shows that I'm the last comment. Times are changing!
Everyday Architect
Jan 30, 18 2:34 pm
This page from TC (and some comments on subsequent pages) is a good trip down memory lane regarding the reply feature and showing it as the latest comment on the main forum page. I'm happy to see that Archinect is adapting and changing per user requests, but if you're going to turn something back on, you should fix the issues that were first associated with it.
mantaray
Jan 30, 18 2:34 pm
Wow! Guys, I effected change! I am a CHANGE AGENT!! Huzzah!
Josh Mings
Jan 30, 18 7:26 pm
Do you have change for a $20?
citizen
Jan 30, 18 8:08 pm
Don't be afraid to sex it up a little, Agent Provocateur.
Wilma Buttfit
Jan 31, 18 2:18 am
Found out we have two estranged twin sisters for clients as they ran into each other at our office. Awkward.
JLC-1
Jan 31, 18 11:05 am
picture or it didn't happen!
Wilma Buttfit
Jan 31, 18 11:16 am
Ha ha. Can I just snap a pic of you guys for my internet friends?
citizen
Jan 31, 18 11:49 am
Was one all sweet and dressed in white, the other mean and in all black? That would sure make things more convenient.
=o]
Wilma Buttfit
Jan 31, 18 4:07 pm
Can I sell this storyline to hollywood?
kjdt
Jan 31, 18 5:23 pm
Remake of the Parent Trap, with grown up strung out Lindsay Lohan, and a cameo by Haley Mills?
Wilma Buttfit
Jan 31, 18 8:26 pm
One will have to be played by Janeane Garafalo though.
Wilma Buttfit
Jan 31, 18 8:36 pm
The other will be played by Sarah Silverman.
Donna Sink
Jan 31, 18 9:27 pm
I'd watch the hell out of this movie IF the architect office plays large in the storyline.
citizen
Jan 31, 18 10:06 pm
Well if they're identical twins, then just one actor's needed. I say Joan Cusack, who could do both nicely. (Picturing a design presentation to client Sweet Joan in the glass-walled conference room as Bad Joan walks by to another part of the office. Double-take! Whaaaa? What is she doing here?!)
Something something something... Pierce Brosnan shows up. The End. Three Golden Globe nominations, but no wins.
Miles Jaffe
Jan 31, 18 10:34 pm
Period piece. Edward Norton plays the architect, Tilda Swinton plays the estranged sisters (she played competing twin sister gossip columnists in Hail, Caesar!).
citizen
Jan 31, 18 10:36 pm
^ Thora and Thessaly Thacker! Can she do nice, though?
Miles Jaffe
Jan 31, 18 10:39 pm
.
Bench
Feb 1, 18 9:14 am
Just a thought / recommendation - if reply-comments are going to bump a thread back to the top, thats fine and all. But we could really use the little time-stamp on the replies together with that, to actually find what was said...
JLC-1
Feb 2, 18 11:53 am
only an engineering firm can put an ad calling for "revit designers"
randomised
Feb 2, 18 12:13 pm
Maybe they really are looking for designers who design revits for a living, no?
JLC-1
Feb 2, 18 12:14 pm
oh, rivets! you're absolutely right.
Josh Mings
Feb 3, 18 12:35 pm
I bet a conversation with a rivet designer would be riveting.
Josh Mings
Feb 4, 18 2:15 pm
I just did what any good architect would do on a Sunday - buy $200 worth of Lego Architecture sets.
Marc Miller
Feb 4, 18 5:50 pm
just 200?
Non Sequitur
Feb 4, 18 8:51 pm
Which ones? I bought the Chicago skyline recently and it’s one of the best I’ve seen so far.
Josh Mings
Feb 5, 18 12:01 pm
Just $200 this time - There has been some more recent Lego binges as well. This time around it was Buckingham Palace and the Shanghai, New York, and Sydney skylines. Chicago always has the best skyline anyway (and that one was a damn good kit).
Non Sequitur
Feb 5, 18 12:13 pm
Josh, I purchased both the Empire State and Willis Towers at the gift shops at the top of each building. The premium I paid for both sets just paid for itself in writing this sentence.
Schoon
Feb 5, 18 1:53 am
Philly is complete madness right now! I walked through Broad street to check out the chaos and when I got home all of the traffic barricades were smashed. Congrats to the Eagles, but hopefully most of the destruction is limited to street signs and roadblocks.
Miles Jaffe
Feb 5, 18 9:25 am
Football is the quintessential American sport, a perfect metaphor for capitalism.
The same territory is fought over back and forth repeatedly for massive corporate profit and the players are discarded without insurance the second they are injured.
The whole thing is just a vehicle for delivering advertising for crap nobody wants. You couldn't couldn't pay me to watch this shit.
Bench
Feb 5, 18 9:55 am
Im more concerned about the food.
Non Sequitur
Feb 5, 18 9:55 am
Miles, if you don't watch, the terrorists
win.
citizen
Feb 5, 18 11:51 am
But if you do watch, the capitalists win. Quite the quandary.
Volunteer
Feb 5, 18 10:06 am
I thought the Dodge truck ad with the Vikings was an absolute hoot. The one with MLK was tasteless. Must be different ad agencies?
proto
Feb 5, 18 4:12 pm
or how about the Jeep ad that mocked the self-indulgent faux-philosophical advertising and just showed their vehicle crawling some gnarly terrain
? (Jeep & Ram are owned by the same group)
Donna Sink
Feb 5, 18 12:49 pm
I didn't watch the super bowl. But I'm very happy for my former hometown that the Eagles won. Seeing lots of crazy pics on Facebook from former co-workers and friends. I *do* hope they don't burn it all down, though!
I am starting a new thread that is about other threads. You can talk about other discussions taking a place in Archinect and make cross references to a particular link, picture, response and whatever else you deem necessary or entertaining or thought provoking about the other thread. thus the name: Thread Central
here are some examples of comments that comes to mind:
* hey did you read on --------- thread ------- thinks frank gehry is good. hahahaharhar..
or,
*i can't believe he said that. how stupid of him. asshole.on top of it he is got hundreds of posts. gimme a break.
or,
* this is the best thread.. fuck the others..
or,
*****Thread Alert******
read the -----thread yet??? there is a dog fight going on between ----- and-----.it is about gondolas and pollution in Venice..see you there.
or,
* yeaah, i don't read that thread either. its kind a boring.
or,
*i am thinking about starting a discussion about ------------- ---- ---- will you guys in Thread Central post in it and say wow it a great thread?. it was about time 'somebody' (insert my name please) picked up on it.. and discuss it?
like whatever..
Ugh.... was just informed that an interior design here is going to be the project manager for all city projects, approximately $30 million total value, spread across 4 buildings. For reference I'm the PA for 1/3 of that.
Also this morning overhead an argument in which another project architect told her that she was incompetent and "just a pretty face."
Can't wait to see how this goes
30 million will buy you quite a bit of fancy fabrics and furniture... just don't forget, bookcases and end tables take precedence so try to move your walls accordingly.
there have been several strange incidents with her around the office, including accusing one guy of sexual harassment, my goal is to have as little contact as possible.
Either be or pretend to be gay*. No half-measures.
* No offense intended to those who play for different teams.
you might be right, wife will be pissed when I tell her (I hope)
That's probably what she'll do to you. Unless you're gay.
That makes no sense. Is she PM because she is pretty?
still not sure what her role is... hasn't been introduced to the client with a new role, is not attending post bid interviews, yet still called "PM." Pretty for a 50ish lady I guess
PA's design buildings. PM's do paperwork. Her role is paperwork.
I'm not about to tell any woman what her role is.
note to future self: even if you can cantilever a marble slab a meter on a reception desk, you shouldn't because some fat dumb american will try to sit on it.
Next time make it 8" thick.
Hate those can'tilevers
Now that's a damn shame. One I get: You can't put slats horizontally because people will climb on them.
Not people, children. They hardly count as full people.
I'd climb horizontal slats too, way easier than trying to climb vertical slats.
Anyone else feel like they need a gap year from architecture?
from life
I'm taking a gap life from architecture.
I'm semi-retired.
What to do when person on the client side used to be an architect and spends all their time at meetings and away from meetings sketching shit and telling you to put it the project, to hell with programming... There's a saying about not knocking brooms out of hands that applies here. Too many times these days we're being overridden on major decisions by layman... So much for architects doing architecture...
this https://archinect.com/forum/thread/150044376/poll-what-are-your-biggest-issues-concerning-projects-practice-today/0#last
I agree with you, before this internet era, we used to get a couple of architecture magazines, but the layman didn't - now they can get their hands on everything and think they know how to use it.
A bit absurd that a client who used to be an architect is now considered a layman... some clients hire you for your creative vision.... some hire you to implement theirs.
agree with wurdan freo - imagine yourself working on the client side, wouldn't you be doing the same thing, even if (perhaps) differently?
I guess that helps answer the question about what happens to architects who don't get promoted/don't stay in a firm. Sounds like fun.
Today I learned that the acrylic paint that sprays on like booger snot actually lays down nice and flat as it dries.
Some boogers do that too.
Doh. Wrong thread. And can't edit on the stupid iPad. Thanks, CrApple.
and one of the finest voices ever just died suddenly, rip Dolores O' Riordan.
Just saw this... sad.
So, I was in a jury yesterday and one of my old bosses came in to do a pitch...the poor fella didn't make it.
Some years back, when I was in charge of my firm's hiring, I received a resume from, and then interviewed, a guy who had been my boss when I was a summer intern between my 4th and 5th years. It was good to see him again, but it also was a bit awkward -- especially since I didn't think him qualified for the open position.
Didn't have to cut him...he did it all by himself, was a fun deliberation though.
We have a job ad out right now and I can't believe this, but we got a resume from someone we fired a few years ago. To top it off, she got the name of our company wrong. At least its good for a laugh. And we are hopefully getting better at hiring.
I'm tempted to call her in for an interview and pretend I don't know her.
I was going to offer a possible explanation: on my AIA chapter's website the names of the firms only show up when you view the job ads on certain devices, but not others - so it's plausible that someone could reply to an ad but not know to what firm they were applying. But: if she spelled the name of the firm wrong then she must have known the name of the firm, so... I can't give her any benefit of the doubt no matter how hard I try.
Schedule her for a weekend interview when nobody is at the office.
Maybe you could use the interview as a 'teaching moment'
Yeah. This ain't good.
drat, I didn’t get a chance to read that last post.
I love the smell of napalm in the morning.
Sometimes it feels like all the friendly, positive folk on this site have gone the way of the dodo. Where are Steven Ward, vado retro, Orhan, and WonderK? I miss Rationalist too... and (from years ago) ochona. And what happened to our friend in Texas who used to do columbariums and then quit arch when she had her kids and she and her husband (who restores cars) renovated a cute bungalow in Texas somewhere and she ended up leaving arch but still posted for awhile...
Actually, not only does it feel sometimes like there are nothing but cynics left on Archinect, it also feels much more male-dominated lately. Aside from tinbeary (didn't you used to be there is no there there or was that someone else?) and Donna it sometimes seems all the rest of the common commenters are slightly mean/depressed introvert dudes.
It's a feedback loop. I've been less interested in keeping up with threads that inevitably devolve into either "Who's more cynical?" or "Who's trying the hardest to appear to be not trying?" and I imagine the tone of the forum keeps potential newcomers from joining in conversations. I'll admit I do occasionally enjoy jumping into a snarky thread every now & again, but you gotta have balance!
Not sure what can be done to combat this. This certainly isn't the first forum I've seen trend this way. Maybe its endemic to online communities?
tucked right next to the "what style is this" dumpster fire category.
"My life is fucked up. Please advise." No further information needed.
I'm probably not the best example of this; I can see the hypocrisy in my next statement. Like membership in the AIA, isn't this a situation of you'll get out what you put in? If you want friendly, positive folk on the site ... the next friendly, positive commentator can be you.
I'm not sure if it is the fact that no one sees updates to threaded responses unless it is one of your own comments, or you are following the thread, but it seems like general activity/participation is way down in the forums. A couple of years ago, you'd almost never be able to find a 2-day-old thread still on the front page ... or am I wrong?
I've had the same impression myself.
It does seem like people are using the new structure to post responses to old comments under the "reply" indented portion, which means that you miss many current comments unless you go way back and virtually re-read the whole damned thread. Who really does that?
I like the reply function, enables me to have the last word without people realising :)
Meaty professional philosophy / design / technical threads are largely extinct. I'm thinking this is reflection of society at large and the stupidification of America.
Let's start some.
I dunno about the board convos dropping off since the thread notification came into being. I've been posting here since 2003 and there was a period of time just after the recession a few years back (maybe 2012-2013?) when there was even less activity than there is now. Participation has actually rebounded lately, in my perspective.
Yeah tduds maybe it's endemic to online forums. Interesting thought...
We always had our snark in the past but generally things were more good-matured--even the snark itself! Also there was just more goofiness/sense of silliness. Anyone who remembers the garwondler days will remember what I mean. That start of this thread itself documents that period well. Vado retro made up songs, orhan always had an interesting philosophical perspective to throw in...
Whatever happened to the older fellow originally from Phoenix, now practicing in Conn. with his wife (a graphic designer) and their dogs? Can't remember his name either...
It's a bit slower here because there are other social media out there where people "hang out", those didn't even exist before. Also, how often can you repeat the same discussions? I hate hanging out with only my architecture friends, always the same discussions in our absurd archispeak...maybe we've said all there is to say here about architecture, everything was definitely asked already before if you bother to do a search of the forum. Most people only come here and make a profile because they need something, they need it yesterday, never say thank you and never come back once they leached enough info. Ah well, that's life...I guess.
So now we can make a list of Archinect archetypes.
I'm just here for the camaraderie.
^ One of my favorite words. And things.
I'm also here for the vocabulary development!
I don't really hang out with architects in my normal life. Guess that's why I too enjoy the camaraderie here!
Apparently nobody got the Fantasy Island reference in the kitchen island thread. I must be getting old. <sigh>
fantasy island?
Probably before you were born.
Hey, is that the same little person at the butler in Man with the Golden Gun? Awesome.
I googled FI and had the exact same thought!
1981, so I was at least around
They probably don't know who J.R. Ewing was either.
I got it, Miles, and laughed. I just don't have much time to comment here lately. Also on that thread my only comment would be "Gross, this design sucks, why do you want your feet touching the same material as your hands and food are?" but that feels too mean to me so I stayed quiet.
Zee Plane!
I try to make new friends on other social media but seems everyone else out there willing to be a *friend* is actually promoting their MLM crap. "You're so pretty. But your cheeks are dry, you should try this cream." Or you mention you are tired and somebody has an energy drink to sell you. I even got a sales pitch from a master neurolinguistic programmer earlier this week willing to give me a *deep session* to help uncover my human design.
'Social media' is an oxymoron.
Actually, it probably WOULD help the forum if the sub-responded were included as a "refresher" on the front page. That's a good point! Bc you're right, otherwise it's not like ppl are going to go back and read thru threads to see if there's any new responses.
Also, Archinect Powers That Be, while I'm at it I'd love it if I could reply to someone on the mobile platform... currently can only do on the full website, it seems.
Sometimes I like the reply function being under the radar. But mostly I agree that it should be treated like a comment.
If there was a 'read/unread' ability with comments, and you could easily find and read 'unread' comments that would be nice. Otherwise the replies tend to get lost.
Will a reply further up the page bring the thread to the top in the forum page?
Speaking of social media, I just sold someone on working with an architect for their custom home by talking about selecting a site and designing with views in mind over the general contractor who was saying to start with how big you want your house and asking how much do you want to spend. Now, if only I had experience in custom homes, I probably could be the one going to help pick a site right now.
The design-build people came in and stole the show.
FYI, Rick, I never read anything you write.
I think I have the ability to nuke that whole kitchen island thread if I want to. Should I? Or are you guys enjoying it? Go register your opinion over on that thread and I'll decide.
Donna, we can move the discussion over to Houzz if you want. (https://www.houzz.com/discussions/5027137/final-kitchen-design-feedback)
In the future can a survey option be installed? So if anyone posts "I need help, what do you think about x" a poll can be posted with:
Vomit,
bleh,
Meh, and
Hire someone for profession advice
(choose two)
uscpsycho's thread on Houzz is hilarious. He seems to have exhausted the possibility of further anal obsession there over the last couple of months and moved here ... but I doubt he'll be back.
Can the big green head put a trigger warning with that image of a wood toilet seat? It makes me think of a bathroom with wall to wall carpet. NSFA - not safe for architects.
OMG that Houzz discussion makes me want to put a gun in my mouth. Humans are so awful, myself included.
In other news, we went to the theater tonight to watch Romeo and Juliet and it was awesome! Small theater, thrust stage (I thought it was called full thrust but maybe I've been listening to too much Belinda Blinked podcast?), contemporary costumes and set design but original Shakespeare dialogue. Really wonderful and painfully sad. Shakespeare holds up!
Those beige cabinets by fiver go in the same category as the wooden toilet seat. Ewww.
It's funny, I never really gave waterfall counters too much grief, but when you see an entire thread of them, you really begin to hate the fuck out of them.
I know what you mean. Today's waterfall counters are tomorrow's avocado fridges. They get stale really quick.
f*** the flu, in a 3 person office, the boss and my coworker got hit, now I'm all alone and feeling lonely.
Be thankful you don't have the flu?
Oh yeah!
In the words of Goldberg - You're next.
so far so good, it's been a quiet week
Now I need an internal pipe wrench kit
Notice relying now gets the thread to the top of the page...
It does? This is a test....
Whoa, look at that!
Damn, can't have the last word unnoticed any more...
That's a rather swift implementation, it was being discussed here just a few days ago :)
Does it work if you reply to comments farther back in the thread?
It would appear that, yes, but it's hard to find the reply.
Yes it does, I just replied on the first page.
Wasn't the reply inline and noting it as the last comment in a thread an issue when it was first rolled out? Has Archinect corrected the issue yet? It doesn't appear that they have. If I reply to a comment further up the page, or even a different page, it will show there is a new comment, but if I click to go to the last comment, it takes me to the end of the thread and I'm left wondering where the new comment is.
I'd still advocate for the ability to see comments and replies as either 'read' or 'unread' like a lot of other forums have. At least then I'd be able to skim through a thread quickly and see what I haven't seen before.
At the very least, and it's only a bandaid fix, it would be nice to be able to click the "latest comment" link from the main forum page and have it hyperlink to the actual latest comment, not the end of the thread.
I just replied to a comment and eventhough it was not the latest, it shows that I'm the last comment. Times are changing!
This page from TC (and some comments on subsequent pages) is a good trip down memory lane regarding the reply feature and showing it as the latest comment on the main forum page. I'm happy to see that Archinect is adapting and changing per user requests, but if you're going to turn something back on, you should fix the issues that were first associated with it.
Wow! Guys, I effected change! I am a CHANGE AGENT!! Huzzah!
Do you have change for a $20?
Don't be afraid to sex it up a little, Agent Provocateur.
Found out we have two estranged twin sisters for clients as they ran into each other at our office. Awkward.
picture or it didn't happen!
Ha ha. Can I just snap a pic of you guys for my internet friends?
Was one all sweet and dressed in white, the other mean and in all black? That would sure make things more convenient. =o]
Can I sell this storyline to hollywood?
Remake of the Parent Trap, with grown up strung out Lindsay Lohan, and a cameo by Haley Mills?
One will have to be played by Janeane Garafalo though.
The other will be played by Sarah Silverman.
I'd watch the hell out of this movie IF the architect office plays large in the storyline.
Well if they're identical twins, then just one actor's needed. I say Joan Cusack, who could do both nicely. (Picturing a design presentation to client Sweet Joan in the glass-walled conference room as Bad Joan walks by to another part of the office. Double-take! Whaaaa? What is she doing here?!)
Something something something... Pierce Brosnan shows up. The End. Three Golden Globe nominations, but no wins.
Period piece. Edward Norton plays the architect, Tilda Swinton plays the estranged sisters (she played competing twin sister gossip columnists in Hail, Caesar!).
^ Thora and Thessaly Thacker! Can she do nice, though?
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Just a thought / recommendation - if reply-comments are going to bump a thread back to the top, thats fine and all. But we could really use the little time-stamp on the replies together with that, to actually find what was said...
only an engineering firm can put an ad calling for "revit designers"
Maybe they really are looking for designers who design revits for a living, no?
oh, rivets! you're absolutely right.
I bet a conversation with a rivet designer would be riveting.
I just did what any good architect would do on a Sunday - buy $200 worth of Lego Architecture sets.
just 200?
Which ones? I bought the Chicago skyline recently and it’s one of the best I’ve seen so far.
Just $200 this time - There has been some more recent Lego binges as well. This time around it was Buckingham Palace and the Shanghai, New York, and Sydney skylines. Chicago always has the best skyline anyway (and that one was a damn good kit).
Josh, I purchased both the Empire State and Willis Towers at the gift shops at the top of each building. The premium I paid for both sets just paid for itself in writing this sentence.
Philly is complete madness right now! I walked through Broad street to check out the chaos and when I got home all of the traffic barricades were smashed. Congrats to the Eagles, but hopefully most of the destruction is limited to street signs and roadblocks.
Football is the quintessential American sport, a perfect metaphor for capitalism.
The same territory is fought over back and forth repeatedly for massive corporate profit and the players are discarded without insurance the second they are injured.
The whole thing is just a vehicle for delivering advertising for crap nobody wants. You couldn't couldn't pay me to watch this shit.
Im more concerned about the food.
Miles, if you don't watch, the terrorists win.
But if you do watch, the capitalists win. Quite the quandary.
I thought the Dodge truck ad with the Vikings was an absolute hoot. The one with MLK was tasteless. Must be different ad agencies?
or how about the Jeep ad that mocked the self-indulgent faux-philosophical advertising and just showed their vehicle crawling some gnarly terrain ? (Jeep & Ram are owned by the same group)
I didn't watch the super bowl. But I'm very happy for my former hometown that the Eagles won. Seeing lots of crazy pics on Facebook from former co-workers and friends. I *do* hope they don't burn it all down, though!
Super what?