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..
archi_dude
Nov 11, 20 9:52 pm
Come everyone ditch politics central. It's over move on.
citizen
Nov 11, 20 10:07 pm
Been avoiding that place for a while now. Food Central/What's Cooking looks like the delicious antidote.
Non Sequitur
Nov 11, 20 10:57 pm
I think my hippo story is one of the highlights of that thread.
citizen
Nov 11, 20 11:04 pm
I'll take your word for it, NS. Otherwise, it's like heading into a burning building just to toast a marshmallow.
Jaetten
Nov 12, 20 1:37 am
Tracing family history is incredibly interesting.
I’ve gone back 12 generations, where we migrated from a small village in ~1600. This resulted in a family name change where it became the same as our previous home.
Moving forward, a hand written account book from 1836 has been handed to me. It includes the fee of £5 for surveying and drawing plans of the Derwent Estate which is now at the bottom of Ladybower Reservoir.
And finally, during WW2 while my grandfather was in the RAF, my grandparents families were offered a relocation package to Canada. They declined, however their neighbours chose to go - their sons went on to work on major developments in Toronto and surrounding areas.
I could have been Canadian. It’s ironic that we are considering moving there.
citizen
Nov 12, 20 2:01 am
Better late than never!
Non Sequitur
Nov 12, 20 10:01 am
Hurry, winter is coming.
Jaetten
Nov 12, 20 10:11 am
That's the best bit!
Chad Miller
Nov 12, 20 12:53 pm
Don't lie NS - it's winter 10.36 months out of the year in Canada. I should know, I lived right below your frosty country for 13 years. :)
You can see my handsome man talking at two points in the video, too.
archanonymous
Nov 14, 20 4:38 pm
What a cool project Donna!
archanonymous
Nov 14, 20 4:41 pm
To BB: I can imagine it!
I have done a couple projects where an integral part of the design was having a great tradesperson to execute it with craft and judgement - there wouldn't be drawings to show the random variation or the progressive twist - but they would be responsible for carrying it out and making it look beautiful. Goes against everything you learn in pro prac courses and most firms' legal departments, but damn if it isn't some of the most beautiful work I've done.
Humbling also to realize that's how most buildings were made throughout history and why the labor and craft paradigm old buildings were constructed under led to such beautiful and refined ornamentation.
randomised
Nov 15, 20 1:28 am
If only they taxed the use of materials much more than labour...
archanonymous
Nov 16, 20 11:13 am
I think there should be a carbon tax on everything, which would essentially be taxing materials much more than labor.
randomised
Nov 16, 20 6:05 pm
Exactly! If labour is relatively more affordable than the material used, one can do elaborate things, make things that are meant to be fixed instead of discarded etc. So much material is wasted and ends up in landfills because it is cheaper to chug it than have a pro do their magic. Just the other day went to the bike shop and it is cheaper to get a new inner tube for my bike installed than to get it fixed, even if it has just a little hole...
Everyday Architect
Nov 16, 20 6:11 pm
You don't patch your own tubes?
randomised
Nov 17, 20 3:33 am
I went in for something else for a kids bike and we got talking, saw him not even trying to patch one. Here he is:
archanonymous
Nov 17, 20 2:15 pm
It's super distressing when you realize how hard it is to do anything with Rubber.
archanonymous
Nov 17, 20 2:17 pm
These days my wife and I still go back and forth over whether or not we should buy something, but instead of "do we really need to spend the money on this?" it is "Do we really need to buy this thing that took a bunch of resources to manufacture and we will probably only use a couple of times?"
Everyday Architect
Nov 17, 20 3:00 pm
From a bike shop perspective, I get why they wouldn't patch a tube. It's time/labor they don't have or don't want to spend. It's much quicker to just put a new tube in. From a personal perspective, I try to patch mine as often as I can. Patches aren't expensive and if a tube is otherwise in good shape, it's nice to fix it when possible.
Chad Miller
Nov 16, 20 10:56 am
Uhg. I need another week long vacation somewhere in the wild.
::sarcastic font on::
Why can't I work from a remote cabin in the mountains doing only conceptual design via fiber internet connection and make $300K a year?
::sarcastic font off::
JLC-1
Nov 16, 20 11:28 am
why would you need to work
300k a year in a remote cabin?
Wood Guy
Nov 16, 20 11:41 am
Chad, I have found a reasonable level of success -- not $300K, but potentially $200K if I tried harder -- living in the wilds of New England designing houses and renovations. What is preventing you from doing the same?
Chad Miller
Nov 16, 20 1:33 pm
Truthfully - fear. I don't have a business mind. Finding new clients and marketing is sorcery to me. I get new clients by simply knowing people and by happenstance they need an architect.
Also I don't want to work 50-60 hours a week running a firm.
Chad Miller
Nov 16, 20 1:38 pm
JLC 1 - Honestly it was a nice round number that seems like it would be a very comfortable life. In reality I could make do with less however I need to provide for retirement, healthcare, and my type 1 diabetes - those last two are $$$$$$$.
Also I want to have sever dogs and they need toys and treats!
Wilma Buttfit
Nov 16, 20 1:43 pm
I would do that for 60k a year.
Chad Miller
Nov 16, 20 2:03 pm
That would mean a pay cut for me. I don't make a lot (around $75k) with 15 years experience.
JLC-1
Nov 16, 20 3:07 pm
I was pointing more to the isolation - in an off-grid cabin in the woods wouldn't need all that stuff you mention.
Wilma Buttfit
Nov 16, 20 4:30 pm
Could work part time if expenses are low. I would do it.
Wood Guy
Nov 16, 20 4:31 pm
$130/hr x 1500 hrs = $195K. $150/hr x 1300 hrs = $195K. No employees needed. I'm not saying it's easy to get 1500 billable hours without employees, but in theory it's possible without working 60 hrs/wk.
Chad Miller
Nov 16, 20 6:15 pm
Wood Guy - sorry, I meant salary, not net revenue.
Chad Miller
Nov 16, 20 6:17 pm
JLC-1 - if you're living off grid as a hermit then you wouldn't need to make $300K a year. If you wanted to work remotely as an architect in an isolated off grid place you probably need to make more than $300k a year.
Wood Guy
Nov 17, 20 11:33 am
Chad, my annual expenses are under $20K so there's not much difference between revenue and net income. I'll stop pushing it on you, I was just surprised to learn that I can run a successful design business from my home in the middle of nowhere. It's taken some time and effort, and the pandemic is a boon in my area, but I've never had a lack of work. (Knock on wood.)
Side note, I am thinking about moving my office to my MIL's place nearby, which is off grid.
archanonymous
Nov 17, 20 11:45 am
Your MIL must be much cooler than mine.
Chad Miller
Nov 17, 20 11:47 am
Thanks for the info WD! On a side note I never felt you where 'pushing' anything on me. I welcome all the advice and experience you have on the subject!
Wood Guy
Nov 17, 20 2:13 pm
Arch, she is pretty cool. My FIL died about a year ago so having someone on site would be good. And being able to have a space to meet clients and vendors, AND to say that I have an off-grid office would both be benefits for my niche.
Chad, good to know. I'll still stop pushing it ;-)
b3tadine[sutures]
Nov 16, 20 1:53 pm
Can we discuss something really important? Delicata Squash is the Queen of vegetables. So fucking versatile.
Go on, if you show me yours, I'll show you mine.
Chad Miller
Nov 16, 20 2:03 pm
I'm scarred to google those two things . . .
tduds
Nov 16, 20 4:34 pm
All that squash flavor, none of that squash hard work! We grew some amazing delicatas in the backyard this year. I think maybe one is left?
Wood Guy
Nov 16, 20 5:49 pm
Delicata squash is the queen of squash. That's as far as I can go.
Butternut is king.
b3tadine[sutures]
Nov 16, 20 6:10 pm
Man, my partner roasts the stuff, turmeric, and it's such a damned delight! Oh, and while I'm at it, why put butter on popcorn, when nutritional yeast rocks!?
Wood Guy
Nov 16, 20 6:27 pm
My family is shocked that I don't drown my lobster in butter. (I'm a Mainer, and drawn butter is standard with lobster.) But no butter on popcorn? Are you mad, man?!
Wait, is this the cooking thread?
tduds
Nov 16, 20 6:42 pm
My secret trick for popcorn is to toss it in Sriracha & Grated Parmesan. You'll never think about butter again.
Chad Miller
Nov 16, 20 6:49 pm
Hmmm, that sounds good.
tduds
Nov 16, 20 6:51 pm
May or may not have discovered that combo shortly after the legalization of recreational cannabis in Oregon.
Wood Guy
Nov 16, 20 6:59 pm
Popcorn with butter and worcestershire sauce is good too.
Chad Miller
Nov 16, 20 7:05 pm
And I thought NS was weird with his Canadian food. :P
Wilma Buttfit
Nov 16, 20 7:18 pm
I grow popcorn. I love that we are talking about food.
Chad Miller
Nov 17, 20 10:51 am
You grow popcorn? Cool, cool. Did you by chance discover recreational cannabis recently? :P
Wilma Buttfit
Nov 18, 20 5:42 pm
lol, no. Why?
Donna Sink
Nov 16, 20 4:36 pm
Do you ever feel like we spend most of our time making decisions about things that no one will ever notice because they'll just be drunk all the time in that space anyway?
Bad day.
tduds
Nov 16, 20 4:50 pm
Some of the first projects I job captained were bars. So, in a sense, I very much understand this feeling.
archanonymous
Nov 16, 20 5:03 pm
yeah but my last project was a state legislature building so to be expected.
SneakyPete
Nov 16, 20 5:06 pm
One of the projects of which I am most proud was specifically designed to provide a beautiful backdrop against
which to get drunk.
curtkram
Nov 16, 20 7:25 pm
i once sat in a bar and explained to a lawyer friend (because he asked) what was running along the ceiling. like, low voltage and line voltage and ducted return sort of stuff. so i guess that happens while drinking?
SneakyPete
Nov 16, 20 7:42 pm
Did you locate where they hid the the low voltage transformers?
curtkram
Nov 17, 20 1:46 pm
nope. where such a thing would be required i assume would not be exposed overhead. didn't look that close either. i was mostly just there to drink.
atelier nobody
Nov 17, 20 2:32 pm
It's the paradox of our profession - bad architecture always gets noticed, while good architecture is mostly taken for granted.
archanonymous
Nov 17, 20 4:10 pm
@atelier or the people going "but old buildings were so much better than what we build now, just look around."
Listen dumbass, all the ugly old shit got knocked down before you were even born.
tduds
Nov 17, 20 4:30 pm
Also a lot of the old stuff people cherish now because of its age was hated at the time it was built. Look at commentary from the 20s & 30s when everybody's favorite Bungalows were going up everywhere. Identical language to the disdain for 5-over-1 apartments you hear now.
midlander
Nov 17, 20 7:37 pm
i think the conventional mindset is based on not wanting to notice things; anything that catches attention is therefore undesirable. it takes a generation to acclimate and stop noticing strong work so that it becomes acceptable. once everyone forgets the original context they can project a fantasy history of better times and love that which they would have hated if they were there at its inception.
curtkram
Nov 17, 20 7:40 pm
tduds, we can do 4 over 2 now :)
SneakyPete
Nov 18, 20 12:35 pm
cool, now we can replace the bad storefronts with a curtain wall that's twice as tall and have a spandrel panel! Shadow box or back painted?!
Everyday Architect
Nov 18, 20 12:46 pm
That's where you're wrong SP. Budget won't handle curtainwall and the contractors will insist that storefront will work just fine.
SneakyPete
Nov 18, 20 12:58 pm
Expose that slab edge! Draw that bad detail! Cantilever that storefront! Codes dictate design! ROI dictates design! *sad panda*
archanonymous
Nov 18, 20 5:05 pm
Wait, SP, you can also use shitty aluminum. Can't forget that.
Everyday Architect
Nov 19, 20 2:59 am
Anyone use Mapes Panels for spandrels? I've never specified them, but they keep sticking in my head for discussions like these.
Tried putting my jeans on this morning, regular Levi 501 in 34” waist. They don’t fit ☹️ I’ve just measured my waist and the tape says 40”. This time last year was was able to get into 32” jeans...
not impressed.
midlander
Nov 18, 20 8:21 am
that's a long time to go without pants...
Chad Miller
Nov 18, 20 1:59 pm
. . . . A long time ago, in a galaxy far, far away , without pants . . .
Jaetten
Nov 19, 20 8:17 am
I'll give myself until May 4th to lose the weight!
archanonymous
Nov 18, 20 5:06 pm
Well, my cat finally died which is very sad, but one of my buildings won an AIA honor award which is a bit of good new to balance it at least.
SneakyPete
Nov 18, 20 5:09 pm
Congratulations!!
Can you share which building or will it provide too much personal info?
probably the worst looking building of those honored, but with the best program (special needs high school sports and arts facility)
SneakyPete
Nov 18, 20 5:45 pm
Looks are not everything, and you deserve the recognition. For what it's worth it looks handsome.
randomised
Nov 18, 20 5:48 pm
Sorry for your loss, congrats on the win
Everyday Architect
Nov 18, 20 6:55 pm
Congrats. I had a project I was involved with at my last firm recently win local AIA awards too (though it wasn't cool enough to be pictured in an Archinect news writeup).
Sorry about your cat.
Jaetten
Nov 19, 20 7:29 am
Sorry to hear about your cat. Congratulations on the award, I like the design.
archanonymous
Nov 19, 20 10:22 am
Ah thanks everyone. I'm still real sad about my cat but honestly pretty relieved too, he was old and really struggling lately.
citizen
Nov 19, 20 1:10 pm
Condolences on your dear old cat. We lost our beloved golden lab over a year ago, and it still hurts.
Your project looks great. We should have a lot more competent, creative projects like this. (Though I am disturbed by the lack of any meaningless swoops or arbitrary angles. Budget cuts?) And I love the program combining arts and athletics.
citizen
Nov 19, 20 1:15 pm
^ (FYI, I googled your firm and see your website URL directs to an online pharmacy selling Viagra. I thought: side work for extra $ during the pandemic? Genius!)
archanonymous
Nov 19, 20 3:28 pm
Haha, I no longer work there (and technically not "my project", was just the principal design and project architect on it - semantics I guess) but I already emailed them being like, uh, I think you guys got hacked.
archanonymous
Nov 19, 20 3:35 pm
There was never any swoops to cut, so I guess that helped! It was really unique, almost like a school project, just textbook basically, and the principal in charge was super laissez faire about it.
Got the site survey and geotech, got the program, did some studies, settled on the bar parti, what's cheap? precast and storefront, let's use that! Ok, let's emphasize the linearity by setting the façade back, use expanded metal boxes around mech, nail the precast joints and mullion placement, cool window frames, cheerful colorful interior, cheap lights installed in an interesting way, and that's pretty much it.
As a profession we often overthink things, I've always appreciated how simple this one was.
Donna Sink
Nov 19, 20 12:02 pm
I'm suddenly fearful I might get called into HR because one of my coworkers asked for our opinion on this logo he found on Pinterest and I responded with "I see a butt".
What do you guys think? Am I guilty?
Almosthip
Nov 19, 20 12:05 pm
yup...its a butt
Non Sequitur
Nov 19, 20 1:00 pm
with some minor editing, it might make for a new Dick Bush Architects logo.
citizen
Nov 19, 20 1:01 pm
It is a very nice butt, though. (Getting myself ready for the HR meeting....)
tduds
Nov 19, 20 1:18 pm
100% butt
citizen
Nov 19, 20 1:53 pm
From the business desk comes startling merger news.
Renowned design firm Dick Busch Architects is penetrating the sports market with its surprising acquisition of the Indiana Pacers. A quite... creative new corporate logo has been announced:
Wood Guy
Nov 19, 20 5:25 pm
Definitely a butt.
Jaetten
Nov 20, 20 9:14 am
Looks like the rear bumper of a Renault
Everyday Architect
Nov 19, 20 12:56 pm
JUST LET THE "TRUTHERS" THREAD DIE ALREADY!!!
I conscientiously went through making comments last night in other threads to push it down the list and closer to page 2.
Then Volunteer shows up having tired of election conspiracies and needing to get his fix somewhere else.
Non Sequitur
Nov 19, 20 12:58 pm
sorry. I'll try to restrain myself.
Everyday Architect
Nov 19, 20 1:02 pm
What we need is a slew of students asking about what grad school to apply to. Or for portfolio reviews.
b3tadine[sutures]
Nov 19, 20 1:12 pm
I'm nuking the shit out of that thread.
tduds
Nov 19, 20 1:21 pm
Thanks.
Non Sequitur
Nov 19, 20 1:21 pm
^good idea, but the more troother responses disappear, the more it looks like I'm yelling at myself in an empty room. 8-)
square.
Nov 19, 20 2:50 pm
i miss convincing prospective students to run like hell from student loan debt. feels quaint.
Chad Miller
Nov 19, 20 2:59 pm
Wow, those 'truthers' are some stupid people.
archanonymous
Nov 19, 20 3:35 pm
I'm not saying it was aliens, but.... it was aliens.
Non Sequitur
Nov 19, 20 3:55 pm
but who controls the aliens?
Chad Miller
Nov 19, 20 6:28 pm
Pfft, the aliens are controlled by Canadians. Prove me wrong.
Non Sequitur
Nov 19, 20 6:55 pm
I can’t Chad. Damn. Caught me. I’m sending people over to your location shortly. Good thing you did not get that AR after all. Right?
Donna Sink
Nov 19, 20 7:54 pm
HOLY FORKING SHIRT how can one man be so hot
curtkram
Nov 19, 20 8:44 pm
i don't know man. cuffed his jeans? (going to cuff my jeans tomorrow)
Donna Sink
Nov 19, 20 9:11 pm
Actually while I like the cuffs I hate the shoes. And the cigarette. But still. Holy forking shirt.
randomised
Nov 20, 20 2:32 am
Looks like Brad is moving, sitting in the moving van wearing the mover’s blanket...
Non Sequitur
Nov 20, 20 7:38 am
I totally rocked a similar shirt in high school in early 90s. Very different pants tho.
randomised
Nov 20, 20 8:29 am
found your pants:
Non Sequitur
Nov 20, 20 8:46 am
^ yes.
Chad Miller
Nov 20, 20 9:46 am
Dear gowd, you Canadians are weird.
Non Sequitur
Nov 20, 20 9:50 am
Also important to note that along with the pants and flannel, the gel (more like glue) in my spiky hair would take out an eye, or three. Man, those were the days. I still don't know why most of my highschool profs did not expect much of me.
Chad Miller
Nov 20, 20 9:52 am
Look at you now though, a snarky architect!
Josh Mings
Nov 20, 20 10:45 am
I thought we weren’t supposed to be horny on main, Donna?
SneakyPete
Nov 20, 20 1:00 pm
JNCO 4 LIFE
Chad Miller
Nov 20, 20 1:01 pm
Thanks a lot Josh. I now know what it feels like to have diet soda shoot out my nose.
Josh Mings
Nov 20, 20 2:20 pm
Shouldn’t drink and read Archinect
Donna Sink
Nov 20, 20 10:03 am
I don't want anyone to feel left out so here is another unbelievably sexy image:
Vitrocsa sliding door hardware <heart eye emoji>
SneakyPete
Nov 20, 20 1:00 pm
I specified Vitrocsa once. It was nice to have until the middle of DD...
Donna Sink
Nov 20, 20 1:13 pm
Oh dear...turns out Vitrocsa won't work for my application anyway, but it looks like a lovely system, and the rep I just spoke with was super helpful. I tell ya, a knowledgeable rep is worth their weight in gold.
He was delivering food boxes for people in need for four hours just like I did last week! OMG why can't I live in LA?!?!
SneakyPete
Nov 20, 20 12:57 pm
You changed your hair. I like it.
Chad Miller
Nov 20, 20 1:00 pm
I'm getting the impression that Dona has a lady crush on Brad Pitt. I could be mistaken though.
Non Sequitur
Nov 20, 20 1:02 pm
Chad, it's just a fling. It'll pass soon enough.
(p.s. working harder than mr. Pitt to receive my first down thumb from Donna)
Donna Sink
Nov 20, 20 1:10 pm
Sneaky I'm blonde now. And my passion for Mr. Pitt will only diminish if he 1. stops looking similar to my husband and 2. becomes a devotee of Patrimetric. Speaking of whom, has the Archinect news covered his fight about Zaha's estate yet today? Off to the news section...
Chad Miller
Nov 20, 20 1:29 pm
Wait, whut?
tduds
Nov 20, 20 2:27 pm
Nice humblebrag there with "1..."
Donna Sink
Nov 20, 20 3:38 pm
What can I say, tduds, my husband is the best man on the planet.
tduds
Nov 20, 20 4:46 pm
We should all be so lucky.
Wood Guy
Nov 21, 20 12:07 pm
Is it weird that a search for "donna sink husband" brings an image right up? I can see the resemblance. Kudos for going blond. If I had enough hair left I'd think about coloring it something other than the silver it is now.
Donna Sink
Nov 21, 20 1:34 pm
That actually is kind of weird...
citizen
Nov 21, 20 4:24 pm
I love you, Donna, and am sure I'd love the mister as well. And Brad seems like a good guy-- I'm not criticizing him.
But did you read that Page Six item? I'd much rather read about your time volunteering, or any of the thousands or millions who volunteer every damned day, without a media outlet slobbering and equating it with cancer curing. For Pete's sake. This kind of celebrity cult/worship is precisely why starchitect firms can exploit interns.
[Rant concluded. We now return to our regular programming.]
liberty bell
Nov 21, 20 7:24 pm
I totally agree citizen! I hate celebrity worship, I really do. Celebrities are just people, we all are, and we should all respect the humanity in one another no matter what, even jerks deserve acknowledgment that they are human and make mistakes. I just follow pitt because he’s so pretty AND seems nice AND likes architecture.
JLC-1
Nov 22, 20 11:52 am
he still smokes?
citizen
Nov 22, 20 3:10 pm
Totally fair, Donna, I get fandom. I'm just glad that whole
restraining order mix-up got sorted out.
[ducks, runs, hides] =O)
Wood Guy
Nov 23, 20 6:25 pm
My stock celebrity worship story I have to share when the opportunity arises (I might have shared here before): my favorite rock star in the 1990s was Kim Deal, a grunge artist from the Pixies in the 80s and with her band The Breeders in the 90s. Total rock star, beautiful, cool, badass, the whole nine yards. In the late 90s I was working on Nantucket as a carpenter, and my housemate/friend met a woman at a bar... she came over for dinner, we went out and played Foosball, got pulled over by the cops and let go because they knew her... she actually wasn't that great in person, and made me realize just how silly celebrity worship is. I still love her music, though. Time to go put on some Pixies...
citizen
Nov 23, 20 8:32 pm
I think you have the start of a great thread there, WG....
Wood Guy
Nov 24, 20 10:06 am
Oh, good idea, citizen.
Donna Sink
Nov 24, 20 1:03 pm
I just told my Pitt story over there. Fun thread, Wood Guy!
b3tadine[sutures]
Nov 20, 20 7:01 pm
I just read the greatest news!
Donald Trump Jr., has the vid!
archanonymous
Nov 20, 20 7:21 pm
great news would be that the entire clan was wiped out. Damn you for getting my hopes up like that.
tduds
Nov 20, 20 8:03 pm
Take it to the politics thread.
b3tadine[sutures]
Nov 21, 20 8:24 am
Don Jr is a civilian, plus he's too stupid to be a Pol.
randomised
Nov 22, 20 8:52 am
The vid that was featured in a ‘The Good Fight’ episode?
snooker-doodle-dandy
Nov 21, 20 7:45 pm
I hear he has gone off to hiding with his guns, so he can wank off to them. What a nurdle, couldn't get his girlfriend to go into hiding with him.
^That was brilliant. How many times would you need to run your car through the carwash if a flock of mosens passed over you?
citizen
Nov 22, 20 9:05 pm
Regan is awesome.
Chad Miller
Nov 23, 20 2:20 pm
Flock of Mosens. Sounds like Canadian EDM from the 80's.
randomised
Nov 24, 20 1:15 pm
Not to be mistaken for the Canadian trash metal band Flock of Goddamn Geese
SneakyPete
Nov 24, 20 2:21 pm
Or the American black metal group Flock of Drones.
Non Sequitur
Nov 24, 20 2:28 pm
I believe a group of drones is called a murder.
Chad Miller
Nov 24, 20 6:34 pm
You're thinking of crows . . .
Non Sequitur
Nov 24, 20 7:04 pm
It’s almost 2021, murders are not just limited to crows. Anyone can self identify their group how ever they want. Bro.
citizen
Nov 24, 20 7:39 pm
How about a 'lather of architects'?
SneakyPete
Nov 25, 20 4:47 pm
A "hatch pattern of drafters"
archi_dude
Nov 23, 20 2:28 pm
Unreasonable client + holidays + plus zero support from upper management = crappy thanksgiving with a chance of job applications. Happy Thanksgiving everyone :) I hope you all find some rest this weekend!
Chad Miller
Nov 23, 20 2:38 pm
Sorry to hear this. Good luck with finding a new firm. If you want to move to western Colorado we're looking for an experienced PA / PM.
archi_dude
Nov 23, 20 2:59 pm
That sounds awesome but I just entered the real estate market as of this month. I'm very jealous if your location Chad. What an incredibly cool place to live and have a solid job. I did one job on a resort out there and it's an amazing location in the US.
archi_dude
Nov 23, 20 2:59 pm
*so I'm staying local.
Chad Miller
Nov 24, 20 10:34 am
I totally understand needing to stay local with buying property.
The Western Slope is fun for sure if you're into the outdoors. The culture and access to 'fun' projects can be a challenge but I shouldn't complain too much.
Good Luck!
Josh Mings
Nov 24, 20 4:54 pm
Someone sent me an Instagram DM asking why I don’t take my shirt off for my post surgery progress selfies. Pretty sure no one wants to see my nipples except you dude..
citizen
Nov 24, 20 5:01 pm
Hey, you never know where that next special someone may show up, Josh...
SneakyPete
Nov 25, 20 4:46 pm
or that next job offer...
SneakyPete
Nov 30, 20 2:50 pm
i think we found the dude
Josh Mings
Nov 30, 20 3:09 pm
Oh Kristian, no wonder you don’t get along with your group members. No nipples for you.
Everyday Architect
Nov 25, 20 1:34 pm
It's annoying to have a bear rampaging through the village destroying everything in their path as they search for food.
It's more annoying to see people following the bear poking it all the time.
The idea is to distract and contain the bear, letting innocent people know who might stumble across the bear (and its destruction) that its behavior is not acceptable. The idea is not to further enrage it by poking it all the time.
This has been a metaphor.
Non Sequitur
Nov 25, 20 1:49 pm
Oh, story time. I was in Yosemite a while back and was riding the free public shuttle bus from the main shop to our camp site. Suddenly, a bunch of people start scrambling to one side of the bus and we notice, out a few hundred metres in front near the fancy cabins, armed park rangers. Turns out there was not only a cougar loose but also a bear. Hot diggity dog, we tell ourselves and get off the shuttle. We immediately head towards the park rangers hoping to catch a glimpse of the action. I did get to see the 2 animals briefly. I think the successfully shooed away the 2 predators. Something something silly tourists wanting to see the dumpster fire something.
Everyday Architect
Nov 25, 20 1:57 pm
We went on many family vacations to Yellowstone where it was the same type of thing every time there was even a chipmunk within viewing distance of a road. It's fine to take in the sites and all ... that's part of why you're out there ... but don't poke the bear.
I'd heard that the two were natural enemies, Non, but you wouldn't expect to see them outside their natural habitats.
Josh Mings
Nov 25, 20 2:50 pm
That’s a party.
SneakyPete
Nov 25, 20 4:45 pm
I poke. I poke. I feel shame. I poke.
liberty bell
Nov 26, 20 7:22 pm
I hope everyone has had an enjoyable day, whether celebrating thanksgiving or not!
citizen
Nov 27, 20 5:46 pm
Yes, ethics are important. But what about spelling?
b3tadine[sutures]
Nov 27, 20 6:33 pm
Wait, they're missing the 'd' right?
citizen
Nov 27, 20 6:38 pm
Not what I was thinking, but I like yours better. It would fix the mistake AND set a nice tone. But then they'd need a comma.
Orhan Ayyüce
Nov 29, 20 11:55 pm
Request a quote
Nam Henderson
Nov 27, 20 11:20 pm
Hey TC! Hope you are all healthy and well in these times...As for myself, will hopefully be off crutches and out of my post ACL/meniscus brace next week!
Couldn't find the thread I thought I wanted to post below in, so I thought I'd share photo here. Impressive color coordination!
Also mightyaa's earlier reference to sewer diving made me think of this interview by Edible Geography as part of Postopolis! DF back in 2010. Some neat video on interwebs/youtube as well.
Hope everyone survived the very long weekend which is only going to be longer come tomorrow here in New England....Lots of weather moving in with high winds and rain. We tried to contain ourselves over the weekend. Stayed close to home but did venture out to get that $24.00 Norton deal for 10 items at BJ's I had purchased the 5 device item for $10.00 more last week so saved myself some money. Pass today hauling deck chairs to basement and putting finishing touches on my three new raised beds made with salvaged 2X6 red wood deck boards off of one of my projects. I make a habit of it to ask the client if I can have items of value on a job that are most likely headed for a dumpster. I have a grand worth of old granite foundation stones sitting in my driveway that I need to get moved before the snow flies. Got them off a job for writing a letter for a guy putting up some self storage units, so he would not have to put in bathrooms. They were unheated units, so he saved money not having to do a water hookup and sewer hookup and I'm a happy cowboy.
Non Sequitur
Nov 30, 20 2:15 pm
My new best friend Paul something something W(anker) on that arch book thread is real joy. I wonder if his 3rd account will also meet the same fate as his previous 2.
Donna Sink
Nov 30, 20 2:51 pm
Wow. That Paul guy is....somethin'!
citizen
Nov 30, 20 2:51 pm
Wow! That exchange reminds me of a 30 Rock quip, in which Jack refers to competing columns in Irish Arguments Weekly, 'America's only all-caps magazine.'
Non Sequitur
Nov 30, 20 2:54 pm
I'd love to continue... but I'm swamped so I can't commit more than the typical snark. I caught his first 2 accounts that spammed his extra thick bible link-architecture-pos amazon book. It's a special book, to say the least.
Wood Guy
Nov 30, 20 3:26 pm
I can't decide if Paul or Kristian are my favorite new posters.
Non Sequitur
Nov 30, 20 3:41 pm
WG, neither offer much sport in their "debate" tho.
Wood Guy
Nov 30, 20 3:50 pm
Sometimes you just want an easy target.
Josh Mings
Nov 30, 20 3:50 pm
Looks like Kristian is in the process of being deleted.
Non Sequitur
Nov 30, 20 3:59 pm
Well, once you shoot yourself in the foot... you don't keep shooting to see if more bullets will make the pain go away. Some people just can't get the hint.
b3tadine[sutures]
Nov 30, 20 4:11 pm
That guy doesn't even register in my book. SL is the man, and he's got the credentials to back up his work. I'm just concerned that he's passed away.
Jaetten
Dec 1, 20 5:41 am
There needs to be an 'auto eject' button for new accounts that are created for nothing more than spam posts and general demeaning comments.
randomised
Dec 1, 20 6:55 am
Who's SL if I may ask...
Non Sequitur
Dec 1, 20 7:51 am
So that Prize-winning author got either a new account or on of his few followers to do a drive-by thumbs down, then I assume, cause a bunch of things to get nuked? Ah, there goes my morning commute plans.
b3tadine[sutures]
Dec 1, 20 8:27 am
SL = S. Lauf I hated him, couldn't understand him, grew to respect him, bought his books, but his website, is probably the greatest architectural achievement in the last 75 years.
B3ta, is that name not equivalent to Voldermort? It's been ages since I've seen a reference to him here.
b3tadine[sutures]
Dec 1, 20 8:36 am
It's weird, I'm not the only one, others have had issues, I was being a real ass, because he was in my mind inpenetrable, he offended me. It's one of those things where if he were a professor, I would've taken his class, but online he was less professorial, and I was more inclined to be less interested in being educated by someone behind a screen.
Non Sequitur
Dec 1, 20 8:51 am
I've always found most of his digital collages fascinating. Never really got into any discussions about them tho.
SneakyPete
Dec 1, 20 11:48 am
He was sensitive, and generally seemed to be disinterested in any discussion that didn't have someone's tongue on him somewhere moist and sweaty. I was initially interested in his ideas, but the opacity combined with the hostility caused me to dislike him.
tduds
Dec 1, 20 12:05 pm
Just my opinion, and maybe this is overly critical, but he (in his posts and his diagrams and his website) always struck me as trying way too hard at needless complexity. Creating a layer of intellectual superiority around what was largely just incomprehensible aesthetic dreck. Fun, sometimes, and beautiful, even. But nothing behind the curtain.
Once or twice I pressed him enough to show a couple of built designs and they were... underwhelming.
SneakyPete
Dec 1, 20 12:06 pm
To be fair, MUCH of the architecture in Philadelphia over the last few decades has been underwhelming.
Everyday Architect
Dec 2, 20 12:31 pm
I mostly ignored his posts. I tried at first to figure out what was going on, but it always struck me as having no there there. As others have mentioned, it seemed more like complexity and obfuscation just for the same of making it incomprehensible. That, or it was all genius level and my brain just couldn't make any sense of it. Is there a description somewhere of his intent or philosophy ... because that's what I feel like I'm missing every time I look at his work.
randomised
Dec 2, 20 1:18 pm
Ah yes thanks for the clarification, I remember quondam, always posting his own work all over the forum and getting into arguments about it, Miles is his biggest fan if I recall correctly. Visually like his work as drawings, although quite flat/plan oriented without much hierarchy because of the method of drawing/cad. Hope he is okay and still making drawings.
Josh Mings
Nov 30, 20 3:11 pm
Since God’s greatest gift to architecture Kristian96 called me fat - here’s 3 months post op for those of you that don’t follow me elsewhere. This is over 60lbs difference, 90 lbs from my highest weight.
SneakyPete
Nov 30, 20 3:20 pm
You look great, and kristian96 is a shitty human.
Josh Mings
Nov 30, 20 3:22 pm
Of course, and his insult didn’t get anywhere with me except making me realize I never posted a progress pic here!
SneakyPete
Nov 30, 20 3:23 pm
You should shame the plant in your bedroom into making as much of an effort as you are.
Josh Mings
Nov 30, 20 3:24 pm
Haha. Actually it was pretty small when I got it a few months back. It’s grown quite a bit.
Wood Guy
Nov 30, 20 3:25 pm
You look great, Josh! 90 lbs is a small adult human. That's a lot of weight to shed.
Non Sequitur
Nov 30, 20 3:26 pm
I can spot the difference: you changed shorts.
SneakyPete
Nov 30, 20 3:43 pm
with that level of skill in observation, I bet you're an EXCELLENT architect, "kristian."
citizen
Nov 30, 20 3:56 pm
Well done, Josh! And inspiring, too.
Non Sequitur
Nov 30, 20 4:00 pm
I guess I missed the wrist-watch. Damn. I'm turning in my architect badge and cape.
Josh Mings
Nov 30, 20 4:02 pm
The Lego Star Destroyer is a constant.
randomised
Nov 30, 20 4:23 pm
Maybe after 3 months it is time to change...your sheets!
SneakyPete
Nov 30, 20 4:45 pm
Look at the duvet, genius.
Josh Mings
Nov 30, 20 4:49 pm
One of the side effects of losing your insulation is being cold all the time. Had to go with a super thick down alternative comforter for winter, and kick on the heat higher than I typically ever have it.
randomised
Nov 30, 20 5:14 pm
For (Sneaky)Pete’s sake, it was just a joke...
SneakyPete
Nov 30, 20 5:39 pm
hilarious
Jaetten
Dec 1, 20 2:42 am
Great work! Where are you based to need a warmer duvet?
Non Sequitur
Dec 1, 20 7:48 am
What’s the big deal on the duvet? We use one year-round in our igloo.
Donna Sink
Dec 1, 20 9:35 am
Josh, how are you feeling? Like, do you have more energy? Less pain (I swear all I feel as a 53yo woman who sits mousing all day is pain in my back...)? Higher levels of calm?
Josh Mings
Dec 1, 20 10:09 am
More energy, but surprisingly enough a bit more pain in my knees. It’s like they don’t know what to do without the extra weight. Been doing more elliptical and cycling vs treadmill for cardio lately due to it. Overall higher levels of calm, which shouldn’t be the case given, well everything. It’s done wonders for self-esteem and confidence in non-work related settings.
Chad Miller
Dec 1, 20 10:47 am
Wait, somebody called Josh fat as a response to an online argument? What is this junior high?
Back to the actual discussion now . . .
Josh, have you tried taking CBD oil for the knee pain? I've been on the stuff for about a year and it helps me with joint inflammation and pain.
b3tadine[sutures]
Dec 1, 20 11:13 am
Josh, when I lost most of my weight, my hips started hurting. I attributed to my body coming back into alignment.
archanonymous
Dec 1, 20 11:37 am
Josh you could just be getting old.
Josh Mings
Dec 1, 20 11:47 am
That’s also a very likely possibility
Jaetten
Dec 1, 20 8:03 am
Alas, no ferry between Russia and Alaska... There goes our driving idea from UK through to Canada... Would have made one hell of a road trip!
Non Sequitur
Dec 1, 20 11:44 am
Problem solved:
Plus you'll totally look rad doing it. Not sure the convertible is a good idea in Siberia tho.
Jaetten
Dec 1, 20 11:57 am
It'll be summer, me wife and dog!
archanonymous
Dec 1, 20 12:29 pm
I'm sure you can find a barge or something to take you across in the summertime.
Everyday Architect
Dec 1, 20 12:29 pm
If you haven't already, check out Long Way Round with Ewan McGregor and Charley Boorman.
It doesn't solve your problem unless you want to change to motorbikes, but it's a cool series anyway.
Jaetten
Dec 1, 20 12:39 pm
Dog in sidecar, I like it!
liberty bell
Dec 2, 20 12:03 am
I spent tonight designing a spiegeltent. I designed it by drawing it in CAD. It was a fun evening!
tduds
Dec 2, 20 12:23 am
I just learned a new word! Sounds fun.
atelier nobody
Dec 2, 20 1:22 pm
Just for fun, or an actual project? I have legit always wanted to design one.
Donna Sink
Dec 2, 20 6:25 pm
Actual project. We are still trying to determine the level of demountability of it.
midlander
Dec 2, 20 7:34 pm
so you're working on a semidemountablespiegeltent.
randomised
Dec 3, 20 4:55 pm
If it’s not demountable, it’s not a spiegeltent.
bowling_ball
Dec 2, 20 12:13 am
As of today, I'm a partner at my firm. Crazy. Recording it here for posterity.
citizen
Dec 2, 20 12:18 am
Kudos, bb!
(Is this a good time to ask you for a raise?)
Non Sequitur
Dec 2, 20 12:19 am
cheers!
tduds
Dec 2, 20 12:23 am
Congrats!
SneakyPete
Dec 2, 20 12:39 am
Congratulations!
Bench
Dec 2, 20 7:43 am
Congrats BB!
liberty bell
Dec 2, 20 8:02 am
Congrats! I love that you’re commemorating it here, it’s a big deal and worthy of recognition!
Chad Miller
Dec 2, 20 1:21 pm
Cool! What's it like to be partner? Do you now know how to do everything? That happens when you're a partner right?
SneakyPete
Dec 2, 20 1:37 pm
you start to grow hair in strange places
Chad Miller
Dec 2, 20 2:31 pm
That would mean I'm on my way to being a partner!
bowling_ball
Dec 2, 20 9:28 pm
Chad - yup, the older partners hooked me up to the architecture-knowing-machine and I downloaded everything. Watch out! (Mostly I'm grateful for not having a hangover today)
Chad Miller
Dec 3, 20 10:21 am
Congratulations on your successful download. Way to go becoming a partner as well. ;)
Non Sequitur
Dec 3, 20 10:28 am
Do you get your own helipad or do you have the share one?
Chad Miller
Dec 3, 20 11:13 am
You only get that in French speaking parts of Canada.
Non Sequitur
Dec 3, 20 11:37 am
Correct Chad... but don't forget, our helicopters have custom poutine trays.
bowling_ball
Dec 3, 20 11:54 am
Guys, I just realized that I don't own a suit, and clothing stores are all closed due to COVID. Good timing!
Non Sequitur
Dec 3, 20 11:56 am
These are in style ATM:
SneakyPete
Dec 3, 20 12:45 pm
Buy a button down, pleated slacks, and a sweater vest. That should get you through.
citizen
Dec 3, 20 1:14 pm
Pete's list, plus a black blazer (the most useful men's garment since the dungarees).
SneakyPete
Dec 3, 20 1:26 pm
For the record I hate pleated pants, but they help the super at the job site know who to avoid.
Chad Miller
Dec 3, 20 1:33 pm
You're a partner now BB. Don't half ass it. Dress like you rule the wasteland that is post COVID.
Non Sequitur
Dec 3, 20 1:40 pm
Hey, that chain mail is proper site PPE.
Chad Miller
Dec 3, 20 1:43 pm
I wear a chainmail codpiece in the office for PPE.
proto
Dec 3, 20 2:01 pm
lol
citizen
Dec 3, 20 2:17 pm
TMI, Chad, yet so intriguing at the same time. Worn on the inside? Outside? Inside-out?
Non Sequitur
Dec 3, 20 3:41 pm
Citizen, if it's the only thing you're wearing, then it's both, no?
citizen
Dec 3, 20 3:45 pm
I may have misunderstood. Is a chainmail codpiece when you have to send a letter with a fish attached to ten other people, or suffer bad luck?
Chad Miller
Dec 3, 20 6:18 pm
You always wear a codpeice on the outside.
bowling_ball
Dec 3, 20 8:45 pm
Chad, I can tell that you and I would be great friends in real life. Thanks for the laughs
tduds
Dec 3, 20 2:13 pm
Just a thought: I'd love to see timestamps on replies in threads.
tduds
Dec 3, 20 5:06 pm
The thumbs have spoken! Let's go, admins.
Non Sequitur
Dec 3, 20 5:08 pm
record for most thumbs up?
citizen
Dec 3, 20 5:18 pm
Nope. Checkout b_b's good-news post above. More well-wishers than clock-watchers for now. A good thing.
tduds
Dec 3, 20 6:40 pm
As it should be.
Archinect
Dec 4, 20 6:27 pm
We're listening
Archinect
Mar 9, 21 6:47 pm
Your wish has been granted
tduds
Mar 9, 21 9:40 pm
Thanks overlords!
Jaetten
Dec 3, 20 3:15 pm
Dear MET Office. Stop saying it’s going to snow. You say that every year and we haven’t had a single snowflake settle since December 2010. (Excluding the freak storm titled “beast from the east” in 2018)
It isn’t going to snow and it probably never will again!!!
Non Sequitur
Dec 3, 20 3:40 pm
I have snow.
Jaetten
Dec 3, 20 4:04 pm
Can you mail me some?
Almosthip
Dec 3, 20 4:08 pm
I have lots of snow
Non Sequitur
Dec 3, 20 4:10 pm
Right... because what our postal workers need is even more packages in the system... specially some containing melting snow.
proto
Dec 3, 20 4:14 pm
i hear it's gonna be cool to ship super-cooled product one of these days
Chad Miller
Dec 3, 20 6:38 pm
I have 15 feet of snow 45 minutes from my front door. I can visit winter!
tduds
Dec 3, 20 6:40 pm
^ My favorite thing about the Pacific NW. The snow stays in the mountains & out of my driveway.
I can snowboard in the morning and golf in the afternoon almost any day of the year. I could surf too but I'm not that badass.
SneakyPete
Dec 3, 20 7:14 pm
Tradeoff is the lack of sun, which some folks cannot deal with. I grew up where there was less sun than the PNW, so it's fine by me...
tduds
Dec 3, 20 7:23 pm
Just take those vitamin D pills in the morning. The upside of all the rain is all the green. I try to keep that in mind.
proto
Dec 4, 20 12:39 pm
as a transplant to the PNW (& despite being a skier):
my least favorite time of the year: winter solstice & environs
my favorite time of the year: summer solstice & environs
Non Sequitur
Dec 4, 20 12:40 pm
It rained this morning. All my snow is gone.
Jaetten
Dec 7, 20 5:19 am
That sucks. It rains all year here, except for the 3 days of sunshine in the summer.
tduds
Dec 4, 20 2:12 pm
I don't want to derail the tennis court tower post with stupid comments so I'll leave it here:
It just dawned on me that Carlo Ratti Associati rhymes, and I wonder if that's intentional. Either way I love it.
citizen
Dec 4, 20 9:36 pm
A Ratti paisan, name of Carlo
stacked tennis courts up very far. Though
loose rackets and balls
took very steep falls
he managed to still keep the bar low.
SneakyPete
Dec 5, 20 1:00 am
.
randomised
Dec 5, 20 2:54 am
In collaboration with Italo Rota Assaciota
liberty bell
Dec 6, 20 10:31 am
Unpopular opinion:
Dyson and the guy: genius
Dyson the products: garbage.
Non Sequitur
Dec 6, 20 10:49 am
I like my purple dyson vacuum. It’s not of a particularly usable shape (ball), cleaning and emptying the canister is a bitch, and the accessories don’t go anywhere, so who knows how many I lost; but it’s purple. That’s got to count for something.
SneakyPete
Dec 6, 20 12:34 pm
The apple of utility tech. Take ideas that are already available, make them shiny, then market them so people buy the bullshit.
citizen
Dec 6, 20 1:41 pm
Don't forget that delicious British accent.
proto
Dec 7, 20 11:38 am
We have two fluffy dogs that generate fur at a rate that seems disconnected from the amount of fur they seem to retain. We finally tried a dyson after using cheaper vacuums for 30yrs. Purple Animal 2, if that matters. It really does suck harder and gets more dirt & fur out of the carpets. I’m waiting to see how durability & effectiveness over the years will turn out. But I’m impressed thus far.
Non Sequitur
Dec 7, 20 11:48 am
^Proto, I believe I have the first gen of that vacuum. If so, the cannister will only fill-up a quarter of the way before suction dies down.
SneakyPete
Dec 7, 20 11:59 am
I'd suggest a robot vacuum for dailiy fur removal. It won't solve everything, but it helps keep the fur down.
SneakyPete
Dec 7, 20 11:59 am
For the floors, not the dogs.
curtkram
Dec 7, 20 1:25 pm
i have two saint bernards. the key to the animal vacuum isn't that it doesn't clog, it's that it's easy to disassemble and clean out clogs. the neat thing i think with Dyson is that everything red is something you can take apart, so it's easy to see how to get to the clogs. also, clean out the canister regularly.
proto
Dec 7, 20 1:28 pm
hard no on the robot vacuum for fur -- complete failure in our household. 1) clogged too easily & 2) we spent more time setting up for the little asshole to do a good job than time saved for his routine outings
just did the 3mo cleanout...filter bag takes forever to dry, but otherwise very straight forward
citizen
Dec 7, 20 1:37 pm
^ Helpful discussion. We're on the lookout for an old pup/young dog to adopt, and the fur/floor issue is definitely a factor.
proto
Dec 7, 20 1:55 pm
dogs in question...on the job
Non Sequitur
Dec 7, 20 2:16 pm
thanks, now my allergies are flaring up.
citizen
Dec 7, 20 2:23 pm
^ Wait-- there's actually fur coming out of my screen onto my desk! ;O]
Everyday Architect
Dec 7, 20 8:29 pm
At the risk of sounding like an old guy, "they don't make them like they used to." My in-laws used Dyson vacuums when they lived in England, and bought the DC07 (https://collection.cooperhewit...) when Dyson came to the states. My in-laws later replaced it with the Dyson ball model and they hated it (not robust enough to handle as a regular vacuum or something like that ... too gimmicky/fiddly). They got rid of it a few years ago and now they have a Shark (I think ... don't quote me).
My wife, fiancé at the time, bought a refurbished DC07 in the mid 2000's. We've had a few of the plastic bits on ours break over the years (mainly from me dropping it), but I actually intercepted my in-laws' older DC07 on its way to being donated and I use it to replace anything that happens to break on our DC07. It's still going strong. The only issue is the yellow color scheme from the "parts vacuum" clashes with the purple and turquoise of the functioning vacuum.
We also have the Dyson humidifier, but I'm kind of "meh" about it. Overall, it's better than any other humidifier we have tried, but I was hoping for more, especially at the price point they're selling it for (I got ours with CC points ... so pretty happy I didn't pay for it).
proto
Dec 7, 20 8:44 pm
I’m imagining there’s a kind of beauty to your transformer yellow/purple vacuum
Everyday Architect
Dec 7, 20 9:00 pm
proto, that might be in the eye of the beholder, but if I remember to, I'll take a photo and post it here.
Everyday Architect
Dec 8, 20 5:59 pm
Here's the franken-vacuum in all their glory...
proto
Dec 8, 20 6:36 pm
exquisite!
Non Sequitur
Dec 8, 20 6:59 pm
I totally had a rad one piece snow suit in the late 80s that matched exactly that vacuum’s colour
palette.
citizen
Dec 8, 20 7:21 pm
(No need to mention the 80s there... it's a given.)
Donna Sink
Dec 8, 20 7:25 pm
Non did it have sleeves that zipped off to make a vest?! Memories...
liberty bell
Dec 6, 20 10:32 am
UGh damn phone. That should say “Dyson the guy” not Dyson and the guy. I don’t know who the other guy is
SneakyPete
Dec 6, 20 12:35 pm
Dyson and the Guy is my favorite country music ventriloquist act.
citizen
Dec 6, 20 1:39 pm
^ I love it when Dyson drinks a Snapple, then maple syrup comes out of The Guy's nose. Classic.
I think I prefer the flooring orientation to be perpendicular to the windows. Other than that, looking good!
thatsthat
Dec 7, 20 3:48 pm
This looks exactly like a place I looked at renting in Bushwick about 8 years ago. I declined the place because I couldn't in good conscience live with this everyday. I think this is common practice with those developer remodeled places in Brooklyn.
Bench
Dec 7, 20 3:59 pm
Funny enough, I was initially drawn to the french door/high window combination. It took me a hot second to clue in to the other part. I've definitely seem stuff similar to this at apartment viewings in NYC (although never quite to this degree...)
citizen
Dec 7, 20 4:36 pm
You gotta wonder if that partition extends all the way up inside the flue...
tduds
Dec 7, 20 4:38 pm
I see at least 3 potential violations here in addition to the fireplace (which, somehow, might be ok?)
citizen
Dec 7, 20 4:43 pm
As a floor plan devotee, I've looked at a lot of classic NYC and Chicago apartment plans from the early 20c. So many feature long living rooms with a fireplace centered on the long wall like this one. Mighty hard to subdivide that space without either (i) committing the atrocity above, (ii) hide/fur over the nice fireplace, or (iii) divide unequally, leaving the fireplace to remain but in a weird, offset location.
citizen
Dec 7, 20 4:48 pm
Classic Brazil scene of desk-sharing between two adjacent offices.
SneakyPete
Dec 7, 20 4:55 pm
II sounds relatively cheap and reversible if anyone ever wanted to do so.
proto
Dec 7, 20 7:34 pm
"Charming 1 Bedroom Converted to a 2 Bedroom" [shouldn't it read "Charming Studio Converted to a 2 Bedroom"]
"This Fantastic Apartment Features Very High Ceilings" [seemingly taller now with the room sizes]
Anyone wanna guess if it was permitted?
citizen
Dec 7, 20 7:52 pm
"Charming" the same way being locked in a car trunk is charming.
And that bathroom is awesome. "Efficient bath layout speeds up mornings. Shit and shave at the same time!"
atelier nobody
Dec 7, 20 7:56 pm
I once looked at a rental that seemed to have originally been a single-room bungalow, about 300-400 sf, that someone partitioned into a "2-bedroom".
randomised
Dec 8, 20 2:14 am
Once had a viewing in Brooklyn where the partition between the two “apartments” was only a heavy curtain from floor to ceiling, that was a surprise when we got there...
Jaetten
Dec 8, 20 9:02 am
How do you light the fire?
JLC-1
Dec 8, 20 11:53 am
I once rented an apartment in Bologna that had been split in 2, we could get high on our neighbor's weed habit.
SneakyPete
Dec 8, 20 1:22 pm
My experience in a place like this was similar. Studs placed on top of the wood floor. My neighbor was single and quiet as a
mouse. We could still hear her fart.
Jaetten
Dec 8, 20 2:17 pm
Long day, a lot accomplished and now time to relax! A bit of Paul Stanley - Live to Win and an excellent scotch!
sameolddoctor
Dec 8, 20 7:32 pm
Never had this one but want to try...
randomised
Dec 9, 20 2:41 am
Holly Jolly
Donna Sink
Dec 9, 20 9:17 am
I don't want to derail the shitty men thread but WoodGuy "comprised of" drives me crazy too!
Wood Guy
Dec 9, 20 9:28 am
I felt petty mentioning it, especially for what I think is a serious topic. But I seem to be seeing it more often and it gives me a tic!
citizen
Dec 9, 20 1:41 pm
I learned something new, Wood Guy. I'm a fairly picky Word Guy myself, and confess I've gotten this wrong up 'til now. Thanks for posting.
Donna Sink
Dec 9, 20 9:26 am
I just inadvertently went back and read a page of TC from several months ago and I was *really* whingeing hard about my job and one project in particular. I'm happy to report that these days I'm loving my job. It's still rough out there, clients are still demanding and so many of the non-profit or small businesses I work with are truly strapped for cash right now, but my work is actually going great.
So thank you TC for giving us all a space to vent AND a reminder that things change and change is frequently good!
Today I'm going to look at a building that needs to be quickly converted for super-cold storage for vaccines, so I also feel like I'm doing good work today.
Wood Guy
Dec 9, 20 9:29 am
That's all good news, Donna--thanks for a bit of morning cheer!
Jaetten
Dec 9, 20 12:36 pm
As I believe I may have posted before, I am looking to set up shop on my own.
Are threads querying software choices/cost and licencing options etc permitted?
If not, never mind.
If so, I'll post a new thread with my questions!
archanonymous
Dec 9, 20 1:44 pm
Yeah, but it has been covered many times so maybe read the old threads first then come with informed questions.
Chad Miller
Dec 9, 20 2:02 pm
Translation - AA has no idea.
Jaetten
Dec 9, 20 3:33 pm
Ta :)
Non Sequitur
Dec 9, 20 2:55 pm
I am now licensed in the province of Quebec. I have no plans to ever practice there but it looks good on corporate CV and helps with Proposals. Coincidence of birth (or French as first language) has no end of perks up here. Sorry.
citizen
Dec 9, 20 3:39 pm
Tres bien!
randomised
Dec 9, 20 4:55 pm
Love the “sorry” at the end, clearly you are not French.
Everyday Architect
Dec 9, 20 5:52 pm
... but very Canadian.
citizen
Dec 9, 20 6:29 pm
"Canadians. Just like the French, but nice. Polite, too."
Non Sequitur
Dec 9, 20 6:42 pm
French-Canadian =\= French. There is a big difference, calisse.
Chad Miller
Dec 9, 20 6:44 pm
Could be worse NS. You could be Scottish / Canadian.
Jaetten
Dec 10, 20 3:53 am
What'
s wrong with the Scots?
Chad Miller
Dec 10, 20 10:26 am
Nothing. As long as you're not also Canadian.
Almosthip
Dec 10, 20 10:48 am
Merde!
je ne parle pas français
Jaetten
Dec 10, 20 11:27 am
What about Welsh Chad?
Bench
Dec 10, 20 11:53 am
Chad you might want to avoid literally the entire Maritime region in Canada, for future reference...
Chad Miller
Dec 10, 20 5:49 pm
Meh. Been there. Nice place. A lot of plaid on the weekends though . . . . I'm cool with it though as that area brought us The Real McKenzies.
liberty bell
Dec 9, 20 3:19 pm
This office holiday treat is in a bag closed with a twist tie. The twist tie is tied in a knot. Hashtag Unclear on the concept
citizen
Dec 9, 20 3:36 pm
# Start Packing Up Your Things?
Kidding! That is an odd one, though. Some folks can't tie a bow, perhaps?
proto
Dec 9, 20 6:24 pm
is it cannabis infused?
Wood Guy
Dec 10, 20 7:44 am
How many times did you try untwisting it one way, then the other, before you realized it was tied? ;-)
b3tadine[sutures]
Dec 10, 20 7:52 am
Why does it look like a dinosaur caught in a snowball?
archi_dude
Dec 10, 20 5:44 pm
Is that your holiday bonus?
Chad Miller
Dec 10, 20 5:46 pm
It is a baby dinosaur caught in a snowball. When it unthaws the baby dinosaur will awaken and start to grow at a geometric rate.
A fully grown dinosaur is a damn nice holiday bonus.
SneakyPete
Dec 10, 20 5:46 pm
damn, dude, your glass is even half-emptier than MINE. Be of good cheer!
Chad Miller
Dec 10, 20 2:38 pm
Uhg.
::start whining::
I want to get out of the office and do some work on my house. The last three months all I've been doing is CA and MOB interior TI's. My creative mind is slowly dying from a lack of use.
::end whining::
Jaetten
Dec 11, 20 6:04 am
We put a Eucalyptus 'shrub' as we were sold, in our garden. April this year it was 8" tall, as of today, it is 8'...
Hardly a shrub!
Chad Miller
Dec 11, 20 12:28 pm
That is one hell of a shrub. Has it started talking yet? Be carful if it starts saying 'feed me'.
Donna Sink
Dec 11, 20 12:40 pm
Jaetten, post a pic!
Jaetten
Dec 11, 20 12:53 pm
Haha, if it starts talking, I'd become very rich! Will get a pic tomorrow when we have daylight :)
Jaetten
Dec 12, 20 6:48 am
Y
Jaetten
Dec 12, 20 6:49 am
Can’t find an option to upload an image in reply. :(
Found, it, have to use desktop site, not mobile!
Fence is 6'
Jaetten
Dec 12, 20 6:56 am
Need a bit of weeding haha
Donna Sink
Dec 12, 20 1:59 pm
It looks awesome! I love eucalyptus. I made their seed pods into earring s as a kid. They do suck up too much water to be appropriate in Arizona, though.
Jaetten
Dec 13, 20 9:16 am
Thank you, they’re lovely trees. We get so much water buildup over winter. I just wish it was a bit slower growing haha. Might get another two though, our neighbours windows see straight into our garden.
Chad Miller
Dec 15, 20 2:13 pm
Now that's a shrub!
SneakyPete
Dec 15, 20 8:38 pm
Ask anyone in Australia, they ain't shrubs. :)
Jaetten
Dec 16, 20 2:42 am
To be fair, we got it from a ‘bargain’ store. These and sequoia are my favourite non-native tree. I’d happily plant them everywhere haha.
Everyday Architect
Dec 11, 20 12:22 pm
I keep opening that drawing precision thread hoping for some juicy content, but I can't be bothered to care about that kind of thing anymore. Let me know when it has completely devolved into a raging dumpster inferno.
Chad Miller
Dec 11, 20 12:29 pm
I think APS is trying to light something on fire . . .
Non Sequitur
Dec 11, 20 12:42 pm
I tried to light a match, but it's a well beaten horse.
square.
Dec 11, 20 12:44 pm
the small things architects fetishize..
Non Sequitur
Dec 11, 20 12:48 pm
hold my coffee, I've got to change pens 7 and 9 to match the Pantone of the year colours.
Everyday Architect
Dec 11, 20 12:56 pm
He's so far out of his element when it comes to commenting on the software and drawing production side of things.
For some perspective, I know I'm out of my element on those things and I was doing that work for about half a year past his point of retirement. It wasn't that I'm not good at that work, I was probably too good compared to my colleagues and realized I didn't want to be stuck drawing all the time so I made a career shift.
Anyway, shortly before he retired I wrote this blog post (Want to be an Architect?; Don't Learn Revit) which has gotten some flack for not understanding the direction of the industry. I think that criticism is a misunderstanding of my intent with the post, but a valid concern anyway. I should have written more clearly.
Non Sequitur
Dec 11, 20 1:01 pm
I'm in charge of teaching/training/whiping revit to the staff in my office but I approach it from a CA pov... because that's a big part of what I do and I'm tired of having to fix other's mistakes.
tduds
Dec 11, 20 1:04 pm
I was thinking last night that x-jla is to this forum what a "x/256" dimension is to my Revit model. I chase it through the plan, diligently and subtly adjusting inaccuracies until I think I've smoothed everything over, only for it to inexplicably and inevitably appear again somewhere completely unexpected. There, is that enough drama?
randomised
Dec 11, 20 1:10 pm
Beautiful analogy!
Everyday Architect
Dec 11, 20 1:13 pm
if x-jla is x/256 measurements, does that make randomised the times I tried to hit ESC on my keyboard and ended up hitting F1 instead?
randomised
Dec 11, 20 1:21 pm
Always there to help, even when not requested, especially when not requested, that’s just my nature!
Jaetten
Dec 11, 20 1:24 pm
Maybe the F1 key on keyboards should be renamed to “randomised”
randomised
Dec 11, 20 3:44 pm
Not sure if one can have two keys named after oneself, already have the “any” key under my belt...
Weekend ruined... yesterday I received an email from a local university, claiming that I owe approximately £10k and I’m in default of payment since September 2020. This is odd, as I didn’t even apply for a place and be given an offer until the end of October 2020.
Granted the fee applicable is 20% lower than their default notice claims, which by the way is the first contact from them yet claiming to be a repeated invoice, has left me rather perplexed.
Their terms and conditions state that the first payment, of 3, is due January 21st 2021. Their terms also state that I can withdraw within 3 weeks of commencement of study with no fee required.
After contacting them and being passed from pillar to post with each saying it’s the other I need to talk to, the only agreement they come to is that I must pay.
So, thinking this through, I’ll be sending them my notice of withdrawal, I haven’t started yet, and by their terms I have no fee to pay.
I dare say that this has put a dampener on my weekend and definitely reduced my opinion of the administrative capacity of midlanders. This isn’t the only contact with an incompetent midlands based company this year, and each further contact seems to display increased stupidity...
end of unofficial rant
Donna Sink
Dec 12, 20 1:59 pm
Ugh this sucks. I'm sorry to hear it.
Jaetten
Dec 13, 20 9:19 am
Thank you. I’m going to comb through their contract tomorrow and write up a report and make further contact. If need be, I’ll enlist a solicitor.
Jaetten
Dec 14, 20 5:09 am
I appear to have reacted strongly... I miss read the last paragraph and spent the weekend worrying... Not my best moment!
As it transpires, it was an admin issue, all resolved and to be fair, I feel a bit of an ass...
Note: Never take a Friday email seriously, wait until the Monday and resolve the following week!
liberty bell
Dec 14, 20 7:11 am
This is great news!
Donna Sink
Dec 13, 20 2:26 pm
What was the joke going around awhile back about kangaroos? I RT'd this today. Kangaroos fucking terrify me.
Chad Miller
Dec 14, 20 12:49 pm
Whaaaaaaat?!
b3tadine[sutures]
Dec 14, 20 1:37 pm
.
Everyday Architect
Dec 14, 20 2:27 pm
I know a guy from school that went on to work on set design and construction. Not sure if he's still doing it though. (edit: he is per his IMDB page)
DON'T WORK FOR FREE
Chad Miller
Dec 14, 20 3:13 pm
Guess what - there is an entire industry for set construction. I did it for years during college and during the recession back in 2012. Even then I was paid $15-$20 an hour because of my background and experience.
DON'T WORK FOR FREE.
OFFICAL CREW CREDIT IS WORTHLESS
Josh Mings
Dec 15, 20 2:10 pm
The only way I’d work for Marvel for “free” is if I got a percentage of the box office
Chad Miller
Dec 15, 20 2:12 pm
Don't lie - you'd work for free if you got to meet the Avengers in costume. :)
Josh Mings
Dec 15, 20 7:48 pm
Change Avengers to Star Wars and
you’d be correct.
Chad Miller
Dec 16, 20 10:00 am
Which movies though . . . .
Donna Sink
Dec 16, 20 9:54 pm
Hell no, hell no, hell no.
Donna Sink
Dec 16, 20 10:03 pm
Actually, maybe a group of us should *pose* as free-working architecture interns then advise them that real marble and end grain flooring and steel windows and Italian lighting are absolutely required so we get all the set materials there and then start fucking around making enormous constant screwups and costing them millions in materials then laugh our asses off as we set fire to the place and leave?
Wait I may finally have a screenplay idea...
citizen
Dec 17, 20 12:06 am
I love it, Donna. I've got my young intern disguise ready!
Donna Sink
Dec 17, 20 11:27 am
This is exactly how I look.
citizen
Dec 17, 20 6:54 pm
Hardly!
Wilma Buttfit
Dec 17, 20 6:56 pm
I consulted on a set once. I was supposed to get paid but never did.
threadkilla
Dec 25, 20 6:17 pm
this shit would be in direct violation of whatever collective bargaining agreement the studio (Marvel, presumably?) is under with the locals, namely this would be I.A.T.S.E 800 - the Art Directors Guild, which has jurisdiction over Set Designers, Model Makers, and Scenic Artists. Whatever union covers the construction department would also likely see their collective agreements violated by this. IF, indeed this is a full feature film by a major studio, and not an independent production (those can usually work around typical industry regulations).
b3tadine[sutures]
Dec 14, 20 3:10 pm
Yo quiero Taco Bel!
Holland has a Taco bell!?
randomised
Dec 14, 20 3:39 pm
*three Taco Bells
tduds
Dec 14, 20 3:58 pm
it's "Tacos Bell"
b3tadine[sutures]
Dec 14, 20 4:23 pm
American Hegemony at its finest. We don't need a ton of military bases, we'll just send them Taco Bells.
archanonymous
Dec 14, 20 4:43 pm
ingenious, you make the locals INTO the bombs, then turn them loose on the city's infrastructure (sewer systems and public restrooms)
randomised
Dec 14, 20 4:44 pm
You do need a ton of military bases and weapons of mass destruction, there wouldn’t be any hegemony without those, don’t kid yourself...
tduds
Dec 14, 20 5:19 pm
You seem fun at parties.
Chad Miller
Dec 14, 20 5:25 pm
He doesn't go to parties. He just posts here.
randomised
Dec 14, 20 5:34 pm
What are parties, you know there’s a pandemic going on, right?
Chad Miller
Dec 14, 20 5:36 pm
Don't front - you know what they are and that you don't get invited to them because of your crazy accent. :)
randomised
Dec 15, 20 2:41 am
I always thought I didn’t get invited because I’m an annoying prick.
Non Sequitur
Dec 15, 20 6:06 am
I’ve actually never eaten anything from Taco Bell.
b3tadine[sutures]
Dec 15, 20 9:03 am
Non, you're not missing anything, but the somehow, the Dutch menu, is atrocious. Taco meat, with gouda? WTF?
randomised
Dec 15, 20 9:23 am
You've even screwed that up...It should say: Gouda, with taco meat? WTF?
b3tadine[sutures]
Dec 15, 20 10:11 am
I've tasted gouda, the Swiss do it better. Gouda smells like the inside of wooden shoes.
randomised
Dec 15, 20 11:51 am
How do you know what the inside of wooden shoes smell like? You disgust me!
Non Sequitur
Dec 15, 20 12:49 pm
Gouda is for people who think they like fancy cheese but have no fucking clue. Gimme Emmental or Jarlsberg, then we can begin to talk cheese.
Chad Miller
Dec 15, 20 12:52 pm
What are wooden shoes for then NS?
Non Sequitur
Dec 15, 20 1:01 pm
^ portable pedestals for residents to lecture down to us from.
randomised
Dec 15, 20 8:09 am
Great to be moderated out of that Peter Exley article...what a ridiculous train wreck of wokeness that became, all that's left now are b3ta's personal attacks.
b3tadine[sutures]
Dec 15, 20 9:04 am
You keep using words you don't understand.
randomised
Dec 15, 20 9:06 am
please enlighten us your holy wokeness
b3tadine[sutures]
Dec 15, 20 10:13 am
I'm sorry, I don't speak stupid, err flemish.
randomised
Dec 15, 20 11:08 am
Always so modest...not, you're fluent in stupid, a native speaker even!
b3tadine[sutures]
Dec 15, 20 11:37 am
From your lips to Trump's ass.
randomised
Dec 15, 20 11:53 am
You sniffed too many of those wooden shoes b3ta, your incoherence is embarrassing. Maybe take a breather, go outside, have a walk and try again.
archanonymous
Dec 15, 20 12:23 pm
Occasionally you both contribute meaningful stuff to the discourse here, but in the current state I don't even want to check TC because your toxicity is so pervasive. Blocking both of you.
randomised
Dec 15, 20 12:41 pm
“He started it!”
Josh Mings
Dec 15, 20 12:45 pm
Yeah, this is supposed to be the fun place but several people are just being buttheads. It’s December, we’ve almost made it through hell year. Lighten up y’all.
Chad Miller
Dec 15, 20 12:49 pm
Rando and B3t - shut the fuck up you pear clutching ninnies'.
randomised
Dec 15, 20 12:55 pm
Okay, okay, okay...let’s talk booze instead here on Intoxicated Central, just got a nice bottle of Portuguese port at work, any advice on what to pair it with that’s not a dead animal?
Chad Miller
Dec 15, 20 12:57 pm
A lightly sautéed wooden shoe.
Non Sequitur
Dec 15, 20 2:18 pm
Rando... port is Portuguese by default... (obv needs to be from Porto...) anything else is just fortified wine. Anyways, it should be paired with a strong cigar. Some aged & firm cheese (not gouda) assortment would not be a bad idea.
randomised
Dec 15, 20 5:51 pm
My addition of “Portuguese” was indeed superfluous...thanks for the tip!
midlander
Dec 15, 20 7:49 pm
tawny port with skittles, but not the orange ones. those go better with gewurtztraminer or tokay.
Non Sequitur
Dec 15, 20 2:16 pm
I guess my attempt at creating a distraction to the political dumpster fire in TC was not appreciated. Fine, I'll take my cheese discussion elsewhere.
citizen
Dec 15, 20 3:01 pm
Cheese is widely recognized as the second-best fire suppressant. It finally lost out to Halon in UL testing, because people were being knocked unconscious by wheels of gouda dropping from the ceiling every time someone lit a damned cigarette.
citizen
Dec 15, 20 3:02 pm
Also, it looks like I accidentally chose a good time to be elsewhere.... Glad I missed the fun.
Chad Miller
Dec 15, 20 3:03 pm
I was just going ask what happened to the cheese.
archanonymous
Dec 15, 20 3:23 pm
I'm down for a cheese thread. My wife and I were just discussing how to get our cheese fix this holiday season since driving to Wisconsin is out of the question this year.
Non Sequitur
Dec 15, 20 3:34 pm
I used to live (rent, actually) in one of the trendy places in my city and we were within a 3min walk from the best cheese store. The cheese lady knew us by name too... and I could easily drop 100 loonies on a few small slivers of cheesy goodness.
tduds
Dec 15, 20 3:40 pm
My first place in Portland was walking distance from here: https://cheese-bar.com/ It lives up to its name.
citizen
Dec 15, 20 4:16 pm
^ Looks fantastic. I could just set up a cot in the corner there...
archanonymous
Dec 15, 20 4:27 pm
As long as they've got a corkscrew I can use.
b3tadine[sutures]
Dec 15, 20 4:28 pm
If you are ever in the Twin Cities, Surdyk's is the joint, for cheese.
Wood Guy
Dec 16, 20 11:31 am
Is anyone in Cleveland? My BIL is getting noticed, for his cheeses: https://oldbrooklyncheesecompany.com/. He also makes some good pickled mustard seeds.
archanonymous
Dec 16, 20 11:35 am
Not in Cleveland, but this would be a good justification for a road-trip post-pandemic.
archanonymous
Dec 16, 20 11:38 am
As an aside, I've been making my own fermented mustards and it is a life-changing condiment when done correctly. Your BIL's mustard looks pretty damn tasty too.
Wilma Buttfit
Dec 16, 20 11:43 am
Ok now I have to go get some fancy cheese.
Wood Guy
Dec 16, 20 2:54 pm
Arch, they are good. We don't see them much and my wife has been making pickled mustard seeds forever. I actually like hers even better than my BIL's. I have developed a killer recipe for salad dressing that is best with a dollop of pickled mustard seeds, though prepared mustard can work in a pinch.
archanonymous
Dec 16, 20 6:30 pm
Do you quick-pickle them with vinegar or do you let them ferment?
Donna Sink
Dec 17, 20 11:29 am
I am intrigued. I've never heard of pickled mustard seeds. What do you do with them, use them like relish?
snooker-doodle-dandy
Dec 17, 20 11:48 am
Back in the 70's I lived on the Cambridge/Sommerville town line. We had a place called Sauenor's which was a butcher grocery store and just down the block was a place called the Wine Cheese Cask. It was at that time the best around.
Wood Guy
Dec 17, 20 12:52 pm
Donna, I'm not totally sure but here's a recipe: https://www.epicurious.com/recipes/food/views/pickled-mustard-seeds. The seeds get soft but still have texture, they're a bit sweet with less bite than regular prepared mustard. You can use them on a sandwich, in salad dressing, with cheese on a cracker, etc.. The texture is like caviar, fun to eat!
Wood Guy
Dec 17, 20 12:54 pm
Snooker, I lived in Porter Square for ten years starting in the mid-90s. I think I remember the Wine Cheese Cask but was too poor to shop there! Maybe I'm thinking of another place. Crazy how much that area has changed just in the last 20 years. It was just starting to get gentrified when I was there, once rent control was eliminated.
archanonymous
Dec 17, 20 1:10 pm
That answers my question, WG.
.... here's a good video on fermented mustard seeds. Essentially pickling but using lactic acid generated on-site by happy bacteria.
Donna, I usually do the pickling, then crush coarsely in a mortar-and-pestle for a whole-grain Swedish-style mustard. Or I'll use my immersion blender to turn it into creamy German-style mustard.
snooker-doodle-dandy
Dec 17, 20 4:55 pm
Wood Guy, The butcher deli was often visited by Julia Child. Would run into her there every once and a while, couldn't miss that voice. The Wine and Cheese Cask always said there wine prices were the best in Boston. There cheese was exceptional. One of my room mates at the time was a souse chef who had exceptional abilities at selecting the right meat, wine and cheese.
Wood Guy
Dec 17, 20 5:31 pm
I never met her but worked as a carpenter in her neighborhood, the Huron Ave area. She was basically next door neighbors with Bob Vila and Alan Dershowitz. Was the cheese shop off Huron Ave?
Edit: Nevermind, I just looked it up, different place. The Wine and Cheese Cask is still there, just a couple of blocks from Moshe Safdie's office!
tduds
Dec 18, 20 11:58 am
Small World! I lived in Huron Village (in the crappiest apartment building in Huron Village) for a couple years before moving west. It was a beautiful neighborhood to walk around. John Malkovich and some Thai royalty lived on my street. What's that market over there... Formaggio Kitchen I think? Classy, *and* expensive.
Wood Guy
Dec 18, 20 2:58 pm
It is a small world indeed! Formaggio, that's the place I'm thinking of. On the slope facing north. I got lunch there a lot. Or at the farm store across from Rockler on Mass Ave. Some good memories from those days. Edit: wrong again. Hi-Rise Bread Co is what I'm thinking of. A block from Formaggio. The farm store is Pemberton's.
snooker-doodle-dandy
Dec 18, 20 4:07 pm
Wood Guy as you see it is on Washington Beacon Street in Sommerville. There was also a restaurant on Kirkland across the street for the butcher/deli called Peasant Stock. They served limited dishes that changed all the time so you just had to check to see what was on the menu.
b3tadine[sutures]
Dec 15, 20 4:01 pm
I think this might be okay to post, but since it's about people doing good, and talking about doing good, I'm not sure. Maybe those organizations don't want people to know that they have needs?
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..
Come everyone ditch politics central. It's over move on.
Been avoiding that place for a while now. Food Central/What's Cooking looks like the delicious antidote.
I think my hippo story is one of the highlights of that thread.
I'll take your word for it, NS. Otherwise, it's like heading into a burning building just to toast a marshmallow.
Tracing family history is incredibly interesting.
I’ve gone back 12 generations, where we migrated from a small village in ~1600. This resulted in a family name change where it became the same as our previous home.
Moving forward, a hand written account book from 1836 has been handed to me. It includes the fee of £5 for surveying and drawing plans of the Derwent Estate which is now at the bottom of Ladybower Reservoir.
And finally, during WW2 while my grandfather was in the RAF, my grandparents families were offered a relocation package to Canada. They declined, however their neighbours chose to go - their sons went on to work on major developments in Toronto and surrounding areas.
I could have been Canadian. It’s ironic that we are considering moving there.
Better late than never!
Hurry, winter is coming.
That's the best bit!
Don't lie NS - it's winter 10.36 months out of the year in Canada. I should know, I lived right below your frosty country for 13 years. :)
Winter is coming
https://theoatmeal.com/comics/...
.36? is that some sort of bullshit imperial hard conversion?
No. It's accounting for the April, May and October snow that sticks around for 3 days.
Stupid metric months.
Why can't we all just get on the Chinese calendar?
13 4-week months would be good!
If you ever want to fall into a rabbit hole of early web strangeness just google "Metric Time"
I like the french decimal time
remember the botched restoration monkey Jesus? Now there’s potato face.
https://news.google.com/articles/CAIiEAyByTymMK5iVVk3_o_bH_cqGQgEKhAIACoHCAowocv1CjCSptoCMPrTpgU?hl=en-US&gl=US&ceid=US%3Aen
Brilliant, looks like a pre-schooler did the work!
VE item. Preschooler vs. Experienced tradesman. Happening more and more.
Could you imagine trying to coordinate something like this, nowadays? I honestly wouldn't even know we where to start.
It’s a dying art. It’s a shame, but this type of stone carving will one day be machined.
My husband did a cool re-creation - not restoration - of a similar sculpture: https://www.ignitionarts.com/turnverein
You can see my handsome man talking at two points in the video, too.
What a cool project Donna!
To BB: I can imagine it!
I have done a couple projects where an integral part of the design was having a great tradesperson to execute it with craft and judgement - there wouldn't be drawings to show the random variation or the progressive twist - but they would be responsible for carrying it out and making it look beautiful. Goes against everything you learn in pro prac courses and most firms' legal departments, but damn if it isn't some of the most beautiful work I've done.
Humbling also to realize that's how most buildings were made throughout history and why the labor and craft paradigm old buildings were constructed under led to such beautiful and refined ornamentation.
If only they taxed the use of materials much more than labour...
I think there should be a carbon tax on everything, which would essentially be taxing materials much more than labor.
Exactly! If labour is relatively more affordable than the material used, one can do elaborate things, make things that are meant to be fixed instead of discarded etc. So much material is wasted and ends up in landfills because it is cheaper to chug it than have a pro do their magic. Just the other day went to the bike shop and it is cheaper to get a new inner tube for my bike installed than to get it fixed, even if it has just a little hole...
You don't patch your own tubes?
I went in for something else for a kids bike and we got talking, saw him not even trying to patch one. Here he is:
It's super distressing when you realize how hard it is to do anything with Rubber.
These days my wife and I still go back and forth over whether or not we should buy something, but instead of "do we really need to spend the money on this?" it is "Do we really need to buy this thing that took a bunch of resources to manufacture and we will probably only use a couple of times?"
From a bike shop perspective, I get why they wouldn't patch a tube. It's time/labor they don't have or don't want to spend. It's much quicker to just put a new tube in. From a personal perspective, I try to patch mine as often as I can. Patches aren't expensive and if a tube is otherwise in good shape, it's nice to fix it when possible.
Uhg. I need another week long vacation somewhere in the wild.
::sarcastic font on::
Why can't I work from a remote cabin in the mountains doing only conceptual design via fiber internet connection and make $300K a year?
::sarcastic font off::
why would you need to work 300k a year in a remote cabin?
Chad, I have found a reasonable level of success -- not $300K, but potentially $200K if I tried harder -- living in the wilds of New England designing houses and renovations. What is preventing you from doing the same?
Truthfully - fear. I don't have a business mind. Finding new clients and marketing is sorcery to me. I get new clients by simply knowing people and by happenstance they need an architect.
Also I don't want to work 50-60 hours a week running a firm.
JLC 1 - Honestly it was a nice round number that seems like it would be a very comfortable life. In reality I could make do with less however I need to provide for retirement, healthcare, and my type 1 diabetes - those last two are $$$$$$$.
Also I want to have sever dogs and they need toys and treats!
I would do that for 60k a year.
That would mean a pay cut for me. I don't make a lot (around $75k) with 15 years experience.
I was pointing more to the isolation - in an off-grid cabin in the woods wouldn't need all that stuff you mention.
Could work part time if expenses are low. I would do it.
$130/hr x 1500 hrs = $195K. $150/hr x 1300 hrs = $195K. No employees needed. I'm not saying it's easy to get 1500 billable hours without employees, but in theory it's possible without working 60 hrs/wk.
Wood Guy - sorry, I meant salary, not net revenue.
JLC-1 - if you're living off grid as a hermit then you wouldn't need to make $300K a year. If you wanted to work remotely as an architect in an isolated off grid place you probably need to make more than $300k a year.
Chad, my annual expenses are under $20K so there's not much difference between revenue and net income. I'll stop pushing it on you, I was just surprised to learn that I can run a successful design business from my home in the middle of nowhere. It's taken some time and effort, and the pandemic is a boon in my area, but I've never had a lack of work. (Knock on wood.)
Side note, I am thinking about moving my office to my MIL's place nearby, which is off grid.
Your MIL must be much cooler than mine.
Thanks for the info WD! On a side note I never felt you where 'pushing' anything on me. I welcome all the advice and experience you have on the subject!
Arch, she is pretty cool. My FIL died about a year ago so having someone on site would be good. And being able to have a space to meet clients and vendors, AND to say that I have an off-grid office would both be benefits for my niche.
Chad, good to know. I'll still stop pushing it ;-)
Can we discuss something really important? Delicata Squash is the Queen of vegetables. So fucking versatile.
Go on, if you show me yours, I'll show you mine.
I'm scarred to google those two things . . .
All that squash flavor, none of that squash hard work! We grew some amazing delicatas in the backyard this year. I think maybe one is left?
Delicata squash is the queen of squash. That's as far as I can go.
Butternut is king.
Man, my partner roasts the stuff, turmeric, and it's such a damned delight! Oh, and while I'm at it, why put butter on popcorn, when nutritional yeast rocks!?
My family is shocked that I don't drown my lobster in butter. (I'm a Mainer, and drawn butter is standard with lobster.) But no butter on popcorn? Are you mad, man?!
Wait, is this the cooking thread?
My secret trick for popcorn is to toss it in Sriracha & Grated Parmesan. You'll never think about butter again.
Hmmm, that sounds good.
May or may not have discovered that combo shortly after the legalization of recreational cannabis in Oregon.
Popcorn with butter and worcestershire sauce is good too.
And I thought NS was weird with his Canadian food. :P
I grow popcorn. I love that we are talking about food.
You grow popcorn? Cool, cool. Did you by chance discover recreational cannabis recently? :P
lol, no. Why?
Do you ever feel like we spend most of our time making decisions about things that no one will ever notice because they'll just be drunk all the time in that space anyway?
Bad day.
Some of the first projects I job captained were bars. So, in a sense, I very much understand this feeling.
yeah but my last project was a state legislature building so to be expected.
One of the projects of which I am most proud was specifically designed to provide a beautiful backdrop against which to get drunk.
i once sat in a bar and explained to a lawyer friend (because he asked) what was running along the ceiling. like, low voltage and line voltage and ducted return sort of stuff. so i guess that happens while drinking?
Did you locate where they hid the the low voltage transformers?
nope. where such a thing would be required i assume would not be exposed overhead. didn't look that close either. i was mostly just there to drink.
It's the paradox of our profession - bad architecture always gets noticed, while good architecture is mostly taken for granted.
@atelier or the people going "but old buildings were so much better than what we build now, just look around."
Listen dumbass, all the ugly old shit got knocked down before you were even born.
Also a lot of the old stuff people cherish now because of its age was hated at the time it was built. Look at commentary from the 20s & 30s when everybody's favorite Bungalows were going up everywhere. Identical language to the disdain for 5-over-1 apartments you hear now.
i think the conventional mindset is based on not wanting to notice things; anything that catches attention is therefore undesirable. it takes a generation to acclimate and stop noticing strong work so that it becomes acceptable. once everyone forgets the original context they can project a fantasy history of better times and love that which they would have hated if they were there at its inception.
tduds, we can do 4 over 2 now :)
cool, now we can replace the bad storefronts with a curtain wall that's twice as tall and have a spandrel panel! Shadow box or back painted?!
That's where you're wrong SP. Budget won't handle curtainwall and the contractors will insist that storefront will work just fine.
Expose that slab edge! Draw that bad detail! Cantilever that storefront! Codes dictate design! ROI dictates design! *sad panda*
Wait, SP, you can also use shitty aluminum. Can't forget that.
Anyone use Mapes Panels for spandrels? I've never specified them, but they keep sticking in my head for discussions like these.
https://mapespanels.com/
Tried putting my jeans on this morning, regular Levi 501 in 34” waist. They don’t fit ☹️ I’ve just measured my waist and the tape says 40”. This time last year was was able to get into 32” jeans...
not impressed.
that's a long time to go without pants...
. . . . A long time ago, in a galaxy far, far away , without pants . . .
I'll give myself until May 4th to lose the weight!
Well, my cat finally died which is very sad, but one of my buildings won an AIA honor award which is a bit of good new to balance it at least.
Congratulations!! Can you share which building or will it provide too much personal info?
I should clarify it was a local AIA honor award, not national. I posted some window frame shots several pages back in T.C. Wolcott Arts and Athletics Center: https://archinect.com/news/bustler/8004/here-are-aia-chicago-s-2020-design-excellence-winners
probably the worst looking building of those honored, but with the best program (special needs high school sports and arts facility)
Looks are not everything, and you deserve the recognition. For what it's worth it looks handsome.
Sorry for your loss, congrats on the win
Congrats. I had a project I was involved with at my last firm recently win local AIA awards too (though it wasn't cool enough to be pictured in an Archinect news writeup).
Sorry about your cat.
Sorry to hear about your cat. Congratulations on the award, I like the design.
Ah thanks everyone. I'm still real sad about my cat but honestly pretty relieved too, he was old and really struggling lately.
Condolences on your dear old cat. We lost our beloved golden lab over a year ago, and it still hurts.
Your project looks great. We should have a lot more competent, creative projects like this. (Though I am disturbed by the lack of any meaningless swoops or arbitrary angles. Budget cuts?) And I love the program combining arts and athletics.
^ (FYI, I googled your firm and see your website URL directs to an online pharmacy selling Viagra. I thought: side work for extra $ during the pandemic? Genius!)
Haha, I no longer work there (and technically not "my project", was just the principal design and project architect on it - semantics I guess) but I already emailed them being like, uh, I think you guys got hacked.
There was never any swoops to cut, so I guess that helped! It was really unique, almost like a school project, just textbook basically, and the principal in charge was super laissez faire about it.
Got the site survey and geotech, got the program, did some studies, settled on the bar parti, what's cheap? precast and storefront, let's use that! Ok, let's emphasize the linearity by setting the façade back, use expanded metal boxes around mech, nail the precast joints and mullion placement, cool window frames, cheerful colorful interior, cheap lights installed in an interesting way, and that's pretty much it.
As a profession we often overthink things, I've always appreciated how simple this one was.
I'm suddenly fearful I might get called into HR because one of my coworkers asked for our opinion on this logo he found on Pinterest and I responded with "I see a butt".
What do you guys think? Am I guilty?
yup...its a butt
with some minor editing, it might make for a new Dick Bush Architects logo.
It is a very nice butt, though. (Getting myself ready for the HR meeting....)
100% butt
From the business desk comes startling merger news. Renowned design firm Dick Busch Architects is penetrating the sports market with its surprising acquisition of the Indiana Pacers. A quite... creative new corporate logo has been announced:
Definitely a butt.
Looks like the rear bumper of a Renault
JUST LET THE "TRUTHERS" THREAD DIE ALREADY!!!
I conscientiously went through making comments last night in other threads to push it down the list and closer to page 2.
Then Volunteer shows up having tired of election conspiracies and needing to get his fix somewhere else.
sorry. I'll try to restrain myself.
What we need is a slew of students asking about what grad school to apply to. Or for portfolio reviews.
I'm nuking the shit out of that thread.
Thanks.
^good idea, but the more troother responses disappear, the more it looks like I'm yelling at myself in an empty room. 8-)
i miss convincing prospective students to run like hell from student loan debt. feels quaint.
Wow, those 'truthers' are some stupid people.
I'm not saying it was aliens, but.... it was aliens.
but who controls the aliens?
Pfft, the aliens are controlled by Canadians. Prove me wrong.
I can’t Chad. Damn. Caught me. I’m sending people over to your location shortly. Good thing you did not get that AR after all. Right?
HOLY FORKING SHIRT how can one man be so hot
i don't know man. cuffed his jeans? (going to cuff my jeans tomorrow)
Actually while I like the cuffs I hate the shoes. And the cigarette. But still. Holy forking shirt.
Looks like Brad is moving, sitting in the moving van wearing the mover’s blanket...
I totally rocked a similar shirt in high school in early 90s. Very different pants tho.
found your pants:
^ yes.
Dear gowd, you Canadians are weird.
Also important to note that along with the pants and flannel, the gel (more like glue) in my spiky hair would take out an eye, or three. Man, those were the days. I still don't know why most of my highschool profs did not expect much of me.
Look at you now though, a snarky architect!
I thought we weren’t supposed to be horny on main, Donna?
JNCO 4 LIFE
Thanks a lot Josh. I now know what it feels like to have diet soda shoot out my nose.
Shouldn’t drink and read Archinect
I don't want anyone to feel left out so here is another unbelievably sexy image:
Vitrocsa sliding door hardware <heart eye emoji>
I specified Vitrocsa once. It was nice to have until the middle of DD...
Oh dear...turns out Vitrocsa won't work for my application anyway, but it looks like a lovely system, and the rep I just spoke with was super helpful. I tell ya, a knowledgeable rep is worth their weight in gold.
OMG you guys THIS is why Pitt is so sexy:
https://pagesix.com/2020/11/19...
He was delivering food boxes for people in need for four hours just like I did last week! OMG why can't I live in LA?!?!
You changed your hair. I like it.
I'm getting the impression that Dona has a lady crush on Brad Pitt. I could be mistaken though.
Chad, it's just a fling. It'll pass soon enough.
(p.s. working harder than mr. Pitt to receive my first down thumb from Donna)
Sneaky I'm blonde now. And my passion for Mr. Pitt will only diminish if he 1. stops looking similar to my husband and 2. becomes a devotee of Patrimetric. Speaking of whom, has the Archinect news covered his fight about Zaha's estate yet today? Off to the news section...
Wait, whut?
Nice humblebrag there with "1..."
What can I say, tduds, my husband is the best man on the planet.
We should all be so lucky.
Is it weird that a search for "donna sink husband" brings an image right up? I can see the resemblance. Kudos for going blond. If I had enough hair left I'd think about coloring it something other than the silver it is now.
That actually is kind of weird...
I love you, Donna, and am sure I'd love the mister as well. And Brad seems like a good guy-- I'm not criticizing him.
But did you read that Page Six item? I'd much rather read about your time volunteering, or any of the thousands or millions who volunteer every damned day, without a media outlet slobbering and equating it with cancer curing. For Pete's sake. This kind of celebrity cult/worship is precisely why starchitect firms can exploit interns.
[Rant concluded. We now return to our regular programming.]
I totally agree citizen! I hate celebrity worship, I really do. Celebrities are just people, we all are, and we should all respect the humanity in one another no matter what, even jerks deserve acknowledgment that they are human and make mistakes. I just follow pitt because he’s so pretty AND seems nice AND likes architecture.
he still smokes?
Totally fair, Donna, I get fandom. I'm just glad that whole restraining order mix-up got sorted out.
[ducks, runs, hides] =O)
My stock celebrity worship story I have to share when the opportunity arises (I might have shared here before): my favorite rock star in the 1990s was Kim Deal, a grunge artist from the Pixies in the 80s and with her band The Breeders in the 90s. Total rock star, beautiful, cool, badass, the whole nine yards. In the late 90s I was working on Nantucket as a carpenter, and my housemate/friend met a woman at a bar... she came over for dinner, we went out and played Foosball, got pulled over by the cops and let go because they knew her... she actually wasn't that great in person, and made me realize just how silly celebrity worship is. I still love her music, though. Time to go put on some Pixies...
I think you have the start of a great thread there, WG....
Oh, good idea, citizen.
I just told my Pitt story over there. Fun thread, Wood Guy!
I just read the greatest news!
Donald Trump Jr., has the vid!
great news would be that the entire clan was wiped out. Damn you for getting my hopes up like that.
Take it to the politics thread.
Don Jr is a civilian, plus he's too stupid to be a Pol.
The vid that was featured in a ‘The Good Fight’ episode?
I hear he has gone off to hiding with his guns, so he can wank off to them. What a nurdle, couldn't get his girlfriend to go into hiding with him.
this is funny, https://www.cnn.com/2020/11/22...
Have you seen the wild moose(mooses, moosie?) up here? They don't mess around and silly tourists think it's cute.
The plural is meese, is it not?
Moosen.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QWzYaZDK6Is&feature=emb_logo
^That was brilliant. How many times would you need to run your car through the carwash if a flock of mosens passed over you?
Regan is awesome.
Flock of Mosens. Sounds like Canadian EDM from the 80's.
Not to be mistaken for the Canadian trash metal band Flock of Goddamn Geese
Or the American black metal group Flock of Drones.
I believe a group of drones is called a murder.
You're thinking of crows . . .
It’s almost 2021, murders are not just limited to crows. Anyone can self identify their group how ever they want. Bro.
How about a 'lather of architects'?
A "hatch pattern of drafters"
Unreasonable client + holidays + plus zero support from upper management = crappy thanksgiving with a chance of job applications. Happy Thanksgiving everyone :) I hope you all find some rest this weekend!
Sorry to hear this. Good luck with finding a new firm. If you want to move to western Colorado we're looking for an experienced PA / PM.
That sounds awesome but I just entered the real estate market as of this month. I'm very jealous if your location Chad. What an incredibly cool place to live and have a solid job. I did one job on a resort out there and it's an amazing location in the US.
*so I'm staying local.
I totally understand needing to stay local with buying property.
The Western Slope is fun for sure if you're into the outdoors. The culture and access to 'fun' projects can be a challenge but I shouldn't complain too much.
Good Luck!
Someone sent me an Instagram DM asking why I don’t take my shirt off for my post surgery progress selfies. Pretty sure no one wants to see my nipples except you dude..
Hey, you never know where that next special someone may show up, Josh...
or that next job offer...
i think we found the dude
Oh Kristian, no wonder you don’t get along with your group members. No nipples for you.
It's annoying to have a bear rampaging through the village destroying everything in their path as they search for food.
It's more annoying to see people following the bear poking it all the time.
The idea is to distract and contain the bear, letting innocent people know who might stumble across the bear (and its destruction) that its behavior is not acceptable. The idea is not to further enrage it by poking it all the time.
This has been a metaphor.
Oh, story time. I was in Yosemite a while back and was riding the free public shuttle bus from the main shop to our camp site. Suddenly, a bunch of people start scrambling to one side of the bus and we notice, out a few hundred metres in front near the fancy cabins, armed park rangers. Turns out there was not only a cougar loose but also a bear. Hot diggity dog, we tell ourselves and get off the shuttle. We immediately head towards the park rangers hoping to catch a glimpse of the action. I did get to see the 2 animals briefly. I think the successfully shooed away the 2 predators. Something something silly tourists wanting to see the dumpster fire something.
We went on many family vacations to Yellowstone where it was the same type of thing every time there was even a chipmunk within viewing distance of a road. It's fine to take in the sites and all ... that's part of why you're out there ... but don't poke the bear.
In the meantime, here is a link to Donna's twitter where she made an excellent observation about a cougar seen near Vancouver.
I'd heard that the two were natural enemies, Non, but you wouldn't expect to see them outside their natural habitats.
That’s a party.
I poke. I poke. I feel shame. I poke.
I hope everyone has had an enjoyable day, whether celebrating thanksgiving or not!
Yes, ethics are important. But what about spelling?
Wait, they're missing the 'd' right?
Not what I was thinking, but I like yours better. It would fix the mistake AND set a nice tone. But then they'd need a comma.
Request a quote
Hey TC! Hope you are all healthy and well in these times...As for myself, will hopefully be off crutches and out of my post ACL/meniscus brace next week!
Couldn't find the thread I thought I wanted to post below in, so I thought I'd share photo here. Impressive color coordination!
Also mightyaa's earlier reference to sewer diving made me think of this interview by Edible Geography as part of Postopolis! DF back in 2010. Some neat video on interwebs/youtube as well.
via Domus
Hope everyone survived the very long weekend which is only going to be longer come tomorrow here in New England....Lots of weather moving in with high winds and rain. We tried to contain ourselves over the weekend. Stayed close to home but did venture out to get that $24.00 Norton deal for 10 items at BJ's I had purchased the 5 device item for $10.00 more last week so saved myself some money. Pass today hauling deck chairs to basement and putting finishing touches on my three new raised beds made with salvaged 2X6 red wood deck boards off of one of my projects. I make a habit of it to ask the client if I can have items of value on a job that are most likely headed for a dumpster. I have a grand worth of old granite foundation stones sitting in my driveway that I need to get moved before the snow flies. Got them off a job for writing a letter for a guy putting up some self storage units, so he would not have to put in bathrooms. They were unheated units, so he saved money not having to do a water hookup and sewer hookup and I'm a happy cowboy.
My new best friend Paul something something W(anker) on that arch book thread is real joy. I wonder if his 3rd account will also meet the same fate as his previous 2.
Wow. That Paul guy is....somethin'!
Wow! That exchange reminds me of a 30 Rock quip, in which Jack refers to competing columns in Irish Arguments Weekly, 'America's only all-caps magazine.'
I'd love to continue... but I'm swamped so I can't commit more than the typical snark. I caught his first 2 accounts that spammed his extra thick bible link-architecture-pos amazon book. It's a special book, to say the least.
I can't decide if Paul or Kristian are my favorite new posters.
WG, neither offer much sport in their "debate" tho.
Sometimes you just want an easy target.
Looks like Kristian is in the process of being deleted.
Well, once you shoot yourself in the foot... you don't keep shooting to see if more bullets will make the pain go away. Some people just can't get the hint.
That guy doesn't even register in my book. SL is the man, and he's got the credentials to back up his work. I'm just concerned that he's passed away.
There needs to be an 'auto eject' button for new accounts that are created for nothing more than spam posts and general demeaning comments.
Who's SL if I may ask...
So that Prize-winning author got either a new account or on of his few followers to do a drive-by thumbs down, then I assume, cause a bunch of things to get nuked? Ah, there goes my morning commute plans.
SL = S. Lauf I hated him, couldn't understand him, grew to respect him, bought his books, but his website, is probably the greatest architectural achievement in the last 75 years.
www.quondam.com
B3ta, is that name not equivalent to Voldermort? It's been ages since I've seen a reference to him here.
It's weird, I'm not the only one, others have had issues, I was being a real ass, because he was in my mind inpenetrable, he offended me. It's one of those things where if he were a professor, I would've taken his class, but online he was less professorial, and I was more inclined to be less interested in being educated by someone behind a screen.
I've always found most of his digital collages fascinating. Never really got into any discussions about them tho.
He was sensitive, and generally seemed to be disinterested in any discussion that didn't have someone's tongue on him somewhere moist and sweaty. I was initially interested in his ideas, but the opacity combined with the hostility caused me to dislike him.
Just my opinion, and maybe this is overly critical, but he (in his posts and his diagrams and his website) always struck me as trying way too hard at needless complexity. Creating a layer of intellectual superiority around what was largely just incomprehensible aesthetic dreck. Fun, sometimes, and beautiful, even. But nothing behind the curtain. Once or twice I pressed him enough to show a couple of built designs and they were... underwhelming.
To be fair, MUCH of the architecture in Philadelphia over the last few decades has been underwhelming.
I mostly ignored his posts. I tried at first to figure out what was going on, but it always struck me as having no there there. As others have mentioned, it seemed more like complexity and obfuscation just for the same of making it incomprehensible. That, or it was all genius level and my brain just couldn't make any sense of it. Is there a description somewhere of his intent or philosophy ... because that's what I feel like I'm missing every time I look at his work.
Ah yes thanks for the clarification, I remember quondam, always posting his own work all over the forum and getting into arguments about it, Miles is his biggest fan if I recall correctly. Visually like his work as drawings, although quite flat/plan oriented without much hierarchy because of the method of drawing/cad. Hope he is okay and still making drawings.
Since God’s greatest gift to architecture Kristian96 called me fat - here’s 3 months post op for those of you that don’t follow me elsewhere. This is over 60lbs difference, 90 lbs from my highest weight.
You look great, and kristian96 is a shitty human.
Of course, and his insult didn’t get anywhere with me except making me realize I never posted a progress pic here!
You should shame the plant in your bedroom into making as much of an effort as you are.
Haha. Actually it was pretty small when I got it a few months back. It’s grown quite a bit.
You look great, Josh! 90 lbs is a small adult human. That's a lot of weight to shed.
I can spot the difference: you changed shorts.
with that level of skill in observation, I bet you're an EXCELLENT architect, "kristian."
Well done, Josh! And inspiring, too.
I guess I missed the wrist-watch. Damn. I'm turning in my architect badge and cape.
The Lego Star Destroyer is a constant.
Maybe after 3 months it is time to change...your sheets!
Look at the duvet, genius.
One of the side effects of losing your insulation is being cold all the time. Had to go with a super thick down alternative comforter for winter, and kick on the heat higher than I typically ever have it.
For (Sneaky)Pete’s sake, it was just a joke...
hilarious
Great work! Where are you based to need a warmer duvet?
What’s the big deal on the duvet? We use one year-round in our igloo.
Josh, how are you feeling? Like, do you have more energy? Less pain (I swear all I feel as a 53yo woman who sits mousing all day is pain in my back...)? Higher levels of calm?
More energy, but surprisingly enough a bit more pain in my knees. It’s like they don’t know what to do without the extra weight. Been doing more elliptical and cycling vs treadmill for cardio lately due to it. Overall higher levels of calm, which shouldn’t be the case given, well everything. It’s done wonders for self-esteem and confidence in non-work related settings.
Wait, somebody called Josh fat as a response to an online argument? What is this junior high?
Back to the actual discussion now . . .
Josh, have you tried taking CBD oil for the knee pain? I've been on the stuff for about a year and it helps me with joint inflammation and pain.
Josh, when I lost most of my weight, my hips started hurting. I attributed to my body coming back into alignment.
Josh you could just be getting old.
That’s also a very likely possibility
Alas, no ferry between Russia and Alaska... There goes our driving idea from UK through to Canada... Would have made one hell of a road trip!
Problem solved:
Plus you'll totally look rad doing it. Not sure the convertible is a good idea in Siberia tho.
It'll be summer, me wife and dog!
I'm sure you can find a barge or something to take you across in the summertime.
If you haven't already, check out Long Way Round with Ewan McGregor and Charley Boorman.
It doesn't solve your problem unless you want to change to motorbikes, but it's a cool series anyway.
Dog in sidecar, I like it!
I spent tonight designing a spiegeltent. I designed it by drawing it in CAD. It was a fun evening!
I just learned a new word! Sounds fun.
Just for fun, or an actual project? I have legit always wanted to design one.
Actual project. We are still trying to determine the level of demountability of it.
so you're working on a semidemountablespiegeltent.
If it’s not demountable, it’s not a spiegeltent.
As of today, I'm a partner at my firm. Crazy. Recording it here for posterity.
Kudos, bb!
(Is this a good time to ask you for a raise?)
cheers!
Congrats!
Congratulations!
Congrats BB!
Congrats! I love that you’re commemorating it here, it’s a big deal and worthy of recognition!
Cool! What's it like to be partner? Do you now know how to do everything? That happens when you're a partner right?
you start to grow hair in strange places
That would mean I'm on my way to being a partner!
Chad - yup, the older partners hooked me up to the architecture-knowing-machine and I downloaded everything. Watch out! (Mostly I'm grateful for not having a hangover today)
Congratulations on your successful download. Way to go becoming a partner as well. ;)
Do you get your own helipad or do you have the share one?
You only get that in French speaking parts of Canada.
Correct Chad... but don't forget, our helicopters have custom poutine trays.
Guys, I just realized that I don't own a suit, and clothing stores are all closed due to COVID. Good timing!
These are in style ATM:
Buy a button down, pleated slacks, and a sweater vest. That should get you through.
Pete's list, plus a black blazer (the most useful men's garment since the dungarees).
For the record I hate pleated pants, but they help the super at the job site know who to avoid.
You're a partner now BB. Don't half ass it. Dress like you rule the wasteland that is post COVID.
Hey, that chain mail is proper site PPE.
I wear a chainmail codpiece in the office for PPE.
lol
TMI, Chad, yet so intriguing at the same time. Worn on the inside? Outside? Inside-out?
Citizen, if it's the only thing you're wearing, then it's both, no?
I may have misunderstood. Is a chainmail codpiece when you have to send a letter with a fish attached to ten other people, or suffer bad luck?
You always wear a codpeice on the outside.
Chad, I can tell that you and I would be great friends in real life. Thanks for the laughs
Just a thought: I'd love to see timestamps on replies in threads.
The thumbs have spoken! Let's go, admins.
record for most thumbs up?
Nope. Checkout b_b's good-news post above. More well-wishers than clock-watchers for now. A good thing.
As it should be.
We're listening
Your wish has been granted
Thanks overlords!
Dear MET Office. Stop saying it’s going to snow. You say that every year and we haven’t had a single snowflake settle since December 2010. (Excluding the freak storm titled “beast from the east” in 2018)
It isn’t going to snow and it probably never will again!!!
I have snow.
Can you mail me some?
I have lots of snow
Right... because what our postal workers need is even more packages in the system... specially some containing melting snow.
i hear it's gonna be cool to ship super-cooled product one of these days
I have 15 feet of snow 45 minutes from my front door. I can visit winter!
^ My favorite thing about the Pacific NW. The snow stays in the mountains & out of my driveway. I can snowboard in the morning and golf in the afternoon almost any day of the year. I could surf too but I'm not that badass.
Tradeoff is the lack of sun, which some folks cannot deal with. I grew up where there was less sun than the PNW, so it's fine by me...
Just take those vitamin D pills in the morning. The upside of all the rain is all the green. I try to keep that in mind.
as a transplant to the PNW (& despite being a skier):
my least favorite time of the year: winter solstice & environs
my favorite time of the year: summer solstice & environs
It rained this morning. All my snow is gone.
That sucks. It rains all year here, except for the 3 days of sunshine in the summer.
I don't want to derail the tennis court tower post with stupid comments so I'll leave it here:
It just dawned on me that Carlo Ratti Associati rhymes, and I wonder if that's intentional. Either way I love it.
A Ratti paisan, name of Carlo
stacked tennis courts up very far. Though
loose rackets and balls
took very steep falls
he managed to still keep the bar low.
.
In collaboration with Italo Rota Assaciota
Unpopular opinion:
Dyson and the guy: genius
Dyson the products: garbage.
I like my purple dyson vacuum. It’s not of a particularly usable shape (ball), cleaning and emptying the canister is a bitch, and the accessories don’t go anywhere, so who knows how many I lost; but it’s purple. That’s got to count for something.
The apple of utility tech. Take ideas that are already available, make them shiny, then market them so people buy the bullshit.
Don't forget that delicious British accent.
We have two fluffy dogs that generate fur at a rate that seems disconnected from the amount of fur they seem to retain. We finally tried a dyson after using cheaper vacuums for 30yrs. Purple Animal 2, if that matters. It really does suck harder and gets more dirt & fur out of the carpets. I’m waiting to see how durability & effectiveness over the years will turn out. But I’m impressed thus far.
^Proto, I believe I have the first gen of that vacuum. If so, the cannister will only fill-up a quarter of the way before suction dies down.
I'd suggest a robot vacuum for dailiy fur removal. It won't solve everything, but it helps keep the fur down.
For the floors, not the dogs.
i have two saint bernards. the key to the animal vacuum isn't that it doesn't clog, it's that it's easy to disassemble and clean out clogs. the neat thing i think with Dyson is that everything red is something you can take apart, so it's easy to see how to get to the clogs. also, clean out the canister regularly.
hard no on the robot vacuum for fur -- complete failure in our household. 1) clogged too easily & 2) we spent more time setting up for the little asshole to do a good job than time saved for his routine outings
just did the 3mo cleanout...filter bag takes forever to dry, but otherwise very straight forward
^ Helpful discussion. We're on the lookout for an old pup/young dog to adopt, and the fur/floor issue is definitely a factor.
dogs in question...on the job
thanks, now my allergies are flaring up.
^ Wait-- there's actually fur coming out of my screen onto my desk! ;O]
At the risk of sounding like an old guy, "they don't make them like they used to." My in-laws used Dyson vacuums when they lived in England, and bought the DC07 (https://collection.cooperhewit...) when Dyson came to the states. My in-laws later replaced it with the Dyson ball model and they hated it (not robust enough to handle as a regular vacuum or something like that ... too gimmicky/fiddly). They got rid of it a few years ago and now they have a Shark (I think ... don't quote me).
My wife, fiancé at the time, bought a refurbished DC07 in the mid 2000's. We've had a few of the plastic bits on ours break over the years (mainly from me dropping it), but I actually intercepted my in-laws' older DC07 on its way to being donated and I use it to replace anything that happens to break on our DC07. It's still going strong. The only issue is the yellow color scheme from the "parts vacuum" clashes with the purple and turquoise of the functioning vacuum.
We also have the Dyson humidifier, but I'm kind of "meh" about it. Overall, it's better than any other humidifier we have tried, but I was hoping for more, especially at the price point they're selling it for (I got ours with CC points ... so pretty happy I didn't pay for it).
I’m imagining there’s a kind of beauty to your transformer yellow/purple vacuum
proto, that might be in the eye of the beholder, but if I remember to, I'll take a photo and post it here.
Here's the franken-vacuum in all their glory...
exquisite!
I totally had a rad one piece snow suit in the late 80s that matched exactly that vacuum’s colour
palette.
(No need to mention the 80s there... it's a given.)
Non did it have sleeves that zipped off to make a vest?! Memories...
UGh damn phone. That should say “Dyson the guy” not Dyson and the guy. I don’t know who the other guy is
Dyson and the Guy is my favorite country music ventriloquist act.
^ I love it when Dyson drinks a Snapple, then maple syrup comes out of The Guy's nose. Classic.
For Rent
Hope that’s a rated partition
I think I prefer the flooring orientation to be perpendicular to the windows. Other than that, looking good!
This looks exactly like a place I looked at renting in Bushwick about 8 years ago. I declined the place because I couldn't in good conscience live with this everyday. I think this is common practice with those developer remodeled places in Brooklyn.
Funny enough, I was initially drawn to the french door/high window combination. It took me a hot second to clue in to the other part. I've definitely seem stuff similar to this at apartment viewings in NYC (although never quite to this degree...)
You gotta wonder if that partition extends all the way up inside the flue...
I see at least 3 potential violations here in addition to the fireplace (which, somehow, might be ok?)
As a floor plan devotee, I've looked at a lot of classic NYC and Chicago apartment plans from the early 20c. So many feature long living rooms with a fireplace centered on the long wall like this one. Mighty hard to subdivide that space without either (i) committing the atrocity above, (ii) hide/fur over the nice fireplace, or (iii) divide unequally, leaving the fireplace to remain but in a weird, offset location.
Classic Brazil scene of desk-sharing between two adjacent offices.
II sounds relatively cheap and reversible if anyone ever wanted to do so.
"Charming 1 Bedroom Converted to a 2 Bedroom" [shouldn't it read "Charming Studio Converted to a 2 Bedroom"]
"This Fantastic Apartment Features Very High Ceilings" [seemingly taller now with the room sizes]
Anyone wanna guess if it was permitted?
"Charming" the same way being locked in a car trunk is charming.
And that bathroom is awesome. "Efficient bath layout speeds up mornings. Shit and shave at the same time!"
I once looked at a rental that seemed to have originally been a single-room bungalow, about 300-400 sf, that someone partitioned into a "2-bedroom".
Once had a viewing in Brooklyn where the partition between the two “apartments” was only a heavy curtain from floor to ceiling, that was a surprise when we got there...
How do you light the fire?
I once rented an apartment in Bologna that had been split in 2, we could get high on our neighbor's weed habit.
My experience in a place like this was similar. Studs placed on top of the wood floor. My neighbor was single and quiet as a
mouse. We could still hear her fart.
Long day, a lot accomplished and now time to relax! A bit of Paul Stanley - Live to Win and an excellent scotch!
Never had this one but want to try...
Holly Jolly
I don't want to derail the shitty men thread but WoodGuy "comprised of" drives me crazy too!
I felt petty mentioning it, especially for what I think is a serious topic. But I seem to be seeing it more often and it gives me a tic!
I learned something new, Wood Guy. I'm a fairly picky Word Guy myself, and confess I've gotten this wrong up 'til now. Thanks for posting.
I just inadvertently went back and read a page of TC from several months ago and I was *really* whingeing hard about my job and one project in particular. I'm happy to report that these days I'm loving my job. It's still rough out there, clients are still demanding and so many of the non-profit or small businesses I work with are truly strapped for cash right now, but my work is actually going great.
So thank you TC for giving us all a space to vent AND a reminder that things change and change is frequently good!
Today I'm going to look at a building that needs to be quickly converted for super-cold storage for vaccines, so I also feel like I'm doing good work today.
That's all good news, Donna--thanks for a bit of morning cheer!
As I believe I may have posted before, I am looking to set up shop on my own.
Are threads querying software choices/cost and licencing options etc permitted?
If not, never mind.
If so, I'll post a new thread with my questions!
Yeah, but it has been covered many times so maybe read the old threads first then come with informed questions.
Translation - AA has no idea.
Ta :)
I am now licensed in the province of Quebec. I have no plans to ever practice there but it looks good on corporate CV and helps with Proposals. Coincidence of birth (or French as first language) has no end of perks up here. Sorry.
Tres bien!
Love the “sorry” at the end, clearly you are not French.
... but very Canadian.
"Canadians. Just like the French, but nice. Polite, too."
French-Canadian =\= French. There is a big difference, calisse.
Could be worse NS. You could be Scottish / Canadian.
What' s wrong with the Scots?
Nothing. As long as you're not also Canadian.
Merde! je ne parle pas français
What about Welsh Chad?
Chad you might want to avoid literally the entire Maritime region in Canada, for future reference...
Meh. Been there. Nice place. A lot of plaid on the weekends though . . . . I'm cool with it though as that area brought us The Real McKenzies.
This office holiday treat is in a bag closed with a twist tie. The twist tie is tied in a knot. Hashtag Unclear on the concept
# Start Packing Up Your Things?
Kidding! That is an odd one, though. Some folks can't tie a bow, perhaps?
is it cannabis infused?
How many times did you try untwisting it one way, then the other, before you realized it was tied? ;-)
Why does it look like a dinosaur caught in a snowball?
Is that your holiday bonus?
It is a baby dinosaur caught in a snowball. When it unthaws the baby dinosaur will awaken and start to grow at a geometric rate.
A fully grown dinosaur is a damn nice holiday bonus.
damn, dude, your glass is even half-emptier than MINE. Be of good cheer!
Uhg.
::start whining::
I want to get out of the office and do some work on my house. The last three months all I've been doing is CA and MOB interior TI's. My creative mind is slowly dying from a lack of use.
::end whining::
We put a Eucalyptus 'shrub' as we were sold, in our garden. April this year it was 8" tall, as of today, it is 8'...
Hardly a shrub!
That is one hell of a shrub. Has it started talking yet? Be carful if it starts saying 'feed me'.
Jaetten, post a pic!
Haha, if it starts talking, I'd become very rich! Will get a pic tomorrow when we have daylight :)
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Can’t find an option to upload an image in reply. :(
Found, it, have to use desktop site, not mobile!
Fence is 6'
Need a bit of weeding haha
It looks awesome! I love eucalyptus. I made their seed pods into earring s as a kid. They do suck up too much water to be appropriate in Arizona, though.
Thank you, they’re lovely trees. We get so much water buildup over winter. I just wish it was a bit slower growing haha. Might get another two though, our neighbours windows see straight into our garden.
Now that's a shrub!
Ask anyone in Australia, they ain't shrubs. :)
To be fair, we got it from a ‘bargain’ store. These and sequoia are my favourite non-native tree. I’d happily plant them everywhere haha.
I keep opening that drawing precision thread hoping for some juicy content, but I can't be bothered to care about that kind of thing anymore. Let me know when it has completely devolved into a raging dumpster inferno.
I think APS is trying to light something on fire . . .
I tried to light a match, but it's a well beaten horse.
the small things architects fetishize..
hold my coffee, I've got to change pens 7 and 9 to match the Pantone of the year colours.
He's so far out of his element when it comes to commenting on the software and drawing production side of things.
For some perspective, I know I'm out of my element on those things and I was doing that work for about half a year past his point of retirement. It wasn't that I'm not good at that work, I was probably too good compared to my colleagues and realized I didn't want to be stuck drawing all the time so I made a career shift.
Anyway, shortly before he retired I wrote this blog post (Want to be an Architect?; Don't Learn Revit) which has gotten some flack for not understanding the direction of the industry. I think that criticism is a misunderstanding of my intent with the post, but a valid concern anyway. I should have written more clearly.
I'm in charge of teaching/training/whiping revit to the staff in my office but I approach it from a CA pov... because that's a big part of what I do and I'm tired of having to fix other's mistakes.
I was thinking last night that x-jla is to this forum what a "x/256" dimension is to my Revit model. I chase it through the plan, diligently and subtly adjusting inaccuracies until I think I've smoothed everything over, only for it to inexplicably and inevitably appear again somewhere completely unexpected. There, is that enough drama?
Beautiful analogy!
if x-jla is x/256 measurements, does that make randomised the times I tried to hit ESC on my keyboard and ended up hitting F1 instead?
Always there to help, even when not requested, especially when not requested, that’s just my nature!
Maybe the F1 key on keyboards should be renamed to “randomised”
Not sure if one can have two keys named after oneself, already have the “any” key under my belt...
Autohotkey
+
F1::
return
(the 'ignore user' of workflow enhancements)
Weekend ruined... yesterday I received an email from a local university, claiming that I owe approximately £10k and I’m in default of payment since September 2020. This is odd, as I didn’t even apply for a place and be given an offer until the end of October 2020.
Granted the fee applicable is 20% lower than their default notice claims, which by the way is the first contact from them yet claiming to be a repeated invoice, has left me rather perplexed.
Their terms and conditions state that the first payment, of 3, is due January 21st 2021. Their terms also state that I can withdraw within 3 weeks of commencement of study with no fee required.
After contacting them and being passed from pillar to post with each saying it’s the other I need to talk to, the only agreement they come to is that I must pay.
So, thinking this through, I’ll be sending them my notice of withdrawal, I haven’t started yet, and by their terms I have no fee to pay.
I dare say that this has put a dampener on my weekend and definitely reduced my opinion of the administrative capacity of midlanders. This isn’t the only contact with an incompetent midlands based company this year, and each further contact seems to display increased stupidity...
end of unofficial rant
Ugh this sucks. I'm sorry to hear it.
Thank you. I’m going to comb through their contract tomorrow and write up a report and make further contact. If need be, I’ll enlist a solicitor.
I appear to have reacted strongly... I miss read the last paragraph and spent the weekend worrying... Not my best moment!
As it transpires, it was an admin issue, all resolved and to be fair, I feel a bit of an ass...
Note: Never take a Friday email seriously, wait until the Monday and resolve the following week!
This is great news!
What was the joke going around awhile back about kangaroos? I RT'd this today. Kangaroos fucking terrify me.
Whaaaaaaat?!
I know a guy from school that went on to work on set design and construction. Not sure if he's still doing it though. (edit: he is per his IMDB page)
DON'T WORK FOR FREE
Guess what - there is an entire industry for set construction. I did it for years during college and during the recession back in 2012. Even then I was paid $15-$20 an hour because of my background and experience.
DON'T WORK FOR FREE.
OFFICAL CREW CREDIT IS WORTHLESS
The only way I’d work for Marvel for “free” is if I got a percentage of the box office
Don't lie - you'd work for free if you got to meet the Avengers in costume. :)
Change Avengers to Star Wars and
you’d be correct.
Which movies though . . . .
Hell no, hell no, hell no.
Actually, maybe a group of us should *pose* as free-working architecture interns then advise them that real marble and end grain flooring and steel windows and Italian lighting are absolutely required so we get all the set materials there and then start fucking around making enormous constant screwups and costing them millions in materials then laugh our asses off as we set fire to the place and leave?
Wait I may finally have a screenplay idea...
I love it, Donna. I've got my young intern disguise ready!
This is exactly how I look.
Hardly!
I consulted on a set once. I was supposed to get paid but never did.
this shit would be in direct violation of whatever collective bargaining agreement the studio (Marvel, presumably?) is under with the locals, namely this would be I.A.T.S.E 800 - the Art Directors Guild, which has jurisdiction over Set Designers, Model Makers, and Scenic Artists. Whatever union covers the construction department would also likely see their collective agreements violated by this. IF, indeed this is a full feature film by a major studio, and not an independent production (those can usually work around typical industry regulations).
Yo quiero Taco Bel!
Holland has a Taco bell!?
*three Taco Bells
it's "Tacos Bell"
American Hegemony at its finest. We don't need a ton of military bases, we'll just send them Taco Bells.
ingenious, you make the locals INTO the bombs, then turn them loose on the city's infrastructure (sewer systems and public restrooms)
You do need a ton of military bases and weapons of mass destruction, there wouldn’t be any hegemony without those, don’t kid yourself...
You seem fun at parties.
He doesn't go to parties. He just posts here.
What are parties, you know there’s a pandemic going on, right?
Don't front - you know what they are and that you don't get invited to them because of your crazy accent. :)
I always thought I didn’t get invited because I’m an annoying prick.
I’ve actually never eaten anything from Taco Bell.
Non, you're not missing anything, but the somehow, the Dutch menu, is atrocious. Taco meat, with gouda? WTF?
You've even screwed that up...It should say: Gouda, with taco meat? WTF?
I've tasted gouda, the Swiss do it better. Gouda smells like the inside of wooden shoes.
How do you know what the inside of wooden shoes smell like? You disgust me!
Gouda is for people who think they like fancy cheese but have no fucking clue. Gimme Emmental or Jarlsberg, then we can begin to talk cheese.
What are wooden shoes for then NS?
^ portable pedestals for residents to lecture down to us from.
Great to be moderated out of that Peter Exley article...what a ridiculous train wreck of wokeness that became, all that's left now are b3ta's personal attacks.
You keep using words you don't understand.
please enlighten us your holy wokeness
I'm sorry, I don't speak stupid, err flemish.
Always so modest...not, you're fluent in stupid, a native speaker even!
From your lips to Trump's ass.
You sniffed too many of those wooden shoes b3ta, your incoherence is embarrassing. Maybe take a breather, go outside, have a walk and try again.
Occasionally you both contribute meaningful stuff to the discourse here, but in the current state I don't even want to check TC because your toxicity is so pervasive. Blocking both of you.
“He started it!”
Yeah, this is supposed to be the fun place but several people are just being buttheads. It’s December, we’ve almost made it through hell year. Lighten up y’all.
Rando and B3t - shut the fuck up you pear clutching ninnies'.
Okay, okay, okay...let’s talk booze instead here on Intoxicated Central, just got a nice bottle of Portuguese port at work, any advice on what to pair it with that’s not a dead animal?
A lightly sautéed wooden shoe.
Rando... port is Portuguese by default... (obv needs to be from Porto...) anything else is just fortified wine. Anyways, it should be paired with a strong cigar. Some aged & firm cheese (not gouda) assortment would not be a bad idea.
My addition of “Portuguese” was indeed superfluous...thanks for the tip!
tawny port with skittles, but not the orange ones. those go better with gewurtztraminer or tokay.
I guess my attempt at creating a distraction to the political dumpster fire in TC was not appreciated. Fine, I'll take my cheese discussion elsewhere.
Cheese is widely recognized as the second-best fire suppressant. It finally lost out to Halon in UL testing, because people were being knocked unconscious by wheels of gouda dropping from the ceiling every time someone lit a damned cigarette.
Also, it looks like I accidentally chose a good time to be elsewhere.... Glad I missed the fun.
I was just going ask what happened to the cheese.
I'm down for a cheese thread. My wife and I were just discussing how to get our cheese fix this holiday season since driving to Wisconsin is out of the question this year.
I used to live (rent, actually) in one of the trendy places in my city and we were within a 3min walk from the best cheese store. The cheese lady knew us by name too... and I could easily drop 100 loonies on a few small slivers of cheesy goodness.
My first place in Portland was walking distance from here: https://cheese-bar.com/ It lives up to its name.
^ Looks fantastic. I could just set up a cot in the corner there...
As long as they've got a corkscrew I can use.
If you are ever in the Twin Cities, Surdyk's is the joint, for cheese.
Is anyone in Cleveland? My BIL is getting noticed, for his cheeses: https://oldbrooklyncheesecompany.com/. He also makes some good pickled mustard seeds.
Not in Cleveland, but this would be a good justification for a road-trip post-pandemic.
As an aside, I've been making my own fermented mustards and it is a life-changing condiment when done correctly. Your BIL's mustard looks pretty damn tasty too.
Ok now I have to go get some fancy cheese.
Arch, they are good. We don't see them much and my wife has been making pickled mustard seeds forever. I actually like hers even better than my BIL's. I have developed a killer recipe for salad dressing that is best with a dollop of pickled mustard seeds, though prepared mustard can work in a pinch.
Do you quick-pickle them with vinegar or do you let them ferment?
I am intrigued. I've never heard of pickled mustard seeds. What do you do with them, use them like relish?
Back in the 70's I lived on the Cambridge/Sommerville town line. We had a place called Sauenor's which was a butcher grocery store and just down the block was a place called the Wine Cheese Cask. It was at that time the best around.
Donna, I'm not totally sure but here's a recipe: https://www.epicurious.com/recipes/food/views/pickled-mustard-seeds. The seeds get soft but still have texture, they're a bit sweet with less bite than regular prepared mustard. You can use them on a sandwich, in salad dressing, with cheese on a cracker, etc.. The texture is like caviar, fun to eat!
Snooker, I lived in Porter Square for ten years starting in the mid-90s. I think I remember the Wine Cheese Cask but was too poor to shop there! Maybe I'm thinking of another place. Crazy how much that area has changed just in the last 20 years. It was just starting to get gentrified when I was there, once rent control was eliminated.
That answers my question, WG.
.... here's a good video on fermented mustard seeds. Essentially pickling but using lactic acid generated on-site by happy bacteria.
Donna, I usually do the pickling, then crush coarsely in a mortar-and-pestle for a whole-grain Swedish-style mustard. Or I'll use my immersion blender to turn it into creamy German-style mustard.
Wood Guy, The butcher deli was often visited by Julia Child. Would run into her there every once and a while, couldn't miss that voice. The Wine and Cheese Cask always said there wine prices were the best in Boston. There cheese was exceptional. One of my room mates at the time was a souse chef who had exceptional abilities at selecting the right meat, wine and cheese.
I never met her but worked as a carpenter in her neighborhood, the Huron Ave area. She was basically next door neighbors with Bob Vila and Alan Dershowitz. Was the cheese shop off Huron Ave?
Edit: Nevermind, I just looked it up, different place. The Wine and Cheese Cask is still there, just a couple of blocks from Moshe Safdie's office!
Small World! I lived in Huron Village (in the crappiest apartment building in Huron Village) for a couple years before moving west. It was a beautiful neighborhood to walk around. John Malkovich and some Thai royalty lived on my street. What's that market over there... Formaggio Kitchen I think? Classy, *and* expensive.
It is a small world indeed! Formaggio, that's the place I'm thinking of. On the slope facing north. I got lunch there a lot. Or at the farm store across from Rockler on Mass Ave. Some good memories from those days. Edit: wrong again. Hi-Rise Bread Co is what I'm thinking of. A block from Formaggio. The farm store is Pemberton's.
Wood Guy as you see it is on Washington Beacon Street in Sommerville. There was also a restaurant on Kirkland across the street for the butcher/deli called Peasant Stock. They served limited dishes that changed all the time so you just had to check to see what was on the menu.
I think this might be okay to post, but since it's about people doing good, and talking about doing good, I'm not sure. Maybe those organizations don't want people to know that they have needs?
MacKenzie Scott aka Badass