Modern Building

Redoverfarm · January 22, 2009, 06:00:23 PM

For those of you that want to put a little twist in your construction you might get some ideas from this site.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UEMktee0JLA

StinkerBell · January 22, 2009, 06:58:17 PM

Wow. Not sure I would be able to live in a building that constantly moved. I get a little vertigo when I am on the space needle.

January 22, 2009, 08:16:32 PM

I would find that totally disconcerting.

peternap · January 22, 2009, 08:22:02 PM

That's insane!

Sure hope he rembers lefty loosy, righty tighty

MountainDon · January 22, 2009, 08:33:39 PM

...probably an adrenaline junky.

January 22, 2009, 08:36:06 PM

How would you like to be the window cleaner.

Redoverfarm · January 22, 2009, 10:13:04 PM

What I really found fascinating was the incorporation of the wind mills to generate the power. I think it will be having too many moving parts. Sort of like a helicopter. Safe I don't think so.

MountainDon · January 22, 2009, 10:21:23 PM

I think this might qualify as a nominee for one of Jens poorly conceived ideas.

This was poorly thought out and worded and I realize comes across entirely wrong. See the next couple-three of my posts below.

ScottA · January 22, 2009, 10:29:32 PM

Would make me dizzy. I'll pass.

January 23, 2009, 12:18:56 AM

Ouch Don, that one hurt. Not as much wrong with my conception, as there is with your diplomacy, eloquence, or subtlety on that one, even if you are a moderator now.

MountainDon · January 23, 2009, 01:01:58 AM

That was taken wrongly, or maybe I presented it incorrectly. It was a reference to your observation about problems that engineers cause with their poor designs. I can't remember where that was posted or I would have referenced it. You had said something about posts in bad places. My comment was perhaps a little too obtuse. Please accept my sincere apologies.

glenn kangiser · January 23, 2009, 01:03:20 AM

I don't know -- I think Jens and I could come up with some pretty cool projects - if I could just move him over toward rustic a bit...

MountainDon · January 23, 2009, 01:06:32 AM

this topic

http://countryplans.com/smf/index.php?topic=5913.msg79491#msg79491

"While their stuff may have the right calculations in play, much of the time it falls short of real world possibility, i.e., structural members being in the wrong spot to pick up a load properly. "

Sorry again... a poorly thought out remark.

MountainDon · January 23, 2009, 01:14:14 AM

I guess there's a couple of lessons here.

1. Make certain what you type makes sense, can not be taken as an out and out insult.

2. If you read something that seems to be directed at you and is demeaning or insulting, speak up or the unintended remark can forever remain a sore point.

Maybe we should just go remove the reference; or leave it as a lesson.

January 23, 2009, 01:21:16 AM

Oh - you meant one of the ideas he talked about... I worked on a building where the architect redesigned the stairs 3 times before he finally sent out an engineer to ask me what would work. His first suggestion would have had headroom clearance problems, but after my suggestion he ran the numbers - sized the beams and it worked. Sometimes it helps if you work with the stuff in the field hands on. That also was a modern building.

Actually it was this one and the stair I am talking about is on the right side to the left of the pine? tree.

MountainDon · January 23, 2009, 01:26:49 AM

It appears Jens has gone off to bed. I trust he will sense my heartfelt apology. That came across really bad.

glenn kangiser · January 23, 2009, 01:38:00 AM

I think once he reads your explanation he will realize you were talking about others designs he mentioned. I haven't ever known you to be malevolent --

Just a misunderstanding in the two dimensional world of the internet.

MountainDon · January 23, 2009, 01:41:53 AM

Yeah... opinionated, but kind of mild mannered in reality.

glenn kangiser · January 23, 2009, 01:54:49 AM

Just an old hippie --- free love and all...

MountainDon · January 23, 2009, 02:13:10 AM

Maybe we shouldn't go there?

January 23, 2009, 02:14:53 AM

I always looked in on the movement with envy -- just missed it -- pretty much anyway...

Jens · January 23, 2009, 02:37:37 AM

Nope, not off to bed yet, unfortunately. I am taking a class, Jewish Life and Thought, at the local Synogogue, and became engrossed in a few websites talking about Jesus and Judaism. It has made me very late for bed, indeed, but hopefully I will become deprived of sleep to the result that I can start to get my lazy butt out of bed before 8 in the morning. Having the wife working, and taking care of the kids has whacked out my normal patterns again! Thank you for clearing that up, I do see it now. It makes sense, and it is kinda funny, if a bit hidden

I offend people often, most of the time unintentionally, and expect that they will call me on it, hopefully without getting upset.

Gotta love those engineers sometimes, huh Glenn? I am actually considering getting some student loans, and going to school for Architecture, and possibly Engineering as well. When I was a kid, I would draw houses all the time. One day I told my mother that I wanted to be an architect when I grew up. She said that I should be a carpenter too, so that I could build the houses I design. I don't like desks much, but I could get really into a dual purpose situation like that. And at least I know how to build the stuff now.

Rustic? Didn't you take a look at the pantry I posted in the built-ins thread?

G-night all, God bless.

PS Don, wanted to put this little guy in that response up there

, But forgot about it, and now I am glad I did, cause I'm not sure which finger that is!

glenn kangiser · January 23, 2009, 02:48:07 AM

I wanted to be an engineer too - but now I just study enough to argue with them if I am sure they are wrong -- doesn't happen too often though.

My dad used to say - you might make one some day but you'll never be one. Encouraging...

MountainDon · January 23, 2009, 02:49:09 AM

Quote from: glenn kangiser on January 23, 2009, 02:14:53 AM
I always looked in on the movement with envy -- just missed it -- pretty much anyway...

David Crosby once stated that he was born at the best possible time (1941); by the time he was 'of age', "The Pill" had been invented and AIDS had not. Or words to that effect.

MountainDon · January 23, 2009, 02:50:34 AM

Quote from: Jens on January 23, 2009, 02:37:37 AM
PS Don, wanted to put this little guy in that response up there , But forgot about it, and now I am glad I did, cause I'm not sure which finger that is!

It's Mr. Pointer, not the other guy.

...past bedtime here. G'nite.