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Can' ol' Otto automatically post from flikr at a larger size.... Showcasing user photos at a size smaller than the ads doesn't make much sense.

Not sure what leg the plantifs have to stand on... We don't have zoning.... Touch $h!t Gotham and Renoir.. If you wanted to secure your property values, ya should have bought up the property before the current developer.

While I think its a snazzy product, I agree that the battery life is a major problem. They said 18 hrs... normal use... but that's very optimisitc. From - http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/shopping-and-consumer-news/11461317/Apple-Watch-battery-lasts-as-little-as-three-hours.html .. Could be as little as 3 hrs Talk time. Also.... I hate getting one product just to find it outdated the next yr... and they've already annouced the iShoe for next yr.. So I'll wait.

Found a friend who did the welding.. Figured I'd share my project... Turned a crap 90's desk with a glass top into a desk half the size utilizing an old breadbasket and engineering drafting table top I had laying around. Breadbasket will be my printing station. Also.. I still have that glass laying around. 3/8" sheet of glass - 30" x 58" At this point.. anyone willing to come pick it up.. it's yours. Direct message me if interested.

keep em coming. And mind giving us a review of the quad you're using as well... thanks

I don't underestimate the power of a physical model.. and i mostly agree with you assessment as to their merits. But that doesn't change the fact that most firms just arent going to take the time or trouble to go that route when you can build a virtual model, including animations in a fraction of the time. And i agree with the drawbacks of photo-realistic renders. I've bitched on here many a time at the haifers who see a finished project rendering and take it as a contract of what is to be built, then get all complainy when things change. But that's also an advantage of the virtual over the physical... a few buttons/plugins/seconds in photoshop and that one virtual model can be output as massing to photorealistic or anywhere in between. Lastly.. While 3D printing may eventually become worth it and common place.. that doesn't help the original poster nor make it worth it to change professions to be come a "professional model maker". To the original poster.. if professional model making is want you want to do, you should not be looking towards architecture. Instead, look into set design for either theater or movies.

Honestly, I'd say don't waste your time. I can count the number of physical models i've seen while working in architecture firms for the past decade on 1 hand. Computer renderings are much faster, allow you to give multiple options to a client, allows you to turnaround comments from the client quickly with another rendering. Physical models just aren't worth it. You only ever really see them with big developer clients who want a big model to use as marketing, and while there may be some firms out there that only specialize in building physical models, they are few and far between,. Your typical architecture firm isn't going to have a position for "model maker".... on the rare occasion the need for a physical model arrises..most designers, espicially young ones less removed from school, will be able to turn one out.

I went in to Clark's this week. Great operation, but if you don't really know what you want going in, I can see how annoying I must have been to ask for pricing on half a dozen species. Also, while i did some research beforehand and was expecting to get a Board-Foot price, that wasn't the case. Instead, they offer a L.F. cost for different size pieces. Once doing the math back home.. I guess that makes sense.. the wider the board, the costlier. I'm new to woodworking and am trying to soak up the knowledge neccessary to build my dining room table. If there are any Haify woodworkers that can share information such as relative pricing of hardwood, and suitability for table tops, it would be much appreciated.

"..and the walls came tumbling down in the city that we loooooveeee..." Texags has the slow-mo version in all its awesomeness. http://texags.com/s/15626/watch-slow-motion-view-of-kyle-field-west-side-implosion

Bumping. For some reason I figured their might be some artists with connections on haif.. little surprised.

I am trying to shorten the structural cross members of a desk to create a new furniture piece. Looking to remove the middle section out of 5 members (each about 1" round tube) then weld the ends together. I assume this would need and include putting a smaller diameter tube "peg" at the new joint for added structural integrity. Any haifers weld and offer their services for such small projects ? Can any welders gimme a clue as to how much i should pay for services like that? Also.. doubt i'd be so lucky as to find a welder in need of glass and willing to barter... But I also have a 3/8" sheet of glass from said desk that I no longer need - 30" x 58" So does any artist or furnituremaker need a piece of glass.. make me an offer... especially if you also weld. thanks

Probably they do know more.. but otherwise, I disagree. The Goal has changed from previous plans.. and that's what I have a problem with. The "market led approach" ( in their words) goal is now just get from Point A to Point B as fast as possible ... connectivity beyond that be damned.

But they havent kept it in mind if there are zero intermdiary stations to station hop.

I'm aware there is additional time spent in the 2 intermediary stations, acceleration, etc. I was just providing a simple example to highlight how little track would have to be added, relatively speaking, and to counter "probably adds 50 percent to the total travel time" because it would be nowhere near that. Plus.. route doesn't equal service. The trains are supposed to run every half hour. Perhaps every 3 of 4 are express and fly on through those stations and truly only 12 minutes are added. But the connectivity is there for that 4th stop every two hours. Dallas and Houston MSAs are 13 million.. yes...but BCS and Waco MSAs would add another half million. I think that connectivity adding two universities/employment centers is worth it. I understand we have to balance speed vs connectivity. But one line with only two nodes is weighted at the extreme of speed, to the detriment of connectivity.. IMO. And if we're only debating Dallas and Houston - Dallas and Houston are not point A and B... They are points A1 A2 A3 A4 B1 B2 B3 B4 etc... So I would argue only 1 node for A and 1 node for B does a disservice to those 13 million + people. And I'm not arguing for a node for each A1 A2 B1 B2 etc.. that's the job of LRT... but having a 2nd node in the biggest suburban population center in the direction of travel makes sense. When it comes time to debate a Houston-SA High speed rail... it won't make sense to not have a Katy or Energy cooridor Stop. When it comes time to debate Houston-Austin high speed rail.. it won't make sense to not have a Cyfair area stop. Nobody likes starting a journey by first heading 20 miles/half an hr in the opposite direction. With the population center of Houston being somewhere in west houston.. and with major population and commerial areas and the major growth stretching from the SW to the North.... which is convenient since those are the directions one must travel to get to SA, Austin, and Dallas... it makes zero sense to not have additional nodes there.

Previous plans have been better is all I'm saying.. One step forward and two steps back does not equal baby steps. I would argue with something this big, you can't afford to go in half-ass or with a questionable core if you want it to succeed.

But why is that now the goal? In the past when the Texas Triangle or Texas Tbone has been discussed.. part of the goal was intermediary population centers. The Texas Tbone recognized the value of getting BCS, Waco, Temple(Ft Hood) in on the system. How is having an additional stop in houston that serves the airport/major population/commercial center of little benfit? How is it not a benefit for someone in north houston to not have to drive half an hour in the wrong direction to load a train downtown before heading in the right direction ? ** How is adding 2 universities and allowing students and the work force to connect to two major metropolitan areas not beneficial to both the univiersities and metros? Adding 1 stop in North Houston to get IAH/Spring/Woodlands plus having 2nd stop in BCS, and a 3rd in Waco.. That's approximately 40 miles of additional track. Their site says Houston to Dallas in 90 minutes. If you do the math.. an extra 40 miles adds 12 minutes ** The rail is supposed to compete with Southwest Airlines and one of the pros is not havign to deal with parking miles away, half hr security lines, etc etc.. The rail loses a big positive for anyone in N/NW houston if it takes just as long to get to the train that the benefit of not dealing with the pre flight crap is neutralized. Having more than 1 location in the destination cities makes sense.

The two alternate routes they are currently considering is a huge opportunity missed. Map The routes go up in no-man's land between 45 and 6 instead of hitting ANY other population centers. Le'ts just go ahead and bypass Woodlands - 94k Conroe - 56k College Station - 100k Bryan - 76k Waco - 125k ....what a genius idea. It's the same damn LRT argument from a decade ago just at a bigger scale. They are putting it where's its easy and convenient and not where the people are. Great for the people of Houston and Dallas... but to not also serve 2 major universities and several sizeable population or employment centers... big ass waste.

Your link doesn't work... try this.. http://swamplot.com/favorite-houston-design-cliche-the-official-2014-ballot/2014-12-11/ If by favorite you mean most overused and most disliked.. I'll nominate the I'd guess a third of the houses in my neighborhood feel the need to put something up big expanses of brick wall.. and 95% of those that do go wth the Texas star. I told my wife.. if she insists on us hanging something out front.... i'm going with the

I notice nobody has done Bowl pick'em the past few years. Any interest here with today's haifers, or nah ?

Cartman's version is especially magical.. but any version will do.

Favorite hymn - O Holy Night. Favorite Christmas albums - The sappy Manheim Steamroller stuff or strait new age piano like David Lanz' Christmas album

FYI.. Construction cams at Kyle Field came back live this week. http://kylefield.com/constructioncams example of Baylor's quality brick work seen here...

If you like heights... Apparently the Shard has a public observation deck on the 70th something floor.

Haven't seen the London eye or Madame Tussaud's mentioned yet. St pauls and the Tate modern were my favorite the last time I was there. If you're into shows, perhaps see what's playing... Lez miz or something. ... Found the theatre experience there to be very different then here. Since you've already seen so many sites there, I agree with the poster who said pick a day to get outta town.... Go see Stonehenge or something. London's a great place.... Have fun.

Texas legislature passed a law a decade ago mandating all architecture schools in Texas use only Legos as learning tools in our design studios. Sorry. We all suck now and lack the ability to see outside the box.