37637598 on 27/4/2007 at 16:44

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LMAO am i stupid!?

sorry not patented, designed, built, and used.

wow... how the fuck do you patent a door! LMAO:laff:

Digital Nightfall on 27/4/2007 at 17:01

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Off topic ftw!

The longerish side of the sidewalk of the intersection (the road going east-west is the more major of the two) is a place where things like a bike rack, bus stop, newspaper stands, and so forth can go. But we're urged to not show things like that in our renderings/models/plans, as our professor says it's too "doll-housey" ... :P

I put in parking meters, traffic lights, a bike rack, and so forth last time, but I got yelled at for it.

If I throw some people in you can get a better sense of the scale - but right now you can get an idea from those concrete benches by the palms. They're the size of your average park bench.

Digital Nightfall on 27/4/2007 at 20:03

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You can patent pretty much anything, so long as someone else hasn't already.

Digital Nightfall on 2/5/2007 at 16:57

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I presented my work before the jury at around 1 pm on Tuesday. After that I SLEPT. As the hour drew near, I was given a choice: present an unfinished project, or present it finished, but unshowered, and in clothes covered in sawdust, glue, spilled coffee, and nasty from being worn for the past 30 hours. I didn't even like the shirt - it was my deus ex invisible war shirt that I usually only wear when everything else is in the laundry. I should have gone with Bob Ross.

But I finished, at 9 am sharp, which was the real absolute deadline. Sitting through 4 hours of my peers presentations while underslept and feeling grimy was fun! I could have ducked out, gone home, showered and changed, and gotten back before my turn, but I felt it would be rude to my classmates to vanish like that. This is a close knit group that's been together for the past 3 years, not a bunch of random students sharing my major.

The projector the university gave us was shit. Anything with a lightness of maybe under 100 (out of 255) was simply not shown, so it frakked up more than half of the presentations. Mine was no exception. Plus the clicker/pointer was very strange, and I (like many before me) couldn't figure out how to use the laser pointer without making it advance to the next slide. Finally I, like half the class before me, resorted to pointing with a stick. It's a bit maddening to present something which took 7 weeks to put together (working an average of 20 hours a day on for the past 3 weeks), and have it be fouled up by sub-standard equipment.

In spite of all that, I, going last, managed to somehow get through it, and was given a very positive response to the jury. Only one member had a concern, which I easily met with and argued my case for. The Q&A session with them was cut short though, since the next class was ready to knock down the door to get into the gallery for their turn. I didn't mind; I was ready to go to bed.

At 3:15 today I'll be meeting with my professor for the last time for a debriefing (or postmortem), during which he'll give us our grade (and a chance to dispute it). I don't think I'll need to. I'll post again after that. I need to take some photos of the finished model.

HipBreaker on 2/5/2007 at 17:22

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I live 20 minutes from Channelside.... ;)