nothing to report

The other night someone systematically went through the 3rd floor of my building at school and stole cameras, compys, etc... everything that can be stolen for cash including one woman's compy, back up drive and her other backup drive that backs up the first drive. I totally get why she needs two backup drives, but why was she keeping them in the same place at the same time? Locks were cut off and drawers pried open. Moral: don't leave stuff at school, not even locked.

I'm on the 4th floor and none of stuff was taken or is missing. Good for me, but boo-urns for the others. It's a shitty thing to do and a shitty time to do it since we're at the end of the school year and now is when we all need our data hordes the most. The weird thing is that I was at school until 2am and the first person at school to notice the problem was there at 6am, so when did this happen? I'm surprised that there was enough time with literally no one on that floor to even pull this off.

Yes, school is a 24hr job in my building.

peace.

my date with RK

I'm working on a group project for my tech class and we were assigned a building at the Shilo military base. It's a building that is of a typical design for the architect that designed it and we were impressed by the structure and the tour we were given by the military personnel.

We've been making a scale model of the building at a 1:10 scale which is huge, but we were only required to do a section of the building, detailing construction and connections and whatever was relevant to the model. We also made a point of arranging a phone interview with the architect who is retired and lives in California.

We weren't as impressed after the conversation and I won't say the name of the architect because he probably googles himself regularly and I don't want him to think I'm even more of a hack after writing this, but I will say that he gave us one piece of advice: he could tell we lacked creative instincts and should therefore drop out and switch to dentistry or risk being stuck as uncreative managers all our working lives.

Sound advice form one generation to another. For those of you keeping score that's twice in two weeks that someone has told me to leave the profession.

peace.

re:re

I came across this passage on another blog as a result of a google search that I don't remember, but it was shocking that someone was able to link two different character types to different writers:

'Contemporary fiction,' I said to Jimmy, 'is either pod or ped. Left-hand rack, you'll observe, begins with J.G. Ballard, Super Cannes. Pod-meister. Suburban solipsism: world in a windscreen. Right-hand rack is ped. The walkers. W.G. Sebald, Austerlitz, Rings of Saturn. Sit at your PC as you sit in the car: pod person, Lose yourself in the rhythms of the walk: pedestrian. Stately prose, Sebald.'

I'll leave it to your imagination to figure out who wrote that - it isn't really central to the argument and I just feel like being that asshole who doesn't source things.

I'm a pod.

peace