HecticArt Wonderful Architecture Work

[JHDK]

When architects get together..... They ask themselves, why did we cross the road in South Florida? And then they realize it's because they were incompetent and the bridge over the road collapsed and it killed six people...... But they still needed to get to the other side.

https://www.architectmagazine.com/practice/design-flaws-contributed-to-fatal-fiu-bridge-collapse_o

 

[JHDK]

When architects get together.......They always tease Hectic because he's such a t-square.

Boom! I'm looking up architecture tools. I didn't even know existed and using them for wordplay. T-square hahah.

Okay, I think seven in a row is enough for tonight. I'll get back to it when I wake up.

 

[IdRatherBeSkiing]

When architects get together..... They ask themselves, why did we cross the road in South Florida? And then they realize it's because they were incompetent and the bridge over the road collapsed and it killed six people...... But they still needed to get to the other side.

https://www.architectmagazine.com/practice/design-flaws-contributed-to-fatal-fiu-bridge-collapse_o

It doesn't matter what the architect draws, the bridge collapse is on the engineer that signed the diagram without doing the proper calculations.

 

[JHDK]

It doesn't matter what the architect draws, the bridge collapse is on the engineer that signed the diagram without doing the proper calculations.

You see that I'm just making stupid joke after stupid joke right? And you see that the article is from some weird ass URL. I'm aware that and was engineering and building and all that and not architecture.

But I can't accuse hectic of killing six people by saying it was an engineer's fault. And claiming that he's guilty of negligent homicide times 6 is funny.

 

[scotchandcigar]

Somehow, as an engineer who also plays clarinet, I'm escaping all the ridicule.

 

[scotchandcigar]

But I can't accuse hectic of killing six people by saying it was an engineer's fault. And claiming that he's guilty of negligent homicide times 6 is funny.

Architects can design lethal buildings

London's Walkie Talkie Skyscraper Blamed for Car-Melting Sunbeams​

https://weather.com/science/news/london-walkie-talkie-building-sunlight-beam-melting-cars-20130903

 

[HecticArt]

Architects can design lethal buildings

For sure.
Even though the engineers are the ones that are supposed to keep things from actually falling down, there are all kinds of things that we can screw up to kill people. The liability is always looming over our shoulders.

 

[JHDK]

as an engineer who also plays clarinet

OH MY GOD.

I need to catch my breath.

I thought I was having the greatest time of my life last night with all my stupid jokes and then you drop this fucking bomb of Nagasaki intensity on me?

Engineers are way cooler than architects. We've established that...... but holy shit you play the clarinet?

And when you're not playing the clarinet, do you and your boyfriends use them as dildos on each other? Stan's butt is better in F sharp but Bill's butt is better suited for G major. Hahahah.

Sorry that's the first thing that came to mind. Like I said with Hectic when he made the mistake of giving me that setup line...I can do better and I will do better.

The Eagles won LIX last month and now these past two days have happened....

I don't need Christmas this year.

 

[JHDK]

who also plays clarinet

I'm sorry that some states these days are making you use the bathroom that corresponds to the gender you were assigned at birth. That must be a major change for you and I empathize.

I'm still cooking..... That was better but still not great.... You ever see Doctor Who when they switch from one doctor to the next? It takes him like a week to regenerate. That's what's happening to me right now from Hectic yesterday to you today.

 

[JHDK]

who also plays clarinet

It's weird finally knowing who those low-t commercials are actually targeted towards because you're a smart guy, you're successful and have a great family and should be proud of the life you've built in spite of your musical condition. Thank you for admitting it. That's the major first step. You have a very serious musical problem and everyone here fully supports you in your journey to recovery.

I'm not proud of my drug addiction. As you guys know, I've been to two rehabs in 2 years. It's super embarrassing. So I know what you're going through. I can give you phone numbers. I can tell you about facilities. DM me.

We will get you help.

 

[IdRatherBeSkiing]

 

[HecticArt]

I'm not proud of my drug addiction. As you guys know, I've been to two rehabs in 2 years.

Maybe the third time is the charm....

I can give you phone numbers. I can tell you about facilities.

So you still have the numbers?

 

[scotchandcigar]

OH MY GOD.

I need to catch my breath.

I thought I was having the greatest time of my life last night with all my stupid jokes and then you drop this fucking bomb of Nagasaki intensity on me?

Engineers are way cooler than architects. We've established that...... but holy shit you play the clarinet?

And when you're not playing the clarinet, do you and your boyfriends use them as dildos on each other? Stan's butt is better in F sharp but Bill's butt is better suited for G major. Hahahah.

Sorry that's the first thing that came to mind. Like I said with Hectic when he made the mistake of giving me that setup line...I can do better and I will do better.

The Eagles won LIX last month and now these past two days have happened....

I don't need Christmas this year.

I can probably reference at least 50 posts in 3 or 4 threads where I've spoken about playing in community bands, and changing bands and going to rehearsals and playing concerts. And I've posted videos of me playing and pictures of me in the band and all since I joined the forum. But perhaps you were preoccupied.

 

[JHDK]

I can probably reference at least 50 posts in 3 or 4 threads where I've spoken about playing in community bands, and changing bands and going to rehearsals and playing concerts. And I've posted videos of me playing and pictures of me in the band and all since I joined the forum. But perhaps you were preoccupied.

Shame on me for not realizing or forgetting how important this detail about your life is to my happiness here on DRC.

Also you posted all of that to talk about how I should have realized this beforehand, but what I see in that post is that there are pictures and videos of you playing clarinet somewhere on this website.

I have a mission.

 

[JHDK]

Maybe the third time is the charm....

So you still have the numbers?

Well done, that's always a trump card you can pull in this intense poker match.

Speaking of which.... When architects get together to play poker.....They always bring a ladder in case the steaks get too high.

I don't have to be biting all the time to fight back.

 

[IdRatherBeSkiing]

I can probably reference at least 50 posts in 3 or 4 threads where I've spoken about playing in community bands, and changing bands and going to rehearsals and playing concerts. And I've posted videos of me playing and pictures of me in the band and all since I joined the forum. But perhaps you were preoccupied.

I knew you were in a band. Your instrument was not noted. I assumed it was something cool like a Saxophone.

 

[HecticArt]

Well done,

Thank you.
But I wasn't joking around.

that's always a trump card

No politics!

you can pull in this intense poker match.

This isn't even a game of fish.

 

[JHDK]

Your instrument was not noted. I assumed it was something cool like a Saxophone.

Hahahahahah. I swear to God. I was telling a buddy on the phone tonight about how I was enjoying mocking Scotch for coming out of the closet..... My buddy said of the real instruments (like guitar, bass, drums, piano) piano is probably the gayest. And I told him that Elton John playing the piano is a million times more masculine than a dude with a wife playing the clarinet.

Then we got to talking about manly wind instruments. Saxophone was mentioned first and then bugle because they use that one in the army and then trumpet.

 

[scotchandcigar]

from Girly Stuff You're Into

I'll have to give this some thought. I was never good at sports, and I play clarinet, but I don't think those qualify.

When the Mrs. watched Sex and the City, I kind of liked the series on HBO. I also liked The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel. And I mostly enjoyed Grace & Frankie. I also liked Will & Grace. Not sure if that means anything.

from The Musical Instrument Thread

The concert with the new band was Sunday; it went really well. It's insane how packed with people (many with dogs) the downtown Kennebunk/Kennebunkport area was. I posted this to let people know I'd be performing

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But before I posted it, I got an email from my old band, saying that Tuesday (tonight) would be our first rehearsal of the schoolyear. Tonight is also a rehearsal night for the new band, so the time had come for me to take that fork in the road. I sent an email to the head people in the old band, telling them my decision to move on. I received well wishes from the clarinet section lead, which was nice.

Later this morning, I'll be driving in to work to do some lab stuff. But on my way, I'm stopping at the school the old band rehearses at, to drop-off my summer music.

from The World According to IRBS

Actually closer to an hour. Problem is, neither of us needs to travel through the other's area for anything. I was out there buying a car almost 4 years ago, and I bought my clarinet 3 years ago.

Maybe we'll run into each other at Tupelo Music Hall. Or Lee Speedway. Or the Deerfield Fair.

from Casey Kasem's AT40 the 70s

My musical upbringing consisted of playing classical, jazz, and standards in school bands; classical and jazz in private music lessons for clarinet and tenor sax; and listening to jazz, instrumental rock and fusion from my trumpet-playing brother. My dad played clarinet and was a fan of big band music, and my sister played concert organ. I played sax in a garage band, and we did jazz and instrumental rock.

Nowhere in there was pop music. My sister liked pop music, but she was much older than me, and I didn't hang-out with her. In fact, my brother exposed me to instrumental rock and fusion jazz at such an early age, that I actually started playing music on guitar, when I was in 3rd grade. I wanted to play electric guitar, but I had to start with acoustic guitar lessons. That didn't last, but that's where I learned to read music.

I heard pop music played on the radio, and in school. But at home, I was listening to Chicago, Blood Sweat & Tears, Maynard Ferguson, Chase, Mahavishnu Orchestra, Emerson Lake & Palmer, and Yes. That's why I don't really care much for pop music. Although over the years, it's become part of my life, so I appreciate it more now.

from What Your Parents Taught You

My dad taught me how to play clarinet.
They must've shown me the proper way to use silverware.
They exposed me to just about every kind of seafood, and most anything that's edible.
Through my dad's tactics of fear and constantly riding my ass, I learned to work hard to achieve goals, and to not expect "fun and joy".
My dad spent his life making me a materialistic person, but that only went so far. I learned on my own that there's much more to life.

from Local News

This may be due in-part to one of the clarinet players I sit next to, in our community band:

Woman Strong
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Judy Mizner ’76 doesn’t blink in the face of tough cases as the Chief of Appeals at the Federal Public Defender’s Office for the districts of Massachusetts, New Hampshire, and Rhode Island. For her strong track record as an appellate advocate, she was recognized in April as the Eighth Annual Woman of the Year by BC Law’s Women’s Law Center. Among her accomplishments: Mizner handled the initial appeal of Marathon bomber Dzhokhar Tsarnaev in the First Circuit and successfully argued before the Supreme Court in US v Wurie, in which the court ultimately held a warrant and probable cause are necessary for a police search of an arrestee’s cell phone absent exigent circumstances.

from DRC Madness #28

Biking - ages 6 to 16.
rope swinging - no.
paper-routing - only 1 summer (age 10).
video games - not a big part of life in the 70's, although I would ride my bike to the arcades.
guitar playing - tenor sax and clarinet for me. I also played duets with my brother on trumpet, and I was in a garage band from ages 13 to 15. Ages 11 to 13 I did band camp.
listen to records - with my brother on the stereo in the guest bedroom. No TV or stereo in my room.
reading - Peanuts, car mags, Ripley's Believe it or Not, sci-fi, car encyclopedias, regular encyclopedias.
watched - Looney Tunes every sat morning. MTV began during my freshman year in college.

Those were all within the past 12 months. Clearly, you guys don't care to pay attention.

from The Musical Instrument Thread in 2021

So here's some good news, that I'll share with a long-winded story. I believe I once told the saga of the clarinet that I've been playing all these years - both in high school (back in the day), and now in the community band - so I won't repeat it here. The upshot is that I've been using the same clarinet, that was an old piece of crap back in the late 70's. Upon joining my first community band 15 years ago, the family had it overhauled; new pads, corks, lubed, polished the keys and reconditioned the wood. Since then, it's worked ok for a while, and then it gets increasingly harder to get certain notes out of it, because the thing is constantly in decay. I've had it worked on twice, and now it again doesn't play, even when I spend time warming it up.

Mrs. Scotch is always harping on me to replace it, but I figured my choices were either new (around $2,000 and up), or used but reconditioned (ready to play), which I thought would be a grand or so. I was focused on the professional grade of the top brand clarinet, because I wanted to be sure that I was stepping up in quality. But I realized I could get what they call an intermediate level of the same brand, and it would still be an instrument that would function and sound 95% the same as the pro model.

So for the past few weeks, I've been looking online, and it looked like I could get something decent for $500 or so. But then I thought, why don't I do a local area search? It couldn't hurt, right? And there it was, on the resale site Reverb.com; a beautiful, reconditioned intermediate level Buffet Evette clarinet, $499, for sale from a local music store in Amherst NH (@sadchild's neck of the woods). I called them up, and the guy sounded exactly like the laid-back musician you'd expect. He said I can come play it, and they'd even take my old clarinet in trade. I hadn't even thought of that!

The clarinet plays effortlessly. No straining or doing tricks to get certain notes out. And it sounds beautiful. The guy even gave me $100 for my shitty, 1960's (or older) Boosey and Hawkes London-built thing. I only wish I had done this a long time ago. Here's what it looks like

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I mean, are you fucking kidding me?

 

[scotchandcigar]

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from 2021 Movies and TV Shows

Now that I've watched the 4 episode series, let's see if I can get this thread locked.

The 3rd episode involves Allen trying to disparage Farrow, and take the kids from her. The 4th episode is full of big movie stars showing support for Allen, and generally proclaiming his divine godliness as a writer and director.

So I wanted to share my perspective on Allen, and see what others thought. Firstly, I have to say that I'm clearly in the demographic for a Woody Allen fan: I'm a Jewish, clarinet playing intellectual from metro NYC. I grew up in a world where everyone loved him.

I was a fan of his early work. But I eventually tired of his "shtick" - the 40-something nebbishy New Yorker who's involved with obsessed, beautiful young women/ girls. I thought the premise was funny the 1st time, but then I got confused about what was intended to be funny, and what was just him.

Some of the biggest people in the industry think he's a genius. What does everyone here think?

from The Random Post Thread in 2021

90 seconds.

Still recovering from surgery (they collapsed my lungs). Doctors remark about my huge lungs. I used to swim underwater across and back in our 40' pool. I keep in shape by playing clarinet.

For a time after surgery, there was fluid in my lungs that took a while to get out. I think the capacity is reduced, but returning to normal over time. However, it's important that I do breathing exercises, like using a spirometer, or playing clarinet, or vigorous walking etc. That's probably helping to get my lungs fully re-inflated.

from Dead Family in 2020

I learned to read music with guitar lessons. But I didn't stick with the guitar, moved to recorder and then clarinet and sax.

Clarinet is easy to play off sheet music. There's a unique fingering for each note. Guitar is complex, so I'd imagine it might be easier not to read the music.

from The Musical Instrument Thread in 2019 (there's a whole conversation starting at the bottom of this page)

The Musical Instrument Thread

One of my favorites.

digitalradiocentral.com

Honestly, this is a lot more than an "oversight". Other than blaming drugs or senility, I don't know what to think.