tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-78477604795479614652024-03-05T10:20:55.123-06:00All the clever names were taken.@logantreedhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10890614622614672313noreply@blogger.comBlogger421125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7847760479547961465.post-51936120387308256932014-03-28T11:36:00.003-05:002014-03-28T11:36:32.498-05:00This Blog Has MovedBlogger no longer suites my needs so I've switched services and am now at <a href="http://www.loganreed.com/">loganreed.com</a>@logantreedhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10890614622614672313noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7847760479547961465.post-61381070253487969702013-11-10T12:13:00.000-06:002013-11-10T12:15:36.037-06:00Sunday ReadingA nuclear power plant near the epicenter of the <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2011_T%C5%8Dhoku_earthquake_and_tsunami">2011 Japanese earthquake and tsunami</a> survived because an engineer insisted the seawall be built five times as high as was recommended. (<a href="http://www.oregonlive.com/opinion/index.ssf/2012/08/how_tenacity_a_wall_saved_a_ja.html">Oregon Live</a>)<br />
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The average American family makes less, in real terms, than it did in 1989. (<a href="http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/wonkblog/wp/2013/09/17/the-typical-american-family-makes-less-than-it-did-in-1989/">Washington Post</a>)<br />
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Kurt Vonnegut, life advice to some students who wrote him. (<a href="http://www.lettersofnote.com/2013/10/make-your-soul-grow.html">Letters of Note</a>)<br />
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Hunter S. Thompson gives life advice to a friend at 20 years old. Just read the actual letter and skip the commentary. (<a href="http://www.brainpickings.org/index.php/2013/11/04/hunter-s-thomspon-letters-of-note-advice/">Brain Pickings</a>)<br />
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The real reason Van Halen had the no brown M&M's clause in their rider; it was a tip-off for quality. (<a href="http://www.fourhourworkweek.com/blog/2012/01/01/no-brown-mms-david-lee-roth-and-the-power-of-checklists/">Tim Ferriss</a>)<br />
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I'm more convinced than ever that the internet has fundamentally altered our perception of what does and does not qualify for compensation. Anyways, a New York Times write explains the changes in his industry. (<a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2013/10/27/opinion/sunday/slaves-of-the-internet-unite.html?_r=1&adxnnl=1&adxnnlx=1383696121-olIma7FQ84Nr5gYh76SGMA">NYT</a>)<br />
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Autonomous cars - safer, smoother, more fuel efficient. (<a href="http://www.technologyreview.com/news/520746/data-shows-googles-robot-cars-are-smoother-safer-drivers-than-you-or-i/">MIT Tech Review</a>)<br />
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40% of adults 24-35 years old will spend at least a year making 1.5 times the poverty line or less. By age 35 25% of them will have lived for at least a year below the poverty line. (<a href="http://www.theatlantic.com/business/archive/2013/11/yep-being-a-young-american-adult-is-a-financial-nightmare/281214/">The Atlantic</a>)<br />
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It's official. Internet service in America is terrible and overpriced. (<a href="http://www.dailydot.com/business/new-america-foundation-internet-speed-cost/">Dailydot</a>)<br />
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Gaming in general has been on the rise, but I was unaware the PC gaming is huge and growing.<br />
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<br />@logantreedhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10890614622614672313noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7847760479547961465.post-77075312469130927442013-11-03T11:43:00.000-06:002013-11-03T11:43:41.082-06:00Sunday ReadingHow the iPad made tablets mainstream. (<a href="http://www.wired.com/opinion/2013/11/one-ipad-to-rule-them-all-all-those-who-dream-big-are-not-lost/">Wired</a>)<br />
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How Chris McCandless (of <i>Into the Wild</i> fame) actually died. (<a href="http://www.newyorker.com/online/blogs/books/2013/09/how-chris-mccandless-died.html">The New Yorker</a>)<br />
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The total diet replacement Soylent continues its interesting climb to prominence. (<a href="http://www.wired.com/wiredscience/2013/09/soylent/">Wired</a>)<br />
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A National Geographic photographer's experience with leopard seals. (<a href="http://i.imgur.com/QXWjGmg.jpg">Imgur</a>)<br />
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A large percentage of young people in Japan aren't interested in sex. (<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/world/2013/oct/20/young-people-japan-stopped-having-sex">The Guardian</a>) An interesting take on why this is happening. (<a href="http://www.reddit.com/r/psychology/comments/1p8gmc/why_have_young_people_in_japan_lost_interest_in/cczwn71">reddit/r/bestof</a>)<br />
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Sleep flushes away proteins that cause Alzheimer's. (<a href="http://www.washingtonpost.com/national/health-science/brains-flush-toxic-waste-in-sleep-including-alzheimers-linked-protein-study-of-mice-finds/2013/10/19/9af49e40-377a-11e3-8a0e-4e2cf80831fc_story.html?Post+generic=%3Ftid%3Dsm_twitter_washingtonpost">Washington Post</a>)<br />
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Target stops asking potential hires if they're ever been convicted of a felony. (<a href="http://takingnote.blogs.nytimes.com/2013/10/29/target-bans-the-box/">New York Times</a>)<br />
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New home sizes in square feet from around the world. There are certainly confounding variables such as percentage of the population that lives in apartments, number of people inhabiting home, etc., but it's none the less interesting to see the great variance in something that we typically see as a norm. (<a href="http://imgur.com/a/Keajv#0">Source</a>)<br />
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Werner Herzog on the Colbert Report:<br />
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I want the audience with me in wild fantasies. In something that illuminates them. You see, if I were only fact based, you see the book of books in literature then would be the Manhattan phone directory. 4 million entries, everything correct, but it dusts out of my ears and I do not know; do they dream at night? Does Mr. Jonathan Smith cry in his pillow at night? We do not know anything when we check all the correct entries in the phone directory. I am not this kind of a film maker.</blockquote>
To which Colbert says "Sir, if I may? I want to party with you, cowboy."<br />
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This is my friends families' machine shop on the southwest side of Chicago. It was started by his grandfather; not surprisingly German. They have an absurd amount of really large heavy machines that can make just about anything you can dream up - to absurd tolerances.</div>
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@logantreedhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10890614622614672313noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7847760479547961465.post-74878486504319305782013-09-29T09:08:00.001-05:002013-09-30T08:52:39.347-05:00Sunday Morning ReadingPhotos of San Francisco's new eastern span of the Bay Bridge. (<a href="http://www.wired.com/rawfile/2013/07/expansive-photos-of-the-worlds-most-sophisticated-suspension-bridge/?viewall=true">Wired</a>)<br />
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Photovoltaics continue their march to prominence. (<a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2013/07/27/business/energy-environment/utilities-confront-fresh-threat-do-it-yourself-power.html?pagewanted=all">NYT</a>)<br />
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First mechanical gear found inside living creature. It also happens to be a new variety of gear. (<a href="http://www.popularmechanics.com/science/environment/the-first-gear-discovered-in-nature-15916433?click=pm_latest">Popular Mechanics</a>)<br />
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A beautiful video of Tesla's factory and talk with one of its directors. (<a href="http://www.wired.com/autopia/2013/07/the-window-tesla/?mbid=social10284644">Wired</a>) Bonus, their Model S achieved the highest safety rating of a car ever. (<a href="http://www.teslamotors.com/about/press/releases/tesla-model-s-achieves-best-safety-rating-any-car-ever-tested">Tesla Motors</a>)<br />
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Police wearing cameras all the time seems to improve outcomes for everyone. Less force is used and less complaints are filed against the police. (<a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2013/08/22/us/in-california-a-champion-for-police-cameras.html?pagewanted=all">NYT</a>)<br />
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Remarkable photos of Hong Kong's high rises. (<a href="http://www.wired.com/design/2013/08/unbelievable-photographs-of-hong-kongs-crazy-high-rises/?viewall=true">Wired</a>)<br />
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US food desert map that's well visualized. (<a href="http://www.wired.com/design/2013/09/data-visualization-how-far-americans-have-to-travel-to-get-groceries/?viewall=true">Wired</a>)<br />
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A few tips/tests to improve your graphic design layouts. I particularly like the upside down test. When shooting medium format film cameras the image is reversed and in large format also upside down. It forces you to study the composition before releasing the shutter - same concept. (<a href="http://blog.teamtreehouse.com/3-simple-design-tests-to-improve-your-aesthetics">Tree House Blog</a>)<br />
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NASA is running out of Plutonium-238 (the stuff they use to power all unmanned missions) and it seems to be largely due to a lack of political will. Damnit government - start loving science, and not just the kind that kills people. (<a href="http://www.wired.com/wiredscience/2013/09/plutonium-238-problem/all/">Wired</a>)<br />
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59% of jobs added in the last year were part time. (<a href="http://johnrlott.blogspot.com/2013/09/stunning-96-percent-of-net-jobs-added.html">John Lott</a>)<br />
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The typical American family makes less money (in real terms) than it did in 1989. (<a href="http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/wonkblog/wp/2013/09/17/the-typical-american-family-makes-less-than-it-did-in-1989/">Washington Post</a>)<br />
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The new pope continues to be level headed and overall seem like a fairly swell guy. Help the poor and love one another. As an outsider, it seems like a positive shift in mission framing. (<a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2013/09/20/world/europe/pope-bluntly-faults-churchs-focus-on-gays-and-abortion.html?hp">NYT</a>)<br />
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A well done and non-facile explanation of why US healthcare is expensive and not all that great. It's worth your eight minutes.
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Most people hold a bias known as <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Money_illusion">money illusion</a>. The gist of it is that people tend to focus on the <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Real_versus_nominal_value">nominal cost</a> (literally the number after the dollar sign) of something as opposed to the real cost (the purchasing power of our earnings). But to understand why not receiving an annual raise is the exact equivalent of getting a pay cut it helps to understand a related phenomenon known as sticky prices/wages.<br />
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Sticky prices is the idea is that the price of a good/wage moves easily in one direction but not the other. For example, say you're a gas station owner and you order a tanker of gasoline at a certain price. The next day gasoline prices go up ten cents. You raise the price accordingly since it's now worth more. The next day the price of gas drops twenty cents making it ten cents cheaper than where you bought it at. You most likely won't drop the price you charge below that of what you paid until you sell all your inventory. This is a sticky good.<br />
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Workers are much the same way. Raises are readily accepted whereas pay cuts are not. Most workers would either leave their job or prefer that some of their coworkers were fired as opposed to take any significant cut in pay. This is known as downward nominal wage rigidity (if that fascinates you <a href="http://lmgtfy.com/?q=downward+nominal+wage+rigidity">here you go</a>), but I think sticky wages has a better ring to it.<br />
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So say you're an employer and in a down economy you can't afford to give your employees raises. What do you do? Nothing. One year goes by. Then two. If you stopped giving employees raises in 2008 how much would their earning power be at the start of 2013?<br />
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Roughly $0.92 (<a href="http://data.bls.gov/cgi-bin/cpicalc.pl?cost1=1&year1=2013&year2=2008">source</a>). And that's not too bad. Inflation has been really low in the last few years<sup>1</sup>. Anyways, that's how you cut employees salaries without them noticing. Inflation and ignorance.<br />
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1 - 2008 - 0.1%, 2009 - 2.7%, 2010 - 1.5%, 2011 - 3.0%, 2012 - 1.7%. <a href="http://www.bls.gov/cpi/#tables">Source</a>.<br />
2 - The Social Security Administration <a href="http://www.ssa.gov/pressoffice/factsheets/colafacts2013.htm">uses these same numbers</a>.<br />
3 - Krugman has some <a href="http://krugman.blogs.nytimes.com/2012/04/03/screw-your-analysis-to-the-sticky-point/">nice graphs</a> showing how this has happened over recent years in the US.@logantreedhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10890614622614672313noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7847760479547961465.post-1364083937373950172013-09-06T13:46:00.000-05:002013-09-09T11:58:05.097-05:00What Reddit Has to OfferOver the last year I've been on reddit a lot, and because of its instant feedback I've gotten better at conveying ideas. It takes a while to figure out how to interact with the hive mind but I think it's a worthwhile endeavor, especially as an increasing amount of our interactions happen digitally and in venues that are open to a large number of people. Here's some rough guidelines:<br />
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<li>Being snarky or mean rarely works to your advantage. Along those same lines, swearing, unless done in the appropriate context, often makes you look less intelligent.</li>
<li>People are far more interested in craft and the process of building than I assumed.</li>
<li>Being defensive, dispassionate, humorless, and overly analytical - generally at the same time - is not a way to win hearts and minds.</li>
<li>If you make it even slightly difficult to view photos or find information you will lose viewers, and they better be hosted to Imgur.com. Losing viewers is not linear either, its logarithmic. Lose three of your first ten viewers and your post might get ten up votes instead of a thousand.</li>
<li>Timing is everything. Posting a thread or commenting on a thread at the right time is the difference between no exposure and hitting the front page (a lot of people reading what you submitted).</li>
<li>Bad grammar isn't tolerated well.</li>
<li>Trying to promote yourself or a product on reddit is nearly impossible unless you are completely genuine. Redditors have about the greatest bullshit detectors out there. Become one of them, then share things you're passionate about. It's the only way.</li>
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When I played paintball there was a format change. Tournaments went from a 7v7 single game to a sort of 5v5 in rounds. It changed the dynamic of play greatly, but more or less the same people who were "famous" before stayed famous afterwards. The new format favored some players styles and soon there were new superstars. Players who otherwise would not have been famous. That's what's happening now with internet communities. There are companies and individuals creating their own niche and credibility through communities like this.<br />
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The part that's fascinating is that, through various mechanisms of the community, only people who really genuinely care get promoted. Do something interesting that you're passionate about and they'll promote you. Otherwise, get ignored.@logantreedhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10890614622614672313noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7847760479547961465.post-41918149215000470052013-09-05T10:07:00.000-05:002013-09-05T10:07:07.101-05:00Morning Links20-somethings are unemployed and losing hope. The whole situation reminds me of a chapter from <i>Too Soon Old, Too Late Smart</i> that says "the problems of the elderly are often serious and seldom interesting", which to some extent explains why my parents generation cannot comprehend what's happening to anyone under 30 who's just trying to start a life. (<a href="http://www.policymic.com/articles/61797/the-u-s-economy-from-the-eyes-of-an-unemployed-20-something">policymic</a>)<br />
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A hole in the wall noodle shop in Hong Kong that serves $1.50 dishes got a Michelin Star. (<a href="http://www.smh.com.au/articles/2009/11/30/1259429326061.html">Sydney Morning Herald</a>)<br />
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Whole Foods is opening a store in Englewood (one of the most dangerous neighborhoods in Chicago). (<a href="http://www.suntimes.com/news/metro/22343623-418/whole-foods-to-open-englewood-store-in-food-desert.html">Chicago Sun Times</a>)<br />
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Video games can help older people regain cognitive function. (<a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2013/09/05/technology/a-multitasking-video-game-makes-old-brains-act-younger.html?hp">NYT</a>)<br />
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Public.resource.org has been publicizing trade association books and building codes, which are law, on it's site for the last few years. Those of us in the design world often have to continually buy $100+ books of these codes. Well ASTM, ASHRAE, et. al. finally decided to sue the website, so the outcome of this court decision will decide if parts of the law can only be viewed after being bought from a book. (<a href="http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/wonkblog/wp/2013/08/07/should-legal-codes-be-copyrighted-lets-sue-to-find-out/">Washington Post</a>)<br />
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Classical music competitions apparently place more importance on visual cues than auditory. Anecdotally, when I played paintball my team and I could tell how good someone was just by watching their body language; even very briefly. What's interesting to me is the shock from professional classical musicians saying that their auditory expertise, at least in this case, is comprimised. (<a href="http://news.harvard.edu/gazette/story/2013/08/the-look-of-music/">Harvard Gazette</a>)@logantreedhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10890614622614672313noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7847760479547961465.post-15701160059881449032013-07-29T14:39:00.000-05:002013-07-29T14:52:08.556-05:00Ronan Interview by BUILDAn <a href="http://arcadenw.org/article/designing-pragmatism">interview with Chicago architect John Ronan</a>, designer of the Poetry Foundation among others, by <a href="http://www.buildllc.com/">BUILD</a> - one of my favorite Pacific Northwest firms. There's quite a few gems in there.<br />
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You only have a certain amount of energy, and you have to be selective about what you expend it on. It has to be worthwhile, in the end.</blockquote>
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It’s a naïve notion that architecture is the answer to social problems. Sometimes I see these architectural “ideas” competitions and wonder, is more architecture the answer? </blockquote>
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The goal of the process is to almost make it look like it wasn’t designed; we should arrive at a point where the “design” is invisible and not constantly referring back to the author. At the same time, the design should look so natural that people might think, why would you do anything else? The goal is to get to that point where the design feels intuitively “correct.”</blockquote>
I had Ronan as a professor during my final semester at IIT. It turned out to be one of the best classes I've ever attended, and this interview reminds me of his succinct yet slightly acerbic manner of speaking. If confidence were water Ronan would be Lake Michigan.@logantreedhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10890614622614672313noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7847760479547961465.post-11736156884462334612013-07-28T10:36:00.000-05:002013-07-28T10:36:08.503-05:00Weekend Reading<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">
Prostitution, porneia in Greek, was both much more rampant, accepted, and common in pre-christian Western societies. This whole post and any comment by /u/BBlasdel is worth reading. (<a href="http://www.reddit.com/r/AskHistorians/comments/1j5nlr/in_early_times_where_brothels_and_prostitutes/cbblukq">Reddit AskHistorians</a>)</div>
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Germany has the largest number of solar panels of any country and it's destabilizing their power companies. Watch and learn America. (<a href="http://www.slate.com/articles/health_and_science/alternative_energy/2013/03/solar_power_in_germany_how_a_cloudy_country_became_the_world_leader_in_solar.single.html">Slate</a>)</div>
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A Google engineer gets an award from the NSA, accepts it, then says they should be abolished. Then he <a href="http://www.reddit.com/r/technology/comments/1j6fbm/google_engineer_wins_nsa_award_then_says_nsa/">shows up on Reddit</a> and promptly does a <a href="http://www.reddit.com/r/IAmA/comments/1j6qo4/i_am_joseph_bonneau_2013_nsa_award_winner_for/">fantastic AMA</a> (ask me anything). (<a href="http://www.tikkun.org/testreview.html">Tikkun.org</a>)</div>
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The Greeks had MMA but it was even more brutal and was known as Pankration. It was the only sport not reinstated at the 1896 Olympics. (<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pankration">Wikipedia</a>)</div>
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Scientists supposedly found out what's killing the b<span id="goog_1013699823"></span><span id="goog_1013699824"></span>ees in North America. Fungicides make them more susceptible to <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nosema_apis">nosema</a>. (<a href="http://qz.com/107970/scientists-discover-whats-killing-the-bees-and-its-worse-than-you-thought/">Quartz</a>)</div>
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Why homes are less advanced than cars. (<a href="http://www.greenbuildingadvisor.com/blogs/dept/musings/do-cars-perform-better-houses">GreenBuildingAdvisor</a>)</div>
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Psychopaths, I think they mean those afflicted with antisocial personality disorder, can in fact engage in empathy. They just have to be asked to do so. (<a href="http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-23431793">BBC Science</a>)</div>
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The relationship between McDonald's prices and calories. <a href="http://www.reddit.com/r/dataisbeautiful/comments/1j5u09/scatterplot_i_made_for_a_stats_project_mcdonalds/">Discussion</a>. (<a href="http://i.imgur.com/AzcIsHg.png">Reddit DataisBeautiful</a>)</div>
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There used to be a plant know as silphium that acted as birth control that grew around the Mediterranean. As with so many human endeavors, it went extinct as it proved too useful. (<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Silphium">Wikipedia</a>)</div>
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Who knew so many people were on food stamps? Roughly one in seven Americans is on food stamps. The average benefit is about $4/day. <a href="http://alltheclevernamesweretaken.blogspot.com/search?q=food+experiment">I found it pretty hard to eat for $5/day</a>. (<a href="http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-srv/special/politics/food-stamps/">Washington Post</a>)</div>
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For architects here's some longer reads: <a href="http://www.fpinnovations.ca/ResearchProgram/AdvancedBuildingSystem/designing-energy-efficient-building-enclosures.pdf">Energy Efficient Building Enclosures</a> and <a href="http://archive.nrc-cnrc.gc.ca/obj/irc/doc/ctu-n1_eng.pdf">Sound Transmission Through Gypsum Board Walls</a>.@logantreedhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10890614622614672313noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7847760479547961465.post-82264277090702817022013-07-27T12:53:00.000-05:002013-07-28T13:24:53.867-05:00Beautiful ObjectsA while ago my dad gave my brother and I pocket watches that had belonged to various now deceased relatives. The one I received is from my grandfather - father's father.<br />
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He was a PT boat commander in WWII and supposedly used this to time patrols.<br />
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I did a bit of <strike>research</strike> googling and found some info on it:<br />
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<li>Serial number is <a href="http://www.nawcc-info.org/walthamdb/LookupSN.asp">13603717</a></li>
<li>Which means it was <a href="http://www.pocketwatchsite.com/walthamserials.html">manufactured in 1904</a></li>
<li>It's a <a href="http://www.barrygoldberg.net/watchguide/walthamgrades.htm">Waltham Grade No. 1420</a>, 12 size, #1894 Colonial, 15 <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jewel_bearing">jewel</a> movement</li>
<li>Here's the flyer for the <a href="http://ihc185.infopop.cc/eve/forums/a/tpc/f/1086047761/m/22010671">14k gold case</a></li>
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@logantreedhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10890614622614672313noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7847760479547961465.post-6953951909342658082013-07-12T13:55:00.000-05:002013-07-24T14:09:29.665-05:00Reddit AMA - PostmortemWell damn. <a href="http://www.reddit.com/r/IAmA/comments/1i0jh7/iama_architect_whos_main_interest_is_high/">That was a bigger response than I expected</a>. I responded to several hundred people and I still have about 250 to go. Unfortunately I did it on the same day <a href="http://www.reddit.com/r/IAmA/comments/1i0xvf/i_am_actor_director_john_malkovich_ama/">John Malkovich was doing his AMA</a>. By the way, it was very good.<br />
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According to Google Analytics I received about 34,000 page visits in the span of about 12 hours while Blogger tells me I got about 21,000. Not sure why the discrepancy (Kevin?). Regardless that's about 40% of the visits I have ever received up until that point.<br />
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I learned a lot about what people are interested in and concerned about as well as what information more or less everyone is ignorant of. It's very easy to succumb to <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Curse_of_knowledge">curse of knowledge bias</a> by thinking that others know the basics of what you think is common knowledge.<br />
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I've started to compile a list of the most common questions from the AMA. I hope to turn this into a visual graphic that shows what areas of sustainable design people are interested in. More to come.@logantreedhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10890614622614672313noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7847760479547961465.post-45618486262284492052013-07-10T10:53:00.001-05:002013-07-10T10:53:15.221-05:00Reddit AMAI'm doing an AMA on reddit.<br />
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I'm skeptical but some people were <a href="http://www.reddit.com/r/AskReddit/comments/1hxngl/what_is_the_biggest_way_people_waste_money/caz7v4h">very insistent</a>.@logantreedhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10890614622614672313noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7847760479547961465.post-30839961538699751172013-06-29T11:07:00.000-05:002013-06-29T11:07:33.307-05:00Weekend Reading<a href="http://lamatters.blogspot.co.uk/2013/04/why-was-hugo-chavez-so-popular-look-at.html">Data shows that Venezuela benefited greatly under Hugo Chavez</a>. How does such a significant positive change of this magnitude get completely buried by the US media's dislike for a person?<div>
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@logantreedhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10890614622614672313noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7847760479547961465.post-35263500461026240112013-06-27T11:10:00.001-05:002013-06-27T14:52:02.527-05:00Apathy Towards the NSA LeaksI was at a bar that one of my friends runs near Wrigley Field when the Blackhawks won the Stanley Cup. I hadn't considered that the area would turn into a full on mostly peaceful drunken riot. Not so bright in retrospect. I'll get back to this.<br />
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On the train there I read <a href="http://www.dailykos.com/story/2013/06/23/1218102/-US-NSA-Accused-of-Criminal-Privacy-Violations-in-Dozens-of-Nations-Snowden-Blowback">an article</a> (worth reading) that outlined the blowback the US is beginning to experience from the rest of the world concerning the NSA leaks. It's intriguing because it's such a comprehensive non-US-centric view, and this isn't on the list of common talking points in the US. The main issue I and many people have had in reacting to the NSA programs is, what exactly does one do about it? Riot or demonstrate in the US? Not likely.<br />
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The crowds in Wrigleyville proved otherwise. The police can't control that many people, and if they tried to use violence it'd just bring more attention to it. The depressing part is that people will form en mass for hockey but not to protect the Bill of Rights, and I'm not bashing people liking sports. I just wish people gave a fuck about the world they live in. To be fair, it's not that obvious or easy as protests aren't planned for a specific time like a hockey game.<br />
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What's so strange about the whole affair is that the Obama Administration and Congress are walking in lock step on the matter; the first issue both parties have agreed since I can remember (wtf?). <a href="http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2013/jun/27/obama-snowden-im-not-going-be-scrambling-jets-get-/">Obama mostly keeps talking about how he's going to extradite Snowden</a>, but not a single person I've talked to wants this. Yet he keeps saying it as if to pacify. What we want is for you to stop acting like the <a href="http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2013/jun/12/germany-decries-nsa-surveillance-stasi-methods/">Stasi</a>, or maybe just <a href="http://change.gov/agenda/ethics_agenda/">keep your campaign promise</a> (italics are my emphasis):<br />
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Protect Whistleblowers: Often the best source of information about waste, fraud, and <i>abuse in government</i> <i>is an existing government employee</i> <i>committed to public integrity and willing to speak out</i>. Such acts of courage and patriotism, which can sometimes save lives and often save taxpayer dollars, should be encouraged rather than stifled. <i>We need to empower federal employees as watchdogs of wrongdoing</i> and partners in performance. Barack Obama will strengthen whistleblower laws to protect federal workers who expose waste, fraud, and abuse of authority in government. Obama will ensure that federal agencies expedite the process for reviewing whistleblower claims and whistleblowers have full access to courts and due process.</blockquote>
Update: <a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2013/06/28/world/snowden.html">Obama doesn't think this is a big deal</a>.@logantreedhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10890614622614672313noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7847760479547961465.post-7245719753923888042013-06-12T11:53:00.001-05:002013-06-12T11:53:09.765-05:00Tumblr UpdateA decent amount of my energy that I would normally devote to this blog has been going towards my Tumblr. I started it not knowing exactly what I wanted to do, but I think I have a clearer picture now. I've always used my photos as a sort of extension of my memory; basically a digital photo diary. To that end I've started to upload somewhat random photos once a day from the past. I change their post date to that of the day I actually made the actual. Maybe I could change the time too...<br />
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Here's the <a href="http://logantreed.tumblr.com/post/52686045970">first one I added</a>. I plan to start uploading some that are significantly older.@logantreedhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10890614622614672313noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7847760479547961465.post-44295793138978036892013-06-12T11:43:00.000-05:002013-09-11T13:00:25.977-05:00LinksThe <a href="http://www.aia.org/akr/Resources/Documents/AIAB095069">average compensation of architects</a>, from the AIA. (ht: Jason).<br />
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<a href="http://www.cbc.ca/news/technology/story/2013/06/11/tech-facebook-narcissism.html">Facebook and Twitter attract narcissists</a>. <a href="http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0747563213001155">Study</a>.<br />
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<a href="http://www.pbs.org/newshour/rundown/2013/06/can-lack-of-trees-kill-you-faster.html">The death of trees has been linked to increased cardiovascular and lower respiratory deaths</a>.<br />
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The tricorder is here. A small relatively inexpensive device called the <a href="http://www.wired.com/design/2013/06/scanadu-scout/">Scanadu</a> can now read your vitals.<br />
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A Studio Gang project, <a href="http://arcchicago.blogspot.com/2013/06/studiogangs-clark-park-boathouse-and.html">the Clark Park Boathouse</a>, that I worked on the mechanical drawings for (geo-thermal exchange system, ventilation, cooling, etc.) is nearing completion.@logantreedhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10890614622614672313noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7847760479547961465.post-78698558608451252202013-06-06T12:34:00.001-05:002013-06-06T12:34:22.145-05:00Links<a href="http://www.theage.com.au/comment/japans-radiation-disaster-toll-none-dead-none-sick-20130604-2nomz.html">Turns out no one died because of the Fukushima Power Plant Disaster</a>. In fact, no one even got radiation poisoning. A nearly perfect example of <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Neglect_of_probability">neglect of probability</a> when compared to other sources of energy.<br />
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<a href="http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/magazine-22751415">Finland gives all new mothers a box full of essential supplies</a>. "It's a tradition that dates back to the 1930s and it's designed to give all children in Finland, no matter what background they're from, an equal start in life."<br />
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The Obama Administration now judges the <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Externality">negative externality</a> associated with carbon emissions as <a href="http://grist.org/climate-energy/the-obama-climate-move-that-nobody-noticed/">60% higher than last year</a>. Climate change is starting to grow some teeth.<br />
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Humans of New York - <a href="http://www.humansofnewyork.com/post/32011671113/the-chess-hustler">the Chess Hustler</a>.<br />
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A <a href="http://www.philly.com/philly/blogs/attytood/The-day-the-Obama-administration-went-all-Nixon-on-us.html">different perspective</a> on the Obama administration "scandals" of the last few weeks.<br />
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I've been ranting for a while now about how full adoption of solar will change our world. <a href="http://grist.org/article/solar-panels-could-destroy-u-s-utilities-according-to-u-s-utilities/">Well, the utility companies think so too</a>.@logantreedhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10890614622614672313noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7847760479547961465.post-50309415437078142312013-06-05T12:59:00.000-05:002013-06-06T11:33:44.518-05:00Government Agencies Hiring Architects: Kind of a Waste of TimeDisclaimer: This post represents my views and not that of the firm I am employed at.<br />
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Recently the architecture firm I work for submitted what is known in the Architecture and Engineering (A/E) community as an RFQ (request for qualifications) for the City Colleges of Chicago's new Malcolm X College. An RFQ consists of sheets detailing relevant work that the firm has engaged in recently, proof that the firm is insured, forms signaling that the firm doesn't have conflicts of interest, financial statements going back several years, etc. You get the point. It's a lot of information. I was in charge of putting together the RFQ for my firm along with the fifteen other firms we partnered with.<br />
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The project itself is an educational facility that has a teaching hospital component and a budget of $251 million. My firm designed two of the three hospitals that Malcolm X College has a partnership with, so we're familiar with the area and its stakeholders. We specialize in healthcare, teaching hospitals, high rises, corporate centers, and higher education.<br />
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The A/E team that won the contract can expect to see maybe 4.5%-6.5% of the $251 million budget, so the design fee will be roughly $12-$15 million which gets split between more than a dozen professions - structural engineers, architects, geotechnical engineers, etc. It's the kind of money that allows you to expand your office and hire additional staff.<br />
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Submitting for these RFQ's is a gamble. They consume a lot of time and energy that could go towards billable work. I personally put in well over 160 hours for this proposal and there were multiple people who worked with me. The document we produced is 290 pages and was coordinated between sixteen separate consulting firms. The submission required multiple physical copies in addition to electronic copies that had to be couriered over to the CCC's headquarters. All of this is done at our expense. We aren't reimbursed for anything. I would conservatively place the cost to my firm, not including the cost to our consultants, at well over $10,000 and probably closer to $20,000 or more. To be clear, we are aware that this is a gamble and typically only go after jobs that we think we are highly qualified for and have a good chance of winning.<br />
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We were selected for a call back after the initial submission, so we had to produce yet another set of booklets and show up for an interview. This requires more preparation, more printing, and more hours. We then had a second call back that was followed by more questions:<br />
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"We have nineteen people in our office and we've partnered with another firm that is similarly sized. We also plan to hire additional staff." And the truth is that today's software (BIM, Revit) is so powerful that really this project could be done by maybe less than ten people in our office if they worked on it full time. We've designed buildings that were many times this size (Water Tower Place, Prudential Plaza/Tower, Old Orchard Shopping Center, etc.)<br />
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It was announced (<a href="http://www.suntimes.com/news/education/10782040-418/a-new-malcolm-x-college-will-be-built-emanuel-says.html">source</a>) that Moody Nolan, a firm based in Columbus, Ohio, won the contract. Their Chicago office has nine people (<a href="http://www.moodynolan.com/newsroom/2010/09/24/moody-nolan-finding-enough-work-to-justify-opening-chicago-office-read-more-moody-nolan-finding-enough-work-to-justify-opening-chicago-office/">related</a>). They also happen to be the largest African American owned architecture firm in the US; a fact that both the mayor and CCC are very proud of.<br />
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Moody Nolan is qualified to do the work and I harbor no ill will towards them, but why did the CCC pick a non-Chicago based firm? Especially since they keep touting how many jobs the project will bring to the Chicago area. Why did they question our size if they picked a firm that's local office is less than half of our size? This contract is for design development and construction documents (the design was done by Canon Design) so it will have to be handled locally with feet on the ground. Why did they question the racial makeup of our firm if we exceeded the MBE/WBE requirement (25% minority, 7% female) by almost three-fold? Are you really telling me they couldn't find a qualified architecture firm <i>in Chicago</i>?<br />
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Many of the RFQ's we submit for are to some extent a ploy. The agencies asking for them are largely going through the process to satisfy legal requirements, but then choose not the most qualified firm but the one that fits whatever profile it is that they're looking for. And that's to be expected, but don't drag us along and waste our time and money. We don't have any to spare.<br />
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After the announcement my firm had a very terse Monday morning meeting. We were told that five people would be laid off by the end of the day and everyone else's hours would be cut by 20%. Just fourteen more people and an almost century old Chicago architecture firm will be out of business.@logantreedhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10890614622614672313noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7847760479547961465.post-76551881896561936782013-05-13T11:29:00.000-05:002013-05-13T11:31:28.857-05:00Fosters QuantifiedMy wife and I were concerned that one of our foster kittens, Mustachio, wasn't gaining weight so we started weighting all three of them at regular intervals.<br />
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The data that's been coming in over the last five years is in line with typical macroeconomics textbooks that any econ 101 student is exposed to. If the following were a test question to me in undergrad:</div>
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The current economic indicators are as follows (May 2013): </blockquote>
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<li><a href="https://www.google.com/publicdata/explore?ds=z1ebjpgk2654c1_&met_y=unemployment_rate&idim=country:US&fdim_y=seasonality:S&dl=en&hl=en&q=us%20unemployment%20rate">Unemployment: 7.6%</a> </li>
<li><a href="https://www.google.com/publicdata/explore?ds=d5bncppjof8f9_&met_y=ny_gdp_mktp_kd_zg&idim=country:USA&dl=en&hl=en&q=us%20gdp%20growth">GDP Growth: 1.7% (2011)</a> </li>
<li><a href="http://www.tradingeconomics.com/united-states/inflation-cpi">Inflation: 1.5%</a> </li>
<li><a href="http://www.bloomberg.com/markets/rates-bonds/government-bonds/us/">10 Year Treasury Bill: 1.8%</a> </li>
<li><a href="http://www.treasury.gov/resource-center/data-chart-center/interest-rates/Pages/TextView.aspx?data=realyield">10 Year Treasury Bill Inflation Protected (TIPS): -0.5%</a> </li>
<li><a href="http://www.bloomberg.com/markets/rates-bonds/government-bonds/us/">30 Year Treasury Bill: 2.98%</a> </li>
<li><a href="http://www.treasury.gov/resource-center/data-chart-center/interest-rates/Pages/TextView.aspx?data=realyield">30 Year Treasury Bill Inflation Protected (TIPS): 0.62%</a> </li>
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Describe the most advantageous course of action which a central government could, through fiscal and monetary policy, increase GDP growth and lower unemployment in both the short and long run.</blockquote>
My answer would be something along the lines of:<br />
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Short answer - The government should borrow money and invest in itself because there are many idle workers, slow economic growth, and financing costs are zero or negative (!). Although politically it may be unpopular to borrow money to spend, no other entity is large enough to assume this role, so the federal government must.<br />
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Longer answer - Monetarily the Fed should reduce rates (done, it's at 0%) and increase the money supply (done) while the Federal government should increase its expenditures (it's done the opposite) and encourage state and local governments to do similarly (they've been the worst). Although it would be advantageous to spend on infrastructure, education, and other areas that produce long term benefits, where the money is spent is somewhat irrelevant (although politically unpopular, <a href="http://krugman.blogs.nytimes.com/2009/04/14/time-for-bottles-in-coal-mines/">Keynes burying money in jars</a>). This spending can be financed by the historically low interest rates (negative rates on a 10-year bond, who wouldn't want to get paid to borrow money?). Further, the federal government should reduce taxes on those who are most likely to spend additional income, the poor, as the multiplier effect is larger (it's done the opposite). To add to the last point, social safety net programs should be expanded (they were for a while but they're being cut back now) as those with little money are most likely to spend any additional income which would create a larger multiplier effect.@logantreedhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10890614622614672313noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7847760479547961465.post-10085038606779535042013-05-03T19:20:00.004-05:002013-05-03T19:23:25.847-05:00Woodshop Update #3I finally got the bulk of the wood off the floor and inventoried. So far it's over 1,600 board feet (12" x 12" x 1") of boards. I've been there everyday that I didn't have work plus some weekdays. I'm in the process of moving the sheet goods, arranging the machines, figuring out how to run power, and finding storage for all the hand tools and clamps.<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">You can never have enough clamps...</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Rockwell Delta 5HP, 3-Phase, 12" table saw. #1000</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Rockwell-Delta 3HP, 3-Phase, 20" throat bandsaw</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">24" x 20" work table on the bandsaw.</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Rockwell-Delta 6" jointer. This makes the faces of the board square to one another. I only use jointers for the edges and not the faces of boards so I haven't found a need for nice large one yet. Maybe when the opportunity presents itself. I'm thinking about having my machinist friend mill some attachments to make the infeed and outfeed tables larger. This is what really matters.</td></tr>
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<br />@logantreedhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10890614622614672313noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7847760479547961465.post-90725511223515832002013-04-30T12:02:00.001-05:002013-04-30T12:02:33.592-05:00TumblrI started a <a href="http://logantreed.tumblr.com/">Tumblr</a>. It's linked in the sidebar too. I've been posting a photo almost everyday that shows some small part of my day.<br />
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I had a photography professor at IIT who I was a TA for say that if you don't have a purpose/concept when you're making photographs then you're engaging in photojournalism, not art. I wanted to say that that wasn't the case but for me it mostly is. I'm okay with that.@logantreedhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10890614622614672313noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7847760479547961465.post-5712100380159379332013-04-22T13:49:00.000-05:002013-04-23T11:57:33.234-05:00Gasoline Prices, Cheap as EverI can't bear to hear people make statements that are demonstrably false.<br />
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"Gas prices are so high!"<br />
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No, they're low compared to the rest of the world and adjusted for inflation they're about the same as they've ever been in this country, so stop saying it. You're lying.<br />
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Average is EUR 1.39 per liter.<br />
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1.39 x $1.30 (conversion to USD) x 3.78 (liters in a gallon) = $6.83 / gallon (premium grade)<br />
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The <a href="http://fuelgaugereport.aaa.com/?redirectto=http://fuelgaugereport.opisnet.com/index.asp">current averag</a>e in the US is $3.85 / gallon of premium, so about half of what Germany pays ($7.76).<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Same as it ever was. Source: <a href="http://energyalmanac.ca.gov/gasoline/gasoline_cpi_adjusted.html">NYT</a></td></tr>
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<br />@logantreedhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10890614622614672313noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7847760479547961465.post-46619023199662260912013-04-21T21:04:00.002-05:002013-04-21T21:23:46.532-05:00Woodshop Update #2<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">
Actually got out to start working at the shop now that it's not below freezing. Just welded some 1-1/2" square steel tubing up overhead for board storage and to hold the electric, lights, and ventilation equipment. Lots to do.</div>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">My dad welding while I do layout.</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">The amount of lumber is staggering. Good problem hopefully.</td></tr>
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