Warped, yielded steel from this issue of Engineering News, picture taken at the WTC. It somewhat illustrates what I was talking about below — the wide flange is bent and it look like some type of edge connection broke off, but the beam as a whole is still in one piece. Mostly, I [...]
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My in flight movie this past weekend was Fracture, which sucked. But I don’t want to talk about that. I’m still repressing it. Before the movie, the Ebert & Roeper review of the film was aired…and they panned it. Well Roeper did anyway. John Mellancamp, the guest host, thought it was good, but he doesn’t exactly [...] Or at least not as bad as this video at Shakesville. What saddens me most about this pageant is that I hear intelligent commentary on social issues from teenage women all the time — at debate tournaments. If Miss Teen USA 2007 wanted to actually be scholarship focussed they could do away with the [...] By linking to this Robert Fisk article about questioning the 9/11 explanations, LitBrit produced quite a bit of commenter angst over at the House that Klein Built. As an engineer, I find the discussions of 9/11 steel collapse fascinating, and at the risk of revealing ignorance within my own field I want to wade [...] From the brilliant folk at MIT, City Cars: One of the proposed designs for dense urban areas is a stackable car for two passengers. Vehicle Stacks are located throughout the city to create an urban transportation network that takes advantage of existing infrastructure such as subway and bus lines. From the nearly-as-brilliant folks at DMC, Time Machines: I finally glanced at this month’s Architectural Record, and was instantly giddy: A whole issue focusing on the intersection of engineering and architecture! It’s like they decided that since I finally payed them for my subscription, they’d write to my tastes for a month. The Engineer’s Moment essay traces the development of engineer-architect [...] Seeing news of this J-Lo music video (of which I am skeptical) reminded me of David LaChapelle’s Rize, the amazing documentary about clowning and krump dancing. Here’s the trailer: [coolplayer width="480" height="380" autoplay="0" loop="0" charset="utf-8" download="0" mediatype=""] Everyone should see it, and not just for the ridiculously fast body movements and pretty shots (which come [...] I roll my eyes at skyscrapers, looking down (while looking up) at their ostentatious display. They are the MySpace of architecture; scandalous pursuits of the nouveau rich. Of course, I do have substantive objections (see this post), but mostly: they’re gaudy. However, they have a deep appeal to my inner engineer. Building in extreme environments is [...] A family member, knowing of my eternal love for all things spacey, showed me this excellent hymn, which I preceded to sing in my painful, monotone way. Beyond its awesomeness, I see it as someone’s small step towards integrating God into science and celebrating them both. A happy effort. Enjoy: God of Earth and Outer Space God of earth [...] Suburban Guerrilla extracts from The Rove Presidency the revealing truth about the lofty concerns of the politically powerful: To autograph or not to autograph. Finally, A Feminism 101 Blog, is an excellent source of information on introductory feminist topics that I was happy to stumble upon (no, I was not sent there for saying something shitty). I suggest it to everyone who isn’t a Level 23 Feminist Dungeonmaster, as I generally consider myself fairly knowledgeable and I was [...] This post at Pax Americana does a good job explaining why the global warming “moderates” such as Samuelson are a big part of the problem right now. Bush’s 28% are going to oppose action on this issue to the death (literally), and real change requires the moderates (read: those Republicans who don’t completely hate science) [...] Duke: The lights are growing dim Otto. I know a life of crime has led me to this sorry fate, and yet, I blame society. Society made me what I am. Repo Man is really underrated. |
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