Just sick of the Durango Cowboy contractors. If you live in Durango then you know who I''m talking about: the guy with the dog and the truck who say's "I'm a Contractor." Most of these clowns are guys with trucks and dogs, that is all.
I'm not afraid to lose work, honestly I have much more valuable ways of spending my time than to scrap over a remodel. You can have it you bottom feeder.
Dealing with these greedy pigs is below me. Don't get me wrong, I'm not bigtime by any means; I'm surprised if I make my mortgage payment. But still, these are games reserved for a special breed of idiot. An architect licensed in two states has no business here.
Monday, September 19, 2011
Tuesday, September 13, 2011
I Wanna Chase Bright Shinys
I just want to do the fun stuff. And I see a lot of fun stuff in what I do. That's a challenge of owning a business, you have to do everything; being selective isn't much of an option.
When I set out it was with daydreams of building models and carefully designing my work. Didn't take much time to think about juggling bank accounts and researching insurance policies. Yuck!
I'm learning. Can't complain but I do anyway. I could say I'm getting used to it but I'm really holding out for the day that I can hire someone for my Department of Lame Activities.
Wednesday, August 31, 2011
Kids These Days
The funny thing for me is that I never really grew up. I'm childish at heart; a 37 year old with the maturity level of someone who's 17, kind of fun really. But I'm starting to feel my age with the generation gap that widens between me and the real 17 year-olds. I could start with modern pop music and how it makes me feel which is not good but I never really was a popular music fan, unless you count 80's headbanger types. No, I'm thinking more about technology and how it's shaping the new generations. I see a real disconnect here. Oftentimes I see tweens, teenagers, and young adults enter a room while staring at an electronic device, most often a phone or PSP tyoe thing. There's kids texting other kids that are in the same room...I don't get it - but then again maybe I'm not supposed to.
I grew up during the inital emergence of computer technology to the public: back in the day of the Tandy TRS 80, the Commodor, the Atari, get the picture? These things were novel. They didn't have much practical application unless you account for basic word processing and even that was limited. I was an A-student in vocational drafting all through high school, but we did all of our work at a drafting table with pencils, scales, and straight-edges; AutoCAD was just starting but was not to replace hand-drafting for another 10 years or so.
I started college 4 years after finishing high-school. By that time, a basic AutoCAD lesson as required curriculum. 3d modeling was becoming more accessible, photoshop was up-and-coming. I dove in headfirst. I got my first job at an architecture firm during my third-year: during the interview the main question for me was " how's your CAD?" This was the transitional period as I saw it.
I even saw it at my university. Some of the older, tenured professors at my university complained of architecture losing it's soul to computers and cared nothing for articulate 3d models. A classic question from some of these folks was "where's your section?" Others were so blown away by the look of finely photoshopped 3d models that an A wasn't too hard to come by.
When I graduated and went to work the most important criteria was a candidate's computer skills. And so the transition was made. My field was fully digitized. CAD became made mainstream, BIM conquered CAD, the internet retired fax machines.
Long story but it helps increase my understanding of the plugged-in generation, the kids and their devices. If someone from 1988 with a file-o-fax and a pager saw someone today with a smartphone and laptop, their head would probably expode. I don't get it, but then again I don't think I'm supposed to. They'll be fine, I am - I think.
I grew up during the inital emergence of computer technology to the public: back in the day of the Tandy TRS 80, the Commodor, the Atari, get the picture? These things were novel. They didn't have much practical application unless you account for basic word processing and even that was limited. I was an A-student in vocational drafting all through high school, but we did all of our work at a drafting table with pencils, scales, and straight-edges; AutoCAD was just starting but was not to replace hand-drafting for another 10 years or so.
I started college 4 years after finishing high-school. By that time, a basic AutoCAD lesson as required curriculum. 3d modeling was becoming more accessible, photoshop was up-and-coming. I dove in headfirst. I got my first job at an architecture firm during my third-year: during the interview the main question for me was " how's your CAD?" This was the transitional period as I saw it.
I even saw it at my university. Some of the older, tenured professors at my university complained of architecture losing it's soul to computers and cared nothing for articulate 3d models. A classic question from some of these folks was "where's your section?" Others were so blown away by the look of finely photoshopped 3d models that an A wasn't too hard to come by.
When I graduated and went to work the most important criteria was a candidate's computer skills. And so the transition was made. My field was fully digitized. CAD became made mainstream, BIM conquered CAD, the internet retired fax machines.
Long story but it helps increase my understanding of the plugged-in generation, the kids and their devices. If someone from 1988 with a file-o-fax and a pager saw someone today with a smartphone and laptop, their head would probably expode. I don't get it, but then again I don't think I'm supposed to. They'll be fine, I am - I think.
Wednesday, March 9, 2011
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