Bookworm on May 12 2008 | Filed under: Uncategorized
So sad.
I think many of America’s planning departments have a Code fetish that is counter productive, since they try to impose on every single building — and every aspect of every building — a standard of perfection that is unreasonable for the ordinary risks and uses people face in connection with those structures. For example, [...]
Bookworm on Apr 18 2008 | Filed under: Uncategorized
Today is the 102nd anniversary of the Great 1906 San Francisco Earthquake. Nature celebrated this anniversary in style, by visiting a bone-shaker on the American Midwest. I found it an amusing coincidence, especially since nobody seems to have gotten hurt in today’s reminder that the earth is never still.
UPDATE: And wonderfully, there is [...]
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