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RTDNTOTO 🐻 Random Thoughts Deserving No Thread Of Their Own 19 (2024)

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One of the nice things about our migration of Outlook to the cloud is the confetti that sprinkles on the screen when the word congratulations is typed.
 
joscoffee said:
It doesn't have to be this way, my friends. We could all refuse to use these things and use typewriters and pencils again. It could be like that kurosawa movie...

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Give me my Leroy lettering set for project plans and a type writer, and we'll be golden.

I do enjoy reading through old reports and documents from decades ago. Everything was far more simple and to the point, and was ambiguous enough to get stuff done.
 
Yesterday was an interesting day to say the least & not in a positive way.

I wonder what today will bring.
 
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1989, first year at college and my Geog professors were all talking about global warming (that's right kids, we called it global warming back then.) The bell has been ringing and being ignored forever. By me as well. I have tried to do my little part in my profession pushing density and transit, but none of us took it as seriously as we should have early on. We looked sideways at environmentalists as kooks and wackos - granolas who thought they were going to save the earth by not washing their hair and riding their bikes. We were wrong to.

I have a lot to apologize for to my children and grandchildren, and all the kids after that who will have to take a left at BarterTown to get to their re-education camp in whatever chit-hole dystopia I helped set up for them. Feeling a little bleak now. Day 15, no caffeine till lunch. Kill me.
 
dw914er said:
Give me my Leroy lettering set for project plans and a type writer, and we'll be golden.

I do enjoy reading through old reports and documents from decades ago. Everything was far more simple and to the point, and was ambiguous enough to get stuff done.
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As late as 1998, the "mapper" for the city I worked in was still updating the zoning map via a large scale mimeograph machine with large sheets colored yellow (?) which would disappear once ran through light (UV?) and then produce the purple-lined map. As late as 1998, I was making maps (in another city) for inclusion in staff reports, by using a light table and Chartpak film and Xacto knife to identify the various zones and using a compass to draw the notification boundary for public notice on the same map. I would then glue that map on orange tagboard and staple to wooden stakes on the public notice property. I believe I still have a very nice compass somewhere in a box. Probably seems extremely weird to the younger generation on Cyburbia but that was standard procedure. And then there is the engineer or architect scales...
 
SlaveToTheGrind said:
As late as 1998, the "mapper" for the city I worked in was still updating the zoning map via a large scale mimeograph machine with large sheets colored yellow (?) which would disappear once ran through light (UV?) and then produce the purple-lined map. As late as 1998, I was making maps (in another city) for inclusion in staff reports, by using a light table and Chartpak film and Xacto knife to identify the various zones and using a compass to draw the notification boundary for public notice on the same map. I would then glue that map on orange tagboard and staple to wooden stakes on the public notice property. I believe I still have a very nice compass somewhere in a box. Probably seems extremely weird to the younger generation on Cyburbia but that was standard procedure. And then there is the engineer or architect scales...
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That wasn't exactly a mimeograph machine. The copy paper was covered in yellow colored diazonium salt that when exposed to UV light would "burn off". When placed under a translucent master drawing, the lines on the master would prevent the diazonium salt from burning off. The copy was then run through a chamber with ammonium hydroxide which would turn the salt dark, usually a blue or purple color. This were called whiteprints or diazotypes.
 
Doohickie said:
That wasn't exactly a mimeograph machine. The copy paper was covered in yellow colored diazonium salt that when exposed to UV light would "burn off". When placed under a translucent master drawing, the lines on the master would prevent the diazonium salt from burning off. The copy was then run through a chamber with ammonium hydroxide which would turn the salt dark, usually a blue or purple color. This were called whiteprints or diazotypes.
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We just called it a blue line copier when I was making copies of plats and surveys for the company I worked for. In the basement. With no ventilation fan. With all that ammonia smell. It was great. :r:
 
MD Planner said:
We just called it a blue line copier when I was making copies of plats and surveys for the company I worked for. In the basement. With no ventilation fan. With all that ammonia smell. It was great. :r:
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I had a Diazit machine in my office when I started as the Planner/Draughtsman here.
 
SlaveToTheGrind said:
As late as 1998, the "mapper" for the city I worked in was still updating the zoning map via a large scale mimeograph machine with large sheets colored yellow (?) which would disappear once ran through light (UV?) and then produce the purple-lined map. As late as 1998, I was making maps (in another city) for inclusion in staff reports, by using a light table and Chartpak film and Xacto knife to identify the various zones and using a compass to draw the notification boundary for public notice on the same map. I would then glue that map on orange tagboard and staple to wooden stakes on the public notice property. I believe I still have a very nice compass somewhere in a box. Probably seems extremely weird to the younger generation on Cyburbia but that was standard procedure. And then there is the engineer or architect scales...
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I have in my possession a beautiful hand drawn architect's rendering of the interior lobby of the 49th Street Galleria from it's development. I should scan it in and show you. It's gorgeous and if you ever spent time there bowling, playing asteroids, couples skating to Chicago or Air Supply, fighting, shoplifting or whatever your style was...it'll bring back the memories, man!
 
ursus said:
I have in my possession a beautiful hand drawn architect's rendering of the interior lobby of the 49th Street Galleria from it's development. I should scan it in and show you. It's gorgeous and if you ever spent time there bowling, playing asteroids, couples skating to Chicago or Air Supply, fighting, shoplifting or whatever your style was...it'll bring back the memories, man!
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Went there one time when my roommates wanted to bungee jump. I said no thanks and just watched.
 
I promised I'd bake a number of treats for Itty Bitty's school bake sale tomorrow. So I bought an extra dozen eggs to ensure I had enough. Baked one thing this morning and used up 5 eggs.

Guess who decided to make a frittata for dinner and used up all the rest of the eggs? Hubby's heart was in the right place and now his blessed heart is on the way to the grocery store to buy more eggs. Sigh.
 
Since when did college basketball players become eligible to wear uniform numbers ending in 6 through 9? This is the first season I've seen it (Bronny James, I think, was the first I saw wearing uni no. 6...)
 
MD Planner said:
We just called it a blue line copier when I was making copies of plats and surveys for the company I worked for. In the basement. With no ventilation fan. With all that ammonia smell. It was great. :r:
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Ah the smell of ammonia in the morning.


There was a lady in the office that asked us for the used ammonia so she could use it to clean.
 
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No. 11 Duquesne defeated No. 6 BYU in the first upset of March Madness and the school's first men's NCAA Tournament win since 1969.
 
MD Planner said:
We just called it a blue line copier when I was making copies of plats and surveys for the company I worked for. In the basement. With no ventilation fan. With all that ammonia smell. It was great. :r:
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I took drafting in high school, and have a sense of nostalgia for the smell of ammonia making the whiteline prints. We also did autocad, though I don't remember a single thing from that.

We are in the process of implementing Bluebeam for our digital plan review, and I've actually added a Leroy typefont for my redlines.
 
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