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Author Message Ron Beard CCS New member Username: Rm_beard_ccs Post Number: 2 Registered: 10-2002 Posted on Friday, December 06, 2002 - 11:33 am:    Gee! I wonder what a specifier barbie would look like? Ron http://www.construction.com/NewsCenter/it/news/20021205a.asp Heather Huisinga, CDT New member Username: Huisinga Post Number: 4 Registered: 05-2002 Posted on Friday, December 06, 2002 - 12:22 pm:    I think she would definitely be sporting glasses and wrist braces. Anonymous Posted on Friday, December 06, 2002 - 02:21 pm:    I think she'd have a broader rear from sitting at the computer all day every day. :-) William C. Pegues, FCSI, CCS New member Username: Wpegues Post Number: 40 Registered: 10-2002 Posted on Friday, December 06, 2002 - 04:59 pm:    Hey guys, how so unfriendly to female spec writers can you be? That's not nice. I, as a male, have been doing this for 25+ years and I am not broad abeam, not sporting wrist braces - and I wear glasses only for distance which is a result of age not reading. I admit I am a male, but that does not mean I hold up any better. Give our sisters a break - they can be permitted to be attractive, especially if they are supposed to be the never aging young professional that Barbie is supposed to be. Give her the attributes one would assume are appropriate to our profession - a brain. Perhaps the result will be more comfortable but still stylish clothes, shoes, and hairstyle. That might make her smart enough to dump Ken! Anne Whitacre New member Username: Awhitacre Post Number: 31 Registered: 07-2002 Posted on Friday, December 06, 2002 - 08:04 pm:    when I started in the spec department of Large Firm XX 24 years ago, the guys in the drafting room took a vote... and decided that I must be someone's secretary..... because I wore lipstick and high heels to work every day. My boss had to put them straight during some lunch hour conversation and there was a sign on my desk for about 6 months stating that despite the typewriter (we all had them in that department) I was not a "secretary" and would not do typing for anyone who just walked up. At that time, I was the first female spec writer in the state... and I could count them at about that rate -- there was one in Oregon, two in California, etc. I still wear heels... sometime (and used to keep steel shanked boots under my desk); my lipstick usually ends up on the coffee cup by 10 am; I have had glasses since I was 6 years old, so that's not a job related problem; and I have sore shoulders from lugging home a laptop computer several times a week. Specifier Barbie needs a really good chair and a quiet desk because she's on the phone half the day... Ron Beard CCS New member Username: Rm_beard_ccs Post Number: 3 Registered: 10-2002 Posted on Friday, December 06, 2002 - 08:16 pm:    <<I am not broad abeam ....... but that does not mean I hold up any better.>> William you didn't mention the broad part you have at your hair line. :-) I make this statement based on the fact that I've "been doing this" 30+ years and the shine on my head will match yours any day :-) and when I take my glasses off ALL specifiers look good! Ron William C. Pegues, FCSI, CCS New member Username: Wpegues Post Number: 41 Registered: 10-2002 Posted on Friday, December 06, 2002 - 09:57 pm:    Anne, I carry my portable back and forth every day. And at the office I network it with the office network and move files back and forth between my desktop and laptop that way (I have wireless at home). I use my desktop for once set of tasks, my protable for others like looking up things on the web, maintaining a web based calendar scheduling all project manuals checklist, draft, final dates, etc. So it sits to one side of my main monitor at a convenient display angle, and I use a full size keyboard/mouse that sits above my regular keyboard like the 2 tiers of an organ keyboard. Ron, Hey, I resemble that! But 30 or 25 years, I still say that didn't put the shine on my head...or yours. Even if they make a Ken Doll Specifier, he should look like Ken, just more intelligent. I think I looked quite good when I was 25! Ron Beard CCS New member Username: Rm_beard_ccs Post Number: 4 Registered: 10-2002 Posted on Friday, December 06, 2002 - 10:42 pm:    <<Even if they make a Ken Doll Specifier, he should look like Ken, just more intelligent.>> If a specifier looked like Ken Doll and was intelligent, I wonder how long he would stay a specifier. ;-) Ron William C. Pegues, FCSI, CCS New member Username: Wpegues Post Number: 42 Registered: 10-2002 Posted on Saturday, December 07, 2002 - 02:16 pm:    Ron, We hope for a full career - if he is smart, looks like Ken, doors should open, he could become the head of his own firm, live life like he wants. David Axt, AIA, CCS, CSI Junior Member Username: David_axt Post Number: 74 Registered: 03-2002 Posted on Monday, December 09, 2002 - 05:39 pm:    What about Army Corps of Engineer Specifier GI Joe with lifelike hair and Kung Fu grip? (Optional Glock 9mm for killing Nazis, Commies, and Contracting Officers sold separately.) David Heather Huisinga, CDT New member Username: Huisinga Post Number: 5 Registered: 05-2002 Posted on Tuesday, December 10, 2002 - 01:40 pm:    I like the idea of an Army Corps of Engineers Specifier GI Joe!! Isn't that what we've been talking about...getting young people involved early?? So I don't wear high heels, but I do wear lipstick and sport wrist braces and contacts. Maybe instead of the traditional comb, Barbie would come with an ergonomically correct keyboard and mouse pad to use with her laptop? Maybe a set of Sweets catalogs for reference and some plans for the next Barbie dreamhouse? William C. Pegues, FCSI, CCS New member Username: Wpegues Post Number: 43 Registered: 10-2002 Posted on Tuesday, December 10, 2002 - 02:32 pm:    Actually, this is all getting close on the 'action figure'. But we are looking backwards at old technology, old culture. If we want to look ahead, we have to think in terms of now, and the future. We want a role play, action adventure game. Something with real guts and glory, advancing levels of complexity, solving puzzles to get more skills to overcome the traps and snares of the site visit, and weapons which to acost the Nemesis Contracting Co., Inc. and his minions of subs and the ruffian worker gangs. See yourself as the Lora Croft or Indiana Jones of the contemporary architectural world. Or, for that historical renovation project, you get to joint venture with Lora on an exploriatory investigation of the stigian depths of the flooded cellars of the crumbling old structure. Who knows what kind of wildlife is lurking in the murkey flooded depths. Ron Beard CCS New member Username: Rm_beard_ccs Post Number: 8 Registered: 10-2002 Posted on Sunday, December 22, 2002 - 09:49 pm:    I received the following seasonal greeting from my comrades from RTKL which has been flying across the internet. Someone please confirm that it was not written by the Specifier Barbie. An Effort to Issue Appropriate Greetings in Keeping With This Time of Year Please accept with no obligation, implied or implicit, my best wishes for an environmentally conscious, socially responsible, low-stress, non-addictive, great tasting, less filling, pleasantly stimulating, fully satisfying, gender-neutral celebration during the time period which falls on, precedes, or follows the winter solstice, practiced within the most enjoyable traditions of the religious persuasion of your choice, or secular practices of your choice, with respect for the religious/secular persuasions and/or traditions of others, or your choice not to practice religious or secular traditions at all and a fiscally successful, personally fulfilling, and medically uncomplicated recognition of the onset of the generally accepted calendar year 2003, but not without due respect for the calendars of choice of other cultures whose contributions to society may or may not have helped make America great (not to imply that America is necessarily greater than any other country or is the only "America" in the western hemisphere), and without regard to the race, creed, color, age, physical ability, religious faith, choice of computer platform, or sexual preference of the wishee. (By accepting this greeting, you are accepting these terms.) This greeting is subject to clarification or withdrawal. It is freely transferable with or without alteration to the original greeting since if you send it, you're responsible for the content. It implies no promise by the wisher to actually implement any of the wishes for her/himself or others, and is void where prohibited by law, and is revocable at the sole discretion of the wisher. This wish is warranted to perform as expected within the usual application of good tidings for a period of one year, or until the issuance of a subsequent holiday greeting, whichever comes first, and warranty is limited to replacement of this wish or issuance of a new wish at the sole discretion of the wisher. David Axt, AIA, CCS, CSI Junior Member Username: David_axt Post Number: 77 Registered: 03-2002 Posted on Monday, December 23, 2002 - 04:57 pm:    No exceptions taken. This greeting was reviewed for general conformance with design intent only, and shall not imply approval or that specifier takes any actual responsibility for anything except as implicitly construed hereby or herein expressly unwarranted and as by indemnification of all parties not limited to means and methods and all applicable regulations, laws, and best possible accepted industry standards.