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Author Message Phil Kabza Senior Member Username: phil_kabza Post Number: 421 Registered: 12-2002 Posted on Saturday, January 23, 2010 - 05:03 pm:    I'm digging out. Any suggestions for a new home for some years of the Construction Specifier - besides the local recycling center? Richard A. Rosen, CSI, CCS, AIA Senior Member Username: rarosen Post Number: 60 Registered: 08-2006 Posted on Monday, January 25, 2010 - 08:18 am:    How about your local community college construction technology program? Russ Hinkle, AIA, CDT, LEED AP Senior Member Username: rhinkle Post Number: 73 Registered: 02-2006 Posted on Monday, January 25, 2010 - 08:30 am:    I have a similar question. My father recently passed away. His collection of "Architecture" and "Record" magazines dates to the 60's. In todays electronic world, do these have any use except to a collector? Russ Hinkle Lynn Javoroski CSI CCS LEEDŽ AP SCIP Affiliate Senior Member Username: lynn_javoroski Post Number: 995 Registered: 07-2002 Posted on Monday, January 25, 2010 - 09:56 am:    I agree with Richard. Many colleges, technical schools and universities would welcome past issues of these publications (even if technically out of date, articles on completed projects are usually not out of date) Phil Kabza Senior Member Username: phil_kabza Post Number: 425 Registered: 12-2002 Posted on Friday, February 05, 2010 - 10:42 pm:    Our local architecture school isn't interested enough to even write back. I guess if it isn't available on an IPod, it's time to recycle it. Ron Beard CCS Senior Member Username: rm_beard_ccs Post Number: 331 Registered: 10-2002 Posted on Saturday, February 06, 2010 - 01:38 am:    Phil: Just donate them to the local Friends of the Library. At least you can get a tax deduction out of it. "Fast is good, but accurate is better." .............Wyatt Earp (Unregistered Guest) Unregistered guest Posted on Monday, February 08, 2010 - 10:24 am:    A couple of years ago we tried unsuccessfully to donate "old" 3-ring product catalogs to the local architecture school. Their response "We don't want them." So, into the recycle bin. What are all of these young emerging professionals going to do when the power goes off? Ralph Liebing, RA, CSI, CDT Senior Member Username: rliebing Post Number: 1139 Registered: 02-2003 Posted on Monday, February 08, 2010 - 02:41 pm:    Uuuhhh!!! Instead of "Bell, Book and Candle", they go to "Taco Bell, Binders and Candles"? I can remember years ago, you played hell getting schools to take Sweets'-- finally would use them to hold down various laminations, like illustration board site models!!! Richard A. Rosen, CSI, CCS, AIA Senior Member Username: rarosen Post Number: 61 Registered: 08-2006 Posted on Monday, February 08, 2010 - 03:49 pm:    I think it's time we realize that if we don't want it nobody else does. Our accumulated "trash" really isn't gold to anyone else but the guy who owns a recycling center. Specification Writer Senior Member Username: specification_writer Post Number: 15 Registered: 01-2009 Posted on Monday, February 22, 2010 - 05:16 pm:    Phil, Ipod, smartphone, laptop computers ? After almost 3 full days without electricity, I'll ask the same question as unregistered guest: What are these emerging professionals going to do when the power goes off? Sure your mobile devices and laptop computers have a battery life; but with no way to recharge batteries the useful life of these devices is limited. Ah ha, portable generators. These are limited by the amount of gasoline you have stored. What about recharging in your automobiles? Here again, this option will be limited by the amount of gasoline in the tank because with no power to the service stations, there is no way to re-fill your tank. Specification Writer Architect Washington, D.C. Anne Whitacre, FCSI CCS Senior Member Username: awhitacre Post Number: 936 Registered: 07-2002 Posted on Tuesday, February 23, 2010 - 03:21 pm:    so, "specification writer" are you suggesting what? going back to ink and linen? besides there are solar powered chargers for everything now. John Regener, AIA, CCS, CCCA, CSI, SCIP Senior Member Username: john_regener Post Number: 458 Registered: 04-2002 Posted on Tuesday, February 23, 2010 - 05:05 pm:    Anne: Like, I really miss to fragrance of mimeo fluid filling the air as I apply correction goo over a line of text for my typewriter to beat new characters into. (Unregistered Guest) Unregistered guest Posted on Wednesday, February 24, 2010 - 04:40 pm:    When the power goes off, all of these young folks will be totally lost. There will be no access to their electronic copies of documents. How many of these young folks think ahead and have purchased one of these $250 solar chargers? We should have a minimum of one hard copy of drawings, specifications, shop drawings, RFI, ASI, PR, and CO. Emergency (no power) Items: Manual typewriters, telephones (land lines) without the "brick" transformer, hand-crank radios, flashlights, hurricane lanterns, 4H, 2H, and F drafting pencils, manual pencil sharpeners, manual rubber erasers, various sizes of pre-printed border sheets, drafting boards w/parallel bar, scales and triangles . . . J. Peter Jordan Senior Member Username: jpjordan Post Number: 401 Registered: 05-2004 Posted on Wednesday, February 24, 2010 - 04:55 pm:    And an addometer... George A. Everding, AIA, CSI, CCS, CCCA Senior Member Username: geverding Post Number: 511 Registered: 11-2004 Posted on Wednesday, February 24, 2010 - 06:03 pm:    I don't know about the rest of you, but when the power goes off, I am not planning to worry about work. By the way, you don't need an electric opener to get into a bottle of scotch. George A. Everding AIA CSI CCS CCCA Cannon Design - St. Louis, MO C. R. Mudgeon Senior Member Username: c_r_mudgeon Post Number: 61 Registered: 08-2002 Posted on Wednesday, February 24, 2010 - 06:07 pm:    That paper could get wet or burn up, so we also should have copies of all documents chiseled in stone... James M. Sandoz, AIA, CSI, CCS, LEED AP Senior Member Username: jsandoz Post Number: 69 Registered: 06-2005 Posted on Thursday, February 25, 2010 - 08:54 am:    Stone tablets can also be broken up and the pieces scattered. Better to paint on the walls of caves. Lynn Javoroski CSI CCS LEEDŽ AP SCIP Affiliate Senior Member Username: lynn_javoroski Post Number: 1009 Registered: 07-2002 Posted on Thursday, February 25, 2010 - 10:22 am:    I'm with George; just make it vodka instead of scotch. Never did develop a taste for that, in spite of the instructions to do so... Anne Whitacre, FCSI CCS Senior Member Username: awhitacre Post Number: 938 Registered: 07-2002 Posted on Thursday, February 25, 2010 - 01:28 pm:    I'm still curious why it is only "young folks" who need electronic items to do work. contents of my work bag: blackberry; kindle; zune(like an ipod); laptop and four charging cords... fifteen years ago it was address book; paperback book; notepad and stamps. Lisa Goodwin Robbins, RA, CCS, LEED ap Senior Member Username: lgoodrob Post Number: 59 Registered: 08-2004 Posted on Thursday, February 25, 2010 - 01:49 pm:    Hauling all that stuff is how we keep our girlish specification figures! Add a 12 inch diameter roll of drawings, and I'm ready to take the stairs! John Bunzick, CCS, CCCA, LEED AP Senior Member Username: bunzick Post Number: 1174 Registered: 03-2002 Posted on Tuesday, March 02, 2010 - 11:57 am:    What do "young folks" do when the power goes off??? The same thing as the company with old folks--stop working! Every place I've worked for many years is 100 percent dependent on computers. It doesn't matter what industry or profession. It doesn't matter where in the world you are. To say this relates to young people, early adopters, techies or some other such class of people is simply silly. George A. Everding, AIA, CSI, CCS, CCCA Senior Member Username: geverding Post Number: 512 Registered: 11-2004 Posted on Tuesday, March 02, 2010 - 02:53 pm:    Related to this "good old days discussion," my wife and I enjoyed reading this review from the NYT: http://www.nytimes.com/2010/02/27/arts/design/27compass.html?scp=6&sq=yale%20&st=cse It sounds like a great exhibition and ... well... would that we all could live long enough to see the blackberries and ipods viewed as works of art. George A. Everding AIA CSI CCS CCCA Cannon Design - St. Louis, MO Ron Beard CCS Senior Member Username: rm_beard_ccs Post Number: 339 Registered: 10-2002 Posted on Tuesday, March 02, 2010 - 04:37 pm:    Thinking back on power outages, IIRC the last major one in New York City produced a rash of new babies nine months later. <g> Probably actually produced some of those techies! "Fast is good, but accurate is better." .............Wyatt Earp Tim Werbstein, AIA, CSI, CCS Senior Member Username: tim_werbstein Post Number: 20 Registered: 09-2006 Posted on Wednesday, March 03, 2010 - 07:55 am:    Now, let's watch our "clarity," one of the "3C"s. "IIRC"? If I Really Care? If It Realy Counts? Immunity and Infection Research Centre? Inactive Item Review Code (US DoD) Iraqi Islamic Reconciliation Conference? Isn't It Really Cool? Lynn Javoroski CSI CCS LEEDŽ AP SCIP Affiliate Senior Member Username: lynn_javoroski Post Number: 1010 Registered: 07-2002 Posted on Wednesday, March 03, 2010 - 09:49 am:    Tim, Isn't it "4" C's? Ron Beard CCS Senior Member Username: rm_beard_ccs Post Number: 340 Registered: 10-2002 Posted on Wednesday, March 03, 2010 - 04:08 pm:    IIRC = If I recall correctly "Fast is good, but accurate is better." .............Wyatt Earp Robert W. Johnson Senior Member Username: robert_w_johnson Post Number: 62 Registered: 03-2009 Posted on Wednesday, March 03, 2010 - 04:20 pm:    Secret code is short, but speaking the language is better. Dave Metzger Senior Member Username: davemetzger Post Number: 345 Registered: 07-2001 Posted on Wednesday, March 03, 2010 - 04:37 pm:    Bob, is that a quote from Doc Holliday? Robert W. Johnson Senior Member Username: robert_w_johnson Post Number: 63 Registered: 03-2009 Posted on Wednesday, March 03, 2010 - 05:31 pm:    Sure, that's sounds good! Dave Metzger Senior Member Username: davemetzger Post Number: 346 Registered: 07-2001 Posted on Wednesday, March 03, 2010 - 05:55 pm:    You mean, IIRC?