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MIT's Stata Center Dedicated
AJL writes "On Friday, the long-in-coming, $280M Stata Center was dedicated at MIT. Featuring some pretty cool technology (including a row of Linux computers proclaiming 'Welcome to the William H. Gates Building' by Tux, the Linux Penguin), amazing design, and some pretty neat use of space, Stata is among the first of some high-budget, high-tech buildings being put on campuses these days. See some
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or go to the Main Stata Site for more details. Richard Stallman is now less than pleased that he has to work in the Gates Building, as well as having some other problems with his new office in general."
As RMS' RFID card is blocked from the security system after he was found eating cheetos under a cluster, the entire MIT technical staff breathes a collective sigh of relief as the nightmare of getting all that beard fluff out of keyboards ends.
...a row of Linux computers proclaiming 'Welcome to the William H. Gates Building' by Tux
Is this supposed to be an ironical joke, or have they been brainwashing penguins? Perhaps it's time to put on our tin foil hats.
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...and working as an architect.
All joking aside, how long must it have taken to a) design that and b) build the damn thing. I can imagine it being very complex to lay out...where would you start?
Kudos to the architect and the builders, they've done a great job.
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Take a look at that building! It looks like its half falling down. It seriously looks like something from "The Nightmare Before Christmas".
This is what happens when you give case modders the job of designing a building!
Bill Gates says the freakish buildings and twisted angles will be correctly aligned by the upcoming Stata Service Pack 1.
Finally, a university has built a weirder-looking CS building than the one at my undergrad institution. MIT's new building makes good old Duncan Hall look positively conservative.
In other news Stallman leaves MIT, in a huff over the privacy debarcle.
Research facilities all over the US and the world unite to install new RFID access devices.
Stallman ends up staying at home.
I don't know about nukes, but beware of the young architects wielding crayons lurking in the basement.
> He has the social skills of a 14yr old
He's a programmer; what did you expect?
Sheesh, evil *and* a jerk. -- Jade
I can imagine the crack parties going on at universities when their board of trustees decide that they want some hip and edgy building.
Trustee 1: "Hey, how can we waste a lot of money really fast?"
Trustee 2: "We can hire a famous postmodern architect. Their buildings always go overbudget and run into schedule delays"
Trustee 3: "A toast to postmodernism!"
All: "Huzzah!"
I've seen other pomo style buildings. MIT also has that weird dorm building that looks like a cross between a sponge and a retarded sponge. Harvard has some other dorm that looks a little more normal, but still not that appealing to me.
Postmodernism: a synonym for "We like to throw legos around and see what we can make"
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> What fucking eye-sore! Who designed them anyway? What are they, are they supposed to induce creativity or something? And who approved the building plans? Was it Gates himself? He used to go to Harvard, maybe it's his trick of subtly saying "the dweebs go to this university."
More likely it was an architect trying to get even for his operating system falling down all the time.
Sheesh, evil *and* a jerk. -- Jade
On a completely unrelated side note, as I spell-checked this in konqueror, it suggested hoes for hes (missing apostrophe). Who writes this dictionary?
Someone with a penchant for garden tools?
It's like they had built an awesome model of this really funky building and on the way over to show it off to the people at MIT one of them sat on it...
The building's denizens are hiring architects to help fix it. I think that's part of Gehry's plan for participatory design. Leave it so unfinished that the inhabitants have to make their own nests!
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So this is an example of new Open Schematic architecture? The plans are there for anybody to modify to fix bugs and introduce new features they want.
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If it ever gets earthquake damaged, how will we know?
No, you've got it mixed up, his card was blocked because his GNU was eating Microsofts lunch.
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Sorry, but this set of buildings at MIT look like somethign out of Tim Burton's "A nightmare before Christmas".
Hardly architectural masterpieces for generations to come.
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Word on the street is that he mostly just bothers people. Also he is terrified of water(isn't hydrophobia a symptom of rabies?) and spider plants. To keep the madman from their offices his colleagues hang spider plants in their doorways.
It's probably called that mostly by the MIT girls! ;)
Becker College had the same reputation when I was at WPI. The girls at WPI used to *hate* it when WPI guys would date Becker girls. The language they'd use to vilify every girl at Becker was quite amusing (i.e. "those Black and Decker Becker Pecker Wreckers"). Most of Becker girls were, however, very nice, and what usually came as a complete astonishment to many of the WPI girls was that many of the Becker girls actually had a brain. The reason they got asked out at all is not because they were easy, but because WPI's ratio was 1 to 5 at the time, and Becker girls did not usually refer to guys as "lays", which WPI girls had been known to do on more than one occasion.
The most hilarious moment, though, was when one of the WPI girls let slip something really insulting behind the back of a Becker girl my friend was dating. My friend's girlfriend just whipped around and said very calmly, "Maybe if you stopped treating guys like total shit, your next date wouldn't be plastic." Priceless. It was a Kodak moment.
Show me on the doll where his noodly appendage touched you.