Every file I download, generate, work with, etc. stays with me on a small portable hard drive. I also use the portable apps versions of abiword, firefox, etc. I only attempt to do CAD work on the machine in my office, where everything is zen for drafting. I set up an Rsync to copy the contents of the drive to the raid 5 in my office machine at 8:00 every morning. This is way to use my paranoia to the advantage of making sure I come to work on time, satisfying my boss as well.
IBM designs and specifies everything that goes into the Thinkpads. Lenovo only manufactures them.
I have an IBM T40 which doesn't see much use any longer as I have replaced it with a Lenovo branded T61p. The T61p is miles ahead of many laptops on the market today, as was the T40.
I did happen to switch the old T40 on the other day to do some searching for a file that I stupidly did not back up onto my usb hard drive. I am still amazed that the laptop had still been on it's original format, never had XP reinstalled, never had any problems at all with the IBM maintenance software. It will probably continue to be supported by that maintenance software for another decade.
IBM is serious about their brand-name on manufactured goods. They want the quality to be unsurpassed, and they have done a fine job of it since day one of their operations in this market.
Lenovo does manufacture their own line of laptops, which I am unsure of the design, but am pretty confident that the build quality is solid.
Let me add that roughly 1/3 of all first-world nations total economy comprises Construction projects; including , but not limited to, their design, manufacture of materials, placement of materials, and warranty thereof.
Unions.......They make great temp agencies for labor that is only needed for short- to mid-term projects. Buildings are a good example. Public-use buildings are everywhere. Someone needs to build them. Someone also needs to manage the process of construction. Unions guarantee that a worker has *enough* qualification to do a specific task, whether he's as good as the next guy or not, they're in the same trade. Not every worker is worth keeping around. You keep the good ones around with extra pay and smaller, less rote jobs to perform. Call them Superintendents, and give them extra benefits. This will keep them around. The peons in the union can come and go from the temp agency that they've joined. It's heirarchical, structured. The machine of public works must be structured similarly for fair competition on the same standard of quality for the building of whatever plans have been set forth. As architects and engineers are responsible for the quality of their work, so are the contractors. The contractors have the burden of placing the materials.
There must be assurance that all contractors follow the same standard of work
Contractors can not have monopolies over specific territories. The tax-payers coin will not tolerate lack of competition. Contractors must sign non-collusion affidavits.
Buildings may only last forever with competent maintenance. The degree of this maintenance is up to the Owner.
Not all public buildings are within the scope of one bid project. Time is a factor. A project can last only 3 months, or it can last a century. Laborers must be available for large volume, short term projects to be successful. This will draw from the local labor pool accordingly. When this labor pool is not able to perform the work, tradesmen from other territories will mobilize and work at the site's contracted union wage, plus an agreed upon compensation for their travel expenses.
Unions offer a way for individual tradesmen to work for different contractors as they are needed.
Certain tasks require skill.
I dare any architect or engineer to lay a concrete cinder block wall eight feet high and twenty feet long in one day to the precision of work that his fellow architect or engineer would approve.
1. Arrive at airport. Have someone with you that agrees to haul luggage. 2. Immediately seek out an abandoned wheelchair. 3. Get familiar with your wheelchair so as to appear as though you have operated one before. 4. Enter the back of the line, with a disgusted look on your face, appear as though you are struggling. 5. Wait for airport staff to come and help you. It usually only takes a few minutes before someone will offer to help you and the people you are with get through to the terminal quickly. 6. Pass through TSA's checks as though your gout is inflamed, and you cannot bear to even use crutches. 7. Enter terminal and find your gate. 8. Ditch the wheelchair. OPTIONAL 9. Find a bathroom and change your shirt and/or shave your beard to avoid altercations with all of the suckers who waited in line at the check-in and TSA.
These lite brite devices remind me of the armies from Teotihuacan who came to the city states of Maya at around AD 380 in liberation campaigns. The backshields of the fighters had mirrored surfaces made from pyrite intended to dazzle the enemy while the fighter turned several times in gathering momentum to throw his spear. August 2007 National Geographic at 2:00 am last night. I'm too tired to cite further than that.
I remember doing an essay on a chemical derived from amazonian frogbacks when I was a sophomore in high school...1998...nine years ago.
ABT-594 was ten times more effective than morphine for pain relief. I know that opiates are much better understood due to their thousands of years of use, but isn't it about time that someone like Roche or Lilly focus on an effective painkiller with the mere side effect of a tobacco addiction in lieu of opium? Or have dope fiends become more socially accepted than smokers?
Wouldn't the large corp.s collude in the background, and then that single anonymous bidder would have enough money to win the bid? I've read several articles on the Indianapolis ready-mix concrete market. Every concrete supplier had meetings in a "party barn" to discuss price fixing. These are supposed to be competing suppliers, but they learned that if they work together, the make more money. Collusion at its best. If I were Verizon, I would want to make absolutely certain that I had a piece of this new spectrum, and to do that, I would collude with someone like AT&T, and combine our money in a joint venture called ExampleCom, Inc. ExampleCom would then have more than enough money to submit a single bid anonymously to win the entire spectrum up for auction. Then, ExampleCom would make lots of money deciding exactly which frequencies get the most bang for the buck, and well, sell the shitty bands to Verizon and AT&T's small competitors, keeping the cream of the crop for their principal investors.
How would anonymous bidding stifle collusion? It seems as though it makes it easier.
Everybody I know who uses CAD professionally uses a keyboard to type commands...it's faster and gives them more time to read slashdot. How is having a shiny table with an interactive surface going to make an engineer's job easier? Remember that when you draw a line, it has start and end exactly where you want it to start and end. That's what the num pad is for. I cannot see this new shiny interactive table aiding in the precision that real CAD demands; it seems to just complicate input.
Isn't one of the tenets of engineering that a pragmatic approach to design lends to the most economical results?
No. Computer Science....what we are doing here is taking an analog wave, and transferring it into something that can be written to and read from a disk or other medium. To do that, we have to pluck a sample out of the air with a microphone, a little drum connected to a coil. This is amplified and sent to an A/D converter, which runs a process at what bitrate and frequency the specified A/D converter is rated. a 24bit/96kHz A/D converter takes 24-bit long samples 96,000 times in a second. It's like a movie camera, which run at 30Hz. Except this takes a picture much more often, because that's what our human ears require in order to be able to discern the difference between this guy's voice and that guy's voice. We can tell the difference when we're in the same room, but when we're on the phone the voices sounds totally different.
It's amazing how few people really understand how this works. It's not difficult stuff. It doesn't take an engineer to get it.
I don't know....I'm at work doing my job. When I get home I will definitely try to use them in Ardour.
We are definitely happy about bands doing this. My wife actually wrote a paper on how bands are beginning to release albums with all of their unmixed source material to let the user have some fun. Wired wrote about it with Beck's Guero album. Soon after Guero, Guerolito was released. Guerolito is in my opinion a poor, amateur album, but that's due to some unknowing hippy or raver doing a poor remix of Beck's source, simply because they don't know how to properly record.
It's possible that the sound quality of the source has something to do with the outcome of the peons' mixing efforts.
When you mix pure organic ingredients in a blender, you get pure organic juice. When you start adding Monsanto GM Alfalfa and fortifying with mass produced vitamins, you get V8. I'd go for the former. Pure source, pure outcome.
A sample is a piece of data. 16 bits long, or 24 bits long. A rate is how often we do something.
I would like to get a 24 bit long piece of information from what I'm hearing right now, the project manager's telephone conversation in the office next to mine. In order to get the most accurate representation of how his voice sounds, I have to get more than one of these samples every second(24bit/1Hz). To remember what his voice actually sounds like, I will need more information than that. The more information the better. If I take a 24 bit sample of his voice 96,000 times over the course of a second's time, I have a much better understanding of what myriad of frequencies his voice box produces when saying ng's and sss's and th's, and how whiny he can sound when something isn't going his way.
Using my Athlon 64 3000+ and 64Studio, a Debian distro with realtime pre-emptive patches, I could really use some QUALITY samples.
This specialized audio distro works better than any Mac any of my friends have attempted to use (however they are the artist types and don't even understand that you have to press CTRL while clicking to get the menu).
Is there anyone else in the Slashdot crowd using linux to record Pro Audio?
Native Americans universally bear Type "O" blood. It is the white man who brought this unclean "A" or "B" antigen blood.
So, not only are Native Americans a good source for land, but also universally transfusable blood (with the exception of "RH -").
It's got me thinking....I am of the Blood Type "O": Is alcoholism related to absence of such antigens? I'd really like to have something to blame for it.
Hook up a Wii-mote with integrated laser sight in lieu of joystick. Instead of bluetooth, hard wire it. Faster and more accurate than joysticks, in my opinion. Can I work for Raytheon, now?
1. School 2. Graduate 2a. Post-Graduate (optional, delays Step 4) 3. Five years field practice 4. P.E. Licensure 5. MBA 6. Hire interns for ALL calcs 7. Stamp drawings 8. Profit
This is the most impractical means of constructing concrete walls that I have ever heard of. How much does the contractor who mobilizes, operates, and maintains the equipment charge you for his service? Who would this contractor get bonding and insurance from? No one in their right mind would take so much risk.
This "3D printer" only provides a wall. The finished rooms in the "house" will certainly need paint, and for this paint to look nice, the owner will expect a smooth substrate, requiring furring and drywall over the rough substrate that this "printed" wall will produce. The cost of furring out drywall over a substrate is nearly as much as just constructing a simple stud wall of wither wood or steel, and laminating both sides with drywall. The kitchen and bathrooms will need at least working cabinets and countertops, adding more cost. The house will need acceptable, comfortable floor finishes, adding more cost. The people will want receptacles to plug in their electronic consumer goods, so you will need to accomodate for that adding more cost. The roof must be watertight. Any building MUST rest on a suitable foundation. Does the robot excavate and build footings and foundation walls? I have not mentioned the cost of electrical and plumbing work.
There is much more to a house than some walls.
Any mature architect that is excited about this is taking too many trips to Oompa Loompa Land.
On the Bent Pyramid: The angle of repose used on the battered walls of the pyramid was too great, so great that the weight of the material above would crush the material below, splitting the seams of the flat planar walls that humankind views as monumental (watch 2001: A Space Odyssey). It was found that changing the angle of repose would allow the pyramid to be finished without breaking the base of the structure. The bent pyramid is regarded by engineers as one of the first projects being interrupted by an engineer's calculation. The necessary design changes were made to allow completion of the monument.
Concrete by itself has no useful structural purpose other than to provide a hard lump in the ground that doesn't compress i.e. foundations. It can only work as a structural material if you combine it with steel reinforcement. If you look at architectural history, you'll find that the first hypostyle column architecture came from the same egypt of the pyramids. These columns were arranged very tightly so that beams did not have to span great distances. There were no materials available at the time that would span such distances and withstand the test of time. A french artist whom I can not remember the name of decided that you can reinforce concrete with steel to make a concrete plank span great distances by placing the reinforcing at the bottom of the beam. When the load is present at the middle of the beam, and then transferred to the two posts that the beam rests on at each end, the steel in the bottom of the beam provides tensile resistance, while the concrete in the top of the beam provides compressive resistance, resulting in a beam that can span great distances without sagging and breaking under heavy load. If the Egyptians had the technology of steel, they would surely have built their columns farther apart. Consider that they did use large spaces under roofs supported by wood trusses. Those trusses would not withstand the test of time, so we have no record of them existing other than what was glyphed into stone. The Egyptian Pharoahs understood this, and thus built their monuments with something that would last as long as possible, to put their mark on the world. A big square pile of rocks just made the most sense at the time. Upon further investigation, you may find that the funerary architecture of Egypt quite fascinating. Not only Pharoah's were rich enough to build monuments, but also the more prominent Architects, Engineers, and Contractors built entire cities with individual structures to house their individual souls upon dying. Not of wood, but of mud.
Unless you believe in a god who has the power to touch his creation. The christian father god would probably say: You're trying to do what I can do, so in the event that you come close, I will crush you and make you understand that your power will never supercede mine. Or so that's what my parents believe.
Considering the mount of times the first letter of the lph bet ppe rs in text, this m y m ke re ding sl shdot difficult with the free Oper web browser for the Wii.
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I use a highly specialized spreadsheet for doing building construction quantity take-offs of architectural blueprints for $5 Million to $35 Million contract estimates. I made a macro for each line item, by type of material. Ctrl+F for concrete footings, Ctrl+W for foundation walls, etc. The macro moves cells for me. I just take my usb num pad over to the blueprint desk and type away, looking up at the lcd now and then to make sure i'm entering properly. It's pretty efficient to work this way. This also makes use of my adding machine skills with a quick alt-tab to a calculator.
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Every file I download, generate, work with, etc. stays with me on a small portable hard drive. I also use the portable apps versions of abiword, firefox, etc. I only attempt to do CAD work on the machine in my office, where everything is zen for drafting. I set up an Rsync to copy the contents of the drive to the raid 5 in my office machine at 8:00 every morning. This is way to use my paranoia to the advantage of making sure I come to work on time, satisfying my boss as well.
IBM designs and specifies everything that goes into the Thinkpads. Lenovo only manufactures them. I have an IBM T40 which doesn't see much use any longer as I have replaced it with a Lenovo branded T61p. The T61p is miles ahead of many laptops on the market today, as was the T40. I did happen to switch the old T40 on the other day to do some searching for a file that I stupidly did not back up onto my usb hard drive. I am still amazed that the laptop had still been on it's original format, never had XP reinstalled, never had any problems at all with the IBM maintenance software. It will probably continue to be supported by that maintenance software for another decade. IBM is serious about their brand-name on manufactured goods. They want the quality to be unsurpassed, and they have done a fine job of it since day one of their operations in this market. Lenovo does manufacture their own line of laptops, which I am unsure of the design, but am pretty confident that the build quality is solid.
Let me add that roughly 1/3 of all first-world nations total economy comprises Construction projects; including , but not limited to, their design, manufacture of materials, placement of materials, and warranty thereof.
Unions.......They make great temp agencies for labor that is only needed for short- to mid-term projects. Buildings are a good example. Public-use buildings are everywhere. Someone needs to build them. Someone also needs to manage the process of construction. Unions guarantee that a worker has *enough* qualification to do a specific task, whether he's as good as the next guy or not, they're in the same trade. Not every worker is worth keeping around. You keep the good ones around with extra pay and smaller, less rote jobs to perform. Call them Superintendents, and give them extra benefits. This will keep them around. The peons in the union can come and go from the temp agency that they've joined. It's heirarchical, structured. The machine of public works must be structured similarly for fair competition on the same standard of quality for the building of whatever plans have been set forth. As architects and engineers are responsible for the quality of their work, so are the contractors. The contractors have the burden of placing the materials.
There must be assurance that all contractors follow the same standard of work
Contractors can not have monopolies over specific territories. The tax-payers coin will not tolerate lack of competition. Contractors must sign non-collusion affidavits.
Buildings may only last forever with competent maintenance. The degree of this maintenance is up to the Owner.
Not all public buildings are within the scope of one bid project. Time is a factor. A project can last only 3 months, or it can last a century. Laborers must be available for large volume, short term projects to be successful. This will draw from the local labor pool accordingly. When this labor pool is not able to perform the work, tradesmen from other territories will mobilize and work at the site's contracted union wage, plus an agreed upon compensation for their travel expenses.
Unions offer a way for individual tradesmen to work for different contractors as they are needed.
Certain tasks require skill.
I dare any architect or engineer to lay a concrete cinder block wall eight feet high and twenty feet long in one day to the precision of work that his fellow architect or engineer would approve.
How to never pay for fast check-in:
1. Arrive at airport. Have someone with you that agrees to haul luggage.
2. Immediately seek out an abandoned wheelchair.
3. Get familiar with your wheelchair so as to appear as though you have operated one before.
4. Enter the back of the line, with a disgusted look on your face, appear as though you are struggling.
5. Wait for airport staff to come and help you. It usually only takes a few minutes before someone will offer to help you and the people you are with get through to the terminal quickly.
6. Pass through TSA's checks as though your gout is inflamed, and you cannot bear to even use crutches.
7. Enter terminal and find your gate.
8. Ditch the wheelchair.
OPTIONAL 9. Find a bathroom and change your shirt and/or shave your beard to avoid altercations with all of the suckers who waited in line at the check-in and TSA.
These lite brite devices remind me of the armies from Teotihuacan who came to the city states of Maya at around AD 380 in liberation campaigns. The backshields of the fighters had mirrored surfaces made from pyrite intended to dazzle the enemy while the fighter turned several times in gathering momentum to throw his spear. August 2007 National Geographic at 2:00 am last night. I'm too tired to cite further than that.
Watching flesh-tone videos at work will be much easier to hide from the manager walking by if only my eyes can see the angle-dependent image.
I remember doing an essay on a chemical derived from amazonian frogbacks when I was a sophomore in high school...1998...nine years ago.
ABT-594 was ten times more effective than morphine for pain relief. I know that opiates are much better understood due to their thousands of years of use, but isn't it about time that someone like Roche or Lilly focus on an effective painkiller with the mere side effect of a tobacco addiction in lieu of opium? Or have dope fiends become more socially accepted than smokers?
Wouldn't the large corp.s collude in the background, and then that single anonymous bidder would have enough money to win the bid? I've read several articles on the Indianapolis ready-mix concrete market. Every concrete supplier had meetings in a "party barn" to discuss price fixing. These are supposed to be competing suppliers, but they learned that if they work together, the make more money. Collusion at its best.
If I were Verizon, I would want to make absolutely certain that I had a piece of this new spectrum, and to do that, I would collude with someone like AT&T, and combine our money in a joint venture called ExampleCom, Inc. ExampleCom would then have more than enough money to submit a single bid anonymously to win the entire spectrum up for auction. Then, ExampleCom would make lots of money deciding exactly which frequencies get the most bang for the buck, and well, sell the shitty bands to Verizon and AT&T's small competitors, keeping the cream of the crop for their principal investors.
How would anonymous bidding stifle collusion? It seems as though it makes it easier.
Everybody I know who uses CAD professionally uses a keyboard to type commands...it's faster and gives them more time to read slashdot. How is having a shiny table with an interactive surface going to make an engineer's job easier? Remember that when you draw a line, it has start and end exactly where you want it to start and end. That's what the num pad is for. I cannot see this new shiny interactive table aiding in the precision that real CAD demands; it seems to just complicate input.
Isn't one of the tenets of engineering that a pragmatic approach to design lends to the most economical results?
When they make "Lemon" colored units I will buy one, as I have no problem carrying one that represents what the product really is.
No. Computer Science....what we are doing here is taking an analog wave, and transferring it into something that can be written to and read from a disk or other medium.
To do that, we have to pluck a sample out of the air with a microphone, a little drum connected to a coil. This is amplified and sent to an A/D converter, which runs a process at what bitrate and frequency the specified A/D converter is rated. a 24bit/96kHz A/D converter takes 24-bit long samples 96,000 times in a second. It's like a movie camera, which run at 30Hz. Except this takes a picture much more often, because that's what our human ears require in order to be able to discern the difference between this guy's voice and that guy's voice. We can tell the difference when we're in the same room, but when we're on the phone the voices sounds totally different.
It's amazing how few people really understand how this works. It's not difficult stuff. It doesn't take an engineer to get it.
I don't know....I'm at work doing my job. When I get home I will definitely try to use them in Ardour.
We are definitely happy about bands doing this. My wife actually wrote a paper on how bands are beginning to release albums with all of their unmixed source material to let the user have some fun. Wired wrote about it with Beck's Guero album. Soon after Guero, Guerolito was released. Guerolito is in my opinion a poor, amateur album, but that's due to some unknowing hippy or raver doing a poor remix of Beck's source, simply because they don't know how to properly record.
It's possible that the sound quality of the source has something to do with the outcome of the peons' mixing efforts.
When you mix pure organic ingredients in a blender, you get pure organic juice. When you start adding Monsanto GM Alfalfa and fortifying with mass produced vitamins, you get V8. I'd go for the former. Pure source, pure outcome.
Audio sample rates do not work like audio waves.
Think of it this way:
A sample is a piece of data. 16 bits long, or 24 bits long.
A rate is how often we do something.
I would like to get a 24 bit long piece of information from what I'm hearing right now, the project manager's telephone conversation in the office next to mine. In order to get the most accurate representation of how his voice sounds, I have to get more than one of these samples every second(24bit/1Hz). To remember what his voice actually sounds like, I will need more information than that. The more information the better. If I take a 24 bit sample of his voice 96,000 times over the course of a second's time, I have a much better understanding of what myriad of frequencies his voice box produces when saying ng's and sss's and th's, and how whiny he can sound when something isn't going his way.
Understanding Digital / Analog Conversion
Do I have to be limited to CD quality?
24 bit / 96 kHz will get me interested.
Using my Athlon 64 3000+ and 64Studio, a Debian distro with realtime pre-emptive patches, I could really use some QUALITY samples.
This specialized audio distro works better than any Mac any of my friends have attempted to use (however they are the artist types and don't even understand that you have to press CTRL while clicking to get the menu).
Is there anyone else in the Slashdot crowd using linux to record Pro Audio?
Native Americans universally bear Type "O" blood.
It is the white man who brought this unclean "A" or "B" antigen blood.
So, not only are Native Americans a good source for land, but also universally transfusable blood (with the exception of "RH -").
It's got me thinking....I am of the Blood Type "O":
Is alcoholism related to absence of such antigens? I'd really like to have something to blame for it.
The screen (at the bottom) will be touched by the beard, so it wil......
On second thought, I'd rather cleanse my cellphone display of upper jaw grease than of beardy mouth grease.
Hook up a Wii-mote with integrated laser sight in lieu of joystick. Instead of bluetooth, hard wire it. Faster and more accurate than joysticks, in my opinion. Can I work for Raytheon, now?
1. School
2. Graduate
2a. Post-Graduate (optional, delays Step 4)
3. Five years field practice
4. P.E. Licensure
5. MBA
6. Hire interns for ALL calcs
7. Stamp drawings
8. Profit
This is the most impractical means of constructing concrete walls that I have ever heard of. How much does the contractor who mobilizes, operates, and maintains the equipment charge you for his service? Who would this contractor get bonding and insurance from? No one in their right mind would take so much risk.
This "3D printer" only provides a wall. The finished rooms in the "house" will certainly need paint, and for this paint to look nice, the owner will expect a smooth substrate, requiring furring and drywall over the rough substrate that this "printed" wall will produce. The cost of furring out drywall over a substrate is nearly as much as just constructing a simple stud wall of wither wood or steel, and laminating both sides with drywall. The kitchen and bathrooms will need at least working cabinets and countertops, adding more cost. The house will need acceptable, comfortable floor finishes, adding more cost. The people will want receptacles to plug in their electronic consumer goods, so you will need to accomodate for that adding more cost. The roof must be watertight. Any building MUST rest on a suitable foundation. Does the robot excavate and build footings and foundation walls? I have not mentioned the cost of electrical and plumbing work.
There is much more to a house than some walls.
Any mature architect that is excited about this is taking too many trips to Oompa Loompa Land.
On the Bent Pyramid:
The angle of repose used on the battered walls of the pyramid was too great, so great that the weight of the material above would crush the material below, splitting the seams of the flat planar walls that humankind views as monumental (watch 2001: A Space Odyssey). It was found that changing the angle of repose would allow the pyramid to be finished without breaking the base of the structure. The bent pyramid is regarded by engineers as one of the first projects being interrupted by an engineer's calculation. The necessary design changes were made to allow completion of the monument.
Concrete by itself has no useful structural purpose other than to provide a hard lump in the ground that doesn't compress i.e. foundations. It can only work as a structural material if you combine it with steel reinforcement. If you look at architectural history, you'll find that the first hypostyle column architecture came from the same egypt of the pyramids. These columns were arranged very tightly so that beams did not have to span great distances. There were no materials available at the time that would span such distances and withstand the test of time. A french artist whom I can not remember the name of decided that you can reinforce concrete with steel to make a concrete plank span great distances by placing the reinforcing at the bottom of the beam. When the load is present at the middle of the beam, and then transferred to the two posts that the beam rests on at each end, the steel in the bottom of the beam provides tensile resistance, while the concrete in the top of the beam provides compressive resistance, resulting in a beam that can span great distances without sagging and breaking under heavy load. If the Egyptians had the technology of steel, they would surely have built their columns farther apart. Consider that they did use large spaces under roofs supported by wood trusses. Those trusses would not withstand the test of time, so we have no record of them existing other than what was glyphed into stone. The Egyptian Pharoahs understood this, and thus built their monuments with something that would last as long as possible, to put their mark on the world. A big square pile of rocks just made the most sense at the time. Upon further investigation, you may find that the funerary architecture of Egypt quite fascinating. Not only Pharoah's were rich enough to build monuments, but also the more prominent Architects, Engineers, and Contractors built entire cities with individual structures to house their individual souls upon dying. Not of wood, but of mud.
Unless you believe in a god who has the power to touch his creation. The christian father god would probably say: You're trying to do what I can do, so in the event that you come close, I will crush you and make you understand that your power will never supercede mine. Or so that's what my parents believe.
Considering the mount of times the first letter of the lph bet ppe rs in text, this m y m ke re ding sl shdot difficult with the free Oper web browser for the Wii.
I use a highly specialized spreadsheet for doing building construction quantity take-offs of architectural blueprints for $5 Million to $35 Million contract estimates. I made a macro for each line item, by type of material. Ctrl+F for concrete footings, Ctrl+W for foundation walls, etc. The macro moves cells for me. I just take my usb num pad over to the blueprint desk and type away, looking up at the lcd now and then to make sure i'm entering properly. It's pretty efficient to work this way. This also makes use of my adding machine skills with a quick alt-tab to a calculator.