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HUnewearl_Meira
May 3, 2007, 12:57 AM
On my last day at Lars Andersen & Associates, I decided I wanted to vent a trivial annoyance in the form of an animated GIF. I got all the layers I needed together, but before I could finish it, I was asked to talk with a couple of managers in the president's office, at which point, I was laid off. Naturally, this distracted me from finishing what I was doing, here.

Tonight, I took a look at the PSD file that remained, and decided to finish it.

That being said, I now present you with the last thing that annoyed me while I was working as a Civil Draftsman.

http://i43.photobucket.com/albums/e358/VanGarrett/Bayshore-Avenue-Median.gif

HAYABUSA-FMW-
May 3, 2007, 01:00 AM
Freakin' hippies with their tree planters with gutters!

Weeaboolits
May 3, 2007, 01:00 AM
XD

BlueDagger
May 3, 2007, 01:14 AM
You're not allowed to post porn here! And you're even a moderator! http://www.pso-world.com/images/phpbb/icons/smiles/icon_eek.gif

HAYABUSA-FMW-
May 3, 2007, 01:19 AM
On 2007-05-02 23:14, BlueDagger wrote:
You're not allowed to post kinkyness here! And you're an odd moderator dhylec! ;o

or is he even?

time chu count~

HUnewearl_Meira
May 3, 2007, 01:31 AM
On 2007-05-02 23:14, BlueDagger wrote:
You're not allowed to post porn here! And you're even a moderator! http://www.pso-world.com/images/phpbb/icons/smiles/icon_eek.gif



So am I to understand that you get off to Topographic maps with notes and leaders?

BlueDagger
May 3, 2007, 01:39 AM
On 2007-05-02 23:31, HUnewearl_Meira wrote:

So am I to understand that you get off to Topographic maps with notes and leaders?



Oh, yeah! Hawt!

Yeah, baby, draw them numbas'! Woo! Ooooohhhh.... Uggghh!! Gaaaaaahhaaahahahsaaah!!11!!11!!!!!1!! OOOohhhh!!!

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Uhhh... http://www.pso-world.com/images/phpbb/icons/smiles/anime2.gif

That felt goooodd....

Nani-chan
May 3, 2007, 01:41 AM
Do they have the locations of underaged girls/boys on them?

HUnewearl_Meira
May 3, 2007, 01:44 AM
On 2007-05-02 23:41, Nani-chan wrote:
Do they have the locations of underaged girls/boys on them?



Generally not, but I once discovered a topo point labeled as "GUY". I was rather amused with the propects of this, until it figured out that it was the location of a guy wire.

Blitzkommando
May 3, 2007, 02:06 AM
Was this said island ever created? Or did it fall into one of the many black holes of bureaucracy?

Nai_Calus
May 3, 2007, 07:36 AM
You make me want to go to San Fransisco just to see this thing for an eighth of a second before someone runs me off the road.

I once made the mistake of going somewhere in San Fransisco without printing reverse directions, though. You'd think, being born and raised in California as I was, specifically the Bay Area, that by the time I had reached 23 years of age, I would have remembered, and reminded myself, that 103% of the streets in San Fransisco are fucking one way.

I did not.

I was lost for an hour in the dark and pouring rain trying to find a goddamned freeway onramp. San Fransisco does not see fit to tell you anything other than how to get to Chinatown and Fisherman's Wharf, which, while marginally helpful if you're trying to go to those places, is utterly worthless if you're merely trying to find the freeway.

Thus, it does not surprise me that there should be a random oddly shaped island in the middle of the street.

It just makes perfect nonsense.

DizzyDi
May 3, 2007, 08:19 AM
sounds like you had a pretty boring job Meira.

HUnewearl_Meira
May 3, 2007, 10:28 AM
Interestingly Dizzy, it was sometimes exciting to talk about the things I was doing at that job, but never to actually do them. Like, I can say that I had a hand in designing at least a dozen Home Depots in California. I can rant for days on the incredibly stupid things Architects tend to do when they draw site plans. I can talk about how stupidly stubborn Home Depot can be, and how that attitude is the reason why there will never be a Home Depot in Huntington Beach, despite Home Depot having already purchased the abandoned K-Mart they were planning to take over.

But doing the actual work involved was never anything exciting.


On 2007-05-03 00:06, Norvekh wrote:
Was this said island ever created? Or did it fall into one of the many black holes of bureaucracy?



Yes. That is an existing median island, as discernable by the lines being dashed. Existing objects on a site are also traditionally either drawn with very thin dashed lines, or gray dashed lines. This is so that they can still be there, without standing out above the proposed site improvements.

CherryLunar
May 3, 2007, 03:58 PM
This brings back horrible memories of Drafting and Architecture class. Not that they're bad areas, its just that I found it very confusing and not all too stimulating. @___@ But at least I understand whats going on. http://www.pso-world.com/images/phpbb/icons/smiles/icon_biggrin.gif

HUnewearl_Meira
May 3, 2007, 08:19 PM
The funny thing Cherry, is that the classes don't do the job justice. You may be there for two, possibly three hours at a time. Try doing it for eight hours every day, just staring at that black screen.

Plus, when you're in a class, whatever you're doing probably won't be built, so there's no real consequences if you make a mistake. Once you're doing the job, the math becomes important.

And also remember this: Architects should never be allowed to design the site plan. If a Civil Engineer is in charge of the site plan, it'll all work nicely, but when an architect does it, there's always going to be a problem with it. I've never seen an architect's site plan work right. There's always some gaping problem with it.

Dahilia
May 3, 2007, 11:45 PM
That median needs a taco bell