@unknownuser said: If I may. . . The fact that you are doing it as a side job or as a hobby means you should be charging more not less. YOu can pick and choose what projects you take on. Even still, don't debase yourself or the profession. People will value you only if you value yourself. Provide a good product, Charge a fair rate based on the market and the clients will come. JMHO David_H ps. keep the Peed on Stuff at the back of the portfolio. Thanks for the advice David.

Here's a good clip from some of his old stand-up... http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3_Nrp7cj_tM&feature=related

We tend to have such pathetic voter turn-outs for local elections here inthe U.S., also. Then everyone complains about corrupt politicians. But what can you expect? Such low turn-out sends the message that most people don't care, so the politicians do what they want. About the only constituency they have to pander to are the elderly, as they seem to be the ones group who do regularly turn out to vote.

Dear Mr. S, Well, your wide skills base suggests that you shouldn't have any problem finding another job, but one possibility that comes to mind would be to re-train as a Design and Technology teacher http://www.tda.gov.uk/recruit.aspx?ilewa=10000437. On the freelance side, I suggest you put a portfolio of your work together and mail-shot all the small architectural practices in your area. Most will be shedding staff (my neighbour is a young architect, and so I know what is happening), but they still need to work, and so buying in help as and when they need it makes sense as then they don't have to the meet the monthly overheads (salaries, NI, pensions etc). I cannot imagine you not getting work, particularly if you can offer complete confidentiality, something I think many architects would worry about. Signing a confidentiality agreement should sort that out. There may be a niche market in helping people visualise and plan a new house extension before employing the services of an architect and/or builder. It has been my experience that architects tend to design what 'they' think you should build', and not what was requested at the initial briefing meeting. This leads to delays and extra costs as a compromise is sort. Just a few thoughts. Good luck! Kind regards, Bob

I don't see French Chris test Are you beta testing of this surfer's wave?

Seems like an awesome movie

Way to go Rick and Todd. As always your efforts to improve SU or bring functionality to the end users that is not present in the base application is much appreciated.

'Walk the earth...' I hope someone up there will give him a piece of soil to keep on walking.

Video of the Lego Falling Water [flash=480,385:2siw72ac]http://www.youtube.com/v/zmMjlhOr-3w&hl=fr&fs=1[/flash:2siw72ac] And the company Some crazy models inside! Brick Structures [image: Generic_2-200x487.jpg]

@unknownuser said: You don't want to work with Nickel and Dimer's anyway (do they still use the Nickel and Dime up there in Canada ) No actually we use Loonies. Seriously...(and appropriately Canadian) Good for you Susan.

I loved when after chuck first knocks down Bruce they do a quick zoom so he can smirk for the camera. The Kitty was lovin' it too. Could you tell how enthralled she was? Its rare to see that range of emotion and depth of acting in an action film. Not since I saw Meryl Streep in "Fists of Death V".

Gtalk and Skype are my limit, for people I need to actually contact from time to time. I can't be bothered with Facebook, Linkedin, or any of that other stuff which would seem to expand your contacts exponentially.

In just 2 days my PS3 should be arriving with LBP (Little Big Planet)... I'll test it from an Architect's point of view, of course.

The details of some of those photos are on the Cloud Appreciation Society's site. http://cloudappreciationsociety.org/name-that-cloud/

REAL IMAGE! REAL VIEW! REAL PHOTO! PHOTO IMAGE! PHOTO VIEW! REALISTIC VIEW! REALISTIC VIEWS? COMPUTER GENERATED REALISTIC VIEWS?

...... here a couple of pics of the production model and of Mr & Mrs Yeti with Baby Yeti, sadly he did not get his mother's look [image: 5Ksy_YetiProd01.jpg] [image: wvZR_YetiProd02.jpg] [image: aEbq_MrampMrsYetiwithBabyYeti.jpg]

Yep ... well, really we live NEAR Coarsegold - but the USPS lumps us all in together. We live in a development of about 2,000 homes with minimum 1 acre lots. Really great people live here in the foothills, we don't have the glare of the city (Fresno), and we're above the nasty valley Tule Fog (ya ain't been in fog till you've been in the Tule Fog!). The other upside is that we are only an hour and a half from the Yosemite Valley floor and only 45 minutes from Bass Lake (awesome boating lake - it was featured in the John Candy / Dan Aykroyd movie "The Great Outdoors").

Note that it was 1990 (almost 20 years ago) when I was there. And indeed, the suburbs (then) looked like that here and there. And yes, our abandoned mines have also been (kind of) "recultivated" here ever since

I thought you guys might be interested in the final result last night. The winners were Diversity, a tremendously original and inventive dance act. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KJIz8BgRQc0 Second, was Susan Boyle, reprising her first offering, seen at the start of this thread. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Lc2elS5rNkI Third was Julian Smith; also reprising his original performance...but giving an unabridged version. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y9Cr-1iQQ2E Sound about right, but I think I'd have switched 2 and 3 around. akf Tenor/Accoustic guitar/Blues Harp