Thanks for those links Ross - your local music seems a bit like mine. My local sports club has blues every thursday night - similar age group Loved the pedal steel blues - damn hard instrument that one!

that's not the smell Boo... it's the stink of my stirring up the locals...

Love it! Thanks Eric...:`)

Real nice Rob. Very bold, I like it. John, those images are wicked cool too. Thanks for sharing.

I can see an attachment (inline) but it's not clickable - though can be seen clearly (maybe the system - when the attachment is not "bigger" in pixels than what it can display, won't give a possibility to click/enlarg - for there's no reason). As for instant messaging - why cannot we use any of the already available services (like MSN, Skype etc)? Skype even has a service that you can insert an image (say into your signature) that reveals when you're online and available. Just an idea (I also use it to call friends abroad - often cheaper in "Arkansaw" than my mom next door here)

Maybe you are just reading a little too much into this Juan? If is was to be named the "Official SU Forums" or something similar I may agree with you. I read "Home of the SU Community" and find myself agreeing. But, we are all different and have different opinions.

Me 2- Looked up my previous residences, coastal landmarks, and places I'd been when in the Navy. Sidebar... Lately, I'm thinking someone could make a lot of money by applying store-names, etc on rooftops. I think it would be a great time-saver when looking for specific stores when you know you're very close to it. Think of the advertising potential! BTW- I'm too old to get into this, but if you do, please mention you heard it here

I've sent several PMs to myself. It's always an exciting fun to receive a PM!

Replace it because of one glitch... no thanks. Thanks for the concern however

Juju, that is great

that's hilarious... Boo always has a smile for me everyday... thanks Boo, keepem coming.

The poor dude's inbox is going to blow! I'm trying to imagine if it were me, I'd probably run for the hills!

And the overall winner, "We Come In Peas". Yet another architecture firm. [image: 6.jpg] [image: 7.jpg] [image: 8.jpg]

('jason'..yeah yeah..confusing..haha) i figured it was a little inspiring..and relatively simple to build.. they built bits and pieces..and bits and pieces popped up for them as they went through the scenes...of course, some things didnt necessarily line up with what they drew...but whatever..

380, Here's what I recall, mostly accurate I think. You need to have a usenet newsreader and access to a news server. A web browser, such as IE or Firefox, does not read the network news transfer protocol (NNTP), but either hypertext transfer protocol (HTTP) or file transfer protocol (FTP). Outlook Express has a news client, but Outlook does not. The Thunderbird e-mail client (companion to Mozilla Firefox) also has a built-in news client. Forte Agent is a well known stand-alone news reader. It's predecessor, Free Agent (which was free) is apparently defunct. News servers provide access to news groups, generally by downloading the contents of some horrendous number of individual newsgroup hosts on a periodic basis. Many (used to be most) ISPs have or provide access to a news server. There are a number of free news servers out there, which tend to be short-lived. -Gully Edit: Incidentally, and perhaps ironically, Google Groups (which many on this forum consider too icky for their refined sensibilities) provides web-based access to a huge number of internet usenet newsgroups and maintains an archive of their contents (which it acquired from the one-time internet giant Deja View) going back to the mid 90s, and if you don't have a newsreader and a news server, it's a reasonable alternative. poster-Gully Foyle

up to you james... the architecture and wanting to talk about the SU possibilitites here... doesn't matter where... the forming is done with rebar...

Cheers Guys! It sucks having to go to work on your birthday, though I'm going to have to scan (and post) the Birthday card the compositing team did for me. Apparantly, I look a lot like Daniel Radcliffe (Harry Potter for those who don't read credit lists...). What with the film out last week, and the book out this week, well... have a guess... Take care all AJ

Yeah, I've been playing a bit with Doyle's techniques as shown in the 3rd edition using photoshop over a SketchUp or hand-drawn base, and adding a little hand work. I'm not very facile with it yet, and haven't really had the time to spend on it that I'd like, but I do see the potential benefits of letting each tool do what it does best. I'm not a complete Luddite...

I've had a chance to play with it a little more since I originally posted the QCAD link. It is a decent little CAD program...I ended up buying a license for both my PC and my Linux machines. It seems like it bogs down faster than AutoCAD, though...not yet suitable for the kind of large project my firm does, but sufficient for ordinary domestic architecture or simpler work (in my opinion). The most annoying aspect of the program, for an AutoCAD user, is that you can't grab individual vertices...you just have to use the Stretch command very selectively. But there is a nice "auto" snap feature that is somewhat like SketchUp's inferences, except that it also wants to snap to the underlying grid...to make it not do so, you have to make the grid some insanely large size. I'll take a look at those links you posted, RegH. Thanks.