"Joe the Plumber"...err Samuel is his real name
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@unknownuser said:
Ron
I want to give you credit your political opinion is quite often in the minority on this forum and yet you continually express your honest opinion and do so in a respectful manner. I admire that and welcome your comments. I've followed many of the links you post and laughed at some of the things that you find humorous.
We are after all on a Sketchup forum and after the dust settles in this election I'm sure we can all agree that the things we have in common are far greater and more important than the things we differ on.
Soon we can all go back to discussing Sketchup and the pending version 7 release. Soon we can all go back to being impressed by each others latest sketchup endeavor. Let's all agree that although politics are important they are not what define who we are.
Appreciate the comments, Phil. I hope I'm still using SketchUp when V7 is released!! I'm about at the end of my architectural career, I think. I'm just not sure I want to make 18-20 month commitments anymore. And that's what it takes to do a house from design through construction. That's a chunk of time. Maybe I'll try to focus on additions and remodels. In some ways they're more fun because they become like little design charettes by comparision.
Sorry, I digressed....
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Ron
That's precisely why I love doing 3d graphics projects. Client X calls and says we have two weeks before our presentation can you get this done. I say yes....work night and day for two weeks and upon delivery of said graphics....Blamo my involvement is over...No liabilities...No call backs...No un-foreseen conditions...
Even though a house project is done we are still responsible for the project and our liability related to the project continues on.
But I thought Architects did not retire but rather worked until they croak and we need to pry the parallel bar from their cold stiff hands.
Given the state of my finances that's my retirement plan.
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Parallel bar, huh? LOL...I draw everything by hand,including CD's. I use SU to explore ideas and make presentations to the client. In the 80's my development partner and I (he was a contractor) build some apartments and over the course of time, sold some, kept some, I bought him out and now have some rental income so I don't necessarily need to rely on architecture. Although, when my current project is finished, I can tell you I will definitely miss the income!
What kind of 3D graphics projects do you do? Are they not architecturally related?
Edit: Boy have I hijacked this thread or WHAT?
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Most, or at least more, of the conversation between Obama and "Joe" (maybe Barack mentions welfare sometime after this clip stops...?):
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Ron
yes the 3d graphics are architecture related but unless they are for my own architecture than I have no liability associated with them.
In fact I am in the process of spinning off my 3d graphics work under a separate company since my liability insurance premium is partial determined by my revenue and if I can separate ALL the work I do for other companies that would not requires a license then my "architure" fees that I must report to my insurance carrier can go down.
check out my graphics examples
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Very nice portfolio, Phil. I love the Nvizeon (sp?). It's like the FireFox's PicLens. Wonderful way to display your work. Spinning of your non-architectural work is smart. The last time I carried it, my client sued me specifically BECAUSE I had insurance. The case was eventually dropped, but only after I'd spent my $5,000 deductible.
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Thanks Ron I just did a quick web slide show to kick start the process
I'm working on the real website but real paying projects are getting in the way.
here's a taste of what the real site will look like:
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WOW...cool 3D presentation! I'm not too keen on the music, though.
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Yea it was a flash/xml template I'm attempting to modify. key word "attempting" I'm getting too old to learn new applications. I could just change the mp3 that the template references to nothing but I have not figured out how to delete the icons for the different music selections. Oh well when you are a control freak like me and you want to do everything yourself like create your own website versus hiring someone to do it. Then you suffer the consequences.
So do you think Joe the Plumber will actually appear with John McCain I understand he has been invited to appear on the campaign with him. If this guy was truly just an average citizen who happen to get to meet Barack Obama, Well he should be laughing all the way to the bank right now because his story is I'm sure for sale to the highest bidder right now. He may be able to afford that plumbing business after all.
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Joe is appearing on Fox tonight. I would guess Joe would not campaign with McCain (hey, that rhymes!). So the main stream liberal media has been camped outside Joe's door just waiting to pounce and trip him up. Whey the hell didn't they camp outside Ayers' door in their unbiased quest for news.
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