It's fun but it makes you feel like a dope sometimes like Duh I should have know that would happen.

I've looked at the Green Toaster Thread (GTT) several times over the past months. I like that it's a long thread IE 40+ pages now. I mentally remember what page it was on the last time I visited and the next time I feel compelled to browse to that thread I find it and pick up where I left off or just look at the last few pages. If for example that thread were broken up into several topics I would not mentally keep track of my interest in several separate topics of similar interest. So the long and short of it is that I think we should allow for topics to grow as long as they want and as long as the posters in that topic find interest in and continue to post new material of a similar nature.

I think a topic with over 20 posts is probably rare and a topic with over 40 posts is probably very rare I'm just guessing here but I gather that most posts are less than 20 reply's and then they melt into obscurity.

So if you bought a GM car in 1946 and kept it in a garage and never drove it you would probably have more money now than if you invested that money in their stocks. I wonder if that would be true or not...It would be sad if it is. I have no way of knowing but it's an interesting thought.

1. Be YOURSELF... It's often quoted but seldom employed. If you are pretending to be something you are not then that will show through.
2. You've got to know what you DON'T know...IE: if you are asked a question that you don't know the answer to, don't FAKE it. Admit that you don't know the answer and let them know that you enjoy learning new things and that you expect to continue learning all of your life.

@daniel said:

Remus, in architecture school the all-nighter is an all too frequent occurance (for undergrads, at least). During my first run through university I once atayed up 72 hours straight (some how I ended up with three studios that semester). My second run through college, zero all nighters.

Thank some chemist for inventing no-dose and jolt cola a particularly effective cocktail combination to keep the peepers open...although you can no longer draw straight lines for some reason.

Yes now my all-nighters are mostly natural I stil drink a few cups of coffee but I reckon that my blood is 30% caffeine now anyway because of years of addiction to it. So for me caffeine is a natural substance.

@remus said:

Ive done it once already, you don't have to do this right of passage more than once do you?

YES you do...the only difference is that as you get older the body takes longer to recover from it.

It seems that this technology like many others is driven by potential profit. Here is a youtube video of similar technology from cisco.

Now the interesting thing to me is can this be done electronically via an application like Sketchup using 3 Dimensional models. IE what if you could simulate the 35 HD cameras in a 3d application and have those simulated cameras sending video feeds just like the real camera except they are focused on the 3d object in the computer. Now could we display a 3 dimensional "holographic" model to remote locations....Somehow my mind always tries to bring Sketchup into the picture.

this is pretty cool the remote correspondent is displayed via holographic technology to the in studio correspondent. maybe now we can eliminate the goofy people standing behind a journalist making funny faces and saying hi to their mothers.

http://www.cnn.com/video/#/video/politics/2008/11/04/blitzer.yellin.hologram.obama.cnn

I feel the same as I did the day I received my Architectural License....Elation soon gives way to the realization that I still had to go to work tomorrow.....

Well We all have to go to work tomorrow and for Barack it's no different except that his job just got eminently more difficult. He is going to need a lot of help. It's in all of our best interest to insure that he is successful.

So Let me be the first to offer up my commitment to do my part to be more inclusive in my political comments.

I do hope that Barack congratulates John McCain for his efforts and welcomes him into his list of trusted advisors.

Burp...err I think I'm getting a cavity.

Great work Cornel. You are a very creative person and that shows in your work. Please do continue to post your work as it is a pleasure to observe.

Nicely done. This type of study illustrates one of SU true abilities to outshine other applications.

Great image...welcome to the forum.

I agree about the north arrow. tone it down or just have it be white and let the shadows define it.
I agree with the comment about the trees there is a ruby called randor.rb or something like that created by TBD you can select all the tree components and apply the ruby and it will randomize their scale.
There is a fine line between monochromatic and fully textures. Your image starts down the path of fully textures but stops short. In that regard I wonder if it might benefit by making the flat roofs a darker color like they would be in reality. similarly I wonder if having some extremely low poly cars might ad a sense of dynamics to the image.

Just my 2 cents. But again it a great image and I look forward to seeing more of you efforts.

Yes "Money can't buy you happiness" we All forgot that proverb.

Now how do we get out of this mess our world is in. I feel like I want to sell everything I own and if possible pay off all my debt and live in a tent. I don't think that's possible but I was a lot happier when I moved to New York City I only had $400 and a bag of cloths. Life was simple then.

When I met my wife she came over to cook me diner one night. We went down the street to buy a plate and some silverware for her because I only owned one plate and one set of silverware. Life was simple. A futon bed on the floor and an alarm clock radio and a coffee maker were all you needed in life.

I do miss those days.

Yea I saw this on a CNN video What's the power consumption to light output ratio. It would be cool for instance to have an entire ceiling made up of this material with the inclusion of light sensors and then only the portions that are in an area that is too dark would illuminate.

Marian if you use an HDR image as the texture on an object you can create a light source out of the object.

Ron I think you are correct.

We already had the fox in charge of the hen house but for some reason unknown to us all our chickens disappeared. But instead of getting rid of the fox we decided to buy more chickens and put them in the same hen house. Of course we told the fox that we are going to keep our eyes on him this time.

Thanks for the follow up comments gentlemen.

I fear that the internet is just a newer version of the TV. Yes the internet is wholly a different and potentially diametrically apposed to the Television but it can be used as an addictive substance just like Television.

We turned off cable right after our first child was born 7 years ago. To this day our children have never watched a network television show. Our television an analog tv from the 1970's and soon won't even receive analog signals when the new digital only signals are instituted.

Instead our children have read thousands of books. I hope we are making the right decision in this matter.

anyway I feel that consumerism is a drug and once you have it in your system it's nearly impossible to get it out. Who doesn't look at ad's for new cars, new houses, new widgets and not even for a brief second desire those things.

anyway I don't think we are going to get out of this cycle of indebtedness unless we address the core issue "consumerism"

Hey can you blame the CEO for wanting to put butter on both sides of his slice of bread.