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Re: Other: wooden car------WebKitFormBoundaryAADJA
By:dsmithla
Date: 4/10/2009, 3:18 pm
In Response To: Re: Other: wooden car------WebKitFormBoundaryAADJA (Carl Delo------WebKitFormBoundaryAADJAAcYAA+2AAes)

Well, all kiddin aside, I've got to admit I'm impressed by what I see of the work. And truly with something like this (art in my mind, at least), I don't really have a problem with doing something just for the sake of doing it (kind of like, "why climb the mountain?" "because it's there").

: I have to say, that wood car makes my skin crawl. It just goes to show that
: with enough money and time you can force a material to work, no matter how
: poorly it fits the requirements of the job. I guess as an academic
: exercise I understand it. I teach engineering design myself, so I get it.
: But I'd prefer my students figure out how to pick the most
: economic/efficient/elegant material for a project than using brute force
: on defenseless wood products. Then again, maybe next semester I'll get
: them working on a SOF made from unicorn horns and fairy wings.

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Bill -- 4/7/2009, 4:00 pm
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Carl Delo------WebKitFormBoundaryAADJAAcYAA+2AAes -- 4/10/2009, 1:33 pm
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dsmithla -- 4/10/2009, 3:18 pm
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Carl Delo------WebKitFormBoundaryAADJAAcYAA+2AAes- -- 4/11/2009, 11:46 am
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Bill Hamm -- 4/10/2009, 1:53 pm
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Carl Delo------WebKitFormBoundaryAADJAAcYAA+2AAes -- 4/11/2009, 11:42 am
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Bill Hamm -- 4/11/2009, 12:23 pm
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Bill Hamm -- 4/7/2009, 5:57 pm
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Davd S. -- 4/9/2009, 8:56 pm
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Bill Hamm -- 4/10/2009, 1:17 pm
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dsmithla -- 4/10/2009, 1:37 pm
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Bill Hamm -- 4/12/2009, 3:37 am
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Simeon -- 4/7/2009, 5:10 pm