[MD] new blog

[Ian Glendinning]

MP, nice to be accused of being wholly logical for a change, I used to
dream of being wholly logical ;-)

Some great analogies of that which we discuss in Lamb Lies Down too.
The footer of my blog has a permanent reminder that Rael is not real.

Eventually your door guys will need an engineer (or a neat trick,
ingenuity) unless they find a "foundation" to stand on outside one of
those doors.

Ian

On Thu, Feb 5, 2009 at 2:36 AM, Michael Poloukhine <moq at poloukhine.com> wrote:
>> Michael as a professional engineer (who likes Dennett's engineering
>> analogies of evolution), I might extend your architects view ...
>>
>> You might "really need" a fully glazed exterior doorway, but sorry you
>> can't have one. We can ony fit doorways from the inside, there are no
>> sky-hooks outside for us pragmatic engineers to build the architects
>> dream. (Interestingly full-glazed buildings provide a lot of good
>> architect / engineeering analogies I suspect.) We can only build from
>> the inside out. We can look out but we can't do stuff out there
>> without building cranes and that crane always has to poke through your
>> glazing from an internal structure.
>
> MP: LoL.
> Leave it to an engineer to sully a perfectly good analogy AND with a straight
> face give a wholly logical explanation of why our house can't have a front door.
> ;-)
>
> So then, unless the engineer left us a sledge in the house, windows are all we
> can use to get out, and we'd better get the door guys to help us figure out how
> to open them.
>
> Or Lilywhite Lilith ;-)
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