[David J. Chirico]

Nailed it…

[David J. Chirico]

Can we see a link to the article and your rebuttal?

[David J. Chirico]

That wasn’t directed at you by the way Jon, this was just the most active place to post at the time.

[David J. Chirico]

Try this one, just give yourself about 2 hours, but worth it:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TZU3wfjtIJY

[David J. Chirico]

This is interesting, 21 pages of forum debate in 20 minutes at Zuccotti Park:

http://reason.tv/video/show/peter-schiff-represents-the-1-1

 

[David J. Chirico]

If you have an hour, these lectures offer a great perspective on that topic:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kBdfcR-8hEY

 

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0O2Rq4HJBxw

[David J. Chirico]

That’s a good point Jon.  I recall sitting in on a lecture a few years back where the point was made that spartina was an invasive species in the United States but not in Europe.

In Europe it is kept under control by a certain insect, one that doesn’t exist in this country.  Without its natural predator it has quite an impact environmentally and economically.

He makes it more a utilitarian arguement that the needs of the many outweighing the needs of the few.

[David J. Chirico]

“God made whales to be in the ocean, and God made camels to be in the desert, and He made man to be in the garden.  And everything we do should reflect that garden.”  Robert Marvin, FASLA

 

“You become responsible, forever, for what you have tamed.”

“It is the time you have devoted to the rose that makes the rose so important.”

Antoine de Saint-Exupery

 

If you are using the internet, look up Ralph Waldo Emerson and Henry David Thoreau quotes on nature.  There is a never ending supply.

[David J. Chirico]

It’s not that hard of an interpretation.

 

You’re not competing with the bear.  You have to be better than the other guy to survive.  Apple Inc. clearly wears sneakers.

 

Hell they make their own sneakers and throw them at the bear to taunt him.

[David J. Chirico]

Hopefully, they are all working too hard to look at blogs 🙂

 

Try “bear spray”

[David J. Chirico]

Do we have all the facts here?  I don’t know that I would convict the contractor just yet.

 

What if the concrator was having a casual conversation with the owner, mentioned how much more spectacular the home would look with more lighting, then went to Ms. Corson with his ideas?  Doesn’t everyone benefit?

 

Now if the contractor said “hey after all of this over, here’s my card, call me and we’ll do this right” then yes I would call shenanigans!  But I don’t know for sure that is the case.

 

Communication goes a long way, talk to the contractor and get his feedback, you’ll know right away what your dealing with.

 

However, your drawings should have something like:

“CONTRACTOR TO NOTIFY LANDSCAPE ARCHITECT OF ANY CHANGES TO THE APPROVED PLANS BEFORE ANY CONSTRUCTION BEGINS” or

“LANDSCAPE ARCHITECT TO BE NOTIFIED BEFORE ANY CHANGES TO THE APPROVED PLANS ARE MADE”

 

This way if he does deviate from the plans and doesn’t tell you, you got him with his hands in the cookie jar.  Good Luck!

[David J. Chirico]

I encourage you guys to think about it a little differently.

 

In what other context do we say, “don’t improve yourself” or “don’t learn so much” or “stop trying to be so educated”.

 

In many other contexts, this is dangerous thinking.

 

If something is done wrong, we would be far better to criticize, and reason and explain the fault (and God forbid offer to fix it), than to belittle and denigrate the person that did it.  Thats the work of fallacious politicians.

 

And you would be on much firmer ground that when its good design, applaud it, explain why its done well and point it out as an example of why what we preach works no matter who did it.

 

Its funny when a bunch of school kids churn out a garden we applaud them for getting their hands dirty.  If the same thing were done by a bunch of architects or CE’s the reaction is much different.

[David J. Chirico]

Now it looks like me!

[David J. Chirico]

I thought it was a picture of Will Ferrell

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I am sure many faiths disapprove of cremation, Islam being one of them.  Being the clock was ticking on the 24 hour timeframe, and no country would take him, and the volatility of having the body buried in your country, seems to make the burial at sea the best option.

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