Thomas J. Johnson

Sorry, got a little off track there… one “transect zone” that is not mentioned is the “vertical transect zone”. Shall we call it T7? If you want to escape the city, you have to go up or out… it’s a lot easier to have your own little oasis in the sky than it is to get out of town on Friday afternoon. T7 is where it’s at…

I found the transect link within the article to be much more clear and concise, in describing the principle.
http://newurbannetwork.com/article/transect
“The rural-to-urban Transect is divided into six zones: core (T6), center (T5), general urban (T4), sub-urban (T3), rural (T2), and natural (T1). The remaining category, Special District, applies…[Read more]

Mock orange is good for making bows (bows and arrows) in case our other national defense strategies fail and we need to get “old school” on them… and those oranges would probably hurt like hell too if we could figure out a way to propel them… potato gun?

I’d love to go through special forces training. I actually applied to the Navy Seals when I got laid off in Nov. ’08 but they turned me down due to age. I was 30, the cut off is 29.
I used to be in good enough shape to do it too… mtn bike 75 miles, run 6+, swim a mile, lifted 4-6 days a week, could carry a 90 lb pack all day… that’s the kind…[Read more]

Poison Ivy is classified as a delayed-response defensive strategy. (I just made that up… but it sounds pretty good, eh?) The perpetrator won’t realize the discomfort they are due to experience until it’s too late. Then they will be very sorry indeed… and easily identifiable from the welts, swelling and redness…

Does “Faith Based City Planning” imply that we should turn over our will to God because he/she/it will plan our cities for us or that city planners think they are God…and we should have faith in them… because they know what’s best for us?

Security Site Design should have some serious traction in this economy / political climate and in the years to come. It also seems well aligned with my areas of interest; hardscape, grading, engineering, mechanical design, spiky plants and general trickery.
Thank you for the fresh perspective Trace and Henry… I’ll have to look into this career path…

Don’t accept anything less than six-figures 😉

lol
I’m going to start adding Esquire to my name, just for kicks…
Thomas J Johnson, Esq.
Computer Aided Design Cercopithecoid
Transparency-Enhancement Facilitator
External Project Processor
 

In reply to the article, I say, “speak for yourself…”. I went to Colorado State University for my BSLA and found the education to be exceptional. Three of my four professors were from The GSD and the fourth was a mind-blowing illustrator. The program was very “process” and design oriented but the assigned projects required you to become…[Read more]

Muhlenbergia capilaris
 
Aristida purpurea

Just trying to lighten the mood a bit… it wasn’t a reference to your last name. Besides, it’s McDonalds (Irish) not MacDonalds (Scottish)… You’re probably just overly sensitive to cheeseburger jokes… no need to hit bellow the belt. Don’t worry, I don’t hold out much hope, if any, of a shiny new LA future… Most likely I’ll be working at…[Read more]

I like cheeseburgers.

That sounds like a pretty chill schedule… It looks like you even squeaked out 40.5 billable hours… that’s a lot better than cracking-out on AutoCAD for 36 hours straight, getting 6 hours of sleep and then finishing the week with 12+ hour days…

Laguna Beach, CA. With the amount of work I was doing, it might as well have been Nebraska. I didn’t see the light of day… don’t let exotic locales and big names lure you into sacrificing everything for a job. It’s not worth leaving friends, family, a great town and spending every penny you have. Yeah, it was expensive.

I enjoy a little car-pedestrian etiquette and the associated communication techniques. There are a whole series of hand gestures, body posturing and eye movements involved for both driver and pedestrian. It is this interaction, amongst other things, that makes a town a village and intersperses a bit of humanity into everyday life. The interactions…[Read more]

lol!

Building Information Modeling (BIM) Typically uses three-dimensional, real-time, dynamic building modeling software to increase productivity in building design and
construction.[2]
The process produces the Building Information Model (also abbreviated
BIM), which encompasses building geometry, spatial relationships,
geographic information, and…[Read more]

Spending 15 hours on an idea, only to get rejected by the boss, doesn’t sound like a very good use of time, labor, budget or creativity. Why wasn’t he / she there to guide you in a different direction after say, 3 hours, max? Boss – “Hey, how’s that idea coming along…? Ah, OK, cool. Why don’t we tweak this and do that…Yeah, that looks better.…[Read more]

Sweet! The latest version is compatible with AutoCAD 2006! 🙂
I hope he sold his “squiggle” code to AutoDesk for a nice chunk of dough.