Slow day. My fellow Americans, you are coming off as defensive and hyper vigilant about light comments that seem pretty benign to me. My older brothers still tease me and we're all in our seventies. I just smile in response. Lighten up.
Come on, no need to turn this into an Europe vs America debate.
That said, Siemens is still huge, especially for nuclear power production.
I used to work for Siemens. The incompetence of the people that actually run the company scares the bejeezus out of me. The front-line workers are geniuses to say the least, but they are ruled by management that as far as I'm concerned could be better run with a roomful of monkeys.
Slow day. My fellow Americans, you are coming off as defensive and hyper vigilant about light comments that seem pretty benign to me. My older brothers still tease me and we're all in our seventies. I just smile in response. Lighten up.
The timber in my house date from the 1580s. This is quite common in my part of the UK.
Lots of termites in California. Old growth redwood is bug resistant, also to rot, but it was also overcut with typical rapacious abandon, so salvaged old growth wood is pretty much all we got. Need a few hundred years to grow more. Not like the hardwoods you guys got.
I'm only supposing about this barn, based on hints in the story. Nobody probes anymore into the details, even though they're paid to write up the news stories. We could have avoided all the comedy if the story was written up right.
Noah lived to about 900 or 600, I can't remember which.
Even if that's true, the knowledge and/or genetic mutation that enabled him to do that seems to be long gone now. So it's still a case of us having to (re-?)learn how.
But they are disassembling it and moving it and reassembling it anyway aren't they?
It's not there anymore, but coordinates are where it once was. Google Maps image as of Feb 23, 2014 shows it nearly disassembled. I believe that spot will be within the spaceship walls.
The 1948 image shows the "barn" (looks like a shed to me) in the groves of trees that were over much of the land in that part of Cupertino.
The story said it'd be relocated in the NW corner of the complex.
This is interesting to learn since Apple tends to focus on the future. They have no corporate museum because they don't dwell on past achievements. I wonder how the discussion went in the meeting where this barn was deigned worth preserving?
There was likely no discussion. As this is a historical building odds are good Apple had no choice in the matter less they face fines, which while miniscule, would have been a headache they didn't need.
The timber in my house date from the 1580s. This is quite common in my part of the UK.
La-di-da. We stayed at the Lamb at Hindon some years back, which boasts timbers dating to the 12th century. The floor in our room had settled so badly off level that a tray of Malvern Water brought to us by the innkeeper damn near slid off the top of the dresser. Charming, those historic English structures, complete with chain pulls on the crappers and puny flash water heaters in the showers!
By the way, have they designated Fawlty Towers an English Heritage site yet?
That's an awesome story about European superiority over America by being around longer than them.
Now tell us the story about why your posts aren't in German.
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This thread is cracking me up. Taken so seriously. In which spirit; he's not writing in German because this is a US site and you speak English not American, so care to explain that?
La-di-da. We stayed at the Lamb at Hindon some years back, which boasts timbers dating to the 12th century. The floor in our room had settled so badly off level that a tray of Malvern Water brought to us by the innkeeper damn near slid off the top of the dresser. Charming, those historic English structures, complete with chain pulls on the crappers and puny flash water heaters in the showers!
By the way, have they designated Fawlty Towers an English Heritage site yet?
And your contribution is Wendy's with triple coleslaw. Magic. This thread just improves with age.
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The timber in my house date from the 1580s. This is quite common in my part of the UK.
Trees did a pretty good job of that on their own until we came along.
Come on, no need to turn this into an Europe vs America debate.
That said, Siemens is still huge, especially for nuclear power production.
I used to work for Siemens. The incompetence of the people that actually run the company scares the bejeezus out of me. The front-line workers are geniuses to say the least, but they are ruled by management that as far as I'm concerned could be better run with a roomful of monkeys.
Murica!
Trees did a pretty good job of that on their own until we came along.
That's even more amazing to me, that living things could last hundreds of years. Wish we could learn that trick from them.
We have.
Noah lived to about 900 or 600, I can't remember which.
Your denegration of all Europeans is entirely justified.
It is a wonderful shed that displays your fine heritage.
A shed to swell the chest of all Americans with pride and hope for a better, brighter tomorrow.
God bless this shed.
Lots of termites in California. Old growth redwood is bug resistant, also to rot, but it was also overcut with typical rapacious abandon, so salvaged old growth wood is pretty much all we got. Need a few hundred years to grow more. Not like the hardwoods you guys got.
I'm only supposing about this barn, based on hints in the story. Nobody probes anymore into the details, even though they're paid to write up the news stories. We could have avoided all the comedy if the story was written up right.
We have.
Noah lived to about 900 or 600, I can't remember which.
Even if that's true, the knowledge and/or genetic mutation that enabled him to do that seems to be long gone now. So it's still a case of us having to (re-?)learn how.
Anybody got the coordinates via google maps of this barn, to put its location in perspective with the new campus?
Glendenning Barn
<coordinates>-122.0092509481348,37.33295479388587,0</coordinates>
Edit: figured Google Maps could understand the coordinates it put out, not true.
37? 19' 58.68" N, 122? 00' 33.33" W
Glendenning Barn
<coordinates>-122.0092509481348,37.33295479388587,0</coordinates>
But they are disassembling it and moving it and reassembling it anyway aren't they?
Imagine that, at least one-tenth the age of the Earth. What a guy.¡
But they are disassembling it and moving it and reassembling it anyway aren't they?
It's not there anymore, but coordinates are where it once was. Google Maps image as of Feb 23, 2014 shows it nearly disassembled. I believe that spot will be within the spaceship walls.
The 1948 image shows the "barn" (looks like a shed to me) in the groves of trees that were over much of the land in that part of Cupertino.
The story said it'd be relocated in the NW corner of the complex.
That's an awesome story about European superiority over America by being around longer than them.
Now tell us the story about why your posts aren't in German.
????
The timber in my house date from the 1580s. This is quite common in my part of the UK.
La-di-da. We stayed at the Lamb at Hindon some years back, which boasts timbers dating to the 12th century. The floor in our room had settled so badly off level that a tray of Malvern Water brought to us by the innkeeper damn near slid off the top of the dresser. Charming, those historic English structures, complete with chain pulls on the crappers and puny flash water heaters in the showers!
By the way, have they designated Fawlty Towers an English Heritage site yet?
This thread is cracking me up. Taken so seriously. In which spirit; he's not writing in German because this is a US site and you speak English not American, so care to explain that?
It is definitely a shed not a barn.
And your contribution is Wendy's with triple coleslaw. Magic. This thread just improves with age.