For stakeholder analysis: Not at my school. For the latter, however, they had some City Planning courses that included that theme, but were for the most part only for City Planning graduates. Most of those themes were “taught” once you actually got to working in the field; at least, that was the idea that was confided…

Very good advice. One must never be afraid of criticism, nor ever take it so personally. I studied architecture in college, and one of the drills was to spend 2-3 months on a project, present it in front of a bunch of T.A.’s, then listen to them pick apart/criticize your project in any way possible. Part of the…

My concern with autonomous cars is how does it make a decision. Say a cat runs into the middle of the road when you doing 60mph, theres a car behind you doing the same 60mph. If you slam om the brakes you get rear ended with potentially dangerous outcomes, if you hit the cat your safe but cat is dead. Will the…

I’d flop Dark Knight and Avengers (hard to complain about Dark Knight being too long with the last 1/3rd of Avengers basically being a fight scene against the terrible, underdeveloped aliens), and Burton’s original Batman is too high because Batman basically turns into the Punisher towards the end of it. But good…

Agreed, also if a designer is worried about using “minion yellow” then the Pantone system makes it just as to simply choose a slightly different shade and document that so you have proof if the need should arise to say “hey, you can clearly see here I used a different shade”

Afterwards, they drove me to the mall and allowed me to get a binder and multiple booster packs. This continued for months until I had a deck and binders FULL of rare cards and how to use them.

I’m further left than Sanders, and that scandal absolutely will keep me from voting for her. That was such an egregious, deliberate act flying in the face of transparency that I can’t stand it. The fact that the nation doesn’t recognize that is seriously troubling. She didn’t break any laws, but she certainly knew she…

And there is also the strong possibility that people will read this 50 years from now and laugh their asses off.

The SF world is agog with the notion of polyamory but, to quote the chewbacca defense, that does not make sense. While technology and cultures change over time, the impulse to pair bond seems pretty hardwired into humans. IMHO, I highly doubt, barring some kind of fundamental biological change to the human creature,…

my wife occasionally eats with her mouth open and lightly smacks her lips. luckily we have a 4 year old that I was able to hammer home the Chew With Your Mouth Closed lesson and he started correcting his mother. I have to pat myself on the back for that.

Let’s just get an actual African. Any Nollywood directors that show promise?

No skin off my nose. I watched Selma while it was in full hype. Loved the acting. (Brilliant performances.) Loved the story. But the directing was...not good. DuVernay doesn’t know how to direct a crowd scene to save her life. And her line of sight was often so messed up that it was hard to tell where the direction…

The Yoda puppet in Phantom Menace was terrible. Badly designed and lit, and looked utterly unconvincing. It was absolutely the right decision replace it for the Blu Ray release. Puppets done well (ESB, ROTJ) are great, but like CG, it’s all about doing well.

This has literally nothing to do with the use of CGI. It’s about the quality of these movies.

This is definitely an issue but I’ve maintained for a while now that the biggest issue is CGI used to be the domain of genius-level guys with massively-powerful workstations running software that was designed and built in house. You want a dinosaur? Okay, highly paid, brilliant people are going to code up some new…

You really take your time to get to the point. Clickbait tease title, and 8 paragraphs to actually reveal to what the title was alluding to? Seriously? Using “historical context” as fluff to delay the actual the reveal of the actual crime.

Tkhelet which is of an aquamarine color has been rediscovered (according to many, but some rabbinical authorities disagree) and is made with the Chilazon snail which many consider the source of the Tyrean purple as well. The process of making it alluded reaserchers for years because although they thought they new they…

Oh, hello fellow time traveler. I see you are from the Black Death times. Those were some bad bad days when that disease and death spread around everywhere because of rats and mice.

The point isn’t to “protect rodents and birds from their natural predators,” it’s to keep natural predators such as foxes, minks, etc. from starving to death because cats, which are not natural predators and can actually out-compete those that are, have cleaned out the local populations of rodents, birds, and small…

hahahahahaha. My kids figured out pretty quickly that NOTHING is fair. I have 5 kids. One has special needs (rare syndrome that results in cognitive developmental disability similar to what you’d see in Down’s syndrome) AND leukemia (he’s in long term maintenance and doing great!). So, yeah, the other four pretty much…