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I second the motion of HP ...
I second the motion of HP it seems like we are the gang of 7 and sometimes a few others will raise their heads up to be counted, always like to see new folks with new ideas , us veterans are getting a little tired and running out of things to think of...

I have been on DA for 1...
I have been on DA for 1 year I can truly say that i have learned a lot. I hope that i have contributed some
decent information that will at least be helpful to someone,

You have both been
very helpful, interesting and fun.
I don't think anybody can keep it up indefinitely -- or, put another way, there is a cycle for the average busy poster, who goes from lurking to joining to posting to really geting into it, which is bound to pall after a while, so you back off a little and let others "take over." Very natural. My high posting days here may be over -- or I may get a second wind. (For what it's worth, I found a site specializing in my favorite architect, so that has taken some of my focus.)
This is supposed to be fun, not work. I know it can get a little boring without more posters. Perhaps people are getting settled into their fall schedule, and will find time to explore new sites in a bit ?
http://savewright.org/wright_chat/viewtopic.php?t=2404&start=15

[I started posting here,
and a couple of other sites, for the first time three years ago. My typing has really improved !]

yes I suppose I'm lucky...
yes I suppose I'm lucky enough to be studying IT so I sit in front of the machine a lot, but not for long.
As you say people drift off and I'd hate to see the forum turn into an endless round of tedious questions about Bastardona chairs.

and the blog doesn't seem to...
and the blog doesn't seem to be getting much attention, there are some things really worth looking at and commenting on there.
So look at THE BLOG 🙂

Mmm. Emmm?
May be I could...
Mmm. Emmm?
May be I could think the opposite?
Sometimes I feel it,s becoming something like a detachable thread,s forum? the same subject/idea/concept many many many times. Quantity vs quality. (for example?15 magazines threads, not to mention the 325 barcelona threads that soon will loose the first place thanks to the 199 Eames chair threads),
Once upon a time there was a forum in which each thread was consider like an "open unfinished bible", people used ONE thread for ONE subject for years. I consider that some threads are ALIVE (but sleeping). Today it's seems to be that once we open a new thread we kill a bit the older competitor thread.
Somewhere in this forum we can read that "older contributors" said (three or four times): ""If I/you have nothing good to say, say nothing"". (And that's why I don't post much more).
Anyway, what you said (HP, LRF and SDR), you are also right in some point.
By the way, I was going to open a thread a bit related about it. I didn,t because I thought it could be seem to be rude..., but if it,s necessary to post.... (Then see....When I became senator....)

I agree...
This is a very good forum. We all learn a lot about a wide range of topics on here and although it is always nice to hear what our usual "family" have to say it would be good to acquire more victims to pick on.

Yes, you're right
I'm relatively new to this forum, and I posted threads about Aalto, Bitossi, my George Nelson CSS shelf, and others, and really very few comments.
I wish more of the readers would put in their two cents...both pro and con
By the way, HP, eBay does NOT bite. I have bought most of my most treasured items from eBay at a fraction of what i would've had to pay at a mid-century speciality store.

eBay does NOT bite.
barry is right
for the first 30 years of my collecting days i acquired a piece or two per year (money was also a factor) but in the last 5 years since ebay I have doubled the size of my collection , in furniture and fine MCM objects.
I can honestly say.. maybe i am one of the lucky ones that i have never gotten burned by ebay , some things not as I hoped or more work to redo but having bought great cone chairs by Panton , swans by jacobsen and Brnos by Knoll and a Herman miller 670, I have done real well with ebay,

encouraging students
Hi...I stumbled across this site while looking for information about cantilever and how they are designed and work. I am attempting to teach sixth graders through the use of Legos how to build a cantilever and how extending it out you need to increase the mass holding it down. I know there is a lot more to it than I plan to get into...my goal is to have them graph, build, and discover...in the long run hopefully encourage them to get excited about designing and math. Any thoughts?

Dear ct.
I think you are doing amoung the most important jobs a person can do: to pass on to the next generation what he or she learned. For most children "things" just exist, if asked for where they come from, they will answer the most obvious: "...out of a computer..." To enrich them with "real" knowledge we all have the responsability to teach what we learned.
On small remark: Lego is fine, but as far as structure is concerned it might give a fine idea of how resistance to compression works but hardly any other physical properties. Have fun!!

if you can get hold of lots...
if you can get hold of lots of cardboard tubes you could try a geodesic dome, fishing line might be good for a suspension bridge and then there is this crazy tasanian puzzle which has been driving me mad...off topic I know
http://www.news.com.au/mercury/story/0,22884,20465928-3462,00.html

Koen's
right; Legos will work for the compression members, such as a pier to support the fulcrum and "back end" of a cantilevered beam, comparable to real-life masonry. Getting this support-and-mass to act like the large-scale reality will be instructive, as the Legos don't have the weight that masonry would have.
Sounds like an interesting class ! Keep us informed. . .and welcome.
SDR