Monday, June 29, 2009

Re: Update: Dallas Cowboys roof Collapse

Bill,

You're right about that.

Regards,

H. Daryl Richardson

----- Original Message -----
From: "Bill Polhemus" <bill@polhemus.cc>
To: <seaint@seaint.org>
Sent: Monday, June 29, 2009 4:48 AM
Subject: Re: Update: Dallas Cowboys roof Collapse


> Consider it shorthand for everything you mentioned. My point was that "if
> it bleeds, it leads." When we do our jobs well, nobody cares.
>
> William L. Polhemus, Jr. P.E.
> Via iPhone 3G
>
> On Jun 29, 2009, at 12:18 AM, "Daryl Richardson" <h.d.richardson@shaw.ca>
> wrote:
>
>> Bill,
>>
>> How do you interpret this article as someone "screwing up"? I
>> think you're being too gentle.
>>
>> I read the article as suggesting one or more persons not
>> identified in the article as being
>> a) utterly incompetent,
>> b) extremely (maybe criminally) negligent,
>> c) greedy to the point of completely ignoring the safety of others, or
>> d) all of the above.
>>
>> Regards,
>>
>> H. Daryl Richardson
>>
>> ----- Original Message ----- From: "Bill Polhemus" <bill@polhemus.cc>
>> To: <seaint@seaint.org>
>> Sent: Sunday, June 28, 2009 9:05 PM
>> Subject: Re: Update: Dallas Cowboys roof Collapse
>>
>>
>>> How sad that the only time we get to read a "cool" article about our
>>> profession, is when one of us screws up.
>>>
>>> William L. Polhemus, Jr. P.E.
>>> Via iPhone 3G
>>>
>>> On Jun 28, 2009, at 12:11 PM, Stan Caldwell <stancaldwell@gmail.com>
>>> wrote:
>>>
>>>> There is a new and disturbing structural engineering article on the
>>>> front page of the Dallas Morning News today.
>>>
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