Chris,
You don't have to go to the movies. The "Global Warming" situation
is doing that right now in real life!!!!
Regards,
H. Daryl Richardson
----- Original Message -----
From: "Christopher Wright" <chrisw@skypoint.com>
To: <seaint@seaint.org>
Sent: Monday, June 29, 2009 12:45 PM
Subject: Re: Update: Dallas Cowboys roof Collapse
>
> On Jun 29, 2009, at 12:11 PM, Bill Polhemus wrote:
>
>> I guess what I should have said is "there's no glory in an engineering
>> job well done."
> Not a helluva lot of money either. But it's really cool showing your kids
> something you had a hand in. And truth to tell, I get a huge amount of
> satisfaction in figuring out problems that baffle the laity.
>>
>> You can have a movie about a fighting attorney, winning a big case
>> against the "evil corporations." But I suspect a story about a crusading
>> structural engineer that "wins" against the "evil corporate building
>> owner" to make sure a building is safe, won't get green-lighted in
>> Hollyweird any time soon.
> 'China Syndrome' and 'No Island in the Sky' were a couple, although James
> Stewart's character was bit bit loopier than I see myself. And 'Towering
> Inferno' pitted technical types against evil corporate owner.
>
>> N.B. I dig the historical analogy.
> Best I could do on short notice
>
> Christopher Wright P.E. |"They couldn't hit an elephant at
> chrisw@skypoint.com | this distance" (last words of Gen.
> .......................................| John Sedgwick, Spotsylvania
> 1864)
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