Off Topic: Winter 2021 in Texas

As you've surly seen in the news, Texas was hit with some rare winter weather this week. I wanted to write a quick 'off topic' post to share some photos and let everyone know how I am doing...

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Off Topic - A Week Off and a Day of Photography

I am super grateful that Lake|Flato gave everyone the week off, this week.

And, like any good television show, what do you do on one of your days off, but spend it with a co-worker:) Today's post is about a day of photography with Steven Campbell.

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Off Topic - '97 Doghouse Design at BWBR

Many years ago, while I was working at BWBR Architects in St. Paul, Minnesota, USA, I was part of an internal 'young architects' group, called Momentum, that designed and built a doghouse for a local Humane Society fundraiser... this is today's 'off topic' post!

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Off Topic: 360 Video of my Bike Ride Home from Work

A little 'Friday fun' share today...

Last Friday I strapped a GoPro Fusion 360 spherical camera to my helmet and recorded my bicycle ride home. The ride is partially along Lake Superior; which is the largest fresh water lake in the world, 10% of the earth's fresh water and the same size as Ireland. Our city, Duluth, Minnesota, USA, (the world's most in-land port) is on a hillside, so my ride home is about a 500 feet vertical climb (equal to about a 40 story building :)).

Notice the LHB logo in the image above? Click to enlarge the image...

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Off Topic: The Creation of a Tooth

I have been pretty busy lately and not able to write many posts here on BIM Chapters.

Today, I have some photos and video to share from almost a year ago... the creation of a tooth:) I had a cracked tooth and needed a crown. My local dentist has the technology and equipment to make a tooth, and all during a single visit!

My dentist, at Kenwood Dental, is great and let me take pictures/videos.

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Off Topic - My New Urban Chicken Coop

This past summer (July 2018) I built a new chicken coop in my backyard. Although it does not look like it from these photos, I live in a city... its just that our block does not have an alley so that area is filled in with vegetation and trees. Now that it is winter, and the leaves have dropped, you can easily see the houses behind ours.

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