Archive for May, 2009
Why Do Women Love Mechanical Engineer..??
May 31st, 2009
SullivanKreiss A/E/C Hot Candidates for May 31, 2009
May 31st, 2009
Below are a few architecture, engineering, construction, and real estate candidates who are open to exploring a new opportunity. If you are interested in learning more, please contact Justin G. Roy by email: .
Studio Director– 15 years of experience with higher education, corporate, and work place projects. Responsible for design, project management, client contact and coordination, proposals and fee schedules, and business development. NCDIQ Certified.
HVAC Engineer– 25 years of experience with HVAC design and management for healthcare, commercial, educational, and industrial projects. Open to relocation.
Assert Manager – Over 20 years of experience in real estate asset management for private sector buildings. Experience with asset management, underwriting, deal structuring, financing, management, leasing and disposition.
Construction Project Manager – 18 years of experience with commercial, retail, and residential project experience. Open to relocation
Project Engineer, P.E.– Experience with water/wastewater projects; pump station, treatment plants, water and sewer pipelines. Responsible for project design, specification preparation, data analysis, and O&M manuals. Masters in Civil and Environmental Engineering. Open to relocation.
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Mail Time!
May 31st, 2009
A while ago, I asked you guys to mail me with your experiances. I never got any mails till recently. I want to show you that I will NOT display your email ids on the outside. It is highly safe because I will only post the contents of your emails here.
So don’t waste any more time, mail me at ihatessec@live.com.
Here’s the first mail.
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THANK U FoR MAKInG THIS WoNDeRFUL WeBsIET1!1!!!11I waNTed 2 GIeV u sOME 3XpEReINC3 OF MAh OWN WHIcH IS 2 SAY aBOuT aNANDAN !!!1!!1
hE Is SUcH a BIG LOSER!11!1 HaHA
He PUTS SUcH STUpiD RULES ON US AND MAEX US STrUGLe SO mUcH!1!1!!! it’s really SUCH a TRoUBLE 2 B IN ROYal MeCh tHESe DaYS!!!!!!1!WuT DOES HE WANT fROM Us??!!!?!1!
TEH OLD HOD WaS sO MUCH BTEr1111!1! omG Lol hE KnEW ABOUT STUDEnTS PROBLeMS111!!!1! bUT ThIS BALDY DOeSNT KNow aNYTHInG1!111!!
H3 CANT EVEN TEACH PROP3RLY111111 He FORCES So MANY OF US 2 sIT IN One CLASROOOM FOr COMPoSIET M8RIALS!!111111! He IS RILLY a CHAMCHA FOR OTHER hODS1!!111111 aND He Walks arOUNd LiEK HE IS A bIg GOoONDA11!1! soMAONE SHUOLD DO sOMETHiNG ABOUT HIM 1!1!1
W3 WANT SRiDHaR BAk1!1!!!!!1 WTF
Well, I can’t say it is the most easy to understand, but atleast this person had the guts to.
I don’t really know much about Mr Anandan which is why I never said anything about him. I am really thankful that he isn’t the head of my department. Wasn’t he the head of the ECE Department for a while? Stupid college, stupid HODs.
I think I’ll put a post about another HOD I personally know some stuff about.
Urgent Walkin for Freshers - TCS BPO - June 1, 2009
May 31st, 2009
Tata Consultancy Services (TCS), Kolkata has invited BPO Freshers (0-2 years) for a Walk-in interview on June 1st 2009. Role- Team Member.
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Maximize Your Home Inspection Benefits
May 31st, 2009
A property’s current condition is important to homebuyers looking to purchase a new house. Unfortunately, sometimes, with all the other concerns you have in buying a new home, the home inspection process can end up at the bottom of the list.
It shouldn’t. A home inspection is perhaps the most important part of your home purchasing decisions. An inspection could be the most important dollars you spend during this process.
You’ve found your dream home. Thats Great! But don’t let your emotions take over because you love the house so much and you don’t want anything to get in the way of the final purchase. Neither should you worry about how much an inspection may cost, when you have so many other costs to consider. Shouldn’t you know what lurks in the AC system? What is going on with the interior plumbing and the electrical? Does the house need repairs to the foundation? How about the roof?
For most people, their home will probably be their largest single investment. Are you willing to gamble a 15-or 30-year mortgage on a home which may have known defects? This applies to both existing homes and new construction homes.
By following these pointers, you can maximize your home inspection benefits:
- Know what an inspection includes. Inspections constitute a complete “visual” inspection of the structural and mechanical components of your new or previously owned home. Such components include the Heating and AC System, Interior Plumbing, Foundations, Roofing, Electrical, and more. Depending on the expertise of the inspector, it may also include specialty inspections such as pools and spas, termites, mold/air quality testing, etc.
- Know what it does not include. Inspections do not include decorative flaws such as cracked floor tiles or chipped paint. An inspection will only cover structural and mechanical defects. They also do not make an evaluation on the “value” of a property. Only an appraisal will set a price on property value, usually ordered by the mortgage company when approving a loan.
- Consider a “listing” inspection before you put a home on the market. This can avoid unpleasant surprises down the road when potential buyers have your listing inspected by their own professional. If potential problems are detected, they can be a “deal killer”. Most items detected are easily repaired and will enable you to receive a “clean report” when your potential buyer.
- Include a home inspection contingency in purchase agreements. This is important. If an inspector finds a major defect that you don’t want to deal with, you’ll want the option of getting out of the contract. Remember that all houses have defects. Don’t stress if some are found. Asking the seller to make the repairs, or negotiating the appropriate amount off the purchase price is standard. If major defects are found, you have information to better guide your negotiations.
- Be present for the full inspection. Spending a few hours with the inspector could help your home buyer understand the condition of the property. As SafeHouse examines the various systems and components of the home, ask us to explain what you want to know about our findings or the contents found in our report.
- Learn how things work and how to maintain systems and equipment during the inspection process. SafeHouse Inspectors may also point out little flaws or oddities that don’t measure up to being mentioned in the report, but may warrant watching.
- In the case of new home construction, consider a three-phase inspection: A) after framing, plumbing and electrical, but before the sheet rock is installed, B) just before the walk through and closing, and C) after one year from your purchase during your warrantee period. Don’t let the homebuilder talk you out of it. Some builders may tell you it is a waste of money; others may claim the home has already been inspected. That is unlikely! If anything, the house has only been inspected for “municipal code” which is entirely different.
- Hire a qualified inspector, with many years of experience. Unlike many other states, in Texas, we have stringent rules and ethical standards set by the Texas Real Estate Commission. However, being licensed doesn’t automatically make someone a good inspector, even in Texas. Make certain the inspector you hire has the expertise and knowledge to do a quality inspection. To know how many years a person has been a TREC Inspector, look at their license number. A lower number means they have been inspecting for a while. High inspection numbers mean they are newbies. SafeHouse Inspection has been doing inspections since 1991 and is considered one of the oldest and most experienced inspection companies in Houston Texas. We meet and “exceed” the standards of practice set by TREC.
- Be cautious about hiring someone who may have a conflict of interest or may not be completely impartial. Beware of the inspector that offers repair work. In the State of Texas no inspector is allowed to do repairs to a property they have inspected. Foundation Inspectors don’t make money if they don’t sell you foundation repairs. Ditto, for Roofing Inspectors. SafeHouse Inspections are completely impartial and accurate.
- There is no such thing as “passing” for “failing” an inspection. The inspection process is simply a way to determine the condition of the property on the day it was examined. Judgments should not be made by the inspector on whether this is a “good” house or a “bad” house. I always tell people, there is no such thing as a “bad house”, only a house at the “right price”.
- We can’t predict the future. Inspections are not a guarantee against something that might go wrong in six months. We can only evaluate what the current visible condition at the time of inspection.
- You get what you pay for. Experienced inspectors are more skilled and knowledgeable and will tend to charge more for their services. If you hire the cheapest inspector, you are likely hiring someone with little or no experience, or someone who really needs the work. Either way, it should raise red flags. A home inspection is perhaps the most important chapter in the home-buying saga with a 15-30 year mortgage commitment. Generally a home will be a person’s largest single investment. A good inspection is worth the extra cost.
- The inspection report should be clear and concise and written in plain English (not engineering speak). It should list clearly what is functioning properly, as well as those items in need of repair. Your report should require a degree in Rocket Science to understand. If it takes you more that 10 minutes to read your inspection report, you haven’t used SafeHouse Inspections.
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Mechanical Islanders
May 30th, 2009
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My visit to Shark Tooth Island today had to be under cover. It looks like Astro-Knights Island is so eager to be released that parts of it have started to sneak out into the main Poptropica population.
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Well it looks like Binary Bard found out about the Mechanical Fever going around Poptropica. Awesome!
A Puzzling Approach to Music
May 29th, 2009
imagining of the marriage of a Rubik’s cube and an Mp-3 player is decidedly clever. Test and stimulate yourself at the same time: you have to activate the player by solving the puzzle. Different layers have different functions, like play, pause, forward, or back. Then you must solve it again to stop it. Have at it!!!
Hat tip to Yanko Design.
In the mid 1930s a series of curious objects, believed to date from the 3rd century BC, were unearthed in Khujut Rabu, near Baghdad. These earthenware jars, measuring about 5 inches high, contained copper cylinders and iron rods. This strange group of objects, not given any special attention, found its way into the collection of the National Museum of Iraq. It was not until several years later that Wilhelm Konig, the museum’s director, came across these jars and pieces of metal and, upon analyzing them, drew a startling conclusion.
In 1940, Konig published a paper contending that when the pieces of these artifacts were fitted together correctly and the jars were filled with an acidic solution, they formed functional electrochemical cells capable of generating electricity. While modern historians attribute the invention of the battery to Italian physicist Alessandro Volta in 1800, Volta may have simply recreated a 2,000 year-old lost technology. (Cultures dating as far back as 2,750 BC made written mention of electricity, although only regarding electricity that occurs naturally. It wasn’t until the 17th and 18th centuries that serious academic inquiries into electricity were conducted by Western scientists, notably William Gilbert and Benjamin Franklin.)
Volta’s early “Voltaic pile” battery consisted of copper and zinc rods separated by pieces of cloth soaked in brine. When several of these units were piled atop one another and connected end-to-end by a wire, an electrical current flowed.
The Baghdad batteries, Konig believed, worked in the same way as the Voltaic pile. This theory is supported by the fact that the iron rods discovered inside the earthenware jars do in fact show evidence of acidic corrosion, perhaps having been submerged in vinegar. Konig suggested that when the iron rods were inserted in the copper cylinders, fitted into the jars’ mouths with asphalt stoppers, and the jars were filled with vinegar, the resulting cells were in fact capable of producing an electrical current. This claim was proved in 1940 by Willard F. M. Gray of the General Electric High Voltage Laboratory in Pittsfield, MA. Making an exact replica of the devices unearthed at Khujut Rabu and using a copper sulfite solution, Gray generated a half a volt of electricity.
Later experiments using grape juice and vinegar produced similar results. Even the popular television program Mythbusters successfully recreated Gray’s experiment in 2005. While the voltage generated by these batteries is meager (never more than 1V), it has been hypothesized that if several of them were wired together as were the zinc and copper rods in Voltaic piles, higher voltage could be achieved.
Here is a reproduction of a Baghdad battery connected to a multimeter.
Konig cited examples of artifacts electroplated with gold, dating from the same era as the batteries, as evidence of the use of low-voltage electricity in the 3rd century BC. By negatively charging a piece of metal with an electrical current and submerging it in a solution of metal salt, it becomes coated with a layer of positive metal ions. This technique has been used, for example, in the process of gold plating. Gold-coated Egyptian artifacts dating contemporaneously with the Baghdad batteries might support this interpretation of the batteries’ use.
A summary of the conclusions drawn by the television program Mythbusters, regarding possible uses of the Baghdad batteries.
In the years since Konig published his paper in 1940, there has been much debate about the batteries in the scientific community. With some factions contending that the notion of ancient electricity is farcical and others going so far as to claim that the Baghdad batteries explain the legendary powers of the Biblical Ark of the Covenant, a wide range of viewpoints have been expressed. Since ancient texts never explicitly confirm knowledge of electrical energy, modern historians are doomed to continue speculating about the role, if any at all, that electricity played in ancient Babylonia. But when pondering objects that have the potential to drastically redefine our conception of ancient history, as with the Piri Reis map discussed in a previous entry, an open mind is certainly the most suitable tool.
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