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Skriven 2007-03-27 19:40:53 av Jeffrey MacHott (16594.babylon5)
  Kommentar till text 13147 av rec.arts.sf.tv.babylon5.moderated (16590.babylon5)
Ärende: Re: My first convention (and I met JMS!!!)
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Ed wrote:
> Jeffrey MacHott wrote:
>> Wesley Struebing wrote:
>>> On Mon, 26 Mar 2007 07:30:18 -0500, Methuselah Jones
>>> <methuselah@altgeek.org> wrote:
>>>
>>>> Carved in mystic runes upon the very living rock, the last words of
>>>> Jeffrey MacHott of rec.arts.sf.tv.babylon5.moderated make plain:
>>>>> Actually, what pissed me off to no end were the apartment complexes
>>>>> that were designed to baffle delivery drivers.  Building numbers that
>>>>> rarely faced into the parking lot, and if they did, they were located
>>>>> under a light that was so bright as to render you unable to actually
>>>>> read the sign under it, some of them didn't seem to have any rhyme or
>>>>> reason to the building arrangement, and these were usually the places
>>>>> where the person who ordered the food had turned off their cell
>>>>> phones, keeping me from asking for directions.
>>>> A friend of mine lived in an apartment building that I think was
>>>> based on an Escher design. I forget the exact circumstances of my
>>>> first visit -- I think I needed to drop off a check or something
>>>> while she wasn't there. It literally took me a half hour to find her
>>>> apartment. It was a very bizarre building.
>>> Sounds like trying to find a particular classroom in Altgeld Hall on
>>> the campus of the University of Illinois, Urbana/Champaign.  Dead-end
>>> hallways, hallways that start on the second floor and wind up on
>>> another floor...
>>>
>>> Wonder if it is still there?
>> There are a couple of buildings on the Texas A&M main campus in College
>> Station that are known for being places that freshmen wander into  but
>> never return from, notably G. Rolly and the Scoats building.
>>
>> What's fun is when you have buildings like the Read Building (not to be
>> confused with Reed Arena or the Reed McDonald Building), which is built
>> such that it is flush with the side of Kyle Field, the football stadium
>> here, and doesn't actually appear to be a seperate building (the outer
>> wall merges with that of the stadium, but if you go out the back door of
>> the building, you can see that they share no structural supports).  Took
>> me several hours to find that stupid place for a handball tournament,
>> and it was across the street from where I ate lunch every day.
>>
> 
> I love buildings like this. I've gone to classes, lived, and worked in
> many buildings like these. Sadly many if not most of them have been torn
> down to make way for a clean, well organized, modern building. These
> places had character and history...

And by "character and history" you mean "bodies of long-lost students 
the janitorial staff still haven't managed to find in the winding 
hallways" :*D

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--Jeffrey MacHott

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