Ding ding ding !!! You are correct ! That is one of the funniest movies I have ever seen. 
I think lots of folks are living in denial about this, some more deeply than others. For a reason I won’t pretend to understand, they somehow believe that inhaling hot smoke, any kind of hot smoke, is, in some way, not bad for one’s body. C’mon, it’s hot smoke. That’s not what we were made to do, to inhale that stuff.
The only thing I found surprising in the article was that, along with the use of tobacco, “…the use of alcohol are the two most common causes of head and neck cancers…” That alcohol on its own is apparently implicated in the development of head and neck cancers I do find surprising.
That does not read clearly at all. Sigh.
I’ve mentioned before that my son has been working on the Portland, OR airport (PDX) remodel for the past few years. The first phase of the project just opened. It’s difficult to get a feel for just how huge it is from these photos. The kid was hired to “solve problems” on the project as they arose. He has no specific duties.
Awsome… I have spent vast quantities of time rebuilding airports, hospitals, and infrastructure. Lots of life long rewarding careers in construction . I am always telling younger people to get in the trades !!!
A water pipe helps, IMHO.
It’s been awhile…but I do remember almost pissing myself laughing in the theater when Woody would shuffle his feet robotically and wouldn’t give up the orgasmatron.
That’s beautiful man. Tell the problem solver we are all pretty impressed!
I will speak for my son as well as myself in saying oh HELL YES!
He’ll retire in a little more than four years. As someone who has worked on large projects, are you familiar with stereotomy? As you peruse what I’m writing as well as the link, keep in mind that there is absolutely no math involved in this construction technique. None.
Stereotomy, aka L’Art du Trait, is the construction system that was used to construct literally every large building in Europe and beyond, public and/or private, from about 1300 until the 1850s. Notre Dame was originally, and is currently being reconstructed, using the exact same construction method and by the same guild of carpenters, using tools made recently but are exactly like those originally used. They’re not “reproductions” in the usual sense. In its most pure form, the guild has never stopped using them!
"L’Art du Trait… is defined as the ability to lay out, cut, and assemble individual pieces of wood or stone into a more complex whole structure. In more concrete terms, the trait encompasses a set of graphic techniques facilitating the production - at a reduced scale or full scale, on paper, on parchment, or even on the ground - of working drawings needed to complete structures in wood or stone. Patrick says that “The best example, using stone, is a vault or arch; in timber, a hip or valley. But these are very simple and limited examples. Though L’Art du Trait is much more than simply laying out hips and valleys.” Patrick Moore
That last bit, “L’Art du Trait is much more than simply laying out hips and valleys,” is some serious understatement. So that’s a taste about stereotomy. Here’s a modern example of a roof built using stereotomy. Try building that using math! I know you’re laughing your ass off now!
As a retired union carpenter, he’ll be barred, appropriately in both of our opinions’, from working in the trades for many years, so he’s considering using stereotomy to build high end art furniture, or something else employing stereotomy. In the meantime, he’s done a couple of in-person intro classes through his local, and is privately enrolled in an online school.
This is what they built in one three day in person class. They used some power tools, both stationary and hand, and were given the complete drawing. It’s difficult to see that that’s an offset king post.
To get full credit for successfully completing the class, the students had to draw plans and build a scale model at home. They were given two angles and no other information. And, just like traditionally, the drawing is made using only a straight edge, a 45º draftsman’s triangle and a pencil (and eraser). Nothing else, except perhaps their brains!
Here’s the not quite complete model sitting on the same drawing.
Okay, so you now know I’m beyond amazed with stereotomy. I was an untrained carpenter (non-union) for a couple of decades doing mostly residential remodeling along with a little new construction. I’m a fairly smart person, and I was able to always do the job, including framing simple roofs and cutting stair horses. I never got fired from a job, but I wouldn’t know where to begin to build this kind of stuff, even the most “simple” projects!
Here are a few more not so simple examples to, perhaps, completely blow your mind.
The construction of this wooden hulled ship is being done using stereotomy exclusively. Every cut is completely predetermined. The carpenters are literally recreating in three dimensions exactly and only what the two dimensional drawing tells them. It’s difficult for me to understand exactly how that works, but big as shit, there it is! It requires reframing our reference to the physical world.
These are final projects, designed and built by students working towards admission into the traditional French carpenters’ guild, of which Patrick Moore is a full-on member. I hope you have a large enough screen to see how incredible these are. And remember, absolutely no math! Ever!
The last is a verandah that was on a palace somewhere in France. Sadly, it no longer exists, but someone actually built it. It’s difficult for me to visualize that in three dimensions much less how one would build it.
Cheers brother !!! Construction has taken me all over the country… I’ve been in tunnels below lakes too tops of sky scrappers and untold number of places I would never have been able to step foot on . I have seen Disney secrets and how they make movies at all the production houses . I have made many life long friends along the way. I have done many airports in multiple states ( including Oregon). Big water projects all over. I have made a good living doing things I never thought were available to me thanks to the Trades !!!
Cheers @mota
I can vouch for that.
How did you get that? I don’t allow pics - big brother maybe watching 
It was in sleeper - but also a Motorhead album - lol
