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	<title>Watching the Trades</title>
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		<title>I never would have thought&#8230;.</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I never would have thought that the Japanese would treat their houses as throwaway objects. I have always heard so much about what fine craftsmen the Japanese were that I always imagined that they built their houses with the same kind of care. They don&#8217;t.
The typical lifespan for a house in Japan is only 30 <a href="http://www.etherealland.com/trades/2008/02/03/i-never-would-have-thought/">Click Here to continue reading.</a>]]></description>
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		<title>A word on the nomenclature of pipes, tubes, and their standard measures</title>
		<description><![CDATA[If you ask an engineer a pipe is vessel and a tube is a structure. The standard measure for a pipe (i.e, the size you use to spec it) is the inside diameter because it is a vessel for transporting gas or liquids. The standard measure for a tube is measured by outside diameter because <a href="http://www.etherealland.com/trades/2008/02/01/a-word-on-the-nomenclature-of-pipes-tubes-and-their-standard-measures/">Click Here to continue reading.</a>]]></description>
		<link>http://www.etherealland.com/trades/2008/02/01/a-word-on-the-nomenclature-of-pipes-tubes-and-their-standard-measures/</link>
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		<title>A watery explosion</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I have seen sewer grates do something like this. But never anything this dramatic.




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		<link>http://www.etherealland.com/trades/2008/01/26/a-watery-explosion/</link>
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		<title>Pornte Vecchio: A portrait of old urbanism.</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Over at my Ape Man blog, I have discussed New Urbanism on occasion (largely because I read  Architecture + Morality and I sometimes desire to contribute to the discussion). I am generally sympathetic to the aesthetics of New Urbanism, but I doubt current American values will ever enable it to work.
I am not happy <a href="http://www.etherealland.com/trades/2008/01/26/pornte-vecchio-a-portrait-of-old-urbanism/">Click Here to continue reading.</a>]]></description>
		<link>http://www.etherealland.com/trades/2008/01/26/pornte-vecchio-a-portrait-of-old-urbanism/</link>
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		<title>Warning: Your pants may cause abrasion wounds.</title>
		<description><![CDATA[When you are working there are all kinds of hazards. Some of them are obvious. You don’t want to fall off a roof. You don’t want to get shocked by electricity. You don’t want to shoot a nail into your foot. 
But some of the hazards posed by a hard day’s work are not so <a href="http://www.etherealland.com/trades/2008/01/06/warning-your-pants-may-cause-abrasion-wounds/">Click Here to continue reading.</a>]]></description>
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		<title>Hodgepodge</title>
		<description><![CDATA[The Revenge of a Construction Crew. 
I don&#8217;t know if this story is true or not, but I have worked with guys who might have done something like this. But I find it hard to believe that cops would have let people get away with doing something like this.
The One Thing That Worries Me About <a href="http://www.etherealland.com/trades/2007/12/07/hodgepodge/">Click Here to continue reading.</a>]]></description>
		<link>http://www.etherealland.com/trades/2007/12/07/hodgepodge/</link>
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		<title>There are plenty of jobs; it’s just that no one wants them.</title>
		<description><![CDATA[(cross posted from my Ape Man Blog)
I always get mad when I hear people spouting off about how the immigrants are taking away jobs from those poor blue collar Americans. Speaking as a blue collar American, I know that this is not so.  There are plenty of good jobs out there for blue collar <a href="http://www.etherealland.com/trades/2007/11/30/there-are-plenty-of-jobs-it%e2%80%99s-just-that-no-one-wants-them/">Click Here to continue reading.</a>]]></description>
		<link>http://www.etherealland.com/trades/2007/11/30/there-are-plenty-of-jobs-it%e2%80%99s-just-that-no-one-wants-them/</link>
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		<title>OSHA would not approve</title>
		<description><![CDATA[This YouTube clip perfectly captures the kind of ingenuity that is necessary to be a good in the trades. Sadly, it is also a good example of why I am not a particularly handy tradesmen. The stunt below would never even occur to me. And even if it did, I don&#8217;t think I would have <a href="http://www.etherealland.com/trades/2007/11/16/osha-would-not-approve/">Click Here to continue reading.</a>]]></description>
		<link>http://www.etherealland.com/trades/2007/11/16/osha-would-not-approve/</link>
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		<title>Why architects are so screwed up</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I hate to do two posts based around a single link in a row. But I think that this post explains a lot about the current state of the architectural professions.

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		<link>http://www.etherealland.com/trades/2007/11/13/why-architects-are-so-screwed-up/</link>
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		<title>A cool way to strengthen an interior wall</title>
		<description><![CDATA[This blog post demonstrates a cool way to strengthen an interior wall that does not reach the ceiling. It is probably a method that is in all your common carpentry text books. But if it is, I don’t remember reading it.

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