Text 13142, 47 rader
Skriven 2007-03-27 06:16:50 av Jeffrey MacHott (16585.babylon5)
  Kommentar till text 13132 av rec.arts.sf.tv.babylon5.moderated (16575.babylon5)
Ärende: Re: My first convention (and I met JMS!!!)
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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.

-- 
--Jeffrey MacHott

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