Tuesday October 5, 2021; 9:38 PM EDT
- In line for a flu shot this morning. The hard surfaces in the office’s wide lobby bounce every patient’s check-in conversation at near full volume from wall to ceiling and back again. Lazy architects?#
- Years ago we opened a new campus building. The first floor was dedicated to classrooms. I taught during the first hour of the first day the building was open. Within about five minutes all of us in the room could tell from the sound of voices bouncing off the walls that the architects had not bothered about the acoustics. The bums.#
- I mentioned this to a vice president of the state-wide university once. He instantly proposed that someone on our campus had scrimped on the budget--that it was not the fault of the university architects. He said it so quickly, with no other intervening conversation, that I assumed he was being defensive rather than seriously thinking about the problem. The bum. #