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This week I caught a whiff of an arresting, interesting, and at times smokin’ exchange on Twitter about the future of AutoCAD Civil 3D and BIM.

One side of the conversation was about the fact that Autodesk could solve problems inside of C3D in a more BIM like fashion, but apparently won’t. Indeed. Structures like curbs that know they are curbs and recognize internal…

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Posted by Tench Tilghman

Tags  2016, Civil 3D 2016, WATT, wishlist

Around Thanksgiving in a couple of years previous I’ve posted about the Tale of the Turkey - a philosophical puzzle first posed in this humorous form by Bertrand Russell. The posts are worth a read.

How to Learn From the Turkey

A Helping of Turkey Day

The…

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Posted by Tench Tilghman

Tags  turkey, WATT, thanksgiving

These days many are justifiably concerned about pandemic plague.
Seriously, do we call this horrific advent the “Red Death”?
It may not be Ebola, but our viral history says the days will happen. Perhaps you already know and acknowledge that your own DNA confirms this. Viro-evolutionary mechanisms are a disturbing and interesting field of study at least to me.

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Posted by Tench Tilghman

Tags  WATT, global warming, climate change

Bob Dylan typed these words in 1975 in a suitably tragic song about mystical love, dubious opportunity, and human historical misadventure. This cynical musical association to the song Isis seemed most appropriate to me in the light of the current ISIS (or ISIL) adventure. Dylan…

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Posted by Tench Tilghman

Tags  WATT, people skills

If you are a large organization, you divide and conquer. If you are smaller, you adjust to remain the grease between the wheels. Organizational divide and conquer purportedly makes dealing with all the varied responsibilities and specific accountabilities for all the groups of people and individuals in question more manageable. It certainly provides more statistical comparators. Comparisons may…

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Posted by Tench Tilghman

Tags  WATT, Internet of Things, Value Chain, Added Value