![]() For the next forty-five minutes, as a cool blue night gradually lowered itself over downtown, I walked around looking for the truck, first on the street where I was sure I’d parked, then on the nearest cross streets, and then in a grid whose scale grew ever larger and more ludicrous.įinally, I returned to the street where I’d started and noticed a small sign: “ No Parking Anytime.” Oh, shit. Yet I’d somehow managed to misplace it in downtown Portland-a city, incidentally, that I know as well as any other on the planet. It had tires that came up to my midriff, an extended cab, and a bed big enough to haul cetaceans. The friend to whom it belonged once worked as an ambulance driver oversized vehicles do not faze her. This was a serious feat, a real bar-raising of thing-losing, not only because in general it is difficult to lose a truck but also because the truck in question was enormous. I parked, went to the event, hung around talking for a while afterward, browsed the bookshelves, walked outside into a lovely summer evening, and could not find the truck anywhere. Eventually, having spent an absurd amount of time looking for the lock and failing to find it, I gave up and drove the truck downtown instead. ![]() This was annoying, because I was planning to bike downtown that evening, to attend an event at Powell’s, Portland’s famous bookstore. I’d just arrived home and removed it from its packaging when my phone rang I stepped away to take the call, and when I returned, some time later, the lock had vanished. I got the wallet back, but the next day I lost the bike lock. Yet later that afternoon I stopped by a sporting-goods store to buy a lock for my new bike and left my wallet sitting next to the cash register. Prior to that summer, I should note, I had lost a wallet exactly once in my adult life: at gunpoint. When I returned to claim it, I discovered that I’d left my wallet behind as well. A few days after that, warming up in the midday sun at an outdoor café, I took off the long-sleeved shirt I’d been wearing, only to leave it hanging over the back of the chair when I headed home. The next day, I left the keys to the house in the front door. My first day in town, I left the keys to the truck on the counter of a coffee shop. In very short order, and with very little effort, everything fell into place.Īnd then, mystifyingly, everything fell out of place. Someone on Craigslist sold me a bike for next to nothing. ![]() Another friend was away for the summer and happy to loan me her pickup truck. I’d lived in Portland for a while after college, and some acquaintances there needed a house sitter. I normally live on the East Coast, but that year, unable to face another sweltering August, I decided to temporarily decamp to the West. We have to keep some differences between formZ and bonzai3d - but we will consider your suggestion for the future.īring on formZ 7! I hope you can take the ease of use and architectural elements of Bonzai but with the extra features of FormZ.Īs for the original problem i've found I can do that command in moi and bring a simple spline object back into bonzai but would be great if we didnt have to use another program to achieve this.A couple of years ago, I spent the summer in Portland, Oregon, losing things. +1 from my side- facades especially need this Tech Im hoping this feature can be added as there isn't really an alternative way of doing these things. This sort of modelling cries out for just multiplying units along a spline or even just multiplying vertical splines to act as guides. For example im just doing a speed model of an office block that will have curved curtain walling and I would like to divide it up into equal sized glazing units to give the faceted effect. I know this has been raised before but are we likely to see this function appear in bonzai anytime soon or will it always be left to formZ? Its such a useful tool especially for design exploration which Bonzai is aimed at.
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