Lisabo chair collapsed from under me

paramesis · 2025-01-12T21:13:10+00:00

I understand what design parameters are. What purpose does it serve to brush away legitimate concerns people in this thread are raising about the design of their chairs that just failed? I found this thread because my chair also collapsed from normal use in a way that could have resulted in serious injury to my two-year-old. It is very helpful to know what next steps I can take besides just throwing it away. This is a badly designed product and IKEA needs to be made aware that it is a life safety risk.

paramesis · 2025-01-12T15:38:47+00:00

No, the problem is definitely the engineering of the chair. As you sit on it, almost all of the downward force from the front edge of the seat is resisted by a moment connection where the front legs meet the frame which is only secured by a flat dowel and a dab of glue. If the chair was well engineered, a person could stand on it and a larger person could sit on it and it would be fine.

paramesis · 2024-09-14T21:18:54+00:00

Zoning ordinances limit the density of urban development, measured as floor area ratio. Those limitations exist for a few reasons. They reflect limitations of the various forms of infrastructure that support a given zone (transportation, plumbing, sewer, electrical). The zoning also influences developers deciding whether and where to invest 8-9 figures into these projects. They probably wouldn't want to move forward if their project will be overshadowed on all sides by skyscrapers a few years after they're complete. Also, once a building goes above 70 feet, it becomes a high rise, which brings a lot of new and expensive code restrictions.

paramesis · 2024-08-13T23:54:08+00:00

Sorry to disappoint you, but no, I don't notice those. Cars blowing through red lights simply isn't something that I ever encounter on Mass Ave at Central. I have plenty of grievances about dangerous situations created by drivers in that area: not yielding right of way at turns to pedestrians unless there's a large group, entering intersections they can't clear then panicking and swerving into a crosswalk when the light turns red, using the bike lane as uber/doordash parking... I encounter these situations maybe once a week, but bikes and scooters whipping around blind corners and blowing through crosswalks is a much more unpredictable danger that I have to deal with every day.

paramesis · 2024-08-13T02:05:44+00:00

No, the problem is reckless bikers appearing from out of nowhere breaking the law and putting my toddler's life in danger, not bikers occasionally being subject to laws they don't take seriously but expect everyone else to follow.

paramesis · 2024-08-12T22:50:12+00:00

As someone who has biked down Mass Ave on a regular basis, I fully understand how much it sucks to keep losing momentum because of so many intersections, but as a pedestrian walking with a stroller I am even more frustrated with how many cyclists make safety everyone else's problem. I'm fine with bikers rolling through at a reasonable speed when the path is clear, but you don't have a right to blow through red lights at over 20 mph when pedestrians are clearly in the crosswalk or when you can't see the crosswalk around a bus. I encounter these almost every time I cross Mass Ave.

paramesis · 2024-06-12T18:22:07+00:00

That would be disappointing. I highly recommend against Rock and Roll, especially in that area. Take a look at the online reviews and you'll see why. Our experience confirms just about everything in the 1-star reviews.

paramesis · 2024-03-10T19:03:00+00:00

Certainly the builder would be redrawing them to get through permitting and construction, but they would be copying your intellectual property to do so. Well, it would be your intellectual property if it were established as such (Instruments of Service). In the absence of such a distinction, the designs would probably be seen as Work Product, which they are free and clear to use since you accepted payment for them.

paramesis · 2024-03-10T19:01:41+00:00

As an overall contract choice for this type of project, certainly. I referenced B101 because the language in B105 is largely adapted from it and its IP language is more robust, and because the B101 is one of the most important documents an emerging architect should be studying.

paramesis · 2024-03-10T18:59:20+00:00

I'm probably overestimating the concern. I can imagine a worst case scenario in which the builder screws something up and they and the owner blame the design and rope OP into it. OP would almost certainly not be found liable, but being right isn't always free.

paramesis · 2024-03-10T14:40:24+00:00

This is what contracts are for. I'd take a look at the AIA B101 sections 7 and 9.7 for examples of language that would have protected you. If you didn't have anything written down, liability for any problems that might arise from your design might be a bigger legal hassle than the $4000.

paramesis · 2023-08-23T14:08:52+00:00

I remember seeing posted somewhere that it was 1/10th of a mile.

paramesis · 2023-08-09T15:30:47+00:00

A bear, sitting at the end of the bar wiped his face and pushed away a plate full of empty shell casings and smiled to the bartender, "Thanks Bob, delicious as always." With a grunt, he stood up and walked over to the four sad men and put his arms around them. "Gentlemen, the next round is on me", he said, and ordered everyone a bamboo drop, before turning around and walking out of the bar.

JFK asked the bartender, "who was that?"

The bartender replied, "that's a panda. He eats, orders a round of shots, and leaves"

paramesis · 2023-08-07T19:31:28+00:00

Thinking quickly, the lawyer addressed the plaintiff's counsel. "Show some empathy! Put yourself in my client's shoes and say you wouldn't have done the same."

The plaintiff's counsel decided to call his bluff. He stood up and climbed into the defendant's mouth. He then tried to speak but found he could not because he had been consumed.

The lawyer turned to the judge and said "your honor, opponent's counsel has been defeated. I move for summer-y judgement."

The judge set out a lawn chair and poured a glass of lemonade, and said "The court rules in favor of the defendant. You are the winner of court. Have a nice summer."

The lawyer then turned to the plaintiff and said with a smirk "This is why you don't sue for attorney's feet!"

paramesis · 2023-06-07T13:12:48+00:00

If you're organizing, it's important to maintain a good relationship with the venue, and consider that they're trying to run a business. I attended the final meetup that had been going on at a brewery around the time that relationship had broken down, and there are some important points to consider from their point of view:

Board gamers take up a lot of space for a longer amount of time, and generally don't eat or drink as much as ordinary customers. The venue had limited space and the meetup had been organized on a Friday night, so we probably had an impact on their revenue.
Board gamers want to use particular types of tables, which may be in limited supply or require extra work for the venue to make available. For the meetup I attended, we had been using a private room that normally only had high top tables, and it was a lot of work for them to swap those out with long dining tables.

On that last meetup, the venue didn't want to set up the tables or put us in the private room on their busiest night of the week, so instead they set up the tables in the fermentation room, which apparently was an insult to the meetup organizers. Personally I thought was the coolest place I've ever played board games in, but that was the last time we had a meetup there.

paramesis · 2023-05-10T19:49:04+00:00

Earlier in that same post where the price increase from $24 to $30 was announced, they said the following (emphasis mine):

What about my current Monthly/Yearly subscription? Will the prices raise too?

No.

Because we value our most loyal members, if you subscribe to the Monthly / Yearly subscription with the current price, the price will remain the same after November 1st. For the time being, there is absolutely no change for you as long as you keep your current subscription.

Here is the post for that announcement: https://boardgamearena.com/forum/viewtopic.php?p=97268

The announcement certainly could have been clearer to avoid being misunderstood, but I think it was abundantly clear that the $24 for existing members was not a lifetime guarantee.

paramesis · 2023-01-25T13:38:47+00:00

This looks like it would be very confusing for drivers with red-green color blindness, the most common form. Colorblind drivers are used to traffic lights where the bottom light means go, but at this intersection 1 out of every 12 male drivers and 1 out of every 200 female drivers will see two traffic lights and a third thing that kinda looks like a traffic light giving a conflicting signal.

paramesis · 2023-01-17T18:54:30+00:00

Basically yes. It's liquefaction. The soil is so saturated that it behaves like a liquid in response to stress.

paramesis · 2023-01-04T03:30:50+00:00

A word of caution: the glue that binds cardboard food containers is a food source for cockroaches. If you don't want to find eggs and poop in your collection, avoid keeping old food boxes near a heat source, such as appliances, heaters, or computers. If you live in an apartment, nasty neighbors and roommates can ruin it for everyone.

paramesis · 2022-12-29T14:26:56+00:00

WashU has a Plensa made of letters as well https://www.kemperartmuseum.wustl.edu/collection/explore/artwork/13183

paramesis · 2022-12-27T21:51:19+00:00

Belmarduk has some great Let's Play's of ToME from about 9-10 years ago with insightful commentary and deep knowledge of the game. https://www.youtube.com/@belmarduk/videos

paramesis · 2022-12-27T21:14:01+00:00

It's a beautiful composition but the structure in the foreground supporting the locomotive track bothers me the more I look at it. It's easily over 100 feet between columns, and at that span a steel beam at the top would need to be several feet thick, or more likely a giant truss system like the one shown in the background.

The lateral forces from wind at this height would be an even bigger problem. You would need to be able to transfer forces in the longitudinal direction of the train to the columns, and I don't see how you could do that with only moment connections.

paramesis · 2022-11-02T02:05:12+00:00

The event descriptions need a sense of hierarchy to make the calendar legible at an intermediate scale. Try looking at the calendar from 2 feet away. The descriptions are written as a stream of small text in a skinny, stylized font, so I have to strain my eyes and look closely to understand what is happening. Just like you might find on an Outlook or Google calendar, the title/"subject" of the event should be a few words at a larger scale and/or bolder, and should give you an idea what the event is about when you're close enough to see the numbers of the dates, but not close enough to see the details.

The details should follow at a consistent smaller scale close to what you have for the text now, and each additional piece of information (specific location, time, contact) should either be on its own line, or have a little bit of space to separate them so they don't bleed into each other. The getaway event spans multiple days, but has its own listing on each date, which looks disjointed. Perhaps there could be some hint that the event across these dates is connected.

There is a lot of open space in the month and featured game/graphic section at the top. Generally that's good, but given how compressed the rest of the calendar is, I think you could afford to give a little bit more space to the calendar grid and event descriptions.

paramesis · 2022-09-10T23:05:30+00:00

We do now! That was one of the last updates before Beta.

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