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Old 09-25-2012, 12:46 PM
FrancisCastle FrancisCastle is offline
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A waiting room!

If I crane my neck I can see out the windows. It's a four-way stop. Woohoo!!

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Old 09-25-2012, 12:54 PM
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I have a fantastic view of... an adjacent building; it has privacy tinted windows so I can't even watch them do whatever boring shit they're doing over there.
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Old 09-25-2012, 01:27 PM
brachyrhynchos brachyrhynchos is offline
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Woohoo! (that's material to mute the blinding light that previously a nice tree, murdered a few years ago, blocked.)
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Old 09-25-2012, 01:34 PM
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My only job right now is work study. When I'm assisting, the only window looks out to a very dull hallway. That's probably for the best though because we're all safest with the pathologists and assistants looking at their work and not the scenery. When I'm not assisting, the view looks out to some grass behind our building, the Chemistry building, and the Pharmacy building. Occasionally I can see college students playing Frisbee but normally they just walk around from one building to another.
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Old 09-25-2012, 01:40 PM
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Originally Posted by CalMeacham View Post
Here's the view TOWARD my window (I worked in the low building nesar the enter. One of those windows you see was mine, and at the time the photo was taken):

http://www.dickwhitney.net/RBWAOPondThenAndNow.html
Holy crap Cal. I've never seen it from that angle before. It's beautiful! I wish the town would make an effort to showcase how beautiful the building and grounds are. The conference center looks nice but they seem to have forgotten the rest of it.
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Old 09-26-2012, 03:40 PM
ducati ducati is online now
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One of my hats is replacing and repairing repeaters and antennas.

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a view from the tower on top of Stone Mountain as we replaced antennas.

Here's a water tower in Lawrenceville, GA with Stone Mountain waaay in the distance, 13 miles as the crow flies.
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Old 09-26-2012, 07:33 PM
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From my desk I can barely even see a window. But from the canteen I get a nice view across London - Tower Bridge, the Gherkin, the Shard, the BT Tower, right across to the London Eye.
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Old 09-26-2012, 07:35 PM
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None of them are "my" windows - open plan office with dividers that are chin-high when I'm sitting - but straight ahead it's the a Thai flag on top of a building and the windows of the... <counts quickly> 16th floor of another office block. To the right it's office buildings either side of a street that runs down to Hyde Park and to the left it's overlooking a pointy white building that Apple Maps calls the Bennelong Point parking station, then Pinchgut Island and across the harbour to Cremorne and Taronga Zoo.
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