I haven't taken the exam yet - this is my first try - but I'm taking the following books:
-AISC Steel Manual & Seismic Manual
-ASCE 7
-Masonry Spec
-Main 3 wood books (lateral, NDS & supplement)
-PCI Design Handbook
-AISI Manual
-ACI 318
-IBC
-SERM
-PPI's Solved Problems book...
My car died - fractured heater core. It's fixable, but the car was reaching the end of usable life anyway. It's looking like I am keeping the car as a "I can fix this and sell it", but not spending the money for a mechanic to do it. In the meantime, I've bought a new car - Kia Soul - that is...
I mostly listen to Pandora. Pretty wide musical tastes - rap and country are the only two major genres that are rare for me to enjoy, and even then there are some exceptions. I've digitized my CD collection and picked up some Amazon Prime music for when I don't have access to the internet...
I cut the cable a while back, and haven't really missed any shows I can't get elsewhere. I'll be buying most shows I watch on Google Play.
As for what I'm watching right now? Voyager. I skipped most of it the first time around (even Jeri Ryan couldn't get me to care about the show) and now...
Not in the least. (I had not read this article; I read a different one, which did not include that quote.)
(Of course, the way the article paraphrases it is intended to make people mad. It's possible she said something closer to "I don't believe that this happened as described, because if it...
Does no work for you?
We already have a police state. We should be working to eliminate that, not strengthening it to eliminate crime.
@NJMike: It's likely to be partially about race for them. When cops are corrupt, they go after minorities because they're frequently too afraid to complain...
How very Stalinesque.
Edit:
Not to say that what happened should have happened. As for why the memorial - there are some areas of the country where the police are more corrupt, and the good cops are less trusted as a result. It's very possible that the neighborhood is convinced that the...