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Mako, pick a topic you think newb's need to know about, and write about it. I'd be excited to see any math formula's you've came up with or found useful, and any other insight someone of you, Greg and Edd's (and others, but I ain't listing that many names!!) can offer.

Mako wrote:I gotta purge...I gotta purge!!!

That should be done in complete privacy, if Senator Craig's experience is any guide. Stay in your own stall, and your side of the partition. Sit at attention and don't even touch a damn thing or move your foot.

benluby wrote:Mako, pick a topic you think newb's need to know about, and write about it. I'd be excited to see any math formula's you've came up with or found useful, and any other insight someone of you, Greg and Edd's (and others, but I ain't listing that many names!!) can offer.

Here Ben. 1 + 1 does equal 2 and not 3.


Couldn't pass it up.

Hot's on the left

Cold's on the right

Payday is Friday ....


What else could you possibly need to know?

This going to sound a little like Mary Poppins, but we are all in process, and always will be. Anyone who believes anyone has arrived and there is nothing more to learn has something to learn.

Each of us is a teacher and a student and each of us has concurrent responsibilities to learn and to help others learn. Anybody who disagrees with that needs mentoring for life, as do those who agree with it.

The red flag is flying when you think you have arrived at the pinnacle. Those heights are there to reveal new ones.

Well said, Edd. There are days when I wonder what the heck I do know....especially after reading some of the posts. There is so much knowledge here that is being shared and to be shared.

Even if each one of us posted a tip or trick or something we learned the hard way I am sure we all would find something new or something we used to know/do and have forgotten.

Just call me Mary2 -- frankly--I don't think being
a Mary Poppins is such a bad thing....or Pollyanna either.

benluby wrote:Mako, pick a topic you think newb's need to know about, and write about it. I'd be excited to see any math formula's you've came up with or found useful, and any other insight someone of you, Greg and Edd's (and others, but I ain't listing that many names!!) can offer.

First: Don't listen to Otis or DB... 1+1 can sometimes = 3 & I plumbed my own house & have a sense of humor.

I'll give some thought to a couple topics I think newbies might appreciate & write over the coming days (right now I've got to run...today's payday).

1+1=2, but 1 and 1 = 1; 3 and 1 = 1; 4 and 2 = 0
That's logic. (Hint: programmers will know right away what this is. The rest of you will have concluded that I've lost my marbles for sure.)

Oh, Jim, we've thought that long before now!!!



Sorry, but you left yourself wide open on that one.

Uh Jim .... are you counting on parity or no??

Okay. Here's a question for everyone. Where is the threshold? Can an area below the the front door be considered GLA?

benluby wrote:Okay. Here's a question for everyone. Where is the threshold? Can an area below the the front door be considered GLA?

Is the threshhold even with the outside walls? ANSI says outside measure = GLA. I never read anything about threshholds and GLA. Anybody?

benluby wrote:Okay. Here's a question for everyone. Where is the threshold? Can an area below the the front door be considered GLA?

Of course, provided the area below the threshold is above-grade. And even if it's not above grade, it might still be considered GLA if that's the way the market perceives it. Walk-out basements are sometimes treated as GLA in some markets.

Jim Plante wrote:1+1=2, but 1 and 1 = 1; 3 and 1 = 1; 4 and 2 = 0
That's logic. (Hint: programmers will know right away what this is. The rest of you will have concluded that I've lost my marbles for sure.)

Actually...I thought you were referring to fertility drugs.

I have this great quote running in my head, Mako. But, I cannot remember it exactly, or who said it... maybe Pina Colada can help us out. It goes something like this...

In the future, success will be measured not by what you know, but by how much you can unlearn what you know and learn the new.