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Postby benluby on Fri Sep 07, 2007 8:16 am

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.
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Postby Edd Gillespie on Fri Sep 07, 2007 9:38 am

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.
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Postby Otis on Fri Sep 07, 2007 11:31 am

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. :rof: :rof: :rof:


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Postby DB on Fri Sep 07, 2007 11:36 am

Hot's on the left

Cold's on the right

Payday is Friday ....


What else could you possibly need to know?

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Postby Edd Gillespie on Fri Sep 07, 2007 11:49 am

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.
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Postby Alisa on Fri Sep 07, 2007 12:01 pm

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.
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Postby Mako on Fri Sep 07, 2007 12:44 pm

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).
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Postby Jim Plante on Fri Sep 07, 2007 1:02 pm

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.)
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Postby Alisa on Fri Sep 07, 2007 1:34 pm

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

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Sorry, but you left yourself wide open on that one. :wink:
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Postby DB on Fri Sep 07, 2007 2:35 pm

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

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Postby benluby on Fri Sep 07, 2007 4:45 pm

Okay. Here's a question for everyone. Where is the threshold? Can an area below the the front door be considered GLA?
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Postby Edd Gillespie on Fri Sep 07, 2007 5:12 pm

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?
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Postby Jim Plante on Fri Sep 07, 2007 6:25 pm

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.
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Postby Mako on Fri Sep 07, 2007 9:08 pm

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.
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Postby Steve Owen on Sun Sep 09, 2007 12:06 pm

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...

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