Where's Steve??

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In reply to: Nothing will wear you down faster than dealing with contractors and their suppliers HEY! as a former contractor and a distributor, I resemble that remark.

I have a lot of respect for myself young one. I don't do things I don't want to do. I don't let anyone influence me when I've already made a decision about something. I don't just "go with the crowd". I like going against the grain. I'm not exactly drawn to just conform, thank you. I'm the "wild child" of the family, never doing what's been planned. I speak my mind. I'm opinionated, very well educated, and I just so happen to love to laugh. And that's not a crime. So basically, I'm every nightmare and every dream you've ever had. And the fact that your brain, in all of it's glorious, tiny capacity has enough gall to even call me a dipshit basically says - nothing. It doesn't really matter what you think of me. You're not my father or my brother and God forbid you ever become anything to me at all. I shouldn't have to care about what you think. You are insignificant.

Well said

In reply to:Too bad you'll never achieve it.No, if I could just get myself to be a little angrier, I could achieve Unforgettoness.

My vacuum cleaner broke. I guess nature abhors a vacuum.I'll have to live in dirt until I get new wood laminate flooring installed. Maybe it'll strengthen my immune system.

My wood (maple laminate) flooring material has arrived...but we seem to be about 45 square feet short. It would have been a lot easier to figure out if we used the metric system. Why oh why won't the U.S. use the metric system? We have 0.5 liter water bottles and 12 oz. water bottles and 16 oz water bottles. Quick, how many square feet in a board that measures 86 5/8 inches by 7 9/32 inches?

I agree.I lived in Europe for 9 years and of course they use metric system ... easiest thing in the world.Then I moved here to America and it totally screwed me over ... I still couldn't tell you how long a foot is (I know it's 12 inches, but I couldn't show you how long a foot is by using just my hands or whatever) ... and I have no idea how to convert ounces and all that ... so confusing!

We had a doddering president in the early 80's who couldn't grasp the reasons it would be good for the economy if the U.S. shifted to the metric system (the transition was already underway by his engineer-president predecessor; canned vegetables and such were labled in both ounces and grams). He pulled the plug on the transition, and here we are, on an island of ounces, drams, grains, slugs, fathoms, gallons (regular and imperial), inches (the length of 3 barleycorns), feet, rods, furlongs, acres, pounds (regular and troy), miles (regular and nautical), etc.NASA lost a $125 million Mars orbiter because one engineering team used metric units while another used English units for a key spacecraft operationBoth teams were American.

In reply to:NASA lost a $125 million Mars orbiter because one engineering team used metric units while another used English units for a key spacecraft operationWhat are English units? They're Imperial units...

Outside of Canada they call it the English system of measurement (as opposed to the kickass metric system, which has a couple of flavors...System Internationale (SI) is the modern version).

Outside of Canada (and maybe the U.K.) they call it the English system of measurement (as opposed to the kickass metric system, which has a couple of flavors...System Internationale (SI) is the modern version).

I'm so glad you didn't edit your first post and instead posted the same thing again after 7 minutes! I couldn't read it the first time, but I got it the second time!

User error...I screwed up...I didn't mean to cause you any difficulty...please forgive me.

Nooooo....I'm just getting comfortable in my own skin.

User error which has happened about 100 times already.

So I guess that means that you won't forgive me. OK, show me the links.Are we in a bad mood tonight?

Possibly.

so we still lukin 4 steve or he still hiding from the f.b.i?

All this talk about marijuana...how do you know I'm not the head of the FBI? Or the FBI head?

you took a long bathroom break today