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@mikes, sorry for suggesting that you make the comment an answer when it was better left as a comment.

@BMitch, I think you're right. At the time, I thought it was as good of an answer as we were going to get.

got to go … ttfn

I once lived in a condo, and that was bad enough

I'm so glad I don't have a HOA to deal with

so I suppose everyone notifies their neighbors about all their trees, regardless of their apparent health, just in case?

interesting

@BMitch, [re: cell phone towers] evolution in action, right?

@BMitch, are you responsible for your trees' damage in your state? Not here in Mass.

The construction project for our new building at work stopped because they are waiting to get the crane certified. The inspector who was supposed to certify it didn't buckle in like he was supposed to when climbing, so the on-site insurance guy took a picture, and the inspector was fired before he could finish the inspection. So now they have to wait for a new inspector. :)

there is an amusement park in Germany for grown men (and women, I suppose). it's basically a big sandbox with real excavators, dump trucks, etc. that the visitors can play with.

I rented a Dingo for digging in the yard. It was great fun: diy.stackexchange.com/a/515/21

@lsiunsuex, you may get a surprise; I had a hard enough time digging holes for fence posts

I did that with the shed the town wouldn't let me build (grrr)

@lsiunsuex, I think I would try to draw it in Google Sketchup too get an idea of how it would look with the root

a step i @JayBazuzi's direction, right?

maybe that's why they started listing actual thickness for everything

… but to confuse matters, hardwood veneer plywood is often "full" thickness, so nominal = actual

it's the nominal/actual thing again

we get to stand around in the lumberyard counting on our fingers

ah, the joy of fractions instead of decimals

@JayBazuzi, the aspect ratio of 2 would be convenient sometimes

has anyone had doors custom made?

a milled 2x4 is 1.89x3.86 in in Norway, but 1.5x3.5 in the US

see diy.stackexchange.com/questions/444/…

interestingly, how much smaller differs a lot between different countries

saw them to 2x4, let them dry, then mill them to 1.5x3.5

@JayBazuzi, it's because they milli them to that size

hi @Aarthi

I'm in the middle of stripping paint from doors. Did one door so far.

hi

@yoda Shouldn't be too hard to interface them, as the mindstorms have I2C and the Roomba has a serial port.

@jamesson I already have LEGO Mindstorms to play with. Birthday present from my daughter. :)

The newer ones are supposedly easier to remove hair from.

s/lover/loved/

We're mourning the loss of our well-lover Roomba.

@TheEvilGreebo How much space did you end up with in the end between the TV and the wall?

@Steven, if we do the kitchen thing it will have doubles in every permissible position.

we are contemplating (and saving for) a kitchen remodel, and the required new circuits (two small-appliance circuits and range hood) would bring my panel from almost full to completely packed.

ah :)

@NiallC., a follow-up question: do any of the candidate have experience moderating other forms of online communities, such as public mailing lists?

@GraceNote, I would phrase my disagreement with the other moderator as a wider policy question and post it on meta.

@ppumpkin, any particular things that need changing that you would like to elaborate on?

for bad answers that don't add anything useful and come from low-rep users, I am quick to delete, but I typically leave a comment to explain to the user why the question was deleted.

@GraceNote, actually moderating this particular site is not a lot of work.

echoing Jeff Atwood, it is a sign of health when I site does not have the need for huge wars on Meta

@RoryAlsop, I don't think increasing meta activity is a goal in itself.

@Tester101, we have scope issues (shopping questions, etc.) that we have not really resolved yet.

editing for clarity, removing non-constructive parts

hi, sorry I'm late