LEIB NOT LAIB - it's german for life although Leib comes from his  
rabbi maternal grandfather.
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Quoting Gabriel Orgrease <[log in to unmask]>:

> c,
>
> I love it.
>
> And then there is the measure in Drews and Laibs. Laib was too tall to
> fit through the access hole that we cut in the wall. I was too wide.
> The lift we needed on one job was 6 Drews tall.
>
> One thing we have learned in doing a probe is to ignore the 2' x 2'
> dimension the engineer sketches on the envelope (if we are so lucky as
> to get a sketch) but to look at the engineer's head and make sure that
> the hole we make is large enough for them to rotate without grabbing a
> piece of wire mesh or other nasty obstruction in the face. Their
> tendency of focus to grab information as quickly as possible often
> precludes ultra-safe work practice. "Hey, you want these goggles?" We
> aim to deliver our engineers whole and intact without undue scratches
> or cuts from the exploratory process.
>
> Recent news in NYC was to effect of building work sites burning (One
> Liberty Plaza) due to work site smoking habits. Which brings up that
> union workforce is obviously better as to safety as they are more than
> willing to take the time to go outside to smoke whereas non-union
> workforce tends to be ignorant of smoke-safety work practice in that
> non-protected they will keep tearing out asbestos while chain smoking.
>
> ][<
>
> Cuyler Page wrote:
>> Just at the time the Canadian Standard shifted to metric, with the   
>> millimetre declared the legal basic value for dimensioning to avoid  
>>  any need for decimal points that might be mistaken for dust spots   
>> on prints (or vice versa), the architectural firm I was with was   
>> doing a college campus.   We were all wrestling our minds into   
>> metric, including the foreman who called at 9 am on the first day   
>> of layout on the building site asking what the hell the number on   
>> the plan for the length of the first building meant - 11,347,569   
>> !?!?!?!?    We were simply working to the new standard set by the   
>> government, the millimetre.    A couple of weeks later, an   
>> architect recently arrived from Egypt joined the firm, his desk   
>> straight across from mine.   He thought we were all absolutely   
>> nuts, and didn't hesitate to tell us so in Mediterranean/Arabian   
>> style.   He said that in Egypt the basic design and building   
>> standard was the centimetre.   No one cared about anything less, it  
>>  just took care of itself, and that the rest of the world operated   
>> that way too.   He thought the Canadians simply were too anal. "Who  
>>  Cares!", he declared, hating to have to detail to millimetres.    
>> He  left a month later, taking his stinking little brown Egyptian   
>> endless chain smoking cigarettes with him, Allah be Praised.
>>
>> cp in millimetre bc
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