psf, maybe 350 psf max. I was thrown off by the reference to the beer
of champions, PBR (Pabst Blue Ribbon).
Andrew Kester, P.E. wrote:
> Erik,
>
> I am totally with Bill and his line of thinking. And to be honest, you
> sound sorta like you hate freedom. The freedom to build whatever the
> hell you want and flip the bird to the world is our American right.
> Its in the Constitution, which you probably can barely read since you
> sound like you were educated in the public school system.
>
> You must realize you need a 4 car garage, where can you put your
> Hummer, Expedition, boat and jet ski. And what kind of hippy wants 3
> people to crowd into a tiny 4000sf house with dinky 12 ft
> ceilings. How can you not derive supreme pleasure over designing these
> knowing their utilitarian function? And of course the next logical
> step in questioning this way of thinking would be to go work for
> Greenpeace and build houses of crap. There is no in-between or gray on
> this issue or any other issue, just like in all of real life.
>
> Why don't you go shoot or save some deer, I am not sure which but they
> both make sense. I think as long as you eat the deer it is OK. Which
> is why I pick up every liberal tree hugging squirrel I run over.
>
> Who cares if they are not energy efficient, require tons of building
> materials, could house a small 3rd world village, can be nearly
> impossible to properly structurally engineer because the more cut up a
> roof line the more architecturally pleasing it is, and above all, are
> completely over the top look at me and all of my insecurities and I am
> so trying to keep up with the joneses and drowning in debt to do
> so. Just cash your check and be happy you got a job in the greatest
> country ever (or GEEEETTTT OUUUUTTTT). If you stopped hitting the bong
> and put out the incense long enough, one day you may open up your own
> company and do whatever you want with whatever conscious you have. I
> mean, I don't believe in Jesus as my saviour but we engineer lots of
> churches. I think strip clubs are a waste of money but I would design
> them too. Liquor stores, gun shops, drug dealer's house, Al Gore's
> save the earth hippy house or a steel framed behemoth to support
> Rush's 400psf LL requirements, whatever pays my bills. Conscious and
> caring are for pansies, bunch of liberal fuzzy warm feeling crap.
>
> Now drink a case of PBR and maybe you will wake up on the RIGHT side
> of bed and realize how good you got it in 'Merica.
>
> Andrew
>
>
>
>
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