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2025-11-13.md

@@ -50,6 +50,6 @@ I've decided I've considered learning [[shorthand]]
 enough times independently
 that I would likely benefit from it.
 
-I added [[Leslie_1968_Gregg-Notehand|a book]]
+I added [[leslie-et-al_1968_gregg-notehand|a book]]
 on [[shorthand#Gregg Notehand]]
 to my calibre library.

2025-11-16.md

@@ -15,7 +15,7 @@ title: 2025-11-16
 #topic/hobbies/shorthand #topic/hobbies/writing
 
 Yesterday evening,
-while I was reading [[Leslie_1968_Gregg-Notehand]],
+while I was reading [[leslie-et-al_1968_gregg-notehand]],
 for the first time practicing its lessons,
 trying to [[learn-shorthand]],
 I was growing frustrated with the terminology the text uses

2025-12-12.md

@@ -0,0 +1,32 @@
+---
+id:
+aliases: []
+title: 2025-12-12
+tags:
+  - authorship/original
+  - destiny/permanent
+  - status/draft
+  - type/daily
+---
+# 2025-12-12
+
+## 2025-12-12 09:38
+
+A humorous exchange between a peer in estimating and myself:
+
+> **Peer:** "Your research will one day cure estimator's brain,
+> a disease sweeping across \[our\] floor"
+>
+> **Me:** "if you ask me-I mean my friend-it's quite rare actually"
+>
+> **Peer:** "more data will be needed before a strong conclusion can be made"
+>
+> **Me:** "damn it's got you too"
+
+My response was meant to imply that,
+among those employed as estimators,
+knowledge of and application of scientific methods are rare.
+I wonder though if it would have been more apt
+to reply "you're in the clear" or something to that effect,
+implying that one with estimator brain
+would make decisions based on limited data.

auction-theory.md

@@ -2,7 +2,10 @@
 id:
 aliases: []
 title: Auction Theory
-tags: []
+tags:
+  - authorship/original
+  - destiny/permanent
+  - topic/strategy
 ---
 # Auction Theory
 

bid-process-strategy.md

@@ -15,12 +15,12 @@ tags:
 ## Scope
 
 This note is intended to describe bid process strategy
-especially in terms of [[auction-theory]],
+especially in terms of
-which specifically addresses the competitive bid format
-typical of construction project award,
-and [[actuarial-science]], ...
 
-See [[bad-bid-practice]]
+* [[auction-theory]],
+    which specifically addresses the competitive bid format
+    typical of construction project award, and
+* [[actuarial-science]], ...
 
 ### Outside Factors Influencing Bid Price
 

breakdown-objects.md

@@ -1,6 +1,7 @@
 ---
 id:
 aliases: []
+title: Breakdown Objects
 tags:
   - authorship/original
   - destiny/fleeting
@@ -9,7 +10,6 @@ tags:
   - topic/estimating
   - topic/software
   - type/idea
-title: Breakdown Objects
 ---
 # Breakdown Objects
 
@@ -64,10 +64,13 @@ equipment of the same type is assumed to be evenly spaced.
 
 ![[location-vs-scope.excalidraw]]
 
-MDPB is physically _located_ in "Bldg A",
+MDPB is physically _located_ in Building A,
-but serves only loads in "Bldg B".
+but serves only loads in Building B.
 
 ```
-location = "Bldg A"
+location = Buildings["Building A"]
-scope = "Bldg B"
+scope = Buildings["Building B"]
 ```
+
+Were Building B removed from the contract scope,
+it can be expected that MDPB would be as well.

distribution-equipment.md

@@ -13,12 +13,12 @@ title: Distribution Equipment
 
 ## Pigtail Adaptors
 
-![[burndy-AYP300_pigtail-adaptor.png|201x201]]
+Pigtail adaptors are used where wire size exceeds the range of terminal lugs.
-
+They are crimped onto the stripped end of the conductor.
-Pigtail adaptors are used where feeder wires exceed the range of terminal lugs.
 
 > [!info]
-> "Pigtail adaptor" is the most common name and spelling for the device,
+> "Pigtail adaptor" is (unfortunately)
+> the most common name and spelling for the device,
 > however it's something of a misnomer,
 > having nothing to do with pigtails (a short length of wire),
 > the name likely stemming from the device being used _in lieu_ of a pigtail.
@@ -29,8 +29,6 @@ Pigtail adaptors are used where feeder wires exceed the range of terminal lugs.
 > * Theatrical Switchboard
 > * Stage Switchboard
 
-![[company-switch.png|500x625]]
-
 Company switches are lighting control equipment
 unique to performance venues
 like those subject to [[nfpa-70_520_theaters]]

game-theory.md

@@ -7,6 +7,7 @@ tags:
   - destiny/permanent
   - status/incomplete
   - topic/math
+  - topic/strategy
   - type/encyclopedia
 ---
 # Game Theory

gregg-notehand.md

@@ -12,7 +12,7 @@ tags:
 # _Gregg Notehand_
 
 Gregg Notehand is a simplified form of Gregg Shorthand.
-It is described in the namesake [[Leslie_1968_Gregg-Notehand]]
+It is described in the namesake [[leslie-et-al_1968_gregg-notehand]]
 
 This note is a description and critique
 of both the book and the shorthand,
@@ -25,7 +25,7 @@ and generally suffer from a facile understanding of phonology.
 Totally unacceptable for a proposed alternative alphabet,
 but then the text does not understand that's what it's proposing.
 
-> [[Leslie_1968_Gregg-Notehand#2-8. Notehand principles]]
+> [[leslie-et-al_1968_gregg-notehand#2-8. Notehand principles]]
 > **Silent letters omitted.**
 > In the English language many words contain letters that are not pronounced.
 > In Notehand these silent letters are omitted,
@@ -49,7 +49,7 @@ but then the text does not understand that's what it's proposing.
 
 ***
 
-> [[Leslie_1968_Gregg-Notehand#2-8. Notehand principles]]
+> [[leslie-et-al_1968_gregg-notehand#2-8. Notehand principles]]
 > Gregg Notehand is easy to learn---easier, actually, than longhand. Why?
 > In longhand, there are many different ways of writing a given letter;
 > in Gregg Notehand, there is only one way.

leslie-et-al_1968_gregg-notehand.md

@@ -134,7 +134,7 @@ year: 1968
 ## Gregg Notehand
 
 Gregg Notehand is a simplified form of Gregg Shorthand.
-It is described in the namesake [[Leslie_1968_Gregg-Notehand]]
+It is described in the namesake [[leslie-et-al_1968_gregg-notehand]]
 
 ### Critiques
 
@@ -143,7 +143,7 @@ and generally suffer from a facile understanding of phonology.
 Totally unacceptable for a proposed alternative alphabet,
 but then the text does not understand that's what it's proposing.
 
-> [[Leslie_1968_Gregg-Notehand#2-8. Notehand principles]]
+> [[leslie-et-al_1968_gregg-notehand#2-8. Notehand principles]]
 > **Silent letters omitted.**
 > In the English language many words contain letters that are not pronounced.
 > In Notehand these silent letters are omitted,
@@ -167,7 +167,7 @@ but then the text does not understand that's what it's proposing.
 
 ***
 
-> [[Leslie_1968_Gregg-Notehand#2-8. Notehand principles]]
+> [[leslie-et-al_1968_gregg-notehand#2-8. Notehand principles]]
 > Gregg Notehand is easy to learn---easier, actually, than longhand. Why?
 > In longhand, there are many different ways of writing a given letter;
 > in Gregg Notehand, there is only one way.

units-takeoff.md

@@ -92,6 +92,9 @@ Use standard MC assemblies for remaining devices.
 
 ### "High-Lows"
 
+Empty in-wall pass through
+from credenza location to behind television location.
+
 `COMMON ASSEMBLIES`/`TELECOM SYSTEMS`/`UNIT DATA  - TELECOM`/`HIGH-LOW - TV SCOOP 1 1/2" ENT - NO CABLE`
 
 Eaton 35M2W

when-i-die.md

@@ -43,12 +43,12 @@ when i die
 
 ### Commentary
 
-I wrote this at about 4:00 this morning (2025-10-21)
+I wrote this at about 2025-10-21 04:00
 when I couldn't sleep.
 
 #### Theme
 
-At the time I thought the poem was very funny,
+At the time I thought the poem was very funny:
 it starts out morbid and death-negative,
 then becomes touching,
 then a sharp pivot to grotesque and absurd.
@@ -74,7 +74,8 @@ they're letting the reader off easy:
 "don't bother with burial or cremation,
 just toss me in the woods",
 but the convenience is negated by their second request,
-a task that would be so ethically and technically difficult
+a task that would be so ethically difficult
+(not to mention technically difficult)
 as to be impossible for almost all people.
 
 To make the speaker's request

wiring-method-selection.md

@@ -144,8 +144,8 @@ may only be used where they will be concealed from view.
 
 ### EMT Overhead
 
-Set-screw fittings are [[best-practice]]
+Set-screw fittings are cheaper than compression,
-Set-screw fittings may not be acceptable.
+but may not be acceptable.
 
 > [!info]
 > EMT has a third coupling type "indenter",
@@ -210,6 +210,8 @@ flowchart LR
 
 #### Fire Rated Feeders
 
+[[fire-resistive-wiring-methods-takeoff]]
+
 PDI estimating practice is to run all "emergency" feeds
 (life-safety or just standby)
 in a 2-hour rated assembly.