Only 120cm....that's OK then.

Just a reminder...the 'c' in 'cm' stands for 'centi' which means 100th....so it's 100th of a metre.... so 120 cm is 120 hundredths of a metre or 1.2 metres.....1200 millimetres or about 3/4" shy of four feet.

Me, I prefer the 'elegant' simplicity of Lian Li cases that don't look like something penned by the Transformers creator.....

Back in 1972, RMIT Architecture students [including me] created their 'habitat' for an outdoor Archie conference in Sunbury.....ours was an inflatable...about 25 squares of it....inflated by a.....wait for it....60cm fan that could push about 300cfm.  Once inflated we needed outlet vents about the size of domestic wall vents to balance pressure or else we'd split seams.

In case 'cfm' gets you more lost.....it's 'cubic feet per minute'  [this was pre-metrication back then]....

jafo, I know that the case uses 120 millimetre fans, so poor starkers had ANOTHER typo of cm instead of mm.

harpo

Bugger it... I grew up with feet and inches, so this metric crap is somewhat confusing.... still.

Still, y'all knew wot I meant.

Oh, and Jafo, I looked at the Lian Li cases, among other brands, and they were missing the features I wanted... top HDD dock and front eSATA/USB3, as well as USB2 ports, which are important as I am the goto man for editing/converting family video, and I get a variety of external drives to work with.

Ooo, pretty. Can I touch it?

Told you that computer part buying would lead to other things.

But you know touching it would lead to other things, don't you?

***face palm***

No... touching it would lead to strait jacket so you couldn't touch it again....

..... and if you kept staring at it..... a blindfold.

Now for a rant.....

DAMN, SOD AND BUGGER IT!!!!!!

Waited all fucken day for my package to arrive.... ALL FUCKEN DAY...... and a check of the mailbox reveals that a delivery person had already been.

ALREADY BEEN, I TELLS YA

Now he/she was either here at the crack of dawn [pre-7.00am] or came while I was on the throne and didn't wait around.

I tend to think the former as I heard NO doorbell ringing today.... AT ALL.

Now if it was the former, and I tend to believe it was, that's FRICKEN RUDE... turning up on an insomniac's doorstep at the crack of dawn like that.

According to the company, deliveries occur between 8.00am and 5.00pm.... so what the Frig is he/she doing here at pre-7.00am [from which I was wide eyed and bushy tailed, waiting for my gear]?

Anyway.... LONG RANT CUT SHORT, I'll ring in the morning and hopefully it'll be here tomorrow.

poor stark (raving mad) starkers.

which 'delivery mob' was the delivery made by so that I can NEVER use them myself?

harpo

I have had problems with couriers trying to deliver too early, but probably not as early as that.  But they came later, knocked once and didn't bother to wait.  It's hard to actually be available EXACTLY WHEN they arrive so you can receive a delivery, that's for sure.

Yeah, and bugger it, my strait jacket is at the dry cleaners.

So while I was thinking about the "They're Coming TO Take Me Away" song, I decided to try my hand at a little basket weaving therapy to settle my frayed nerves...

.... but alas, ALL I can think of is my UNDELIVERED PARTS!!!!!

FRICK, FRICK, FRICK, FRICK and FRICK...

and I SOOOOOOO wanted to curl up with my new case tonight... and all the wonderful things inside it... my 120mm fans... and the 200mm fans.

Not to mention my sexy new black mobo [e digicons]:'([/e] waaa, ... waaa, wha bah, boo hoo wah, wah

Now that I've gotten that out of my system....AGAIN, it was Couriers Please.... the please standing for please themselves when they turn up.

I've got the courier's number, so if it's him tomorrow I'm gonna be asking: "What made yer turn up on my doorstep at the crack of dawn yesterday, piss the bed or summat?"

harpo

Starkers....

I could have told you there'd be a problem.....

Couldn't get the Kenworth B-double up your street with those case fans on.....

Poor starkers. My shop jinxed it. I'm sorry, mate.

Maybe the delivery guy just 'took off' with it?  

Nah, I just have to ring them to arrange a convenient delivery time and they'll bring it out... well that's what it says on the card he/she left.

I'll just say anytime Tuesday after 8.00am.

You're not gonna let me live that down, are ya?

Just remember that:

> I'm an old fart.

> Grew up with feet and inches

> Never went to school during metric to have it drummed into me

> Millimetres and centimetres are confusing when you can't see the page too well

> I'm an old fart who remembers more of the old stuff and less of the new

> When in the UK I never traveled to the continent to know there was another system

> Oz changed to the metric system well after the imperial one was deeply entrenched within me.

> That when I see centimetres and they are so small to my poor old eyes, it's hard to imagine a smaller measurement.

> When old eyes see a cm, and later a mm, then later try to translate it to others, it don't always come out right due to C.R.A.F.T. disease

Okay, so I'm running out of excuses, but you get the picture, dontcha Mr. architect man... wot went to school when metric wos tawt.

Oh, and did I mention that I'm an old fart who don't see, remember or measure too well?

Nah, wasn't your fault..... buuuuut

You will pay for this.....

I see a shop in your future... and you'll walk right into it. bwahahaha

starkers

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I see a shop in your future... and you'll walk right into it. bwahahaha  

Ahhhh....... nothing like a challenge.  

starkers says:

"Yet I will try the last. Before my body I throw my warlike shield. Lay on, Macdoc, and damn'd be him that first cries, 'Hold, enough!'" 

Exeunt, fighting. Alarums

I sez:

"Thou knowest this shall not end well for thee!"

Like i said... one day yer gonna walk right into it. 

So keep going, Sunshine, cos I'm lining you up fer the big un... shop, that is.

Oh, and the fing wrong with yer shop.... I'd be usin' a cutlass ye blaggard, an' I'd be not in a landlubber's castle but on deck wiv me brave buccaneers be'ind I... arrgghhhh.

Starkers....not only did I also go through school with the Imperial system I also had to endure the first few years of my professional Architecture life becoming conversant with BOTH....as the change to metric came in in the mid 70's.

I can also tell you how many links in a chain....and that a link is a useless size aka 7 3/4"......

I once had a building app knocked back because the building dwgs didn't MATCH the Planning ones.....by ONE millimeter.  I had to dimension it to 0.5 mm.

That's about 1/50th of an inch....

Ho-hum.

My Ps has a mind of its own. 

Love and flowers  [e digicons]:karma:[/e] ,

...and that's Macsunshine to you, Mr. Macbleep.