Feel like it just makes me miss the old stuff more. I mean, it's cool but also kinda sad.

What exactly did Sam try to use it for?

You're not wrong about the old ways working. But man, I still have a few scrap pieces of conduit from my apprentice days that look like modern art. My old foreman called my three-point saddle bends "abstract expressionism." The phone chart would have saved me a lot of metal and a little pride.

Honestly, Dave was just trying something nice... the tech is new and clunky, but his heart was in the right place. People get too hung up on the weird details instead of the feeling behind it. It's a shame that good intent got lost over some bad lip sync.

Man, I feel that. My version of that is spending an hour trying to fix a busted power washer pump with duct tape and hope instead of just buying the new fifty dollar part. I always tell myself I'm saving money, but I'm really just paying myself in frustration. Your math actually makes sense though, thirty percent more material is a no brainer.