slightly eccentric

[gfish]

I just measured with a micrometer, and my wedding ring has developed an eccentricity of 0.3303 (24.4mm x 23.03mm). Which is rather odd, because I always take it off when I'm doing the kind of things that would tend to crush small loops of soft metal.

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[creeves78.livejournal.com]

i assume you meant your wedding ring, rather than your wedding...;P i've recently found myself contemplating the shape of my wedding ring & any inconsistancies in place of staring off into space. unfortunately it tends to happen at work, where i have no micrometer. but class starts on wednesday...i'll have to wander down to the projects lab & measure mine. now you've got me curious!

[neuro42.livejournal.com]

Well there's no need to get all bent out of shape over it.

[beaq.livejournal.com]

All kinds of activities, including shoving one's hands in one's pockets, can crush small loops of soft metal.

[tnarg42.livejournal.com]

Okay, I pulled out my trusty old vernier calipers... I tend to not be so good about taking it off, but mine is only 0.04 mm eccentric. I guess that means you're almost an order of magnitude more eccentric than I :-)

[hsifyppah.livejournal.com]

This icon is my first wedding ring after I landed on it in a fabulous flying header while rollerblading. Whee! My husband at that point was already on #2, as he had to cut #1 off his hand when he accidentally crushed it in a moving accident. We gave up and ordered half a dozen online. With enough lying around we can usually find one that isn't too damaged to wear out of the house. Eccentric and somewhat scruffy: just like our relationship.

[hello-mike.livejournal.com]

Doesn't eccentricity imply that your ring is a perfect conic section (and therefore a perfect, mathematical ellipse)?

I'm thinking it probably just gets that way through years of wear. And it probably wasn't micrometer-level perfect when you got it anyway.

[sistawendy.livejournal.com]

Only you, Fish. Only you. Maybe it's just normal wear.

[olafthunderfoot.livejournal.com]

~steals yer ring~