Metric

[gfish]

Talking to my mom tonight, she mentioned that I was arguing for the metric system when I was ten. Which would be super cool if I was particularly good at thinking in it by now, but I'm not. I have mass, length and temperature down pretty well. I'm much weaker on volume, speed and pressure. Curse the US Congress for not mandating a switch in the 70s like they promised! One of the few powers explicitly granted to them by the Consitution, and all they've managed to do is a toothless 1988 proclamation that metric is the "preferred system of weights and measures for United States trade and commerce". Bah.

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"Dark and metric is my town..."

[keystricken.livejournal.com]

Here's a belated welcome to my friendslist, gfish. We seem to have no one in common, so I'm not sure how you found me. With your evident interest in robots, you may find this post (http://keystricken.livejournal.com/59376.html) interesting, and here is my fledgling website (http://helper-robots.com/) of alternative purposes for robots.

Re: "Dark and metric is my town..."

[gfish.livejournal.com]

I think it was through an interest search for 'xkcd', actually. (Coincidentally, I've also met boojum a couple of times.) Anyway, hi!