If I spent time out of country, I'd gladly learn metric, but since we don't really use that system enough it would be pointless right now.

But it hasn't fallen below 100 degrees faren in over a week. At least that sounds hot to the average person, metric or no.

But I read a lot of military books that use meters to describe range..... Anyway, metrics is just one thing that proves the US isn't quite as cosmopolitan as we're all raised to believe. But we were pretty isolated for awhile so I guess it can be justified.

"Bob's your uncle" is essentially meaningless. It means 'and that's all you have to do' or 'and there you are' but is only used when thats already obvious. Very useful...

This post has been edited by Olen: Aug 2 2008, 09:47 AM

4000 decimeters are about 15748 inches. 8 inches are about 20 centimeters.

I'm a biologist by profession, so I use metric in my work. Hooray, setting up 1000 meter transects for invasive plant sampling...

Well, I was exaggerating a bit. What I was meaning to say is inches are about 2.5 times bigger than a centimeter, and I think that makes it easier to measure things. I'd rather count out 13 inches than 33 centimeters.

Coming to a theatre near you...this summer...logical ten based sequences versus random collusion of gathered systems over the centuries! Who will win? The system based on things that actually make sense? Or the system who engineered a global empire?

Find out! When Metric meets Imperial,....which ironically enough has been cast aside by the very people who originally devised it....

Oh yeah? Then what about feet vs meters?

Well I would think that yards are more comparable to meters than feet. All I'm saying is, I learned the Imperial system, it makes sense to me. 12 inches in a foot, 3 feet in a yard, 1,760 yards in a mile. Sure, it doesn't make much sense, but that's how we Americans like it.

Hi guys! Holiday greetings from minque and daedroth on my cellphone.

Ahhh it's good to be back again....and to the nice discussion about measuring systems..



Mmm, maybe, I kinda buy that argument..



uhhh?? I'm not so sure about that, I'm an old geezer and I certainly can't figure it out without help from a conversion table or so



I know you do! And all I'm saying is that I will get a conversion table pinned to my pc so I can talk to you guys the way you like it! OK?

Lol, just give it time, minque. By the next century we're bound to have moved on to metrics. School's starting next thursday for me. *yeah* Honestly, I just look forward to a normal sleep cycle and some structure again....

My mom's been back from China for a couple of weeks. She was a part of a medical mission (cleft palates). It was her first time to go to China, she's been on a few to Honduras. Apparently, this trip was abnormally bad. Without going into detail, there was a whole lot of setbacks, some corruption, and other crap.
In the end, only half of the people they were planning to treat were operated on (the plug got pulled a day early, which didn't help that). In spite of all the trouble, they're likely to go again next year.... after a reprieve. There's no hard feelings that I've heard from any who went on the mission.

I need tchoose avatar now. I have four to choose from.
nr1, my first:
nr2, the one I'm currently using:
nr3, created today:
nr4, first Oblivion one also created today:


You choose

Well, I'd take either four or one. Four looks fine on its own. One has these deeper shadows that make the face more pronounced. In two, the face looks washed out due to all the light. This is the same reason I'd suggest against using three. The other reason is that I like one and two's hairstyle more.

But in the end, it's your choice.

Going back to news from my place. I figured out that the life of a student isn't easy, especially when you're from the countryside. (Or the closest thing to countryside in the Netherlands). I'm still in the initiation week, which basically means I tag along behind a group all day and watch them get seriously drunk. I'm kinda bored with that, but at least I'm not the one with a hangover.

Anyway, tonight the folks decided to go past every single pub in the city-centre and make a new record on drunkeness. I didn't feel so well, so I went home. I arrived one hour and about sixteen minutes later, after having rode around in a circle, take a bridge in both directions, gone past the landmarks my sister explained and then using them the wrong way. All while it was raining. Damn, I'm tired now. Looking back, I can laugh at being so ridiculously lost but back then, I wasn't laughing.

I found something very sweet that I'd like to share with you.
Enjoy!

The singer is Sophie Zelmani!

I'm going to try the Oblivion one for now..

The joys of Fresher's Week, and pub crawls... good times.. This year I'll get to be one of the people in the group that organises such things, rather than being a fresher who tagged along
But that won't be starting till the 6th of October... lnog wait yet...

Being able to drink is not on my list of reasons to look forward to turning 21. I switched my favorite soda after I found out coke leads to liver disease. I'll still have it every now and then, but I'm starting to like sprite a whole lot more now. *I'm going to donate my organs when I die, so I might as well keep them in some sort of health.*

I'm a teacher's pet..... sorta. Some friends of mine have sipped a little beer and said it tastes horrible anyway.

21 always seems high for a drinking age, I'd even say 18 is rather high (except for spirits), bearing in mind that you can leave school, get married and join the army to go and kill people at 16. Not that drinking ages work anyway, there's always someone who will sell to anyone.

As for freshers week - sometime the end of september for me though I doubt this one will be as wild as the last one which went off the rails rather. Fortunatly no one expects me to organise anything though, all I have to do is make a meeting to decide what subjects I'll do this year and do a afternoon's demo.

I'd say make the most of it if its your first one becuse it will be the most fun one probably, and join lots of clubs.

One of the reasons it's 21 is because your brain is still developing in your late teens. You might as well let your brain get *almost* finished before you go screwing it up with one of the harmful substances that can penetrate the BBB (blood-brain barrier).

Btw, why do the freshmen tag along with the people getting drunk anyway?

Tradition partly and most people (here at least) quite enjoy getting drunk. Also when you get to uni you're in a new place and don't know anyone: to have a few drinks is a good way of meeting new people and getting to know them very quickly.

The way you taste things changes as you age as well and almost everyone develops at least some appriciation of alcohol so its most enjoyable.

Basically the reasons anyone drinks.