palo alto tree scandal
10-13-2009, 09:54 PM
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Yeah I know, I am kinda old school when it comes to measurement systems. It stems that my trade is pretty much stuck using imperial measurements. Till about grade 3 we were taught imperial in school, then one day the teacher through a book down and declared our whole world metric. This continued through high school. In trade school, the texts/tools/materials were in imperial, the tests in metric. In the real world, everything is still imperial, so when I started my apprenticeship, I had to relearn imperial and try to forget metric.
The problem with metric in my profession, is Celsius is to coarse of a unit for temperature for whole number measurements, and there really is not a good short distance measurement with the natural fit on an inch or a foot in the metric system. CM always ends up as some ungodly huge number and M ends up with to many decimals in it for good estimation and visualization purposes.. So easy to say cut a piece 6'6 and 3/8. instead of something like 228.33 cm or 2.2833m ( not exact conversion, just for comparison).
Anyway back to you guys arguing whos got the biggest wood.
The problem with metric in my profession, is Celsius is to coarse of a unit for temperature for whole number measurements, and there really is not a good short distance measurement with the natural fit on an inch or a foot in the metric system. CM always ends up as some ungodly huge number and M ends up with to many decimals in it for good estimation and visualization purposes.. So easy to say cut a piece 6'6 and 3/8. instead of something like 228.33 cm or 2.2833m ( not exact conversion, just for comparison).
Anyway back to you guys arguing whos got the biggest wood.
No No , we try very hard not to stay on topic, please don't try otherwise, it upsets the natural balance of our disorder or chaos.
10-14-2009, 10:23 AM
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10-14-2009, 11:06 AM
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10-14-2009, 09:37 PM
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Long time no see Edna.
Damn krackers, gettin all worked up over faux oak trees.
**** oak trees so large in the NW that people hollow them out and live in them, now how you gonna live in raggedy looking mother?
