I'm definitely not knowing, so I don't think I'm going. Which is good since moving too much tires you and then, the earth.
Lately there has been social drinking. This is coupled with the tendency to eat foods that make you peter gras. I cannot show you a picture of those because the internet has yet to incorporate smells.
It's almost May which means it has almost been one year since we or I or they graduated. Time happens so much. It just goes away even if you stop counting, most everybody else will keep on counting because somewhere, someday someone will ask you questions about measurements. Which brings me to my next point. The metric system, what of it? Can it compete with the english system? Or is my question the wrong way around.
If I tell you my weight and height in pounds and feet and inches are you struggling with mental math? Do you need a refresher course in your times tables. What about we examine mental capacity in older adults relative to their system of measurement. Maybe we should reduce the world to a system of tens and zeros. Or perhaps go even further and make everything and everyone compute in binary, because expression is complicated.
I have a point to this rant and it's personal. But I'd like to hear what other people, meaning one poule and one eckli might think, or if other people have eyes and type...you too.
Back to no so much that.
It is sunny, like really sunny outside just right now. It's a huge beam and if I were solar powered I'd be inside the beam and not hunched over staring at a screen while my greasy fingers tap tap tap.
Sometimes I want to make more windows in the roof so that the sun can come in, but then I remember how it is so rare that the sun is here and so mostly the only coming in would be of rain and feral cats. But, I do like cats.
Do you like cats? Uju is afraid of all animals. They took her to the park and she froze everytime a dog neared. It must be hard being Uju, she also shrieked. Yikes
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i like that photo a lot.
what of it? poule is turning into a brit. a full-fledged brit, she is.
about the english/american system of measurements. i think it is just as valable as any other that is invented... think mayan too. with their little ropes.
it's just like languages. or at least, my theory of how important each system is, is similar to my view of languages. there is no one language that should be touted as better than another. each has it's eccentricities, its unexplained, its bizarre.
such is the measuring systems. growing up in america, we've all become used to the measurements here. we think in cups. we think in gallons. we think in inches. we think in feet or yards.
now granted, with some practice, we can get used to the metric system, which distinguishes itself as more practical, logical, and as a simpler way measuring. but we can't presume that it means it's a better system.
think about numbers for a second.
the metric system, as well as many counting systems in every language count by tens.
the mayans counted by 20s. the gaulois counted by 20s. heck, all the celtics counted by 20s. what's to say that 10 makes more sense?
i read somewhere that they are trying to make people in guatemala, indigenous mayans, learn how to count "correctly" by counting by 10s. i, suffice it to say, and appalled and not of accord of that change.
so just to reiterate, english system = good. metric system = good. every system = good.
love,
poule
i agree.
i think all measuring machines are good, even if i think measuring might reduce everything to quantifiable value instead of quality.
numbers just seem to be stronger but they aint.
i think there is no hope for me + doing this paper without the inspiration of alcohol induced delusions.
Hopefully the sun will visit more often now summer is near. Skylights aren't always the best thing. I have one in my house that I forgot to show you on the tour, which is just a small bubble of glass after going up an 8-foot shaft through the attic. The only thing it's good for is throwing things up into and then having them fall down to catch them.
Your rant reminded me of overdependence on technology. It annoys me that I can't do anything without my computer, that I feel empty if I don't check my email for a long time. I just got here after not being on the computer for 24 whole hours, and I feel like a junkie getting a relieving high. When my old computer broke I couldn't hang around on my computer for a long time. I liked that.
Also, I often think about how I'd like to communicate in the non-language sometimes. Nonverbal communication for a day with everyone, and them not using the talking either, and see how it turns out. It would still be complicated however.
sometimes when i want to communicate nonverbally with grod that i want to feuck. I hump his leg like a dog.
It doesn't really work too well.
i did that with nic too. and i would say "camera" with a french accent at the same time. except that he knew what it meant, so it worked well.
Well, I guess this post from Allysin comes from the fact that everytime we start on that subject, it's war.
But I guess Poule is right. All systems are good. And what I think Allysin didn't want to understand everytime we were talking about this, is that I never questioned one or another system; meaning, I never said the "meter" was more accurate than the "yard" or the other way around. I just support the metric system because it is SO EASY to go from one unit to another unit by adding or removing a zero. I'm sorry, but even with a master's degree in mechanical and industrial engineering, I don't think it is easy to convert straight forward quite without thinking and with being sure you're not saying crap, a certain amount of miles into inches. This, on the other hand is something really easy to do with the metric system: you just add a bunch of zeros. That was just the point I wanted to make, and I'm right, because nobody can really say that it is easier to devide/multiply a number by 3 or 12 or whatever than adding or removing a zero at the end. It's easier.
All the rest, I agree with. Why shouldn't it exist, and why shouldn't it be different? That's not where I situated the debate in the first place. I was looking at: what is the easiest, the simplest, the thing that everyone can use really easily, just because this is what measuring is all about: comprehensible, accessible and simple. And I'm sorry, but if the metric system is, by the way..., the international system, it's because it's the easiest system to use, that math is simplified by using this system, avoiding weird mental math mistakes, and because everybody understands it. For all the rest, I think that it is a good thing to have a different system for measuring different things, as long as you don't have to multiply/devide by a weird figure that just makes everything complicated.
And when she tries to hump me, she usually doesn't hump my leg, but other parts of my body, where it hurts mostly and therefore doesn't really arouses me.
cherie, tu ne dis pas la verite!
I think the metric system can be confusing too! How am I supposed to remember how many zeroes to add to those millis and micros and nanos and picos and kilos and decos and sphereos and jonos? I can't keep them all straight in my head. But I don't have to think about the American system too hard--I know there are 5280 feet in a mile, or 1760 yards in the mile, or 3 feet in the yard.
What's the point of having a nice measurement of space when we have such a random measurement of time? 12 hours in a day, 60 minutes in an hour, how does that make any sense? What the heck is 360 degrees in a sphere about? How can I find how many degrees each angle has in a pentagon?
I think the old counting system makes perfect sense, since it's based on units of measure in your body. The new "counting in 10s" fad just gives schools a reason to tolerate kids counting on their fingers instead of learning the mental math. Why, even teachers nowadays are of the attitude that "kids have calculators to do basic calculations, why should they have to learn how to do them in their heads?" Does any kid really understand how the diagonal method of multiplication works?
These are the ills brought on by oversimplification of math. Therefore, since simpler does not equal better, the "easier calculations" computed using the metric system does not make the metric system better. The ONLY reason it has anything over the American system is because it is used more internationally. And that's an arbitrary thing.
Sorry for the really long comment, but suddenly Allyson's random post made sense so I wanted to put my 2 cents in :P
ECKLI. I'm glad you have found the light. (time measurements have always come up in my arguments with the grod)
The reality of measuring for the vast majority of people is either a. visual when purchasing/preparing foods b.calculated by scientists not by their brains. An easier calculation is not necessary today. What is necessary is some what to codify amounts in order to differentiate between them for the majority of people, and this can be any system in the same way that any language can be learned and express the world as we see it. My point is really one which questions the necessity to rationalize a not-so-rational world. Measuring in kilometers gives no more sense or meaning to a distance than does miles. the meaning comes from an individuals understanding and relationship with that measure.
In conclusion, I don't like nor want an international system of measure which is essentially a system of globalization as well. All systems are good and great, just like a gaggle of geese.
Ps. we have calculators everywhere, on our phone...in our wallets, in yer cooch. And most people can't work out a 10% tip so I don't think the system of tens is really all that easy after all.
i always do a 20% tip.
but i do it by dividing the amount twice, so i just end up with a 25% tip, and everyone's happy.
geraud, if poule's humping you, i don't see how it can hurt unless she's squeezing your balls at the same time.
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