On Aug 19, 2009, at 7:49 PM, [email protected] wrote:
Mark -- my friend, mentor, and former employer, Paul Klipsch (sadly,
now deceased) used to use the unit of furlongs per fortnight -- also
ffn, and used it pretty consistently durning and after he got out of
ROTC at what later became New Mexico State College, in about 1920 or
so. Of course, he trained in the mounted cavalry brach, so furlongs
were good and useful units, and a day in the saddle must surely have
felt like a fortnight (two weeks to you young folks)....
Best,
Dick Moore
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Date: Wed, 19 Aug 2009 20:18:21 +0000
From: Mark Sims <[email protected]>
Subject: Re: [time-nuts] time-nuts Digest, Vol 61, Issue 77
To: <[email protected]>
Message-ID: <[email protected]>
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Alas, yes, the RCH is no longer politically correct. It's
slightly more acceptable cousin is now the RPH.
I have a friend that does monomolecular / monoatomic layers. His
definition of a thin film is a gnats ass spread over the Rockies...
On the subject of small things. Let's replace that ugly unit of
time, the nanosecond, with a swooptier measure of time... the
femtofortnight. I once worked for a company that had utterly
insane paperwork requirements for each project. Clearly nobody ever
read any of it. I would do a design in a week and the spend the
next year twiddling my toes waiting for the rest of the company to
catch up with the paperwork. I wrote a spec for a board where all
the timing was specified in ffn. It was years later before anybody
ever noticed and asked what the heck an ffn was.
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