I was at a country craft market this weekend. One of the vendors had a few meter sticks (one with English and metric, one all metric). I went to buy them at $1 each when the owner asked if I wanted more. She pointed to a bundle of 50 (all metric ones) and said she would give them to me for $5 total. Guess she had been stuck with them for awhile, seems that there isn't much demand for meter sticks in Penn Yan NY. Now I have great door prizes for the an Engineering Conference I am chairing in October.
I was also in Ithaca, NY. "In November 8,1997 a unique, educational monument and memorial was dedicated. Built, in part, to honor Ithaca resident and Cornell Professor Carl Sagan, the Sagan Planet Walk is a scale model of the Solar System in the midst of the City of Ithaca. The model stretches from the center of the Commons in downtown Ithaca north to the Sciencenter 1.2 km away" (from ScienceCenter Ithica web site). Each pylon gives facts and figures about the planet it represents. All the information is given in SI only. Howard Ressel Project Design Engineer, Region 4 (585) 272-3372
