On Wednesday 22 June 2005 00:49, Daniel wrote: > Maybe you should have told her you are an amateur chef and that you use > metric because good food made the right way has to be done in metric. That > includes using a balance instead of cups. It is like chemistry, if you > don't mix the chemicals correctly you produce an inferior product. This > way instead of you feeling like the weirdo, she would have.
I went to the Unhindered Living Conference and one thing we did is make soap. Soapmaking actually is chemistry. The gal who owns the place told us to weigh an ounce of lye and measure a cup of fat. The mass of fat for a given mass of lye depends on the sap ratio of the fat, and the volume depends on the mass and the temperature, so I refused to do this and instead weighed both on my kitchen scale to the nearest gram. She is from Canada and has forgotten how to use metric; I hope she'll get back into the habit. > Home Depot sells metric fasteners and many of the products they sell > contain metric fasteners. Point that out to them. As for the blinds, look > to see where they were made and then ask the clerk why they are describing > a foreign product in inches when the product was made to rounded metric? > Tell them you are using metric to conform to the way the product is made, > not to what someone translated it to. This way you are assured to getting > what you will be paying for. Make sure you bring your own metric only tape > measure to measure the blinds with and demonstrate to the clerk how much > easier it is to use metric . When I was a kid, my father (from France) bought a set of modular shelves, drawers, and such to mount on the wall. They were made in Scandinavia and each module is one meter wide, but the instructions were in inches. It didn't take him long to figure this out, and he measured it in metric. phma -- For a good time, call 919-263-1770
