I frequently watch a Canadian home improvement show called "Holmes on Homes". Most of the dimensions are given in Imperial, but even so I'll hear one of the tradespeople or even Mike Holmes himself use a bit of metric.
I consider that a plus given the heavy drag Canada feels from the USA against metrication. Ezra -------------- Original message ---------------------- From: lps <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > I was up in Canada for business. I got a good laugh when someone was > telling me that they had to move some computers out of a server room > because the temperature was over 85 degrees. I was shocked. I asked them > how anyone could be in there very long without dying. I noted that much > of the wire is rated at 60 C. I got that look and then the person that I > was talking to said he converted for me, but he was happy that I think > in Celsius. I said "So the room was really around 30 C?" > > At the end of the day I was told that I was more metric than most Canadians. > > LPS >
