I think she did, bt!
uhhh... what's the silver ratio?
Oh! I know this one! 'Slaying entails certain sacrifices, blah blah blahbity blah, I'm so stuffy, gimme a scone.'
Buffy ,'Help'
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Jon B. - Jan 03, 2003 9:29:45 am PST #1161 of 9843
A turkey in every toilet -- only in America!
Sue - Jan 03, 2003 9:31:09 am PST #1162 of 9843
hip deep in pie
yeah, I know the golden ratio, but not the silver.
§ ita § - Jan 03, 2003 9:32:35 am PST #1163 of 9843
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
UK paper sizes make sense. Can't comment on binder quality, since I never had a problem, but blessed be the A4, now and in perpetuity.
billytea - Jan 03, 2003 9:32:54 am PST #1164 of 9843
You were a wrong baby who grew up wrong. The wrong kind of wrong. It's better you hear it from a friend.
uhhh... what's the silver ratio?
The ratio given by the sides of an A4 piece of paper. It has the nifty property that if you cut the paper in half crossways, the sides of the new (half-sized) pieces of paper are in the same ratio.
IOW, if the A4 paper has sides of length A and B (210mm and 297mm respectively, FTR), and C is half the length of B, then the ratio A/B is the same as the ratio C/A.
Edit: And thus you have a whole 'A' series of paper. Sheets hald the size of A4 in the same proportion are A5, sheets twice the size of A4 are A3. And so on in both directions. The series starts at A0 (otherwise known as big honkin' sheets of paper), which is itself not arbitrary - the area of an A0 sheet of paper is 1 square metre.
flea - Jan 03, 2003 9:34:36 am PST #1165 of 9843
information libertarian
On the plus side, in Europe they have these really cool paper-and-elastic portfolio thingys that I like. You can get them here, but they are hard to find and pricey.
They fit the funny-sized paper, or it fits them.
I agree, many Euro-binders are pretty crappy, a problem I feel is exacerbated by using a hole punch with only 2 holes so everything flops around. OTOH, many USian binders suck too.
Deena - Jan 03, 2003 9:34:55 am PST #1166 of 9843
How are you me? You need to stop that. Only I can be me. ~Kara
sumi - you can look it up here:
I tried, but you have to have the complete address.
sumi - Jan 03, 2003 9:36:02 am PST #1167 of 9843
Art Crawl!!!
Thanks Deena!
sumi - Jan 03, 2003 9:41:19 am PST #1168 of 9843
Art Crawl!!!
Okay, I went to that site - - is it the "where's your post office" area? Because I'm not finding a straight forward enter address - get postal code place.
Deena - Jan 03, 2003 9:42:09 am PST #1169 of 9843
How are you me? You need to stop that. Only I can be me. ~Kara
Let me look at it again. I know I found it in there somewhere.
meara - Jan 03, 2003 9:46:52 am PST #1170 of 9843
Heh. OK, ok, maybe A4 paper is magical and wondrous. I leave you to it. I'm just irritated by the binders.
I'm feeling very curmudgeonly today. Partly because it's raining, I had no breakfast, I was woken at 6AM by stupid squirrels trying to get through my ceiling, and I need to pay bills today but I forgot my chequebook (look, I spelled it funny just cause I'm in this thread!) and by the time I get home, the post office will be closed and my car payment will be late. GRR!