Someone once commented that if the US ever converts to the metric system the only people who'll be comfortable with it will be scientists and drug dealers.
Cordelia: I get it now. You're all spies. Probably all Russian. And you've brainwashed me, and want me to believe we're friends so I'll spill the beans about some nano-technology thingy that you want. Gunn: So I look Russian to you? Cordelia: Black Russian. Angel: That's a drink.
'Hell Bound'
Natter 59: Dominate Your Face!
Off-topic discussion. Wanna talk about corsets, duct tape, or physics? This is the place. Detailed discussion of any current-season TV must be whitefonted.
Toddson - Jun 16, 2008 7:13:25 am PDT #3338 of 10003
Friends don't let friends read "Atlas Shrugged"
Jesse - Jun 16, 2008 7:27:44 am PDT #3339 of 10003
Sometimes I trip on how happy we could be.
I continue to be bummed out by the tomato thing -- my "chef's salad" today is only lettuce and meat.
sarameg - Jun 16, 2008 7:35:20 am PDT #3340 of 10003
lisah, the kitchen is amazing!
Jesse, I've been cutting up cherry tomatoes and putting them in everything they're being left out of. Fast food burger? Takes about 3. Buggers are trickier to slice, but...
Jesse - Jun 16, 2008 7:38:47 am PDT #3341 of 10003
Sometimes I trip on how happy we could be.
I just keep forgetting. I was getting all riled up to call Au Bon Pain headquarters to complain, before I remembered. At least the local-chain I was at the other night gave me tomatoes on my sandwich.
Jessica - Jun 16, 2008 7:40:54 am PDT #3342 of 10003
And then Ortus came and said "It's Ortin' time" and they all Orted off into the sunset
Freshdirect wouldn't even let me order regular tomatoes this week, even though NY, NJ and just about anywhere else my tomatoes might come from are all on the FDA's "safe" list. Feh.
Jesse - Jun 16, 2008 7:41:44 am PDT #3343 of 10003
Sometimes I trip on how happy we could be.
Jeez, really?
Jessica - Jun 16, 2008 7:43:29 am PDT #3344 of 10003
And then Ortus came and said "It's Ortin' time" and they all Orted off into the sunset
Nope, they're currently only offering cherry, grape, and vine-on. (And when I was ordering yesterday, they had run out of both grape and vine-on.)
Hil R. - Jun 16, 2008 7:44:24 am PDT #3345 of 10003
Sometimes I think I might just move up to Vermont, open a bookstore or a vegan restaurant. Adam Schlesinger, z''l
I can think in the metric system for small quantities, like the sizes we dealt with in science classes, but not for bigger quantities.
I woke up achy all over. My back, my shoulders, my arms, my neck, and achy. Must have slept funny or something.
Sophia Brooks - Jun 16, 2008 7:47:11 am PDT #3346 of 10003
Cats to become a rabbit should gather immediately now here
I has tomatoes.
I went to the public market and bought directly from a farmer, though.
I cannot think in the metric system at all, which is sort of a pain because I think it would be easier to adjust sewing patterns if things were divisible by 10. But I am really good at dividing 1/4's of inches.
Nilly - Jun 16, 2008 7:48:23 am PDT #3347 of 10003
Swouncing
We convert back and forth all the time!
Wow, that's such a layer of difficulty - not the converting, of course, but the not-having-intuition-regarding-sizes. I know that I need to convert in my head before I can even begin to imagine how large a whatever-inches-long something is. It's like I need to count in another language - I know the numbers, but I wanna say them in the *right* way (which is, of course, Hebrew).
My mom, after more than 30 years in Israel and in Hebrew, still counts in French.
Someone once commented that if the US ever converts to the metric system the only people who'll be comfortable with it will be scientists and drug dealers.
Hee.
Insert obligatory fresh-tomatoes-are-evil remark here. I hope it at least sends some ~ma Dana's way, because IIRC she is very right in thinking that, too.