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Why would you even do that!?

posted by [personal profile] elanya at 05:56pm on 19/09/2005
Why would you measure in the horizontal plane in metric, and in the vertical with imperial? Are you just insane? Stupid? What? o_O

I know it is just an excercise, but just in case there are actual archaeologists who do this, I would like to know who they are so that I can a: avoid them at all costs, or b: make them walk the plank :p
Mood:: 'annoyed' annoyed
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posted by [identity profile] shanmonster.livejournal.com at 11:18pm on 19/09/2005
You know, you're wasting a perfectly good Talk Like A Pirate Day....
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posted by [identity profile] elanya.livejournal.com at 11:33pm on 19/09/2005
I wasted my piratey rage on the post office :p
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posted by [identity profile] etir.livejournal.com at 02:21am on 20/09/2005
Man. Why would you measure ANYTHING in metric? ;)
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posted by [identity profile] oscuridad.livejournal.com at 03:21am on 20/09/2005
That's like something my boss would have us do. The other Miami site he's got at the moment was started in imperial, because the developter wanted. But my boss wanted everything drawn in metric so we had excavation units of 162.4cm or some such shite. Luckily I was just helping out on that site for a few days and it wasn't my problem. We also have a weirdo surveyor guy who refuses to use metric and he always cocks up the elevations of our subdatums. *le sigh* America should just accept that metric is better. Metric is SO MUCH BETTER. I mean, x feet per mile, 12 inches per foot, and then it goes into increments of 8!!?!?!? Huh? Who is the genius who came up with that one...?

*hee hee* Only archaeologists would get so worked up about this. LOL!
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posted by [identity profile] vureoelt.livejournal.com at 03:13pm on 20/09/2005
I think there was something about architectural measurements that are most pleasing to the eye being irrational numbers in metric... Doors, mainly.
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