My hair is ginormous today. I washed it last night and did not put in any “Ok, why don’t you just calm the hell down” type stuff in it. It dried in a poof. This morning, I put some “Ok, why don’t you just calm the hell down” type stuff in, but it was too late. My hair had won the battle. It just soaked that stuff up like … something that soaks a great deal. A sponge, mayhap? It’s a nimbus cloud around my head now. [I just really wanted to use the phrase ‘nimbus cloud’]
Every afternoon this week I am in javascript training. For dummies. And I am lovin‘ it! We make little scripts all afternoon long, and I ask questions and she, the teacher, helps me and it’s like everything I liked about school. Yesterday, we made scripts to convert Fahrenheit to Celsius. [ok, it took me 16 tries to spell Fahrenheit properly.] This is very handy when you visit a metric place, like Canada. However, the script does not execute in my head, so I would have to have a computer handy. We also converted American dollars into Thai bahts. There are approximately 42 bahts for every dollar. So… if you ever go to Thailand and the hookers seem way overpriced, find out if that’s in bahts or dollars.
The easy Fahrenheit/Celcius conversion is to remember 22/7, meaning for every 22 Fahrenheit degrees, it’s 7 degrees Celcius…
Or maybe 22 divided by 7 is Pi.
Crap, it’s Pi.
Nevermind…
I remember when Canada went metric. It was a real pain in the behind. In order to remember the change in speed from mph to kph they had this little song (jingle), “20 gives you 30, 30 gives you 50, 50 gives you 80…”. In the case of temperature, rather than (-32)/9×5, we used to double it and add 30 (ie 15 c = 15×2+30=60 f.) Not terribly accurate beyond a certain range, but works ok for Vancouver/Victoria weather temps. The friend who went to jail, not being overly bright, presumed that a combination of the ‘jingle’ and doubleitplus30 would resolve all of his metric anxieties. I can still remember when the butcher delivered 34 kilos of ground beef…his girlfriend went completely spare.
We need more scripts that execute in our heads. But personally I find Java rather slow and cumbersome. The lag time might not be worth it for me.
Sometimes I think in Fahrenheit, even though I am a member of the MCC generation. It allows for less exactitude. “80” could be anywhere from 18C to 25C. Ideal! Also, anyone who cooks in metric might as well be speaking Greek.
Ah, I remember when the US tried to go to the metric system. I was in 3rd/4th grade, and had already learned things ONE way, then they decided to change it around, and teach us a different way. I never could figure it all out in my young little mind. The experience traumatized me, and now I am a metricophobic!
Thai Hookers are always over priced… i mean come on people its a 3rd world country, you should be paying me….