Unmentionables

**A Hay** · 19th January 07, 09:25 PM

Lived in the USA for my first 40 years and mostly in Germany for the last 20.
Once I became accustomed to using metric, I find it much easier. All my projects around the house are measured in millimeters, centimeters, and meters. (How do you divide 13 5/8th inches into three parts?). Cooking takes some practice, however.
It helps I'm an engineer by profession and I know the conversion factors for most things. But I could easily live without English units of measure.
Just my two cents.

Tom

**Andrew Breecher** · 20th January 07, 01:21 AM

When I'm hiking I do all sorts of weird conversions. My hiking partner asked me once how far away something was. I replied, "Two miles and five minutes." She knew exactly what I meant (we hike at a fairly steady, standard pace). Our water bottles were almost always one-litre soda bottles, but then if we ever got a one-quart bottle we'd still call it a litre.

Andrew.