Δαφνη Ευτυχια Αρθουρος

"In my more misanthropic moments, I find myself wishing certain scientific/mathematical concepts were subject to a licensing system. That way, when people start making entropy-based arguments without the faintest idea of what a 'closed system' is in thermodynamic terminology, the rest of us could legitimately stick them *in* an entropically closed system and leave them to find out the drawbacks for themselves." -- lederhosen, 2005-09-15

Me: Bug!

[Perrine comes running.]

Perrine: <squeak> [translation: 'I want']

Me: Well, get it.

Perrine: <short cry> [translation: 'bring it closer']

Me: That's your job -- you're the hunter!

We have a rather large housefly flitting about.

Sort of half-here today. Not feeling well. Brewing up jars of the lavender/basil tea to have on hand so that I don't need to already feel well enough to make it when I need it. Feeling more than a little spacey. Will try to nap before rehearsal. Waiting to hear back from my ISP on a billling matter. (If you don't see a QotD tomorrow, that means things went badly.)

Was thinking a little earlier, "This recipe should be really easy to convert to metric because it's all simple ratios so I can ignore the units themselves: 8 oz of this, 24 oz of ... Oh bother. Some of those ounces are volume and some are weight. They're not the same units at all. *grrr*" Wouldn't it just be easier for everyone to use the metric system?

Though it does occur to me that most (English system) bathroom scales will be accurate on the Moon, but my (metric system) kitchen scale will not. Because my kitchen scale measures weight but is labelled in units of mass.

[And yes, I'm aware that using "kilogram" to refer to 9.8 Newtons is nearly as common as using "pound" to refer to 1/32 of a slug[1], but it bugs me and I'd rather not participate in such wanton disregard for perfectly proper pedantry. I can deal with "fl oz" and "oz wt" (with some grumbling), but I'd prefer to have my grams remain grams and my Newtons remain Newtons, thankyewveramuch. Pbbbbt!]

[1] Okay, 'fess up: how many of you knew the unit of mass in the foot-pound-second system before reading this entry?