Re: [ATM] Metric mirror

["Don Clement" <don_clement@charter.net>]

In Fritz Lang's 1927 movie Metropolis, time is metrified see:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Image:Clocks-from-metropolis.png

DWC


>
> I'm in New Mexico again, just returned from the dentist in Las Palomas Ch.
> Mexico where I got some things done, had a great lunch at a nice
restaurant
> and later met the Priest for the town.
>
> The night before I left, I just couldn't get over my mirror with the deep
> curve having such an odd diameter 7 7/8". I had been reading the Lecleire
> book, and as bemoaning the use of the metric system to define mirror
> measurements, why just move a decimal point when you get to divide by 64
> using the English system as I had been brought up to do?
>
> In any event, I had to get out of bed at 2:30 a.m. to catch my plane.
While
> in the shower, I had the brilliant idea that maybe I should look on the
> other side of the tape measure to figure out why I have such an odd
> measurement. After the shower, I went to the basement to measure the
> mirror. Sure enough, there it was, my mirror is a 200 mm mirror. No doubt
a
> Canadian piece of glass invading my workshop.
>
> Francis J. O'Reilly
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