Except all those measurements were standardised using the bodies of different people; I suspect that, in order to be able to accurately measure with your feet and hands and whatever, your body would have to be grossly disproportionate, and trying to pretend that a mile = 15 minutes of walking is ridiculous. I can do the same type of eyeball calculation with the metric system, without all the idiocy of having multiple different units of the same type that have nothing to do with each other (How many feet in a mile? How many yards in a mile? How many inches in a yard? How many inches in a mile?) leading to bizarrely difficult calculations. Besides, educating the entire planet on your quaint and primitive system is in fact more expensive than changing your standards to conform to the civilized world; measuring according to some old dead guy's foot is barbaric.

Oh, and your note about train speed is stupid because it applies to any measurement of distance - Going at 60KpH also means 1KpM. Except conversions in metres per second are easier, and would be further easier if we used metric time.

And in cooking, people use cups and spoons as measurements because those are roughly the same size everywhere (But their size is more the same in Germany, where DIN standardises them). Besides, knowing how much half of a litre is is in fact easier than knowing how much half of a gallon is.

Doesn't this look like a stuffed animal to you? I swear it doesn't look real, especially with those frowning eyebrows that give him a too-human expression of being slightly pissed off!

But it's really a baby red panda.

Hmm, I will this inspire hordes of red panda furrikins?

Wish I could remember the name of the red panda furrikin I saw aaaaaaaages ago.

That doesn't look like a stuffed animal to me though. It's gorgeous!

Ialie already has a red panda furrikin form.

While we're talking about furrikin forms, here's a bigger version of my av.

Aye a pic was here.

Pictures of my puppy.

HURRAH! Esty supports FireFox!


For those with no idea what I'm talking about, "firefox" is another name for the Red Panda.

Just got this picture from a co-worker... it took me a few minutes but then I got everyone's attention from laughing so loud.

Aww, that's sad! I hope it wasn't that important...

Took me a good 10 seconds or so to realize the punchline as well. That poor guy. :\\

This little guy's name is Murphy. I think we can all see the resemblance.

I got it the moment I saw the picture....

I'm such a geek

Same... I was too worried about my state of mind to mention it 'til now, though.

(I like the dinosaur. I'll have to steal that.)