In the garden, and RAIN!!!!
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Rain this evening here but predictions of 19C for next Monday and that is 68F to you all.
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Originally posted by Brenda:
Rain this evening here but predictions of 19C for next Monday and that is 68F to you all.
Celsius sounds so cold.
Do Right, Be Right. :)
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Originally posted by Brenda:
Rain this evening here but predictions of 19C for next Monday and that is 68F to you all.
Celsius sounds so cold.
Do Right, Be Right. :)
I know. Metric started coming when I was in elementary school. That's middle school to Americans. I have never gotten used to it. I had a hard enough time learning Imperial.
But the warm weather will be nice. Got my laundry done today went out with a winter coat on and when I got back, had to go out again but I was able to put on a sort of Spring jacket. Yay!
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Originally posted by Brenda:
Rain this evening here but predictions of 19C for next Monday and that is 68F to you all.
Celsius sounds so cold.
Do Right, Be Right. :)
I know. Metric started coming when I was in elementary school. That's middle school to Americans. I have never gotten used to it. I had a hard enough time learning Imperial.
But the warm weather will be nice. Got my laundry done today went out with a winter coat on and when I got back, had to go out again but I was able to put on a sort of Spring jacket. Yay!
I wasn't aware of the history of metric in Canada.
I've said for decades now that the American school system has not only done its people a huge injustice by not teaching metric measurements to them when their kids, but I believe it was intentionally done to keep us from being competitive in the global market. There's really no other explanation for it. We're like the big retard of the world right now.
You get to be our ages and trying to learn metric units of measurement is almost as bad as trying to learn a foreign language. I've learned some minor things here and there when I've needed to, such as millimeter measurements for tools and such, but it's just about damn near impossible to visualize things like kilometers vs miles, and Celsius vs Fahrenheit when you've only known one for your whole life.
There's absolutely no denying that metric is the superior unit of measurement by leaps and bounds. But that didn't stop our teachers from only giving us about a week per year learning metric while focusing the rest of our learning on imperial, while at the same time beating it into our heads that we're superior to everybody else in the world in our social studies classes. It kind of subconsciously gave us the mentality that "so what that the rest of the world uses metric? We're better than everyone else and always will be."
At least, that's my take on it...
Cold again here for about 5 or six days. No spring coat for me. :(
Do Right, Be Right. :)
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I have a VERY divided experience. All of my labwork and scientific work is metric. I can understand and completely visualize flows in mLs/min, temperatures in an FCCU stack in degC, and concentration in micrograms per cubic meter. But then I get home and aside from the rough estimation 1qt appx 1L, and kph/10*6 is appx mph - I couldn't tell you how many mLs to use in a recipe, just cups. I couldn't tell you the degC to slow roast meat, but I can tell you in degF. And I couldn't tell you how many kg of vegetables for 12 meals, but I can tell you it's 6lbs. It's two completely separate worlds.
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As a retired scientist who worked with engineers, when they quoted something at me ... size, speed, temperature ... I always had to clarify if they were speaking imperial or metric.
I found it much easier NOT to try and convert in my head, excpet for certain useful conversions (454 grams per pound, 22.8 liters per standard cubic feet, 22.4 liters per mole at standard conditions) .
I know how big a liter is, I know how big a quart is, I know roughly how big and inch is, and how long a kilometer is and a mile. The only measurement I HAD to convert was temperature because I could never get a "feel" for room temperature, human body temperature etc. It's tough.
Did you know that's why a Mars explorer crashed? The engineers were speaking miles and the programmers were thinking kilometers.
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Rain this evening here but predictions of 19C for next Monday and that is 68F to you all.
Celsius sounds so cold.
Do Right, Be Right. :)
I know. Metric started coming when I was in elementary school. That's middle school to Americans. I have never gotten used to it. I had a hard enough time learning Imperial.
But the warm weather will be nice. Got my laundry done today went out with a winter coat on and when I got back, had to go out again but I was able to put on a sort of Spring jacket. Yay!
I wasn't aware of the history of metric in Canada.
I've said for decades now that the American school system has not only done its people a huge injustice by not teaching metric measurements to them when their kids, but I believe it was intentionally done to keep us from being competitive in the global market. There's really no other explanation for it. We're like the big retard of the world right now.
You get to be our ages and trying to learn metric units of measurement is almost as bad as trying to learn a foreign language. I've learned some minor things here and there when I've needed to, such as millimeter measurements for tools and such, but it's just about damn near impossible to visualize things like kilometers vs miles, and Celsius vs Fahrenheit when you've only known one for your whole life.
There's absolutely no denying that metric is the superior unit of measurement by leaps and bounds. But that didn't stop our teachers from only giving us about a week per year learning metric while focusing the rest of our learning on imperial, while at the same time beating it into our heads that we're superior to everybody else in the world in our social studies classes. It kind of subconsciously gave us the mentality that "so what that the rest of the world uses metric? We're better than everyone else and always will be."
At least, that's my take on it...
Cold again here for about 5 or six days. No spring coat for me. :(
Do Right, Be Right. :)
It was brought in by the Federal Government under Prime Minister Pierre Elliot Trudeau in 1970. Then it was all across the country by 1971. So, I had just started elementary school learning Imperial then flipped to metric. My poor little brain had a hard time.
I don't remember my social studies classes from elementary school. History classes were about Canada's place in the world and of course Canadian history. Explorers, meetings between First Nations people and explorers. Louis Riel and our first Prime Minister Sir John A. MacDonald.
Weather site I use says clear for the next 5 days at least then by next weekend rain. So, it will be back to a heavier coat for me.
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Hey Brenda
Is that about normal for mid-March? I'm completely unfamiliar with your weather.
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And also - Pierre Trudeau served as the 15th prime minister of Canada (1968–1979 and 1980–1984).
Metrification ... Charter of Rights, making healthcare universal, "bringing the Constitution home" ... Trudeau was a busy guy.
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Hey Brenda
Is that about normal for mid-March? I'm completely unfamiliar with your weather.
It's unusual for my corner of British Columbia. Alberta and farther east not so much. Also northern BC and up in the Yukon and such.
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