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Old 04-27-2015, 05:05 PM   #25951
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Bad, Hitch, Bad. I hope he mends well.
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Old 04-27-2015, 05:27 PM   #25952
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Bad, Hitch, Bad. I hope he mends well.
Thanks, Charlie.

And Ned says thanks, too. ;-)

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Old 04-27-2015, 05:32 PM   #25953
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That is awful, Hitch! Healing thoughts for him.
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Old 04-27-2015, 06:12 PM   #25954
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Good luck to Ned. And I hope they catch the bum that hit him.

I don't know if it's just a matter of better reporting (I hope it is just better reporting) but there are more hit-and-run cases on the news out here.
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Old 04-27-2015, 06:37 PM   #25955
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Thanks, Charlie.

And Ned says thanks, too. ;-)

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Look at your avatar Hitch! Time for an exorcism?
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Old 04-27-2015, 06:48 PM   #25956
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Look at your avatar Hitch! Time for an exorcism?
No kidding, Poohbear!

Lately, it truly DOES seem like we are infested! Some poor guy who wanted me to beta-test some eBook-making software had asked me to do so, late last year, I think, and of course, I'd said "uhr, Xmas, we're mad-busy here," and then he wrote again recently, and I said, "oh, sure," and when he wrote today I had to say 'uh, sorry, someone was run over..." (He must think I'm daft or crazy, I swear....)

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Old 04-27-2015, 07:58 PM   #25957
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(He must think I'm daft or crazy, I swear....)
As straight-lines go, that's WAY too easy, Hitch...
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Old 04-27-2015, 09:18 PM   #25958
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Some asshole ran over Ned, our INDD/PDF Crew Chief.

His leg is fractured. He has to move back home to his folks' for a while, as he's a bachelor and has no one to assist him, until he can get around.

*&^%$#@! bad drivers, jerks, idiots, and others who run over innocent bystanders (from BEHIND, mind you!!!)!



(Yes, he'll be okay. But it's a bad fracture, and if I understand the story, it was hit/run, too. Of course, I'm getting the story either from him rather HEAVILY medicated, or from family, third-hand.)

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That's terrible. I hope he gets better soon.
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Old 04-27-2015, 10:28 PM   #25959
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As straight-lines go, that's WAY too easy, Hitch...
Yeah, I considered that, before I hit "submit," and decided that I'm a big enough girl to take whatever gets dished out. ;-)

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That's terrible. I hope he gets better soon.
Thanks on his behalf!

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Old 04-28-2015, 01:00 AM   #25960
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Old 04-28-2015, 05:42 AM   #25961
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1 inch now equals exactly 2.54 centimeters. I don't know who lost or gained when the powers that be decided to make that the standard.
'Now'? Well, yes, it is true that currently 1 inch is exactly 2.54 centimetres. But using 'now' is a little misleading. It's not a recent change. It was in 1959 that the international yard (and so the international inch) were defined in terms of the metre, and the international inch replaced the Imperial inch (which was slightly shorter than the international inch) and the US inch (which was slightly longer than the international inch). But the 25.4mm inch was used from at least 1930 when the British Standards Institute adopted it, and this 25.4mm 'industrial inch' was widely used by the mid-1930s.

What? You didn't know that the Imperial inch and the US inch were different? Next you'll be saying you didn't know that the Imperial fluid ounce and the US fluid ounce are different!

Metrology - it matters.
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Old 04-28-2015, 09:14 AM   #25962
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1959 was the ninth year of my life, so I consider it to be fairly recent as such things go.
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Old 04-28-2015, 11:23 AM   #25963
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1959 was the ninth year of my life, so I consider it to be fairly recent as such things go.
Ah - 1959 is five years before I was born, so clearly it's ancient history for me.
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Old 04-28-2015, 11:38 AM   #25964
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And you're both youngsters. Now that it's brought back up, I actually remember the whole discussion and event - we covered it in school. Back then, our teachers taught that we'd surely be moving to the metric system soon. (I was an American then, and last I checked, they still hadn't moved. )
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Old 04-28-2015, 02:49 PM   #25965
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Actually, 1959 was the 10th year of my life, as I turned nine that year. I was born in 1950. Now it's a rant. I'm old and I don't like it.
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