Still on vacation or working on that sky light?

LOL! relax... i was just attempting a witticism!

on vacation. at home. it is too cold to take our son to the cabin. last night was really nice, however.

I am relaxed typing is not my thing and proof reading it is worse. I know what I typed and I see what I said but there is always an error. Unless its boring stuff like structural notes or mechanical detail notes.

Shouldn't that be 'N!'

Oh, never mind, it wasn't preceded by irrational babble...

Humor is good. Glad I could help.

Now where do I send the bill?

you have my address. :)

Ok the bill is in the mail and I assume the check will be as well.........

Why is it so warm here? It is almost Halloween and it was about 90 degrees here in SLO. On the plus side, lots of girls decided it was fine weather for sunbathing.

(By the way, I am not holding out. I don't have a camera here otherwise I would share with you guys.;))

Sure like thats the truth......

Move up here where its rainy you won't need a camera.

Move down here where it's sunny and I wont have to send you pictures.

Got me there. No can do.

This thread has a higher posts/views ratio than Random Pictures. So that means we are not freeloader lurkers here.

Markus, when you wake up, what are you cooking up today with your new cookbook? Still trying to figure out unit conversions?

I got a lovely fluid mechanics problem that gave density in kg per cubic meter but then gave dimensions in feet and inches so I got to do lots of unit conversion. It gets pretty weird in dynamics problems turning miles per hour into feet per second and rpm into radians per second, psi into pounds-force per square foot, etc.

I always use slugs for mass, though. Pounds mass and pounds force are just way too confusing. 1 slug*ft/s^2 = 1 pound force but an object that weighs 1 pound force has 1 pound mass and an object with 1 pound mass experiencing 1 pound force experiences 32.174 feet/s^2 of acceleration. So, if F=ma, then 1/1=32.174?

It keeps things interesting though.

Have fun with that. Off to go watch a movie.

I must admit, the cooking meausurements baffle me sometimes. Teaspoon, Tablespoons, fluid ounces, cups, pints,... Quarts are easy but how much is a gallon? 213 cubic inches. What is that in cubic feet? Divide by 12^3

8 fluid ounces in a cup, 2 cups in a pint, 2 pints in a quart, 4 quarts in a gallon.

Then there is the acre-foot. How much is an acre? Or a hectacre?

Just upping the post count here.

Weight is a much better way to measure ingredients. Their mass is what matters in the recipie.

But weight is not mass.

And weight is not the same depending on where you are in the world, not even accounting for scale inaccuracies:

Gravity of Earth - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Looks like Markus lives in an average gravity area:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:GR..._animation.gif

And since we often use weight to measure mass, we are not accurately measuring mass if we simply divide by standard gravity without doing the calcs of actual gravity.