On Fri, 26 Dec 2008 12:45:27 -0800, the infamous Winston
scrawled the following:

Larry Jaques made light the burden of existence by mentioning:
On Fri, 26 Dec 2008 09:52:49 -0800, the infamous Winston
scrawled the following:

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I never liked the verniers much, either, especially when you tried to
measure something on a machine, in situ.

Woof! I never even though of that. Sounds painful.

'Tis!


The digital type has my vote.
It's just too convenient to push a button to convert to metric, or to re-zero
for differential measurements.

My solar powered Mitutoyo's continue to work perfectly after six years and I
haven't replaced a battery in them, yet.

http://www.penntoolco.com/catalog/pr...ategoryID=3949

Eek! It would take a long time to go through $200 worth of batteries,
sir. I'm happy with my perfectly good, 35-y/o, Chinese dial calipers,
TYVM.

'Sworth it. Big digits. Imperial or Proper measurement modes.
Differential readings. No cells to buy. What's not to like!

Cha CHING! is what's not to like. Besides, I don't need those big
digits like you do...yet.


Man, the group sure is quiet this holiday week...even the spammers are
taking days off!

Thassa good sign.

It means we're enjoying stuff Santa brought us.

Right now I'm avoiding a box of Butter Toffee Almonds in a spectacularly
unsuccessful manner.

Ah, and I'm heading into the kitchen to dish up another slice of that
sugar-free chocolate meringue pie for dessert right now. burrrrrrp

--
We should take care not to make the intellect our god;
it has, of course, powerful muscles, but no personality.
-- Albert Einstein