I recently found out Shigeru Miyamoto (the creator of Mario and Zelda) likes to carry a tape measure around with him, guess how big things are, and measure them to check how close he was
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If you realllly get into it. Or if you're into plant ID: you can tattoo a little ruler onto your hand. e.g., along your index finger. Makes it easy to get pictures of plants to scale.
The tattoo will eventually get a little inaccurate, but still seems like a good point of reference.Adam savage has a ruler tattoo on his arm.
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I've started doing the same thing and it's a lot of fun
We need more Zelda’s. But this time make them good instead of hot trash like last two versions.
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We need more Zelda’s. But this time make them good instead of hot trash like last two versions.
Well that's an hot take...
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I've started doing the same thing and it's a lot of fun
A man with a good sense of scale.
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I have a leather bracelet that is a measuring tape when I remove it. Super handy.
It has gone out of whack by about a 16th of an inch over the last 5 years, but still very helpful for measurement that don't need a lot of accuracy.
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That almost seems mountable.
Exactly why I bought it. I originally had a screw mount attached to the back of it, which could attach it to the side of my camera cage lined up with the sensor. Basically a laser scope for my mirrorless Lumix.
And this was a few years ago. It still uses the old micro-usb even. So there's probably going to be a newer version.
It looks like the AquilaPro laser measuring tool is an actual keychain sized tool.
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go over it with an erasable white board marker and then wipe it down. should work on that surface.
Instructions unclear. Penis now covered in white board marker.
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I've started doing the same thing and it's a lot of fun
I did the reverse. I went into the hardware store to buy some chain. As it has to be cut, it is not self-service, I told the Lady that I need this much chain and held my hands apart, and added "50cm". She said "Hold it", took her tape, and measured the distance between my palms. It was exactly 50cm.
Same at the butchers. "I take that piece, it should be 800g." Scale: 802g
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The great thing about carrying a purse is that I can have a tape measure and small flashlight wherever i am. and a mushed up granola bar "for emergencies." and so on. can never find a damn pen, though.
Schrodingers little known side hustle was to make pens.
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I have a leather bracelet that is a measuring tape when I remove it. Super handy.
It has gone out of whack by about a 16th of an inch over the last 5 years, but still very helpful for measurement that don't need a lot of accuracy.
All slap bracelets are also measuring tape.
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You'll get good at estimating lengths fast doing that, the feedback loop works. Do the same thing with scales for weights. Do the same thing with wrist watch/timer for durations. Pretty soon you get a nickname from your wife 'master of time and space'
For all the good it does ya in the bedroom.
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go over it with an erasable white board marker and then wipe it down. should work on that surface.
Or just cut out the middleman and use isopropyl alcohol, which is what you're doing with the marker anyway, but without adding the extra ink.
Basically the same stuff as that whiteboard cleaning fluid.
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I did the reverse. I went into the hardware store to buy some chain. As it has to be cut, it is not self-service, I told the Lady that I need this much chain and held my hands apart, and added "50cm". She said "Hold it", took her tape, and measured the distance between my palms. It was exactly 50cm.
Same at the butchers. "I take that piece, it should be 800g." Scale: 802g
Is that a DC or Marvel Superpower? Introducing…THE ESTIMATOR!
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I did the reverse. I went into the hardware store to buy some chain. As it has to be cut, it is not self-service, I told the Lady that I need this much chain and held my hands apart, and added "50cm". She said "Hold it", took her tape, and measured the distance between my palms. It was exactly 50cm.
Same at the butchers. "I take that piece, it should be 800g." Scale: 802g
Were you really good at the bookfair games where you win a prize for guessing how many marbles are in a jar
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A man with a good sense of scale.
so sexy
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I've started doing the same thing and it's a lot of fun
Pleb, all of the real metrologists like me measure their forearms and fingers to use as measuring devices. Bonus if your forearm is an actual cubit.
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I've started doing the same thing and it's a lot of fun
I have no problem with this whatsoever.
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I've started doing the same thing and it's a lot of fun
Adam Savage has a tattoo for that.
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I did the reverse. I went into the hardware store to buy some chain. As it has to be cut, it is not self-service, I told the Lady that I need this much chain and held my hands apart, and added "50cm". She said "Hold it", took her tape, and measured the distance between my palms. It was exactly 50cm.
Same at the butchers. "I take that piece, it should be 800g." Scale: 802g
If the ability to measure with millimetre accuracy without tools were a superpower, there would be two types of people: those who’d hardly notice it, and those for whom it would be life-changing.
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I was with a friend at Home Depot and I asked if he thought a piece of wood I was holding was a foot long.
Friend: Let me just whip it out real fast.
Me: What are you going to do? Measure it 12 times?
That was 20 years ago and we still laugh about it today.
