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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Calibrating that thing is a pain.
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I've started doing the same thing and it's a lot of fun
My hands are exactly 6 inches long from the base of the palm to the tip of my middle finger. I use them to measure things all the time. Very handy.
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I've started doing the same thing and it's a lot of fun
He already uses that tie. Also, he already earned his weirdness.
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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.
Hahaha. Good one. I don't often come up with something as good as quickly. Good skill.
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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.
This. Also methanol, but I'd much rather use isopropanol. I know higher proof (>70 %/140 proof) ethanol also works.
But isopropyl is the best/easiest. Just don't drink it....or methanol at that.
Also anhydrous ethanol ~99 % ethanol, as it contains benzene or other things you don't want to consume.
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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.
My foot is a cubit. My cubit is a yard, if you know what I'm saying. Yeah, you know, you know.
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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.
"Yep, feels like 16'C today. Write it down, and do the forecast lads"
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Calibrating that thing is a pain.
He's said that even years later it has held up remarkably well. Obviously not millimetre precision, but enough to measure bolt sizes and such.
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"Yep, feels like 16'C today. Write it down, and do the forecast lads"
I just like to answer my boss is strange measurements. What's the wheelbase on that vehicle? Oh that's 26 hands boss man.
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I've started doing the same thing and it's a lot of fun
Make sure you use class 1 measure tape because you might be right but the device you're using is not precise.
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Make sure you use class 1 measure tape because you might be right but the device you're using is not precise.
I worked for a bit as a high end roofer (USA), this is the first I'm hearing about different classes of measuring tape. We always used Stanley fatmax tapes, and so did just about every carpenter we worked with. I wonder how accurate that tape is?
I assume it was pretty accurate because we would always fuck with the new guys when they drew a cut line and asked what side of the line your supposed to cut from.
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I worked for a bit as a high end roofer (USA), this is the first I'm hearing about different classes of measuring tape. We always used Stanley fatmax tapes, and so did just about every carpenter we worked with. I wonder how accurate that tape is?
I assume it was pretty accurate because we would always fuck with the new guys when they drew a cut line and asked what side of the line your supposed to cut from.
Stanley doesnt have class 1 measuring tapes, theyre all class 2
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I've started doing the same thing and it's a lot of fun
Thats sincerely such a silly fun fact, thank you for sharing
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I worked for a bit as a high end roofer (USA), this is the first I'm hearing about different classes of measuring tape. We always used Stanley fatmax tapes, and so did just about every carpenter we worked with. I wonder how accurate that tape is?
I assume it was pretty accurate because we would always fuck with the new guys when they drew a cut line and asked what side of the line your supposed to cut from.
That's fucking with people? Maybe in roofers' world it's good enough, but kerf matters!
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Stanley doesnt have class 1 measuring tapes, theyre all class 2
Ha! Gonna let my old boss know. We also did sheet metal fabrication, but very rarely did things need to be accurate to a 1/32nd
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That's fucking with people? Maybe in roofers' world it's good enough, but kerf matters!
It did matter, making them take measurements all over again was the part that fucked with them.
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eh. just leave it. Tell anyone that asked that you found the tape measure, and what kind of man would throw away a free tape measure.
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