I find the whole concept of A series paper to be fascinating. Maintaining proportionality as you keep cutting the paper in half.

Dr Science (AKA Courtney Willis) did a nice demonstration of A Series, very scientifically, at the recent COSine.

Be sure the read the History section. Very interesting.

And the different relationships between envelopes and paper sizes and hole punches and drawing pens. A very integrated package.

Then there are the B and C series.

I think I shall move the to the A4 format at home. Even if the rest of the country can’t get its act in gear, that is no reason not to try. But then, I’m the kind of guy that likes to walk around with dollar coins.

Geek Stuff, General

Things to Remember

January 23, 2007 Jack

Just because you get an error message from flickr saying it can’t upload a picture to your blog doesn’t mean it’s true. Check your blog first to see if it really happened before retrying, getting the same error message and retrying again and then finding out you have a boatload of photos in your blog all with the same look and comment. Just a different time-stamp. (unless you were really fast on the retry button.)

Do you know how tedious it is to delete a post in this blog?

General

Snow Snafu

January 23, 2007 Jack

Snow Snafu, originally uploaded by FiveAcres.

Oh Look, I can post photos from other Flickrs. It’s a lot easier to dig snow if you have a small tractor with bucket up front.

General

The road to Scotland

January 18, 2007 Jack

The road to Scotland, originally uploaded by rockycoloradan.

The Giant’s Causeway – An interesting rock formation on the north coast of Ireland. I understand there is a corresponding formation on the Scottish coast.

General