Abandoned Stuff by Saskboy

This kind of thing can’t help but bug me. Why don’t we use metric for our paper standard sizes?

The international paper size standard, ISO 216, is based on the German DIN 476 standard for paper sizes. Using the metric system, the base format is a sheet of paper measuring 1 m² in area (A0 paper size). Successive paper sizes in the series A1, A2, A3, and so forth, are defined by halving the preceding paper size parallel to its shorter side. The most frequently used paper size is A4 (210 × 297 mm). An advantage is that standard A4 sheets made from 80 grams/m² paper weighs 5 grams, allowing one to know the weight - and associated postage rate - by counting the number of sheets used.

This standard has been adopted by all countries in the world except the United States and Canada. In Mexico, Colombia, Chile and the Philippines, despite the ISO standard having been officially adopted, the U.S. “letter” format is still in common use.

No pardon me while I go the extra mile and rant a bit about my height and weight. I’m just shy of 6 feet, and am well under 200 pounds. How tall am I in cm, and how heavy am I in kg? Beats me, I forget :-O Gosh, darn, Americanized lingo has permeated my brain. At least I know it’s just 12 degrees C outside today, and we had several millimeters of rain.

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I took this afternoon off work to attend the funeral service for Joan McGonigal. She was one of my teachers from elementary and jr. high school. She passed away last month. We’d stayed in touch several years after I finished high school because she bought a computer from my dad, and I was the local tech support provider.