[time-nuts] Mark Sims and gnat posteriors

Dick Moore richiem at hughes.net
Thu Aug 20 03:08:41 UTC 2009


On Aug 19, 2009, at 7:49 PM, time-nuts-request at febo.com wrote:

Mark --  my friend, mentor, and former employer, Paul Klipsch (sadly,  
now deceased) used to use the unit of furlongs per fortnight  -- also  
ffn, and used it pretty consistently durning and after he got out of  
ROTC at what later became New Mexico State College, in about 1920 or  
so. Of course, he trained in the mounted cavalry brach, so furlongs  
were good and useful units, and a day in the saddle must surely have  
felt like a fortnight (two weeks to you young folks)....

Best,
Dick Moore

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> Date: Wed, 19 Aug 2009 20:18:21 +0000
> From: Mark Sims <holrum at hotmail.com>
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> Alas, yes,  the RCH is no longer politically correct.   It's  
> slightly more acceptable cousin is now the RPH.
>
> I have a friend that does monomolecular / monoatomic layers.  His  
> definition of a thin film is a gnats ass spread over the Rockies...
>
>
> On the subject of small things.  Let's replace that ugly unit of  
> time,  the nanosecond,  with a swooptier measure of time...  the  
> femtofortnight.   I once worked for a company that had utterly  
> insane paperwork requirements for each project.  Clearly nobody ever  
> read  any of it.  I would do a design in a week and the spend the  
> next year twiddling my toes waiting for the rest of the company to  
> catch up with the paperwork.  I wrote a spec for a board where all  
> the timing was specified in ffn.  It was years later before anybody  
> ever noticed and asked what the heck an ffn was.
>




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