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Kelly provides today's most useful Boston tip: Google's Calculator lets you translate units of distance into smoots. For example, 10 miles equals 9456.7 smoots (and an ear).

Date: 2006-05-17 07:39 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] alfie1981.livejournal.com
Dude, that is the coolest thing ever. I am totally using that the next time I teach units of measure.

Date: 2006-05-17 08:07 pm (UTC)
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Oliver Smoot later went on to become chairman of ANSI and president of ISO. Because, once you are a standard, what else are you gonna do?

Date: 2006-05-17 09:21 pm (UTC)
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Google Earth, too. nifty!

Date: 2006-05-18 03:43 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] missmhart.livejournal.com
I LOVE Google Calculator. I use it all the time in class. I didn't know it had smoots!! That's frackin' awesome.

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