[Greenbuilding] metric system in building, was 'square head screws'

[Speireag Alden]

Sgrìobh Sacie Lambertson:

>At 08:51 PM 9/27/2007, you wrote:
>>half a fathom, which
>>is about my armspan, or almost exactly one of my paces,
>
>Well you got the armspan ( arms spanned) = six feet right, that I 
>pictured.  It was the 'one of my paces' that threw me, unless of 
>course you are a very very tall man.

     Ah, that's just the confusion I was trying to avoid.  I should 
have said "half of my armspan", if you're thinking of me with arms 
horizontal and measuring hand-to-hand.

     My paces, conveniently, are a yard long, and if I stretch a bit I 
can make them come to a meter.  I'm 6' 2".

-Speireag.

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