Yesterday I realized that I could use "years of allowance money" as a unit if measurement for my kiddo. The penthouse suite of the fanciest hotel in the area is about 7 years of allowance per night.
Yesterday I realized that I could use "years of allowance money" as a unit if measurement for my kiddo. The penthouse suite of the fanciest hotel in the area is about 7 years of allowance per night.
I, an adult with a real job and a salary and a childhood-poverty-induced reluctance to buy anything but the absolute cheapest version of whatever thing I want, legitimately use this as a mental...
I, an adult with a real job and a salary and a childhood-poverty-induced reluctance to buy anything but the absolute cheapest version of whatever thing I want, legitimately use this as a mental reference for how much something costs. Like, "yeah, I can afford that, that's like half a day's pay". (This is probably also useful for people with the opposite problem.)
That's also the name of the unrelated unit for keyboard key widths. The letter keys are 1U, modifiers range from 1.25 to 2U, and a standard spacebar is 6.25U. I'd like to imagine there is exactly...
That's also the name of the unrelated unit for keyboard key widths. The letter keys are 1U, modifiers range from 1.25 to 2U, and a standard spacebar is 6.25U.
I'd like to imagine there is exactly one person out there who found this amusing enough to make a keyboard with rack-unit-sized keycaps, and none of their friends get the joke.
Yesterday I realized that I could use "years of allowance money" as a unit if measurement for my kiddo. The penthouse suite of the fanciest hotel in the area is about 7 years of allowance per night.
I, an adult with a real job and a salary and a childhood-poverty-induced reluctance to buy anything but the absolute cheapest version of whatever thing I want, legitimately use this as a mental reference for how much something costs. Like, "yeah, I can afford that, that's like half a day's pay". (This is probably also useful for people with the opposite problem.)
Someone should add all the US customary units to this page.
Being a computer hardware technician, it's never occurred to me that people might never have heard of U as a measurement.
That's also the name of the unrelated unit for keyboard key widths. The letter keys are 1U, modifiers range from 1.25 to 2U, and a standard spacebar is 6.25U.
I'd like to imagine there is exactly one person out there who found this amusing enough to make a keyboard with rack-unit-sized keycaps, and none of their friends get the joke.