Rambling Thoughts

What ever happened to the metric system. Back when dinosaurs roamed the land and I was in elementary school, there was a big push for the US to convert to the metric system. What the heck happened? We like convert part way then quit. Distances are still in inches, feet, yards, miles. I still buy milk in Pints, quarts and gallons, but I buy soda in liters, unless it's a smaller container when it becomes ounces again. Most food stuff has both measurements on it. Medicine tends to be measured in metric units for injections or pill form, but back to ounces for liquids taken orally. Weights are usually measured in ounces and pounds. What happened? Why did we quit? The rest of the world uses the metric system, why are we still stuck on the old one? I was just wondering this the other night. It worries me.

I have tv again. I said I wouldn't, but I did. I still can't get traditional cable, I hate dish network almost to the mob with flaming torches level, and I have heard Direct TV is no better. Fortunately the telephone company is now offering digital cable, so I signed up for their 2 room set up. I got the expanded basic cable package with an additional family tier. No premium channels but I get the networks, basic cable plus stuff like the discovery channels, history, the various channels that used to show educational and music programming but now mostly show crappy unreality programming. I had to get the faily tier though, must have my BBC America, dicovery military, and history international channels. Yeah I'm weird, deal with it. I would rather watch Dr. Who or a documentary about the P-51 Mustang than Lost or Survivor or American Idol. Anyway, I get all this for about $20 less than the most comparable of Dish's packages. But I am a bit out of touch with TV. Those Dos Equis Most Interesting Man in the World commercials are a hoot. But there is some ad I heard about 5000 times last night about a website where you can go to get rid of viruses and spyware. Can't remember the name, but it was pretty annoying. They kept giving symptoms which meant you might have a virus. One of them was if it took more than 3 seconds to load an email. Dude? My lap top at work was made in 1937 and has .000000008 gigs of memory and a gasoline powered intel processor and vacuum tubes. It's old and crappy. It couldn't load an email in 3 seconds if you gave it a half hour head start. Not to mention what do you mean load an email? Do you mean off a web based service like hotmail or yahoo, or do you mean in an email program? If in a program, which program, Outlook, outlook express, Thunderbird. Also, what if they have dial up and the email has 2 huge jpegs and a video clip attached? I mean obviously this is aimed at computer novices, because there are a lot of sites out there where you can do free scans, why pay to download an unknown anti anything program. If you are going to pay, go to a well established company like Symantec or Mcafee. Or better yet, download malwarebytes and/or spybot and donate so you can activate the real time protections.

Yes, strange things do keep me awake at night, but at least now I can go back to falling asleep to cable tv.