#Measurement

[hometoursandotherstuff]

Can you imagine Led Zeppelin singing, "I wanna give you every centimeter of my love..."

[thatsbelievable]

[minsungincorrectquotes]

Jisung: I am 41 cheetos tall Minho: Why did you measure yourself in cheetos? Jisung: We were out of doritos

[whirligig-girl]

Anthropometric Units

[mindfulhavens]

“There’s a measure in all things.” - Crime & Punishment, Dostoevsky

[elegantzombielite]

"I believe in evidence. I believe in observation, measurement, and reasoning, confirmed by independent observers. I'll believe anything, no matter how wild and ridiculous, if there is evidence for it. The wilder and more ridiculous something is, however, the firmer and more solid the evidence will have to be."

Isaac Asimov, scientist and writer (2nd January 1920-1992)

[economicsresearch]

page 573 - the idea was simple. Measure a mountain and thereby determine its worth.

Dynamite the whole thing for aggregate = value

Dynamite the whole thing to get the 50% by volume that is coal = different value

Dynamite the whole thing just because you have that much dynamite, but then just leave the smouldering pile untouched, not because you couldn't sell some of it as aggregate or maybe coal, but because in the explosion you had hoped to find = personal value

In the eyes of others does your brand now hold sway or are you just the guy that was able to amass a large amount of dynamite that one time for an enormously wasteful display?

Also in the eyes of others: slivers of rock because that was a lot of dynamite, everyone was far too close, and no one wore goggles.

[elcycyromem]

🦠📏

[i-was-today-years-old-when]

i learned that the smoot is a unit of measure named for Oliver R. Smoot, an MIT student who as a fraternity pledge was forced to measure the Harvard Bridge using himself as a ruler. A smoot is equal to five feet, seven inches. (x)

[thirdity]

When a human being becomes a set of data [...] he or she is reduced. Everything shrinks. Individual character. Friendships. Language. Sensibility. In a way it’s a transcendent experience: we lose our bodies, our messy feelings, our desires, our fears.

Zadie Smith, "Generation Why?"

[aghostsdestiny]

"... it's longer sometimes, but only notable in the likes of space bugs-"

"Why are you giving it anatomy lessons (& using me for it)?"

"It asked!"

"It... what??"

Whats more disconcerting, that your horse wants to know how strong your bones are, or that its outright asking about them...?

[philosophybits]

There is no end to the weighing of things, no stop to time, no constancy to the division of lots, no fixed rule to beginning and end. Therefore great wisdom observes both far and near, and for that reason, it recognizes small without considering it paltry, recognizes large without considering it unwieldy, for it knows that there is no end to the weighing of things. It has a clear understanding of past and present, and for that reason, it spends a long time without finding it tedious, a short time without fretting at its shortness, for it knows that time has no end. It perceives the nature of fullness and emptiness, and for that reason, it does not delight if it acquires something or worry if it loses it, for it knows that there is no constancy to the division of lots.

Zhuangzi, The Complete Works of Zhuangzi, Watson tr. (Ch 17)

[regieluciferi]

I'm trying to come up with a way to sketch Alastor so I can draw him consistently the same way. I think I'm getting there with the head, but I have problems with his body proportions. Should I draw the upper body 2 heads long and the pelvis and legs 3 heads long. Does anybody have a table or something, feel free to dm it to me. I'll add a Thank you tag the first time I use it. This is a bit old and not meant as a post, but it's my private notes.