Homebrew PCBs

On Saturday 08 May 2004 12:44 pm, Dave Mucha wrote:
> > > SENSE ? you want to make sence out of this ?  you, sir, are a
> > > better man than I !

> > At least there must be reason, if there is no sense.

> At this point I would offer that I have never found the sense or reason
> behind most of the measurements.  a foot may have been from
> teh size of the foot of a king at some time,

Mine's about that size,  roughly.

> but inches ?

The width of my thumb.

> Or the liquids ounces, pints, quarts.... all I know is that I can
> easily drink a pint, a quart talks a little longer.

Yeah,  and by the time you're done,  if you're talking beer,  it's gone warm 
on you.

> > > A large soda is about 32 ounces, or about one liter.

> > That's a huge soda, you get that at a restaurant?

There seems to be a trend over the years with beverages getting bigger.  When 
I was a kid,  a typical bottle of soda was 12 ounces,  except for the little 
Cokes,  which were about 6-1//2 ounces.  More recently the bottles went to 
16,  then 20 -- for individual drinks.  The bigger sizes,  including 32 and 
44 ounce cups -- are typically sold at places where you have fountain soda 
and where you'd also load them up with ice,  so it's not all beverage.

Glasses for people to have at home seem to be getting bigger as well.  A 
"glass" is specified in an old bartender's guide I have as being 8 oz.  Try 
and find any these days,  they're all bigger.

> > here a large soda is 0,5liter (will weight about a pound without
> > the glass).

> A 'normal' 'cup' of coffee would be 8 ounces fluid,  8 ounces = one
> cup as cup is a measurement term.

Which is further confused by the mfrs of coffee makers using a 5 oz. "cup" as 
a measure.  I never could figure out for the longest time why it was that a 
"10 cup" or "12 cup" maker didn't ever seem to make that many,  until I found 
this out.

> a large coffee was 12 ounces at one time. and then it was 16 ounces
> and now is 20 ounces.  Probably because our car ride to work is
> longer.  but, remember if you drink 20 ounces of coffee in the car,
> you run into the building !

My "cup" is actually a "mug" and usually two or three of those is enough to 
get me going in the morning...

> 20 ounces is about 568 ml so you can imagine it is a LARGE coffee.
>
> for soda we START at 16 ounces for a small.
> medium is 22 fluid ounces (650ml)
> a large is 32 fluid oz (946ml)
> a KING is 42 oz ( 1.24L)  44oz at some stores
> and a DoubleGulp is 64 fluid oz (1.89L)

I haven't seen them that big yet.

> I expect that this summer one store will try to out-do another and
> sell something even larger.

And they'll keep at it as long as people buy into it.  Which is the part I 
can't figure out,  why would they?

> and YES, that is ONE serving and one soda for one person at one meal.
> and YES we drink TOO much ! oh, and yes, people actually do drink the
> whole thing.

I've also seen people walking around with "jugs" of iced tea,  usually the 
kind that's loaded up with sugar (and which makes _me_ more thirstly, 
usually),  a half gallon or even a gallon,  for themselves.  More often than 
not these are fairly "large" people...