Are you a Vikings Fan?

How do you if you’re a Minnesota Vikings fan? I’ve come up with a top 10 list of ways in my opinion to tell:

10. You know the entire purple line-up by heart, including coaching staff, cheer leading staff, office crew, owners, and scouts.

9. You have Zygi Wilf’s autograph.

8. You hate Brett Farve more than you’re ex-wife who took half of your stuff.

7. Purple isn’t gay.

6. You’re best friend is a packers fan.

5. You think it would be the greatest Superbowl in history if the Packers and Vikings faced off.

4. You cry after the Vikings lose, but still say that it’s a hopeful season.

3. Purple is still not gay.

2. You’ve never heard of Leif Erikson.

1. That damn Brett Farve!!!

Setting Standards in Measurement.

If you live in the United States, you are fairly aware of what the standard measuring system is. An inch, a yard, a foot….we know it backwards and forwards. How feet are in a mile? That’s easy, 5,280 feet are in a mile. Now if we divide that by three, we get 1760 yards in a mile.

A foot is actually a measurement of w hat it sounds like, except that when the system was set up hundreds of years ago, the average person had a much smaller foot, so the measurement is no longer true to it’s original state. A yard is approximately the average person’s regular walking step, approximately 3 feet. This also is no longer true, since people now have longer legs and take longer steps. An inch was the average person’s index finger tip to first knuckle, and that takes about 12 of those to go into a foot and approximately 36 to go into a yard. So a relative measurement is a good thing. I’m pretty sure that whoever built my house 30 some years ago used this rule to make measurements, since they probably had never heard of a tape measure. This isn’t the point.

The U.S. is the only country that uses this ridiculous way of measuring. Every other country uses something a hundred time easier called the metric system. Every ongoing measurement is simply multiplied by 10 (10 Millimeters in 1 centimeter, 10 centimeter in a decimeter, 10 decimeters to a meter, and so on and so forth) That’s way easier. It makes traveling in different countries very difficult if we don’t understand that system. If you ask directions in London They might say something like “12 Kilometers East, and 500 Meters North. Care for a spot of tea?” The American would say “what?” and continue forth and get lost and drive off a cliff somewhere in a culture shock induced rage. This also applies pretty much every other measurement we know, including temperature, liquid measurement, size, weight, and every thing else

So if you do travel to a foreign country, here’s a few simple formulas to remember Metric in standard:

SYMBOL	WHEN YOU KNOW	MULTIPLY BY	TO FIND	SYMBOL
LENGTH
in	inches	25.4	millimeters	mm
ft	feet	0.305	meters	m
yd	yards	0.914	meters	m
mi	miles	1.61	kilometers	km
AREA
in2	square inches	645.2	square millimeters	mm2
ft2	square feet	0.093	square meters	m2
yd2	square yard	0.836	square meters	m2
ac	acres	0.405	hectares	ha
mi2	square miles	2.59	square kilometers	km2
VOLUME
fl oz	fluid ounces	29.57	milliliters	mL
gal	gallons	3.785	liters	L
ft3	cubic feet	0.028	cubic meters	m3
yd3	cubic yards	0.765	cubic meters	m3
MASS
oz	ounces	28.35	grams	g
lb	pounds	0.454	kilograms	kg
T	short tons (2000 lb)	0.907	megagrams (or “metric ton”)	Mg (or “t”)
TEMPERATURE
oF	Fahrenheit	(F-32) x 5 / 9 or (F-32) / 1.8	Celsius	oC
ILLUMINATION
fc	foot-candles	10.76	lux	lx
fl	foot-Lamberts	3.426	candela/m2	cd/m2
FORCE and PRESSURE or STRESS
lbf	poundforce	4.45	newtons	N
lbf/in2	poundforce per square inch	6.89	kilopascals	kPa

APPROXIMATE CONVERSIONS FROM SI / METRIC UNITS TO STANDARD / US CUSTOMARY UNITS
SYMBOL	WHEN YOU KNOW	MULTIPLY BY	TO FIND	SYMBOL
LENGTH
mm	millimeters	0.039	inches	in
m	meters	3.28	feet	ft
m	meters	1.09	yards	yd
km	kilometers	0.621	miles	mi
AREA
mm2	millimeters	0.0016	square inches	in2
m2	square meters	10.764	square feet	ft2
m2	square meters	1.195	square yards	yd2
ha	hectares	2.47	acres	ac
km2	square kilometers	0.386	square miles	mi2
VOLUME
mL	milliliters	0.034	fluid ounces	fl oz
L	liters	0.264	gallons	gal
m3	cubic meters	35.314	cubic feet	ft3
m3	cubic meters	1.307	cubic yards	yd3
MASS
g	grams	0.035	ounces	oz
kg	kilograms	2.202	pounds	lb
Mg (or “t”)	megagrams (or “metric ton”)	1.103	short tons (2000 lb)	T
TEMPERATURE
oC	Celsius	1.8C + 32	Fahrenheit	oF
ILLUMINATION
lx	lux	0.0929	foot-candles	fc
cd/m2	candela/m2	0.2919	foot-Lamberts	fl
FORCE and PRESSURE or STRESS
N	newtons	0.225	poundforce	lbf
kPa	kilopascals	0.145	poundforce per square inch	lbf/in

(Tables taken from: http://www.sciencemadesimple.com/metric_conversion_chart.html)

you gotta memorize it all.