anyone read dealers of lightning?

On Thu, 4 Jun 2009 06:11:35 -0700 (PDT), Gene Buckle wrote: About the time they added KPH to the spedo of american cars, a number of followers began looking at Furlongs Per Fortnight (FPF) as a more meaningfull distance over time unit of mesurement than Kph based on a therory of large numbers being better and faster .... We all know 60 mph = 96 kph which sounds faster. The same 60 mph = 161280 fpf which sounds real fast but is too big a number for most auto displays. It was not until fpf was converted to the biniary K that it made using a 4.5 digit display usefull for something other than a cheep digital scale. Introducing 1024, the galatic binary constant, into the conversion helped to modernize it a bit. 60 mph = 157.5 Kfpf, now that sounds real fast to a binary person. As a project planning person, plan for a week but ask for a fortnight, that way when they cut you project time/budget way back there was still a good chance of a timely completion. I like and use a Fortnight based billing and accounting system, that way I have 2 weeks to recover from the experiance of dealing with the book keeping chore. I have always questioned if the 28 day cycle that the credit card companys liked to use, was based on a bifortnight or was it more Menstrual in its origin? I am sure it was because they liked the idea of 13 periods a year, the cycle of lunacy based on a pagan lunar calander. Back under my rock The other Bob