I am so STOKED.

[Kilted KT]

Grey, my head hurts after reading your post...reminds me far too much of elementary school!

Dread..congrats on a job well done!

[cessna152towser]

Well done, Dread, keep up the good work. Its always harder for us to learn a new trick as we get older. I'm hoping to add an Instrument Rating to my pilot's licence but finding the lessons and the study very hard going.

[ScottInNewHampshire]

Dread. Good news. I'm no expert but I think if you had your IQ measured, you would fall in an exceptional level (maybe genius). Schooling wasn't challenging enough for you in some ways. I'm glad you are finding this so interesting. It will get easier as you fall into a groove.

Good luck.

[Dreadbelly]

Funny you mention that. If I take a standard IQ test, I actually score fairly low. I don't do well.

Now on on standard tests designed to test spatial intelligence and mnemonic association I score off the charts. The last one I took I weighed in at 180. What does that mean? Absolutely nothing because nobody credits these tests seriously. That said, 200 is about the absolute top end.

There is some suspicion that I am a high functioning autistic type. I have some trouble with social interaction. I am dissociated and detatched. I lean toward repetitive behaviours with some mild OCD. (Helloooo crocheting) I have all the usual intense and deep understandings of obscure subjects and fixations on odd eccentric things. And the unusual stuff like teaching my self how to read by the age of three. I have difficulty talking on the phone because I can't see a person's face and I get all flustered and angry for reasons I can't explain. I dunno if it is HFA or Asperger, it was never fully diagnosed. Just discussed. In fact, the whole kilt thing might just be a HFA thing... A total lack of concern for peer pressure and what others think.

I dunno.

[elitekiltedcommando]

Way to go, Dread! I'd give you a high five, but I'm in wisconsin, so yeah...

[Dreadbelly]

And now for something completely different.

Next textbook looks to be right up my ally.

Sewing Machines.

Sewing machine history. Early machines. Machine types and purposes. Attatchment types and purposes. Sewing machine ergonomics and the human body. Upper threading. Lower threading. Timing. Tension. Cleaning. Lubrication. Removing burrs. Causes and prevention of breakdown and failures. Repair.

This shouldn't be to hard.

But I'd like to know why sewing machine history is so important... I'm not downing it, just trying to figure out why somebody who wants to be a tailor would need to know detailed history of the sewing machine.

Witty dinner conversation?

[mkmound]

Heartiest congrats on your test score!!!


I suspect things will get easier for you as you go through the course, as you'll probably be building on the terminology and foundational concepts that you've started learning in this first section, and frequently the terminology is a difficult area to master.

[ccga3359]

Wow! Congrats. When you become a famous designer, remember to call me up if you need another model. Okay?

[Sorcha Griannon]

Bravo! Good job there Dread.

Sorcha

[ccga3359]

OK, metric in a nut shell. It is all based on the unit 10, which makes it hard for me having 9½ fingers, hence why i do have to wear jeans, unzip pretty much get close enough to 10 if you get the picture! No get that thought out of your head as you are going to have to try to sleep sometime tonight!

Temperature;
Based on water.
Water freezes at 0°C, water boils at 100°C. Makes sense and easier tha farenheit, right? A nice warm day 25°C. any hotter and you'll be lifting your kilt for the heat to escape.

Measurement;
1 kilometer (km) = 1000 meters (m) (kilo means thousand),
10 decimeters (dm) = 1 meter (deci is one tenth) we never use decimeters,
100 centimeters (cm) = 1 meter (centi is one hundreth) as in 1¢ = one hundreth of a dollar.
10 millimeter (mm) = 1 centimeter (milli is one thousandth)
so 1km = 1,000m = 10,000dm = 100,000cm = 1,000,000mm.

Weight:
Again based on water.
1 liter(L) of water = 10cm x 10cm x 10cm of volume so a cube of water 10 cm long, wide and deep (1000 cubic centimeters or 1000cm³).
Now that 1 liter of water weighs exactly one kilogram (kg), which is 1000 grams (g), therefore 1 cm³ of water weighs 1 gram.
Now 1000kg (or 1000 liters of water) = 1 tonne (1 metric ton).

Clear as mud, right?