Was checking a new bathroom scale against the old one which was getting hard to read because of a crack in the lens thing. Don't know how that happened, but anyhow, the old scale read 197.0 lb, the new one 196.2 with me stark naked, freshly shaved, my teeth brushed, and bladder evacuated. Oh, and my nails clipped. Every milligram counts, you know.
I leave it to you to surmise what else I'm full of.
Less than a 1/2% error between them... hey, not bad, considering that for most of my life, voltmeters of 1% DC accuracy* were considered the cat's pajamas, the bee's knees, the top bananas, the ultimate in electronic instrumentation, almost National Bureau of Standards acc-yer-it.
I set both scales on a piece of stiff particle board and they were at room temperature. So I put my heavy terrycloth robe back on and just for grins, wanted to see how heavy the robe was, by subtraction.
Damn new scale read 14: 5 1/4, which obviously, is the British stone measurement. But I hadn't changed anything. It switched over to Stone all by itself. When it first popped up I thought somehow the scale was trying to tell me the time.
Next time I tried it with the robe on, it showed 89, which is kilograms, I guess, and once again, I had not changed anything or bumped it, or let cold air hit it, nothing.
I guess it's a low battery, I'll check that out and read the manual to see how to switch back to good ole 'murrican lbs with a decimal point.
Interesting how it seemed to rotate between measurement systems, though, all by itself.
The robe, by the way, weighs 5 lb. It's a really thick, thick terrycloth.
Terry, overweight anyhow as usual.
* Although this comparison does not show "accuracy," it was startling to see that kind of agreement between scales by different manufacturers built at least ten years apart.
