{"id":35,"date":"2007-03-30T06:20:35","date_gmt":"2007-03-30T05:20:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.morbidcornflakes.ch\/thduggies_blog\/?p=35"},"modified":"2007-03-30T06:20:35","modified_gmt":"2007-03-30T05:20:35","slug":"units-and-conversions","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thduggie.com\/thduggies_blog\/2007\/units-and-conversions","title":{"rendered":"Units and conversions"},"content":{"rendered":"

I had deep dish pizza today, and only two slices were enough to make me more than full.\u00c2\u00a0 Larry and Evelyn took me to Pizzeria Uno, one of those odd short stocky houses that somehow have not yet been razed and replaced by skyscrapers.\u00c2\u00a0 Now I can begin to understand why some Americans believe the pizza was invented in Chicago: they hear the correct phrase “the deep dish pizza was invented in Chicago” and through the natural process of forgetting details come to drop the first three words.\u00c2\u00a0<\/p>\n

We took the shoreline tour of the city’s architecture and were entertained by Kevin somethingorother, who explained the architecture, but also added tidbits of general interest.\u00c2\u00a0 For instance, there was a great flood in Chicago in 1993.\u00c2\u00a0 The flood was underground, because someone in administration had not awarded a contract over $10’000 to fix a leak, and so instead of just leaking the river – even more polluted then than now – gushed into old underground tunnels that led to many of the older buildings.\u00c2\u00a0 Aboveground: no flood.\u00c2\u00a0 Underground: 100 billion dollars of damage.\u00c2\u00a0<\/p>\n

I hoped to buy a hat at a store written up in the British Airways magazine, but all the interesting spots they wrote on lay 45 minutes from downtown, and it was rush hour.\u00c2\u00a0 So I went straight to eat at the Chop House<\/a>, where I ordered their signature steak.\u00c2\u00a0 Have a look at the middle picture on the left on their website.\u00c2\u00a0 That is the picture I had seen and what I expected.\u00c2\u00a0 I sat stunned when the steak arrived: a 20-ounce steak covering my whole plate.\u00c2\u00a0 That’s over half a kilogram – I should have picked up a clue from the 32- and 64-oz Porterhouse steaks they serve, but I was too lazy to convert.\u00c2\u00a0 Needless to say, I couldn’t finish it despite its tenderness and tastiness.\u00c2\u00a0<\/p>\n

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I had deep dish pizza today, and only two slices were enough to make me more than full.\u00c2\u00a0 Larry and Evelyn took me to Pizzeria Uno, one of those odd short stocky houses that somehow have not yet been razed and replaced by skyscrapers.\u00c2\u00a0 Now I can begin to understand why some Americans believe the pizza was invented in Chicago: they hear the correct phrase “the deep dish pizza was invented in Chicago” and through the natural process of forgetting details come to drop the first three words.\u00c2\u00a0 We took the shoreline tour of the city’s architecture and were entertained by Kevin somethingorother, who explained the architecture, but also added […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,12],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thduggie.com\/thduggies_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thduggie.com\/thduggies_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thduggie.com\/thduggies_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thduggie.com\/thduggies_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thduggie.com\/thduggies_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=35"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.thduggie.com\/thduggies_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thduggie.com\/thduggies_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=35"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thduggie.com\/thduggies_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=35"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thduggie.com\/thduggies_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=35"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}