Getting Back to It

So now that I have finally logged back in to my blogger account after quite some time, it turns out that I have about five or so posts in 'draft' form that I started back in September, but got so busy with work that I never completed them. I'm going to try and bring those out of the graveyard over the next two weeks, and hopefully they will be worth me digging them up.

This is something strange that I never could figure out last year, and after my drive to the office today, I remembered that I wanted to share. As I've discussed before (and I'm sure everyone knows already), India uses the metric system of measurement. Sure, we learned a little about the metric system in elementary school, and, of course, you never forget anything you learned 20 years ago as a kid with a short attention span. And, no, it isn't that difficult to convert Celsius to Farenheit (its Celsius times 9/5 + 32 to save you a google trip, though most just multiply by 2, add 32, and subtract a few, but I prefer not to figure it out and use a handy-dandy converter app on my Blackberry). But riddle me this. In a country that uses the metric system, why would you name roads "100 ft Road" or "80 ft Road"? Wouldn't it make more sense to call them "100 m Road" or "80 m Road"? Further, neither of the roads are 100 ft or 80 ft in width or length. As much corruption and control there is in the government, I don't see how it isn't customary for roads to be named after prominent citizens, etc.

Did I mention that 80 ft Road intersects with 80 ft Road? Yeah, chew on that one for a little while.