It's been over 30 years and I am still mad at President Jimmy Carter. I finally decided I better tell him while he is still on the planet. I'm sure he reads this blog so here goes.

While it isn't totally Jimmy's fault that the U.S. never really went to the metric system (details available at http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Metrication_in_the_United_States ) the real problem was that he was an honest man, not a politician. He said, probably in 1976, that the U.S. would be on the metric system by 1978. I believed him. I converted myself to the metric system.

Well, I guess one advantage was that as I only have metric tools, I am not going to buy any U.S.-made cars. That is, if there are any. I assume all the "fake U.S. cars" like the Geo or, I guess, it is now a Chevrolet are metric. I mean, Suzuki is not going to make a non-metric car for GM and a metric one for everyone else.

In any case, I guess I am one to hold a grudge but it because, every day, I get into a metric/non-metric conflict. For example, today I posted a comment on Facebook. The post was by a friend in the U.S. My comment included a distance—:in kilometers. As I am already mad at Obama anyway, maybe he can fix this one thing that Jimmy failed to do.