I’ve started doing the same thing and it’s a lot of fun 📏
go over it with an erasable white board marker and then wipe it down. should work on that surface.
Wanted to recommend the same. Something I learned on the job and it has saved me and some colleagues a few times.
how big were their dongs?
Adam Savage has a tattoo for that.
Calibrating that thing is a pain.
He’s said that even years later it has held up remarkably well. Obviously not millimetre precision, but enough to measure bolt sizes and such.
Edit: I know you said it tongue in cheek, but just an FYI for anyone curious
I have a small keychain laser measurer that I originally bought to use when calculating focal distance with manual camera lenses.
But I find I’m often whipping it out to randomly check how far away I am from random things.
It’s oddly very fun.
I did the same thing lol trying to learn how to hyperfocus, now i keep it at work in my tray of knick knacks and every time someone sees it they start measuring and guessing and don’t believe things are certain distances
I did the reverse. I went into the hardware store to buy some chain. As it has to be cut, it is not self-service, I told the Lady that I need this much chain and held my hands apart, and added “50cm”. She said “Hold it”, took her tape, and measured the distance between my palms. It was exactly 50cm.
Same at the butchers. “I take that piece, it should be 800g.” Scale: 802g
If the ability to measure with millimetre accuracy without tools were a superpower, there would be two types of people: those who’d hardly notice it, and those for whom it would be life-changing.
Is that a DC or Marvel Superpower? Introducing…THE ESTIMATOR!
Were you really good at the bookfair games where you win a prize for guessing how many marbles are in a jar
If you realllly get into it. Or if you’re into plant ID: you can tattoo a little ruler onto your hand. e.g., along your index finger. Makes it easy to get pictures of plants to scale. The tattoo will eventually get a little inaccurate, but still seems like a good point of reference.
I have a leather bracelet that is a measuring tape when I remove it. Super handy.
It has gone out of whack by about a 16th of an inch over the last 5 years, but still very helpful for measurement that don’t need a lot of accuracy.
All slap bracelets are also measuring tape.
9 inches! Ialreadymeasuredyoudonthavetocheck…
That sounds like a common phallicy.
