Phil wrote:
> I mentioned these "new" Starrett micrometers in a previous note--
> http://pdknz.li
vejournal.com/pics/catalog/952/289149
> ...
> Twice recently, someone has complemented the nice--wait for it--
> "clamps."

And I can kinda picture Phil dragging out an F clamp, carefully
adjusting it around a snogo piston to take it's diameter, and using
his tape measure for the readout.

cur - in sunny and nearly snowless Oregon, waiting for the consequent
jump in food prices and obesity.