Monday, June 05, 2006
A broken scale.
Experimental scale evaluation procedure:
I'll say this, though. A month ago, I routinely saw myself in a mirror that gave me a view down to my thighs, but I've gone a month looking in a mirror that shows only the chest up. Recently, I saw myself from the knees up for the first time in a month, and my first thought was, there's something wrong with the mirror. Yet, when I look down, it doesn't look very different.
- Calibrate the scale to read zero with no load.
- Heave myself upon scale
- Witness its grim determination.
- Evacuate scale wearing horrified expression, hand over my gaping mouth.
- Unburdened scale does not read zero.
- Consider the relative probabilities of (1) having gained weight, or (2) having bought a faulty scale, or (3) both.
- Repeat process at leisure.
I'll say this, though. A month ago, I routinely saw myself in a mirror that gave me a view down to my thighs, but I've gone a month looking in a mirror that shows only the chest up. Recently, I saw myself from the knees up for the first time in a month, and my first thought was, there's something wrong with the mirror. Yet, when I look down, it doesn't look very different.
