[kchangnyt]

I'd love to use metric. It'd save a slew of annoyances converting back and forth, and it's the easiest thing to screw up, because no one has an intuitive sense of a millionth of an inch. But as long as I work at the New York Times and New York is part of the United States and the United States isn't metric, I'm stuck with inches, miles, pounds and gallons.