Capital One

I've got one of those ridiculous Capital One credit cards, the worst card in the history of human development. They approve everyone for it without even checking anything, because they give anyone that asks for it the same terrible rates and have all these hidden fees of doom- with trap doors and everything. Anyway, thought if I gave them a shout out in the title, they'd be nicer to me.

Eddie Bert, being the political and cultural capital of Scotland, has lots of museums and galleries and libraries. Being the classy lass that I am, and because today's Tuesday, I spent my morning wandering about the streets and popping in and out of museums. Apparently, though, they do uppity museums and culture a little different here...


Take this, for example. Middle school project or commissioned model for the City Museum? Hard to say. (But looks easy to make...)


And this, a tasteful exhibit in the People's History Museum. It was love at first sight, y'all.


But alas, the displays that assured me that I really was in a museum and not Mrs. Farmer's classroom at Winthrop Elementary School, were these of weight measurements. They really won me over. And I love how the museum had three big cases of these, from different periods. I wish I was joking, but no. After last semester's research on the kilogram, I've just fallen in awe of these things. Do you know how closely our economy hangs on to measurements? These, of course, are British units, and not the hotshots of the metric system. Oh, how I wish I had a camera last winter when I saw the Maine kilogram...






Honestly my favorite picture of the day. An elegant little family.