{"id":916,"date":"2008-09-28T22:17:10","date_gmt":"2008-09-29T05:17:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/heavylittleobjects.com\/?p=916"},"modified":"2008-10-06T22:34:14","modified_gmt":"2008-10-07T05:34:14","slug":"a227-executive-pocket-chum","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/heavylittleobjects.com\/?p=916","title":{"rendered":"#a227 :: Executive Pocket Chum"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href='http:\/\/heavylittleobjects.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/10\/calipers.jpg'><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/heavylittleobjects.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/10\/calipers-150x150.jpg\" alt=\"ENLARGE\" title=\"ENLARGE\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" class=\"alignright size-thumbnail wp-image-917\" align=\"right\" srcset=\"http:\/\/heavylittleobjects.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/10\/calipers-150x150.jpg 150w, http:\/\/heavylittleobjects.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/10\/calipers-300x300.jpg 300w, http:\/\/heavylittleobjects.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/10\/calipers.jpg 500w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 150px) 100vw, 150px\" \/><\/a>The Executive Pocket Chum measures the thickness and thinness of <i>things<\/i> to the 32nd of an inch, <a href=\"http:\/\/viagra-usa.net\" style=\"text-decoration:none;color:#676c6c\">ambulance<\/a>  or the fraction of a millimeter.<\/p>\n<p>One can imagine it monitoring the precision of millwork tumbling from Gary, <a href=\"http:\/\/cialis-discount.net\" style=\"text-decoration:none;color:#676c6c\"> <\/a>  Indiana steel plants into assembly-line catch-bins by the millions in 1950s.<\/p>\n<p>Or the diameter of overbored engine cylinders in something more accurate than the vague tolerances considered by this mechanic I once knew, <a href=\"http:\/\/buy-cialis-pills.net\" style=\"text-decoration:none;color:#676c6c\">order<\/a>  who casually tossed around phrases like &#8220;a smidgen,&#8221; &#8220;a red cunt-hair&#8221; and &#8220;a skosh&#8221; with the abandon of someone who had a demonically exact  notion of the size he was describing.<\/p>\n<p>The Pocket Chum  <a href=\"http:\/\/www.google.com\/search?hl=en&#038;client=firefox-a&#038;rls=org.mozilla%3Aen-US%3Aofficial&#038;hs=dVk&#038;q=%22executive+pocket+chum%22&#038;btnG=Search\">turns up in Google<\/a>, having gone on record as measuring <a href=\"http:\/\/www.fs.fed.us\/r6\/invasiveplant-eis\/Region-6-Inv-Plant-Toolbox\/Herbicide%20Info\/Plausible%20residues%20on%20mushrooms.pdf\">pestilential mushrooms<\/a> and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.blackwell-synergy.com\/doi\/pdf\/10.1111\/j.1532-950X.1998.tb00152.x\">acetabular fractures in dogs<\/a>, whatever those are.<\/p>\n<p>You slide the center rule up and down in the frame and measure the inside diameter and outside thickness of anything you like.  It&#8217;s elegant, crisply made and ultimately not worth much more than $5.99 on eBay &#8211; approximately what I paid an antiques dealer for it the other day.<\/p>\n<p>It is a <i>perfect<\/i> <a href=\"http:\/\/heavylittleobjects.com\/?p=2\">heavy little object<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Executive Pocket Chum measures the thickness and thinness of things to the 32nd of an inch, ambulance or the fraction of a millimeter. One can imagine it monitoring the precision of millwork tumbling from Gary, Indiana steel plants into assembly-line catch-bins by the millions in 1950s. Or the diameter of overbored engine cylinders in [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[19,3,8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-916","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-fetish","category-instrument","category-tool"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/heavylittleobjects.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/916","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/heavylittleobjects.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/heavylittleobjects.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/heavylittleobjects.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/heavylittleobjects.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=916"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/heavylittleobjects.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/916\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/heavylittleobjects.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=916"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/heavylittleobjects.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=916"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/heavylittleobjects.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=916"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}