Kilograms?

Wow, something looked off-kilter when I drove by this billboard. Hmmm, I live in the US, and last I checked, metric units were reserved for those eggheads in white lab coats, who like us to call them 'scientists.' The rest of us use a system of measures without a name. Honest! The inch-foot system, goes by so many other names, that it boggles the mind even more than the question of how many feet in a mile (no googling!). Whether it's the "Imperial System" or "US Customary" or just plain "Customary" or even "English System," no single authority has come up with a nifty name, like the dreaded "Metric System" or "SI."

Anyways, so I'm driving by, and I see this billboard. So what are kilograms exactly? Other than being the mass of 1 L of water at 4°C, they're used for weighing just about everything across the world. Well, apparently they're not just for scientists anymore. Here they are, plugging the Empire State Games in Rochester, NY.

ESG are an olympic-style competition, so I'm glad to see that they're also taking their measures seriously and using them to promote the event. Some groups in this country fear and loathe metric, while others, as pictured above, have no problems with it.