Nov 13 2008
The Fruitless Search for Graph Paper
On a completely different note, what the heck every happened to being able to find graph paper, I mean hard-working, actually useful graph paper? I’m needing to do some interpolation on a function that needs to be on log-log paper in order to be interpolated properly. Easy to get, right? I mean, this is the town next to the Johnson Space Center, filled to the gills with brainy technical types. Now, I might not find this at the grocery store, but surely a place that supplies office supplies…
So I tried. No log-log paper. No engineering pads. Just an isometric grid and the standard grid paper in 8.5×11 inches (no real drafting paper at all). No single log graph paper. Hitting several stores netted me no success.
Fortunately, for my task, I found a website that had what I needed. Stupid that I had to, though.
Now, I used log-log and single log paper even in high school and it was used frequently in college. Don’t they teach kids to use it any more? Aren’t there other engineers or scientists in this town?
Now, I am depressed. It’s all I needed to know, but didn’t want to, about the state of technical education in this area.
maybe it is just SO much in demand that they can’t keep it in stock?
Naw… didn’t really think so.