A measurement mnemonic, an interesting picture, and the next big thing from the land of Haiku

Let's see, there's four quarts in a gallon, and two pints in a quart...

From a conversation tonight:
Wife: Two tablespoons would be an eighth of a cup, right?
Me: Um...I dunno. I know there are three teaspoons in a tablespoon.
Wife: Hmm...Oh yeah! Because a tablespoon is an eighth of half a cup!
Me: ...uh...so...an eigth of a half a cup is easier to remember than a sixteenth of a cup?
Wife: Yes.
Me: Why is that?
Wife: Because butter comes in half-cup sticks, and the sticks are divided on the wrapper into 8 sections, each of which is a tablespoon.
Me: ...You know, that actually makes sense.

For all you globetrotters out there

Someone generated this by charting flightpath information:

(found on drawn.ca. Check it out.)

Pecha Kucha

Pecha Kucha is the PowerPoint version of Haiku. Basically you have 20 slides, and you get 20 seconds for each slide. Another example of the Japanese packing as much as possible into every package. (My wife says that modern poetry consists of saying everything you want to in the least possible words. Who know you could mix PowerPoint and poetry so.)