New Use for SwissTool

[David Rock]

One multi-tool feature that is often overlooked, but which has proven useful to me, is the measuring scale.

Among multi-tools, the SwissTool reigns supreme as a measuring device, thanks to the clarity of the markings, and the crisp action and ease of handle alignment.

I carry a SwissTool on my belt everywhere I go. As a college professor, I don't need a robust pair of pliers every day. Lately, however, I have found the measuring scale useful for measuring extra-wide margins on students' term papers. Not that I care too much about the odd 1/4 inch, provided the writing is good and the thinking clear; nevertheless I will draw a one-inch line in the margin of a poorly presented paper, just to remind the students that I'm neither stupid nor blind. (If they know I can see the little things, maybe they'll take extra care with the big things.)

You can't do that with a Wave.

David Rock

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AKTI Member # A000846
Stop when you get to bone.

[This message has been edited by David Rock (edited 02 December 1999).]

 

[Gollnick]

. The Ruler is one
. part of my Leather-
. man PST that I use
. very very frequent-
. ly.
. Its especially
. handy in stores to
. see if the thing
. your lookin at is
. bout the right size
. for what your wanting.



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Chuck
Balisongs -- because it don't mean a thing if it ain't got that swing!
http://www.4cs.net/~gollnick

 

[Hoodoo]

David,

About those 1" margins: unfortunately for some reason MS Word is set up on our campus with default 1 1/2" margins and the poor kids can't figure out how to change it.

Do you actually carry that SAK around in a pouch on campus?



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Hoodoo

When you arrive at the fork in the road, take it.
Yogi Berra

 

[David Rock]

Gollnick:

Big marjuns. Your is funny. And you spel all most as gud as Mike Tuber.

Hoodoo:

Good point about the students not being able to set their own margins. I can't really blame them, as I'm no computer expert myself. The huge font size and 2-1/2 line spacing are a dead giveaway, though, especially when the paper is half as many pages as called for.

Yes, I carry the SwissTool openly on my belt, and a large folder clipped to my pants pocket, and usually a small folder clipped to my shirt pocket. (And that's just the knives you can see!

) Nobody around here has ever hassled me about it. If anyone does hassle me, I'll tell them about the time I once had to use both the SwissTool and my Endura to pry open a door when I and some students found ourselves trapped inside a classroom with no inside doorknob. That classroom was up on the second floor, by the way, with brick pavement down below. What if there had been a fire and the school had a silly no-knives policy? (Forgive me, those of you who have heard this story before.)

Knives are useful on college campuses, and not just for opening letters and trimming fingernails.

David Rock

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AKTI Member # A000846
Stop when you get to bone.