fukkin meters, how do they work

http://www.amazon.com/Photography-7th-Barbara-London/dp/0130282715/ref=sr_1_1?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1316896141&sr=1-1

dunno if this is useful to you at all, but I referred to it quite a bit when I was developing my own film:
http://www.amazon.com/Film-Developing-Cookbook-Darkroom-Vol/dp/0240802772/ref=sr_1_5?ie=UTF8&qid=1316896204&sr=8-5

thx for the recs man

so I've been dicking around in my yard and testing my gf1 sensor against the sunny 16 rule and it's kind of amazing how well the two match up? also went through a few old photos and sure enough, if I (laboriously) spitball the exposure i can get pretty close (one stop) of the recorded meter value. p cool