On Thursday 03 January 2002 07:05 am, Aaron Grewell observed:
Yeah, when it hits 80F around here people start screaming about the
heat. We're just not used to it. And God help us if anything catches
fire and the weather doesn't help us out. It all goes up in smoke.
Once I've got a handle
On Wednesday 02 January 2002 08:56 pm,[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Tony Alfrey [EMAIL PROTECTED] said:
On Wednesday 02 January 2002 06:25 pm,Net Llama wrote:
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On Wednesday 02 January 2002 03:51 pm,Net Llama wrote:
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On Wednesday 02 January 2002 06:25 pm,Net Llama wrote:
I was in Troy, NY in late August; it was like a sauna. Ditto
Manhattan
;-)
Indeed, Troy, the armpit of NY (and home to my alma mater as well).
RPI?? Seemed like a pretty good
On Thursday 03 January 2002 07:23 am,Net Llama wrote:
--- Tony Alfrey [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
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RPI?? Seemed like a pretty good school.
At one time it was.
My visit there was back in '81 or so.
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I'd rather be sailing
I'd recommend picking a temperate zone to live in, but I'm not sure
whether or not Australia has those. That's what I get for going to
public school. I'm not sure where half the states are here in the US,
much less anywhere else! ;-)
BTW, here in Washington State, USA the weather is currently
On Thursday 03 January 2002 02:45 am, Aaron Grewell observed:
I'd recommend picking a temperate zone to live in, but I'm not sure
whether or not Australia has those. That's what I get for going to
public school. I'm not sure where half the states are here in the US,
much less anywhere else!
Yeah, when it hits 80F around here people start screaming about the
heat. We're just not used to it. And God help us if anything catches
fire and the weather doesn't help us out. It all goes up in smoke.
Once I've got a handle on the US Midwest and South regions I'm making
plans to see some
-Original Message from Aaron-
BTW, here in Washington State, USA the weather is currently set at
default. A little below 50F and raining.
-Original Message from Keith-
Due to it's size, like the States, Australia has many
differing climate
zones. Brisbane has one of
Burns MacDonald wrote:
For more measuring trivia, see http://www.unc.edu/~rowlett/units/
It is truly mind-boggling and aptly demonstrates the need for a simple,
global 10-based suystem.
Well, metric is only half the answer, isn't it? Shouldn't time be measured
in powers of 10?
We have to keep up the illusion of endless pouring rain, it's all that
holds the Californians back from swarming up the coast and turning us
into another LA. That and the fact that our freeways were designed by
idiots. I'm sure that's why mass transit hasn't ever happened. The
city councils
From: Dave Anselmi [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
How about angular measures like lat long? Radians are 2 pi
to a circle
because it makes some calcualting simpler (what's with that pi thing,
anyway?!?)
Hey, that has been solved. In the State of Indiana in 1897 the House of
--- Aaron Grewell [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
We have to keep up the illusion of endless pouring rain, it's all that
Feh. Never been to northern California between December March i take
it? Its been raining here *non-stop* for the past 2 weeks. Mudslides,
flooding, the works.
=
I'm not surprised, but if you visit Western Washington you'll probably
hear it more than once: Traffic is so awful. It's all those
Californians that moved here. They don't know how to drive in the
rain. CW is that if we tell everybody how awful the weather is 'round
here, they'll stay
Oh, i agree 100%. Most native Californians don't know how to drive in
rain (forget snow). I curse them all the time. I've seen it drizzling,
and people start freaking out like its a hurricane.
I'll take a downpour over a blizzard any day.
-Lonni
(who spent the first 25 years of his life
On Wednesday 02 January 2002 03:09 pm,Net Llama wrote:
Oh, i agree 100%. Most native Californians don't know how to drive
in rain (forget snow). I curse them all the time. I've seen it
drizzling, and people start freaking out like its a hurricane.
I'll take a downpour over a blizzard any
--- Tony Alfrey [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
On Wednesday 02 January 2002 03:09 pm,Net Llama wrote:
Oh, i agree 100%. Most native Californians don't know how to drive
in rain (forget snow). I curse them all the time. I've seen it
drizzling, and people start freaking out like its a
On Wed, 2 Jan 2002 15:09:54 -0800 (PST) Net Llama [EMAIL PROTECTED]
wrote:
Oh, i agree 100%. Most native Californians don't know how to drive in
rain (forget snow). I curse them all the time. I've seen it drizzling,
and people start freaking out like its a hurricane.
I'll take a
On Wednesday 02 January 2002 03:51 pm,Net Llama wrote:
--- Tony Alfrey [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
On Wednesday 02 January 2002 03:09 pm,Net Llama wrote:
Oh, i agree 100%. Most native Californians don't know how to
drive in rain (forget snow). I curse them all the time. I've
seen it
Well, I don't know if it's the Californians or if Washingtonians just
use them as an excuse (leaning toward the latter) but every time the
weather changes it's the same. It starts to rain, they hit their
brakes. Sun comes out, brakes. Snow begins to fall, brakes. The only
thing they *can*
--- Tony Alfrey [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
On Wednesday 02 January 2002 03:51 pm,Net Llama wrote:
--- Tony Alfrey [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
However, us native Californians have the luxury of not having to
know about
a) putting on snow tires just to go get a six pack
b) snow tires,
On Wednesday 02 January 2002 06:25 pm,Net Llama wrote:
--- Tony Alfrey [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
On Wednesday 02 January 2002 03:51 pm,Net Llama wrote:
--- Tony Alfrey [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
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Snow tires won't save your *ss if you don't know how to drive in
snow. I've driven
Tony Alfrey [EMAIL PROTECTED] said:
On Wednesday 02 January 2002 06:25 pm,Net Llama wrote:
--- Tony Alfrey [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
On Wednesday 02 January 2002 03:51 pm,Net Llama wrote:
--- Tony Alfrey [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
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Most likely true. At least i don't feel
David spake:
That would be fine if you stuck to inches all the time but:
12 inches = 1 foot
3 feet = 1 yard
yards = 1 mile
From my Navy years:
1760 yards to a nautical mile. A nautical mile is 1 minute of latitude at
the equator.
a 'cable' is 200 yards
a shackle is about 90 feet
a
On Tue, 1 Jan 2002 09:41:19 -0500
Burns MacDonald [EMAIL PROTECTED] spewed into the bitstream:
David spake:
That would be fine if you stuck to inches all the time but:
12 inches = 1 foot
3 feet = 1 yard
yards = 1 mile
From my Navy years:
1760 yards to a nautical mile. A
Thanks for this wonderful link. It will provide much interesting reading.
About the Brave New World of uniform measurements based on units of 10.
They tried hard to switch American medicine over to the European units for
chemistry values (out with mg/dl, in ng/l or meq/l etc.
They stopped when
On Tue, 1 Jan 2002 10:27:48 -0500
Joel Hammer [EMAIL PROTECTED] spewed into the bitstream:
Another good temperature link:
http://www.rci.rutgers.edu/~jup/metric/fahrenheit.html
discusses Fahreneit and Roemer
David A. Bandel
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Burns MacDonald wrote:
David spake:
That would be fine if you stuck to inches all the time but:
12 inches = 1 foot
3 feet = 1 yard
yards = 1 mile
From my Navy years:
1760 yards to a nautical mile. A nautical mile is 1 minute of latitude at
the equator.
a 'cable' is 200 yards
Skippy, eat your heart out!
While you're sweating in 30 deg + swelter and NSW is burning, I'm freezing
in Denver.
On the coldest day thus far, my central heating furnace has failed. I've
got all the lights on and my computers and the oven for a little residual
warmth. Up from 60 deg F.
There seem to be different versions of how Dr. Fahrenheit made up his
scale. Here is one the supports the idea of using the climate for the
zero point. http://www.weathernotebook.com/transcripts/1999/01/11.html
But, it sounds like, from a brief search of the internet, there are
multiple
David wrote:
And you got this information where?
Ooops. My memory is not as good as I thunk. The last ship I drove was a
destroyer in 1977.
As I now recall, we used 2000 yards as a rough measure of miles. I got
myself confused with statute miles. The rest were used as rounded off units.
We
Joel spake:
Thanks for this wonderful link. It will provide much interesting reading.
About the Brave New World of uniform measurements based on units of 10.
They tried hard to switch American medicine over to the European units for
chemistry values (out with mg/dl, in ng/l or meq/l etc.
One of the first things I did with a computer was to calculate
the speed of light in furlongs per fortnight.
Bill
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--- Collins Richey [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Skippy, eat your heart out!
While you're sweating in 30 deg + swelter and NSW is burning, I'm
freezing
in Denver.
On the coldest day thus far, my central heating furnace has failed.
I've
got all the lights on and my computers and the oven
On Tuesday 01 Jan 2002 15:20, David A. Bandel wrote:
On Tue, 1 Jan 2002 09:41:19 -0500
Burns MacDonald [EMAIL PROTECTED] spewed into the bitstream:
David spake:
[...]
a 'cable' is 200 yards
a shackle is about 90 feet
a fathom is 6 feet
And you got this information where?
On Wed, 2 Jan 2002 02:50, David A. Bandel wrote:
a 'cable' is 200 yards
a shackle is about 90 feet
a fathom is 6 feet
the speed of light is 123 million furlongs per fortnight.
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On Wednesday 02 January 2002 02:20 am, Collins Richey observed:
Skippy, eat your heart out!
While you're sweating in 30 deg + swelter and NSW is burning, I'm freezing
in Denver.
Its humid and and 34C inside the house, the way I feel at the moment I would
love to cool down. Primarily because
On Wednesday 02 January 2002 02:47 am, Burns MacDonald observed:
Like many, I was reluctant to change to metric. But I have to say that now
having done so, I rarely even think about the old units of measurement at
In Australia when we went over with the currecy to $AUD from the pound AUD,
we
On Wed, 2 Jan 2002 12:59:55 +1000
Keith Antoine [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
On Wednesday 02 January 2002 02:20 am, Collins Richey observed:
Skippy, eat your heart out!
While you're sweating in 30 deg + swelter and NSW is burning, I'm freezing
in Denver.
Its humid and and 34C inside the
Merry Christmas to you all from the Alps.
It's -15°C cold here. There is plenty enough snow on the
fields
...and on the roads (Snowplows' strike -- grin)
in this country not very far than the fine Lonni's pics ;-)
There is nothing better than a good wood fire in a little
chalet.
Joyeux Noel a
Here I am sitting with towel round waist at 6.20pm after coming out of
shower for the 4th time today, also having had the machine shut down 4 times
also.
It got to 37C about 1.30 and is still 30C at the moment. Fans do little to
cool one down and I had 3 travel jobs to do today. That meant
Oh well, I went skiing today, threw a few snowballs, then hit the hot tub.
Oh, did I mention a glass of good sangiovese. Just another boring winter day.
On Saturday 22 December 2001 08:28, Keith Antoine wrote:
Here I am sitting with towel round waist at 6.20pm after coming out of
shower for
Keith Antoine wrote:
Here I am sitting with towel round waist at 6.20pm after coming out of
shower for the 4th time today, also having had the machine shut down 4 times
also.
It got to 37C about 1.30 and is still 30C at the moment. Fans do little to
cool one down and I had 3 travel jobs
David Aikema wrote:
On December 22, 2001 06:51 pm, Lee wrote:
Keith Antoine wrote:
Here I am sitting with towel round waist at 6.20pm after coming out of
shower for the 4th time today, also having had the machine shut down 4
times also.
It got to 37C about 1.30 and is still
Greetings,
On Sat, 22 Dec 2001, Lee wrote:
David Aikema wrote:
On December 22, 2001 06:51 pm, Lee wrote:
It got to 37C about 1.30 and is still 30C at the moment. Fans do little
to cool one down and I had 3 travel jobs to do today. That meant driving
with aircon struggling, so
On Sat, 22 Dec 2001 22:37:43 -0500 (EST) Jay Nugent wrote:
0c = pure water freezes 32f
100c = pure water boils (at sea level) 212f
But body temperature is 100 F (well, almost. Farenheit ran a little hot!),
and when you mix your salt and ice to freeze
On December 22, 2001 07:37 pm, Jay Nugent wrote:
One thing that was nice about a Canadian high school education was using the
metric system 98% of the time. Of course, now in university, it's about
50/50 I've begun to realize what a pain imperial conversions are as
opposed to the
Jay Nugent wrote:
Greetings,
On Sat, 22 Dec 2001, Lee wrote:
David Aikema wrote:
On December 22, 2001 06:51 pm, Lee wrote:
It got to 37C about 1.30 and is still 30C at the moment. Fans do little
to cool one down and I had 3 travel jobs to do today. That meant driving
On December 22, 2001 07:54 pm, Lee wrote:
Too bad we blew it back in the late 70's, early 80's when we were
*supposed* to move over to the metric system. Base-10 is FAR better a
measurement scale than Base-the-kings-feet and other arbitrary scales.
Metric is just as arbitrary as a
Greetings,
On Sat, 22 Dec 2001, Lee wrote:
Jay Nugent wrote:
Greetings,
On Sat, 22 Dec 2001, Lee wrote:
David Aikema wrote:
On December 22, 2001 06:51 pm, Lee wrote:
It got to 37C about 1.30 and is still 30C at the moment. Fans do little
to cool one down and I
David Aikema wrote:
On December 22, 2001 07:54 pm, Lee wrote:
Too bad we blew it back in the late 70's, early 80's when we were
*supposed* to move over to the metric system. Base-10 is FAR better a
measurement scale than Base-the-kings-feet and other arbitrary scales.
Metric
On Saturday 22 December 2001 12:28 am,Keith Antoine wrote:
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Merry Xmas to all and the very best wishes to all fro the New year.
Ithas to be better than the last one dosen't it ??
A very merry to you!
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I'd rather be sailing
Jay Nugent wrote:
Greetings,
On Sat, 22 Dec 2001, Lee wrote:
Jay Nugent wrote:
Snip
Too bad we blew it back in the late 70's, early 80's when we were
*supposed* to move over to the metric system. Base-10 is FAR better a
measurement scale than Base-the-kings-feet and other
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