RE: Off topic: English text explanation please

2023-07-10 Thread R. Hooijenga via sundial
and insightful responses I received to my off-topic question. It looks like the easiest 'fix' is to replace 'to' with 'like to' or 'which compares to'. That the one is to be taken positive, the other negative, is implied: with heaven and hell, few would find that unclear. I read German, and so the extra

RE: Off topic: English text explanation please

2023-07-07 Thread R. Hooijenga via sundial
Diese Nachricht wurde eingewickelt um DMARC-kompatibel zu sein. Die eigentliche Nachricht steht dadurch in einem Anhang. This message was wrapped to be DMARC compliant. The actual message text is therefore in an attachment.--- Begin Message --- Steve, Peter, Jack, Thanks so much for your

RE: Off topic: English text explanation please

2023-07-07 Thread Jack Aubert via sundial
From: sundial On Behalf Of Peter Mayer Sent: Friday, July 7, 2023 4:19 AM To: sundial@uni-koeln.de; R. Hooijenga Subject: Re: Off topic: English text explanation please Dear Rudolf, I share your interest in 17th century madrigals. (Although I'm a firm non-smoker, one of my favourites

Re: Off topic: English text explanation please

2023-07-07 Thread Peter Mayer
Dear Rudolf, I share your interest in 17th century madrigals.  (Although I'm a firm non-smoker, one of my favourites has the line "tobacco is like love..."). My interpretation is that this is a compressed form of poetical expression. Decompressed, I think, it would be: […] thus did they

Off topic: English text explanation please

2023-07-06 Thread R. Hooijenga via sundial
off topic question. My colleagues from the UK could not help me with the details; but they are aerospace boffins - not historians, librarians, or English language experts. Then it occurred to me that those qualities are all to be found on this very list. If you think this is inappropriate, please

Help with GB patent (off-topic)

2015-04-18 Thread John Pickard
Good evening, As part of my research I have been looking for patents of wire strainers used in fences. One GB patent has eluded me, and given the extraordinary range of knowledge and skills of list members, I am wondering if any one can help me. The patent is probably by Edward Allen

off topic (slightly)

2013-10-22 Thread Frank Evans
If anyone may be still interested in the loss of a ship through the slaking of its quicklime cargo an example may be found at: http://archive.spectator.co.uk/ and search for The Late Gale, sloop Mary, 14 September 1833 on page 9. Water soaked her cargo, she took fire, and the lime swelled and

off topic (slightly)

2013-10-14 Thread Frank Evans
Greetings fellow dialists, Watching the conservation of an eighteenth century stone dial on a local church (report pending in Bul. BSS) I became interested in the lime mortar being used by the stonemason. He cut out a great deal of Portland cement around the dial to replace it with this kinder

Re: Off topic but well worth sharing

2012-07-27 Thread Fabio nonvedolora
thank you Tony, my day started in the best way. Fabio Fabio Savian fabio.sav...@nonvedolora.it Paderno Dugnano, Milano, Italy 45° 34' 10'' N, 9° 10' 9'' E, GMT+1 (DST +2) From: Tony Moss Sent: Friday, July 27, 2012 9:26 AM To: sundial@uni-koeln.de Subject: Off topic but well worth sharing Hi

Re: Off topic but well worth sharing

2012-07-27 Thread J. Tallman
Bravo from America...thank you Tony! Best, Jim Tallman www.spectrasundial.com www.artisanindustrials.com jtall...@artisanindustrials.com Tony Moss tonylindi...@talktalk.net wrote: Hi all, The List has been quiet of late so I hope you won't mind me sharing something which just 'blows

Re: Off topic but well worth sharing

2012-07-27 Thread Morgie Terwilliger
Thanks, Tony. You bring the best to the list. The 9th always seems like the most un-Beethoven of Beethoven's symphonies, doesn't it? Nevertheless, good stuff and fun to sing. John Bercovitz From: Tony Moss tonylindi...@talktalk.net Sent: Fri, Jul 27, 2012 12:26 am Hi all, The

RE: Off topic but well worth sharing

2012-07-27 Thread Dave Bell
: Off topic but well worth sharing Thank you, Tony. An encouraging and even touching video, in these times of European tensions. A side note: the recording was made before the building of a Spanish bank! Willy Leenders Hasselt in Flanders (Belgium) Visit my website about

Off topic but very brief.

2011-08-14 Thread Tony Moss
Hi all, Wikipedia and Google can offer nothing useful and I know no greater collection of contactable intellect than the SML. A phrase in Shakepeare has intrigued me since 'A' Level Eng. Lit'. and I think I have a feasible interpretation of it. Off list to discuss if you are

Re: off topic questions

2011-07-04 Thread Frank Evans
Hello Brent and all, Wave height and strength depends on the strength and duration of a generating wind and on the fetch, or uninterrupted distance before the waves spread to reach the observer. In the Southern Ocean and the American west coast all of these, especially fetch, are large. If you

off topic questions

2011-07-03 Thread Brent
Hello again; I ask because there are a lot of very smart people on this list. It seems odd to me that the moon just happens to be the right size and the right distance between the earth and the sun to do the perfect eclipse. Is this just coincidence or is there some good reason for that?

Re: off topic questions

2011-07-03 Thread David Patte
The moon is the right size and distance for a perfect eclipse. This is true, and also a coincidence. Current theory says that the moon and earth split from each other eons ago, so we just happen to be living at the right time. Now, something else very odd about the moon, which most of us take

Re: off topic questions

2011-07-03 Thread Roger Bailey
This is not really off topic. Sundial science can teach us a lot about the tides. Have a look at the presentation Time and Tides Waits for Gnomon on my website, specifically at http://www.walkingshadow.info/Publications/TimeTide.ppt . View the PowerPoint presentation as a slide show

Re: off topic questions

2011-07-03 Thread Brent
I never realized people were buying and selling the moon! That's hilarious, $30 per acre: http://www.lunarregistry.com/land/index2.shtml On 7/3/2011 6:15 PM, David Patte wrote: The moon is the right size and distance for a perfect eclipse. This is true, and also a coincidence. Current theory

Re: off topic questions

2011-07-03 Thread Alexei Pace
I believe that is illegal as the Moon has been declared as the heritage of mankind. (ie. notwithstanding the 1969 'flag' planting which was just symbolic). So what the 'lunar registry' site shows is just money down the drain (or rather, down someone's pants at the other end!). On Mon, Jul 4,

time, off topic

2011-06-23 Thread Frank Evans
During Darwin's famous voyage aboard the Beagle, Captain Fitzroy had 22 chronometers aboard, no doubt to obtain accurate longitudes. This seems pretty excessive and I'm wondering how many (or few) chronometers would have reduced his time errors to an acceptable level. Any thoughts? Poisson

Re: time, off topic

2011-06-23 Thread Kevin Karney
Fitzroy was the geek of his time - he was rich enough to own 22 chronometers and he was interested in everything - (especially meteorology - hence the Shipping weather forecast zone called after his name and the Fitzroy Storm Glass) A 'normal' naval ship in those days carried three chronometers

Re: time, off topic

2011-06-23 Thread Douglas Bateman
Dear Frank, To add to Kevin's reply I have a contact at Greenwich Observatory who replied to my amazement that there were that many chronometers on board, and said: Dear Doug, Yes there were that many, not all were government, if I remember properly 5 were Fitzroy's own, 2 were loaned by

Re: time, off topic

2011-06-23 Thread John Pickard
To: Sundial sund...@rrz.uni-koeln.de Sent: Thursday, June 23, 2011 6:51 PM Subject: time, off topic During Darwin's famous voyage aboard the Beagle, Captain Fitzroy had 22 chronometers aboard, no doubt to obtain accurate longitudes. This seems pretty excessive and I'm wondering how many (or few

declination off topic

2011-04-27 Thread Frank Evans
Greetings, fellow dialists, An old shipmate asked me if the date of the start of winter at Scott's Hut in Antarctica in 1911 could be found. I at once thought of those wise people, the sundial group! He needs the sun's declination for any single date close to 20 April 1911. He knows the

Re declination off topic

2011-04-27 Thread Frank Evans
Brad, Many thanks for your prompt response. Yes, as you found, my old shipmate will now easily calculate the day on which the sun's upper limb was just not visible in April 1911, taking into account refraction and semi-diameter. Scott's Hut is at 77deg. 38'S, 166deg. 24'E. Scott's party kept

Round math: off topic

2011-01-19 Thread Brent
Hello again; If we could get rid of hours and minutes and seconds as well as the 360 degree circle I would also get rid of the math we use to measure round things. I am a house designer and I noticed that a larger house is cheaper to build per square foot than a similar shaped smaller

Re: rescue me (off topic)

2010-10-15 Thread Frank Evans
Greetings fellow dialists, Brent posits: Suppose I was on an island in the middle of the ocean. A Polynesian navigator would know the bearing and distance (not in those terms) of the island from his starting point without the aid of any instruments. Star risings and settings, wind and swell

RE: rescue me (off topic)

2010-10-15 Thread Tom Kreyche
find your way without access to clocks and other sophisticated instruments. ...Tom Kreyche -Original Message- From: sundial-boun...@uni-koeln.de [mailto:sundial-boun...@uni-koeln.de] On Behalf Of Frank Evans Sent: Friday, October 15, 2010 8:04 AM To: Sundial Subject: Re: rescue me (off

rescue me (off topic)

2010-10-14 Thread Brent
I have been thinking about how I could get rescued if I ever got lost without anything. I could determine my latitude as discussed earlier but my longitude seems elusive without knowing Greenwich mean time. However, there are some clues I could give in many circumstances. Of utmost importance

Off topic but I thinkyou'll enjoy this.

2009-04-18 Thread Tony Moss
Fellow shadowWatchers. The following link has nothing whatsover to do with sundials but it would be a sin not to share it. Apologies if you've already seen it. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9lp0IWv8QZY Tony Moss.

Re: Off topic but I thinkyou'll enjoy this.

2009-04-18 Thread Bill Gottesman
Hi Tony, My wife and I were Susan-Struck about 2 days ago. We have watched it so many times that of the 20 million You-Tube hits, my wife and I are probably responsible for about 2 million of them. If you are British, then you must be able to sing like that too. I think you owe a

Re: Off topic but I thinkyou'll enjoy this.

2009-04-18 Thread Frank King
The following link has nothing whatsover to do with sundials... My sound card has gone but I watched carefully while this nice lady very closely examined a gnomon which, much of the time, she held at an angle that seemed just about right for the latitude of West Lothian. I think the nodus at

Re: Off topic but I thinkyou'll enjoy this.

2009-04-18 Thread Edley McKnight
Thanks Tony, I have captured it and made copies for all my family so that we could watch it as often as we like and not tie up the net. Wonderful indeed! Edley. Fellow shadowWatchers. The following link has nothing whatsover to do with sundials but it

Re: WAY off topic

2007-11-28 Thread John Pickard
Message - From: James E. Morrison [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, November 22, 2007 10:24 PM Subject: WAY off topic I know this is way off topic, but there seem to be some pretty savvy computer people out there who may be able to provide some insight. I was encouraged

WAY off topic

2007-11-22 Thread James E. Morrison
I know this is way off topic, but there seem to be some pretty savvy computer people out there who may be able to provide some insight. I was encouraged by the recent thread about Vista. I've had a few people contact me because they bought a new computer or video adapter and The Electric

Off Topic: Anyone On The List From Florence, Italy

2007-07-23 Thread stephen_irick
Hello: I have been trying to contact a vendor in Florence by email with no success. I may be going about it incorrectly and would appreciate some advice. Thanks Steve 370 7 20 N 760 28'25 W Yorktown VA USA ---

sundial off topic

2007-07-21 Thread Frank Evans
Greetings, fellow dialists, I think I am most of the way to finding a solution to the problem of the divergence of great circle and rhumb line tracks in high latitudes. The NavPac Compact Data 2006-2010 book, produced by H. M. Nautical Almanac Office and published by TSO London (used to be The

sundial off topic: oil rights

2007-07-16 Thread Frank Evans
Greetings fellow dialists, Nowadays, oil exploration is conducted within government concessions. These are areas defined by a succession of points, often at sea, to form a closed box. All you do is join the points on a chart and you have your concession plotted. But how do you join the points?

Ballistics - way, way off topic

2007-01-31 Thread Mike Shaw
I am trying to solve a ballistics question for a friend. If there's anyone out there who thinks they can help, could you please contact me off list. If you're not interested, stop reading now. Mike Shaw 53.37N 3.02W www.wiz.to/sundials === If you're still

Ballistics, way, way off topic.

2007-01-31 Thread Mike Shaw
Thanks to all who replied to my query earlier today. Everyone gives me the same answer, so I'll take it that I now know the answer. If not interested, stop reading here. Mike Shaw 53.37N 3.02W www.wiz.to/sundials = Two vehicles are both travelling in the

Off topic but relevant

2006-10-18 Thread tony moss
Fellow shadow watchers, Perhaps like me you have tried and failed to find a source of those sealable card mailing slips in which we receive CD Roms - typically from the USA. Judging by the ones I receive covered in re-use sticky labels the problem is not unknown

Re: Slightly off-topic: names of geomteric shapes

2006-10-16 Thread John Pickard
Good afternoon, Many thanks to Andrew Pettit, Gordon Uber and John B. for their very rapid responses to my questions. Once I got started using their suggestions, I trawled a few web sites andfound this one, which had more information than any mere mortal would ever want to know about

Re: Slightly off-topic: names of geomteric shapes

2006-10-16 Thread Th. Taudin Chabot
So that will something like the sundial created by Piet Hein: http://www.egeskov.dk/english/sightseeing/10.html Thibaud Chabot At 08:31 16-10-2006, John Pickard wrote: Some of the solid shapes on the same web site are truly amazing. Would be interesting to figure out how to make some of them

Re: Slightly off-topic: names of geomteric shapes

2006-10-15 Thread Gordon Uber
Pickard wrote: Good afternoon everyone, This is a bit off-topic, but given the range of expertise available on the Sundial List, I think I can get an answer ... I need names for some geometric shapes for some research I am doing. Two are not a problem: Sector: a part of a circle bounded

Re: Slightly off-topic: names of geomteric shapes

2006-10-15 Thread tloc54452
There are a limited number of entries at the bottom of this page which may be of help. http://www.geom.uiuc.edu/docs/reference/CRC-formulas/ John B -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: sundial@uni-koeln.de Sent: Sat, 14 Oct 2006 7:25 PM Subject: Slightly off-topic: names

Slightly off-topic: names of geomteric shapes

2006-10-14 Thread John Pickard
Good afternoon everyone, This is a bit off-topic, but given the range of expertise available on the Sundial List, I think I can get an answer ... I need names for some geometric shapes for some research I am doing. Two are not a problem: Sector: a part of a circle bounded

off topic:- late pips

2006-01-04 Thread Colin Davis
Hi! the lateness of pips on digital radio or television (terrestrial ) is caused by the time it takes to digitise the analogue video/audio input plus the delay when the reverse procedure takes place in the receiver.This is called latency If you are viewing /listening on satellite there is

Re: Off topic a little -- help requested

2004-03-02 Thread Edley McKnight
Hi Mac, When things like this happen to me it is usually a routing problem. Trace the route and if necessary work through an intermediate link or a mirror, anything to force a different route. This usually clears up the transmission for me. Enjoy the Light! Edley McKnight -

Off topic a little -- help requested

2004-03-02 Thread Mac Oglesby
Hello list members, For several days I've been unable to load the Dutch Sundial Society web page at http://www.de-zonnewijzerkring.nl (.) Friends (and my ISP) report that the page opens OK for them. What I get is nothing at all, or, after a lengthy interval, error messages saying a

Re: Off topic a little -- help requested

2004-03-02 Thread Th. Taudin Chabot
I just checked like your friends and see nothing funny. But check also with your provider, sometimes a provider blocks certain websites/adresses for some reason (often; spam, but that is not always so). Thibaud Chabot At 17:31 02-03-2004, Mac Oglesby wrote: Hello list members, For several

(Off topic) Re: Tides at extreme latitudes

2004-01-13 Thread John Pickard
Anne, Your information on tides in high N latitudes pretty much mirrors tides in Antarctica: very small range. I can't give you exact figures, but if you go to the Australian Antarctic Data Centre on the site of the Australian Antarctic Division (http://www.aad.gov.au/default.asp?casid=5212),

Re: Off topic....... but very brief!

2004-01-13 Thread nicolaseverino
/webgnomonices [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://groups.yahoo.com/group/igbulletin/ [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://groups.yahoo.com/group/meridiane/ - Original Message - From: John Smith [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: sundial@rrz.uni-koeln.de Sent: Tuesday, January 13, 2004 1:11 AM Subject: RE: Off topic... but very

Re: Off topic....... but very brief!

2004-01-13 Thread Richard Mallett
The long list of random words are an attempt to 'dilute' the real content with innocuous words in order to try and defeat anti-spam programmes that scan a message and reject any that score higher than a certain mark against likely spam words. The real content is usually displayed in HTML, and

Re: Off topic....... but very brief!

2004-01-12 Thread J.Tallman
Hi Tony, Most of what you describe is done to fool spam filters, I think. Many ISPs are implementing spam filters on their end to try to stem the tide of junk mail, which overload their servers. Most of these filter programs identify certain message elements that make them think an e-mail is

RE: Off topic....... but very brief!

2004-01-12 Thread John Smith
merchants who really home in on you. John Smith Tempus Fugit Indigo Fugit -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of tony moss Sent: 12 January 2004 12:50 To: Sundial Mail List Subject: Off topic... but very brief! Fellow Shadow Watchers

Off topic....... but very brief!

2004-01-12 Thread Patrick Powers
Message text written by INTERNET:sundial@rrz.uni-koeln.de I'm puzzled by the number of totally blank and gibberish items. The latter seem to be just strings of unconnected words. They are intended to be read by web based e-mail systems where the extra characters can be prevented from being

Off topic....... but very brief!

2004-01-12 Thread tony moss
Fellow Shadow Watchers, In common with many others these days I receive about 90% 'spam' with my email. Much of it is predictable rubbish but I'm puzzled by the number of totally blank and gibberish items. The latter seem to be just strings of unconnected words. Do

off topic.

2004-01-10 Thread Alexei Pace
Allow me an off-topic question please - is there any way to obtain the messages within this group as a daily 'digest' format as with other mailing lists? Thank you Alex -

Re: Plekhnatons (slightly off-topic)

2003-11-17 Thread GinnyandHalB
Peter and other list members, I haven't followed this discussion too closely. However, Dolan's book, "A Choice of sundials discusses the "Greek pelekinon sundial". The shape of the hour and day lines suggest the bouble headed ax found in Greece. On a recent trip to Greece I saw an ax of this

Re: Plekhnatons (slightly off-topic)

2003-11-17 Thread Bill Thayer
book, A Choice of sundials discusses the Greek pelekinon sundial. The shape of the hour and day lines suggest the bouble headed ax found in Greece. On a recent trip to Greece I saw an ax of this type in a museum in Macedonia. Hope this helps a little bit. Sure does; you've solved the

Re: Plekhnatons (slightly off-topic)

2003-11-03 Thread Peter Tandy
Dear Shadow casters, Thank you to the 4-5 people who responded to my little message/question/gripe about the use of the word plekhnaton - at least it seems to prove that I was not totally mistaken in my curiosity about it. Had 100+ people responded along the lines of haven't you met that one

New Member. Hello everyone! Re: Plekhnatons (slightly off-topic)

2003-11-03 Thread Albert Franco
Regards, Albert FrancoPeter Tandy [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Dear Shadow casters,Thank you to the 4-5 people who responded to my littlemessage/question/gripe about the use of the word "plekhnaton" - at least itseems to prove that I was not totally mistaken in my curiosity about it.Had 100+ people

Re: Plekhnatons (slightly off-topic)

2003-11-03 Thread Dave Bell
On Mon, 3 Nov 2003, Peter Tandy wrote: For those who quoted from the 'Wikipedidia (never heard of it before - sounds like an encyclopedia written on a Hawaiian beach.but maybe I'd better not get into the oringin of THAT word!!), it appears, from memory, to be EXACTLY what Bill Nye used,

Re: Plekhnatons (slightly off-topic)

2003-11-03 Thread Bill Thayer
repository of concensus information - som emay be bogus or just plain silly, but a lot is helpful. Democracy at its best/worst, I suppose... If we ever get to the bottom of plekhnaton -- I'm convinced it's bogus, but it's deucedly hard to prove a negative -- we should get back in touch

Re: Plekhnatons (slightly off-topic)

2003-10-30 Thread DrArthurCarlson
Quoted from a Google search of the encyclopedia Wikipedia: Plekhnatons The ancient Greeks used a type of sundial called a plekhnaton. The gnomon was a rod or pole upright in a horizontal face or half-spherical face. The shadow of the tip of the rod sweeps out hyperbolic curves on a flat face,

Plekhnatons (slightly off-topic)

2003-10-29 Thread Peter Tandy
Dear Shadow watchers (if not shadowy types!) A little while ago, someone (can't remember who now) posted a report about Martian sundials by Bill Nye. Several pages into it he refers to early Greek sundials by the name Plekhnaton(s). I had never met this word before, and wondered what it meant.

Re: Plekhnatons (slightly off-topic)

2003-10-29 Thread Rudolf Hooijenga
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Re: Plekhnatons (slightly off-topic)

2003-10-29 Thread Darrell Packer
- Original Message - From: Peter Tandy To: sundial@rrz.uni-koeln.de Sent: Wednesday, October 29, 2003 11:32 AM Subject: Plekhnatons (slightly off-topic) Dear Shadow watchers (if not shadowy types!)A little while ago, someone (can't remember who now) posted

RE: off topic

2003-02-07 Thread Roger Bailey
Bonjour François, I am having problems receiving mail. Messages from individuals overseas are often rejected. I get all the messages from the sundials mailing list but some of the mail from individuals in Spain, France, New Zealand and some in the US is bounced. My ISP suspects the problem is

Re: RE: Gaztelainak hitz egiten duzu? (Off topic)

2002-07-22 Thread Thibaud Taudin-Chabot
Thibaud At 23:11 21-07-2002 +0200, you wrote: Hello, And why not ESPERANTO ? It's a universal language, not based on the language war, but on human comprehension. Excuse me for this friendly off topic :-) Alain R MORY - Th

RE: Gaztelainak hitz egiten duzu? (Off topic)

2002-07-21 Thread Roger Bailey
Hi Anselmo, I recently read and recommend the book by Mark Kurlansky The Basque History of the World. (ISBN 0-676-97366-3). This gave me a perspective on the importance of language in defining cultures, so I recognize your sensitivity to language wars. Post notes on your mailing list in

RE: Gaztelainak hitz egiten duzu? (Off topic)

2002-07-21 Thread k_man ayuz

Re: Gaztelainak hitz egiten duzu? (Off topic)

2002-07-21 Thread Anselmo P�rez Serrada
Now I am afraid I'll have to apologize again! My sincere apologizes, Khirman: my ironical e-mail went to this guy in the list, I can't remember his name, that from time to time writes saying that he does not understand gringo (ie., English) and complaints for our not using Castillian

Gaztelainak hitz egiten duzu? (Off topic)

2002-07-20 Thread Anselmo P�rez Serrada
Would you mind dumping this message into Spanish to CabraLoca, best know as PsykoKidd, who can't read a single word of English? I do not know where you come from, but I really appreciate :-0 your enthusiastic (?) defense of our language. As a true-blue Castillian (I live 500 meters away

Re: Off topic (but interesting nevertheless)

2002-01-10 Thread Charles Gann
The first 12 years of the millenium are interesting in that each month has its turn in subsequent years 01/01/01 02/02/02 03/03/03 04/04/04 05/05/05 06/06/06 07/07/07 08/08/08 09/09/09 10/10/10 11/11/11 12/12/12 dialllist

Re: Off topic (but interesting nevertheless)

2002-01-10 Thread Peter Tandy
Many years ago (presumably in 1967, as we shall see..), as a schoolboy, I seem to remember hearing on the BBC 'Today' breakfast programme, about so-called 'straight-dates'. These are: 1/2/34 2/3/45 3/4/56 4/5/67 5/6/78 6/7/89 7/8/90 at which point the series seems to end unles we go to 8/9/01

Off topic (but interesting nevertheless)

2002-01-07 Thread The Shaws
Extract from The Daily Telegraph (Letters to the Editor): Back and Forth SIR - It might be worth pointing out that the year 2002 consists of a palindrome, being the same backward as forwards. Palindromic years occur normally only once in 110 years (as in 1661,1771,1881, etc). However, at the

Re: Off topic (but interesting nevertheless)

2002-01-07 Thread alexei.pace
20/02/2002 2002/20/02 Alexei Pace malta

Re: Off topic (but interesting nevertheless)

2002-01-07 Thread BillGottesman
In a message dated 1/7/2002 5:59:27 AM Eastern Standard Time, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: It is also worth recording that many of us also experienced the year 1961, which reads the same when viewed normally or upside down; an inverted palindrome, perhaps? There have only been three other

Re: Off topic (but interesting nevertheless)

2002-01-07 Thread Frank Evans
Furthermore, at two minutes past 8pm on 20th February it will be 2002.20/02/2002. I believe this does not hold in the US, where they write the date differently. Spoilsports! Frank 55N 1W -- Frank Evans

RE: Off topic (but interesting nevertheless)

2002-01-07 Thread The Shaws
Sorry to have started on off topic hare running ... but having started :- 19.11.1999 was unusual in that every digit in the date was odd. This will not happen again for 1112 years, not until 1.1.3111 in fact. The last all even day was 2.2.2000, the first one since 28.8.888, a gap of (surprise

Re: Off topic (but interesting nevertheless)

2002-01-07 Thread Tony Moss
Bill Gooesman wrote Well, if you write your 2's in the same shape that they are formed in an older LCD display calculator, then 2002 reads the same upside down as right side up. So there. and we in the UK have the village of CHIDEOCK with a horizontal line of symmetry. Tony M.

Re: Off topic (but interesting nevertheless)

2002-01-07 Thread John Schilke
-koeln.de Sent: Monday, January 07, 2002 12:15 PM Subject: Re: Off topic (but interesting nevertheless) Allow me to add that on 20th february, the whole date will be palindromic... 20/02/2002 2002/20/02 Alexei Pace malta

Re: Off topic (but interesting nevertheless)

2002-01-07 Thread R.H. van Gent
The Shaws wrote: Extract from The Daily Telegraph (Letters to the Editor): Back and Forth SIR - It might be worth pointing out that the year 2002 consists of a palindrome, being the same backward as forwards. Palindromic years occur normally only once in 110 years (as in

Re: Off topic (but interesting nevertheless)

2002-01-07 Thread Jean-Paul Cornec
The Shaws wrote: Extract from The Daily Telegraph (Letters to the Editor): Back and Forth SIR - It might be worth pointing out that the year 2002 consists of a palindrome, being the same backward as forwards. Palindromic years occur normally only once in 110 years (as in

Off Topic Apology

2001-09-16 Thread Claude Hartman
My apology to all readers of this list. Frank Evans remarks are so very welcome. It was a great blunder for me to mention names. The facts speak for themselves. This is not a proper forum to discuss causes or consequences of these tragic events. I can only hope that they will not greatly

Off topic - but it is for children!

2001-05-22 Thread Tony Moss
Fellow Shadow Watchers, If anyone has direct contact with a schoolteacher in their area (English-speaking outside the UK please) whose pupils would like to make email contact with their counterparts in an English 'First School' (age-range is 5yrs to 9yrs) please contact

Re: ??? - OFF TOPIC

2001-05-09 Thread Thierry van Steenberghe
Steve Lelievre wrote: This is off-topic, but why are they called Arabic numerals? Presumably because the system of positional significance is Arabic in origin? The system of decimal positional numeration is not Arabic in origin: for centuries, the Arabo-islamic scientists have always stated

Re: ??? - OFF TOPIC

2001-05-07 Thread Steve Lelievre
This is off-topic, but why are they called Arabic numerals? Presumably because the system of positional significance is Arabic in origin? Also, real Arabic digits look nothing like the digits in the West (see attached for 0 to 9, Arabic style). Why and when did the differences arise? Steve

Re: Arabic numbers - OFF TOPIC

2001-05-07 Thread PsykoKidd
look a lot more like western arabic numbers; at least 1 2 3 and 7. I've been to very old cathedrals in Germany, some of the uses of 4 was more like the arab counterparts that is half of an 8. The 9s obviously looks similar. I presume that 5 was changed due to similarities to the round zero.

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2001-03-08 Thread Tony Moss
Fellow shadow watchers, Can any Mac guru make direct off list contact over a possible solution to the following frustrating problem. The query is dialling-related in a sense because until it is solved we cannot exchange Illustrator files on a current project. Following

Re: Off topic, but...

2000-08-02 Thread R.H. van Gent
Gordon Uber wrote: Mike, It is a great story, which I still enjoy, but I understand that it arose concerning different student at Washington University in St. Louis, Missouri--not Niels Bohr in Copenhagen. It is indeed an amusing story but the version that I know mentions neither Bohr

Re: Off topic, but...

2000-08-01 Thread Gordon Uber
It is a great story, which I still enjoy, but I understand that it arose concerning different student at Washington University in St. Louis, Missouri--not Niels Bohr in Copenhagen. Gordon Gordon Uber [EMAIL PROTECTED] San Diego, California USA Webmaster: Clocks and Time:

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2000-08-01 Thread The Shaws
I know this is off topic, but I came across this story the other day - it's just the kind of tale that I think will appeal to the members of this list. Sorry if you have heard it before. Mike Shaw [EMAIL PROTECTED] 53.37N 3.02W Wirral, UK This concerns

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2000-07-06 Thread S�rgio Garcia Doret
Hi Fellows My friend Miguel was very enthusiastic with all those answers and ask me to transcribe: Thank you very much for answering my questions, Mr Taylor in particular for his simphathy. But let me rescue my dear frind Doret from the realm of the broken hearted into wich he has been

Re: Off topic, but not too much

2000-07-06 Thread Dave Bell
On Wed, 5 Jul 2000, [iso-8859-1] S?rgio Garcia Doret wrote: My friend Miguel was very enthusiastic with all those answers and ask me to transcribe: And finally, if I may, another question: why is the visible face of the moon so heavy pockmarked with meteors craters? When we see it at

Re: Off topic, but not too much

2000-07-03 Thread Arthur Carlson
SÈrgio Garcia Doret [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: 1 - Assume the hours equals exactly 1/24th of the earth revolution time and suppose a disguster lover choose to retire into a cave, where daylight is entirelly shut off for a period of six months to the minute. ... What adjustment does his watch

Re: Off topic, but not too much

2000-07-03 Thread Frans W. MAES
Art All, The matter of the international date line has been settled by now. Confusion remains about the cave-dwelling lover. SÈrgio Garcia Doret [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: 1 - Assume the hours equals exactly 1/24th of the earth revolution time and suppose a disguster lover choose to

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2000-06-30 Thread S�rgio Garcia Doret
Hi everibody A friend of mine, ask me two question and I would like have your assistance: 1 - Assume the hours equals exactly 1/24th of the earth revolution time and suppose a disguster lover choose to retire into a cave, where daylight is entirelly shut off for a period of six months

Re: Off topic, but not too much

2000-06-30 Thread Chris Lusby Taylor
Sérgio, I presume it is indeed yourself, not a friend, who has been spurned in love. I am sorry to hear it. But I think shutting yourself in a cave for six months is a rather extreme reaction. However, the good news is that when you come out, you will be in daylight, unless your watch tells

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