t-and-f: metric converter

2002-09-05 Thread Keith Whitman
Netters, A few years back somebody posted a metric conversion program that ran on Excel to the list. In switching jobs etc. I have managed to lose that program and I'm wondering if anyone could email to me directly since it is not permisable to post an attachment to the list. I thought it was

Re: t-and-f: Viren article and journalism and double standards

2002-09-05 Thread JimRTimes
In a message dated 9/4/02 9:07:59 PM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Attacking journalists when they make mistakes, however, clearly is not appropriate or effective most of the time. - Ed Parrot But it's OK for journalists to do the same? malmo Sure. It's in the job description. Jim Gerweck

Re: t-and-f: metric converter

2002-09-05 Thread malmo
I lost mine too. Please send me one too. malmo Netters, A few years back somebody posted a metric conversion program that ran on Excel to the list. In switching jobs etc. I have managed to lose that program and I'm wondering if anyone could email to me directly since it is not permisable to

Re: t-and-f: Viren article and journalism and double standards

2002-09-05 Thread Jimson Lee
No one is attacking the journalist. We (the readers) are just correcting the facts, that's all. It's done ALL the time. Read page 2 of any newspaper under errata. JL - Original Message - From: malmo [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, September 04, 2002 6:06 PM Subject: RE: t-and-f:

Re: t-and-f: Viren article and journalism

2002-09-05 Thread Martin J. Dixon
Ron, In the middle of nowhere is a relative term(and therefore debatable) which I will take full and complete responsibility for. There was actually at least one other error in my post and that is that she finished 8th not 7th. I posted that correction immediately but the server gods saw fit not

Re: t-and-f: metric converter

2002-09-05 Thread Lee Nichols
Of course, don't forget that the conversions for vertical jumps and horizontal jumps/throws are slightly different, if you're using it for track conversions. Lee Netters, A few years back somebody posted a metric conversion program that ran on Excel to the list. In switching jobs etc. I have

Re: t-and-f: Re: Morrocco and journalism

2002-09-05 Thread Lee Nichols
I'm reminded of my all-time favorite correction, from U. of Texas' student newspaper (recalling/paraphrasing from memory): The Daily Texan reported yesterday that [Name of politician] said that the appointment of [another person] to the state water commission would be 'a stake through the

Re: t-and-f: metric converter

2002-09-05 Thread Randy Treadway
I've switched computers in the last few months and can't find the original Rand-o-Meter, as Tony labeled it, BUT I found it in the uoregon archive: http://www.mail-archive.com/t-and-f@lists.uoregon.edu/msg01896/metric1.xls The usual caveats apply. Don't use it to convert anything that

Re: t-and-f: Why The Higher World Champs Standards?

2002-09-05 Thread TANFDONLEY
gh wrote Note that WC standards are now linked to OG, which didn't used to be the case. WHY?? If i were king the world champs would be come less like and less linked to the olympics. David Donley

t-and-f: wild picture

2002-09-05 Thread Lee Nichols
A pic I stumbled across in a google search; apparently a track in Taiwan after an earthquake: http://cgpr.ce.vt.edu/photo_album_for_geotech/Earthquake%20hazards/Rupture%20-%20Taiwan/Rupture%20Taiwan%20P3.html -- Lee Nichols Assistant News Editor The Austin Chronicle 512/454-5766 ext. 138 fax

t-and-f: metric converter (chapter two: vice versa)

2002-09-05 Thread Wilmar Kortleever
Hallo all. Randy: thanks for looking this up! My problem is: I am not metrically challenged, but 'imperially'... With my college mathematics background I was convinced I should be able to reverse the formula used, but it proved a bit too much work in the first try (especially the 'rounding'

t-and-f: Re: metric converter (chapter two: vice versa)

2002-09-05 Thread koala
Caution- the basic assumption is that all of these marks were measured metrically, and tables or software tools like this 'converter' serve to convert to imperial using standard procedures and assumptions. It is not directly reversable mathematically, if all you have is an imperial mark which has

t-and-f: A couple of things

2002-09-05 Thread Ed Grant
Netters: Since the AL pennant race somehow got into the list, I pass along this story told me last night by a now-retired track coach from NJ: He weas addressing the faculty at his school and, to lighten things up, and as a die-hard Red Sox fan, offered this comparison