[USMA:36212] RE: Article in Australian Doctor

2006-03-08 Thread Stephen Davis
Saw your letter in the Daily Mirror a week or so back referring to metric signage in Britain, Philip. Good one :-) Sorry for the belated reply, though. I 've been away for a while. :-( Regards, Steve. [EMAIL PROTECTED] - Original Message - From: Philip S Hall [EMAIL PROTECTED] To:

[USMA:36213] Re: Metric vs. imperial comments from Australia

2006-03-08 Thread Pierre Abbat
On Tuesday 07 March 2006 22:31, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: This guy is a US citizen who moved to Australia and now lives in some rural area there. As I've said before, Congress only listens to the whiners like him and thinks they are representative, and therefore does idiot things like remove

[USMA:36214] Info on cruise ship

2006-03-08 Thread Jim Elwell
My wife and I just returned from a Caribbean cruise. The attached page is info on the ship we were on, which us engineers find pretty interesting. Just like train locomotives, the large diesel engines on these ships drive generators, which in turn power electric motors, to which are attached

[USMA:36217] more on sugar packets

2006-03-08 Thread Jim Elwell
I went to the web site on the sugar packet from the cruise ship (www.sugarstixflorida.com). You can buy 5 cases of custom packets (10,000 packets) for around $200. Anyone interested in going in on some Metric Sugar Packets? Sample attached (just a few quick ideas -- obviously we could not use

[USMA:36222] Highly skewed political cartoon

2006-03-08 Thread Scott Hudnall
Title: Highly skewed political cartoon This political cartoon is definitely skewed to the far left but it IS from the US and it USES METRIC ONLY. http://www.sfgate.com/chronicle/pictures/2006/03/08/030806-950x315-badreporter.gif -- Scott Hudnall

[USMA:36223] Re: one more food item

2006-03-08 Thread m. f. moon
I once wrote to Glide and suggested that they were a high tech company and should know that 50M wasn't 50 m and it should be changed. A more or less pleasant women said that when they changed the packaging that they would change the measurement to relfect best practice. I guess it worked as the

[USMA:36225] Another drop

2006-03-08 Thread Ezra Steinberg
Here's my latest effort in applying the Jim Frysinger philosophy ... drop by drop! Ezra - Original Message - From: Steinberg, LawrenceX E To: Singer, Neal Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, March 08, 2006 1:43 PM Subject: RE: Sandia's Z machine hot, hot, hot! Dear Neal: I