Speaking of "getting there"... Yesterday afternoon I was driving from the Olympic Village to the Peaks Ice Arena in Provo. One of the multitude of huge electronic highway signs (which were installed over the past several years) read: "Peaks Ice Arena Use Exit 275 26 mi / 39 km" I am not quite confident on why they got this conversion (for heaven's sake, 26 miles is almost a marathon distance). Yet, this is the first use of SI on Utah highways I have ever seen. Too bad, it is probably the last one for me. And I won't see any again not just in Utah, but until we move to Canada.
Cheers, Nikolay -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] On Behalf Of James Frysinger Sent: Wednesday, 13 February 2002 18.49 To: U.S. Metric Association Subject: [USMA:18199] Metric weather in Charleston and hair in India I've been swapping email with the weatherman on my favorite TV station down here in Charleston for the last several days on the subject of using metric units in the weather forecasts. I won't labor you all with the details, but he's starting to put some bits in here and there. Tonight he included temperatures in Celsius in tonight's Olympic forecast for the Salt Lake City area. I reminded him that the positioning of the space was not as most people had grown accustomed to seeing and complimented him on his progress. He has just replied: "Thanks Jim.....I will see if we can't fix that. I need to talk to our guy who types in the data....I do have to admit that using the metric seems more natural every day.." Last Saturday, my favorite local columnist included a news item about a man in India who has just been added to the Guiness Book of Records for having the longest ear hair. She checked with me the day before on her conversion from centimeters to inches, but nothing needed changing. (Must have been that metric training session I gave her a couple of years ago, and which I reported here.) So, she wrote that the hair measured "... 10.2 centimeters (four inches)." I was pleased that she didn't convert this to inches and drop the metric measurement, which was the info that she had been given. Getting there.... Jim -- James R. Frysinger University/College of Charleston 10 Captiva Row Dept. of Physics and Astronomy Charleston, SC 29407 66 George Street 843.225.0805 Charleston, SC 29424 http://www.cofc.edu/~frysingj [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cert. Adv. Metrication Specialist 843.953.7644
