Hello Walter of Portland and Jason Darfus. I'm Gavin of Beaverton. It is nice to find someone in this message board who is in my area. Maybe we can get local action plan meetings started.
Regarding weather, I use the Yahoo website and have a weather report section. The weather page lets us customize the weather reports in metric, but only for the top half of the page (see http://weather.yahoo.com/forecast/USOR0030.html for an example). I've sent them a bug report about their site not converting the entire page to metric units, but they are in denial. Perhaps if you and other send similar reports, they will fully support metric weather reports. What do you say? Gavin Young Renewable Electricity Solutions Beaverton, OR USA ----- Original Message ----- From: "Jason Darfus" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "U.S. Metric Association" <[email protected]> Sent: Saturday, 26 February, 2005 20:58 Subject: [USMA:32291] Re: M-Day page > Saludos, Walter, y bienvenidos :-) > > It's good to have a public educator/speaker who is pro-metric and a > member of our group. We could use more like you. Anyone here thinking > about starting a new career as journalist or weather man? As an aside, > I wonder if any station manager or chief meteorologist would allow one > of their on-air personalities to use only SI. Just don't mention it > during the job interview. > > > On Feb 24, 2005, at 12:01, Walter Meier wrote: > > > By the way, allow me to introduce myself. I've been lurking on the > > list for many months now (years, if you count all the times in the > > past that I've subscribed), but haven't gotten around to posting > > anything until now. I've also been a USMA member on and off for many > > years. I teach a community education Spanish class at the local > > college, and use the culture and customs portion of the course as a > > pretext to give my students a primer on metric units. Just my little > > drop in the bucket... > > > > Greetings to all. > > > > Walter Meier > > Portland, Oregon > > > > ----- > Jason D. Darfus > Columbus.OH.US > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- ---- ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- ---- > > -- No virus found in this outgoing message. Checked by AVG Anti-Virus. Version: 7.0.300 / Virus Database: 266.5.1 - Release Date: 2005-02-27
