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 conce
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: http://www.ubr.
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 B
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
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 elsewhere.
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 intere
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
en
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 di
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 the
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 u
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 t
20/02/2002
2002/20/02
Alexei Pace
malta
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 oth
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
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) 1
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.
ent: 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
>
>
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 1661,17
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 1661,177
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
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
Th
Hi All,
Peter Tandy wrote:
> so-called 'straight-dates'. These are:
...
> 7/8/90
On this date occurred:
12:34:56 7/8/90
Bob
On 12/1/04 12:50 pm, "tony moss" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> 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.
In fact that too is just a screen; for what exactly, I haven't been
able to determine, nor has anyone else in most cases. Careful parsing
of the headers of all these junk mails -- copies of which by the way
should be sent (with headers) to the special UCE (Unsolicited
Commercial E-mail) data
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 spa
iagra merchants who
really home in on you.
John Smith
Tempus Fugit
Indigo Fugit
-Original Message-
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Sent: 12 January 2004 12:50
To: Sundial Mail List
Subject: Off topic....... but very brief!
Fellow Shadow Wat
oups.yahoo.com/group/webgnomonices
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http://groups.yahoo.com/group/igbulletin/
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http://groups.yahoo.com/group/meridiane/
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From: "John Smith" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To:
Sent: Tuesday, January 13, 2004 1:11 AM
Subject: RE: Off top
>> 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
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.
---
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 to
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 the sundials in the province of Limburg (Flanders) with
a
Bravo from America...thank you Tony!
Best,
Jim Tallman
www.spectrasundial.com
www.artisanindustrials.com
jtall...@artisanindustrials.com
Tony Moss wrote:
>Hi all,
> The List has been quiet of late so I hope you won't mind me sharing
> something which just 'blows me away.'
>
>Sound on
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
Sent: Fri, Jul 27, 2012 12:26 am
Hi all,
The List has been quiet of lat
: 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 the
Fellow shadow watchers,
No doubt the following is well known but it came
as a surprise to me.
While filling a watering can with a garden hosepipe adjusted to give a
powerful single jet* I have to PUSH the hose firmly into the can to
overcome the reaction from the water je
Tony et al.,
I've tried to duplicate the 'Moss Effect' using four different
nozzles, and buckets ranging from nominal 3 gallon (U.S.,
not Imperial) down to less than 1 gallon capacities. At no
time did I observe anything I could interpret as reversal of
the 'reaction effect.' All 4 nozzles we
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 w
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 choos
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 i
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 sid
I'm pretty sure his watch will need no adjustment, since it will indeed be
noon standard time when he emerges. This is because it is the relative
position of the sun which defines a standard hour, and not absolute
directions in space. The watch is correct.
For the second (if I understand th
Unless he's an Astronomer his watch will be running on Solar Time and so it
will be noon standard time and the sun will in the same place except for
the equation of time correction.
If, however, the watch is running on Sidereal Time, which only Astronomers
use, after six months he will be off 12
On Fri, 30 Jun 2000, Ross Caldwell wrote:
> For the second (if I understand the question correctly), it is the position
> of the International Date Line where days x and x+1 meet. It is
> theoretically possible to be standing with one foot in noon on sunday and
> the other in noon on saturday.
Sergio,
If I read your time period right (snip below) then it would indeed be
for a sidereal period, i.e., the period for the Earth to go through one
revolution. The solar day is slightly longer, i.e., the Earth turns
slightly more than one revolution to bring the Sun back to the meridian
Dave Bell wrote:Dave
> (Who missed Easter *twice* in 1999, flying to Russia on April 4th, and
> flying back home on the 11th - wiping out both Western and Orthodox
> Easters!)
You sinful, iniquitous worm. Repent. And be penitent. Next year have
it twice. Fly back and forth as needed but have i
Hi, all shadows watchers !
This is no spam, but just a little advertising !
I know a clockmaker who can send you Sidereal Time clock.
Just contact me private.
Alain MORY
48°N
7°E
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
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 performance
> 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 a
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
I don't think the Bernoulli effect can explain an attraction in this
geometry. I would look more at the friction from the water moving in the
powerful eddy the jet sets up in the bucket. If this is correct, then a
stick held in the center of the bucket near the hose should also be pulled
in, and o
Tony Moss wrote:
> Fellow shadow watchers,
>No doubt the following is well known but it came
> as a surprise to me.
> While filling a watering can with a garden hosepipe adjusted to give a
> powerful single jet* I have to PUSH the hose firmly into the can to
> overcome the
Tony,
A moving fluid has a lower pressure due to the Bernoulli effect. This
principle explains the operation of aspirators and the lift of airplanes. An
example of this (I understand) is that if you blow through the hole in the
center of a spool then a piece of paper placed at the end of the sp
Art Carlson contributed:
>
>I don't think the Bernoulli effect can explain an attraction in this
>geometry. I would look more at the friction from the water moving in the
>powerful eddy the jet sets up in the bucket. If this is correct, then a
>stick held in the center of the bucket near the hose
Fellow Shadow Watchers,
Anyone who attended the NASS Conference in Chicago
but missed seeing the Cloud Gate sculpture in Millennium Park can regain
a lttle of that amazing experience at:
http://www.chicagoarchitecture.info/ShowBuilding/233.php
When we first approached it
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