[MacGroup] 2 Steve Jobs stories today

2009-01-05 Thread Jeff @ SLYN Systems
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20090105/ap_on_bi_ge/apple_jobs_health and http://www.time.com/time/business/article/0,8599,1869499,00.html Jeff Slyn, Owner SLYN Systems & Peripherals (502) 426-5469 a new & improved http://www.SLYNsystems.com in process serving Kentuckiana clients 7 days a we

Re: [MacGroup] 2 Steve Jobs stories today

2009-01-05 Thread Stuart Ungar
Very cool. Thanks Jeff! Stuart --- On Mon, 1/5/09, Jeff @ SLYN Systems wrote: > From: Jeff @ SLYN Systems > Subject: [MacGroup] 2 Steve Jobs stories today > To: macgroup@erdos.math.louisville.edu > Date: Monday, January 5, 2009, 12:28 PM > http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20090

[MacGroup] Time Zone (Was Re; typos)

2009-01-05 Thread Robert Kersting
Louisville used to be on Central time. In fact, along with a lot of other Louisville natives on here, I was born at 7:28 CST. I'm not sure when it changed, but that's what caused the "bulge." I would imagine it had something to do with being on the same time as Frankfort, but what do I know. It ca

Re: [MacGroup] Time Zone (Was Re; typos)

2009-01-05 Thread John Stone
I always heard it was a concession to get GE to build Appliance Park here, as GE wanted it on the same time zone as the HQ John On Mon, Jan 5, 2009 at 2:28 PM, Robert Kersting wrote: > Louisville used to be on Central time. In fact, along with a lot of > other Louisville natives on here, I w

Re: [MacGroup] metric and fractions

2009-01-05 Thread Neal Hammon
Marta: Read back. The old circle has 360 degrees, So the earth is divided into 360 slices of mellon, and it takes the earth one whole day to make the circle, so it takes 24 hours, which means that ever hour the celestial noon moves 360/24= 15 degrees. Since one degree is 60 nautical mile

Re: [MacGroup] Time Zone

2009-01-05 Thread Neal Hammon
Robert: I recall when we were on Central time, and Lexington was on Eastern time. That lasted more or less until 1950. When I graduated from college in 1948, I started working as a young architect for my father in Louisville, but we had jobs in eastern and western Kentucky, and some in Ind

Re: [MacGroup] metric and fractions

2009-01-05 Thread Lee Larson
On Jan 5, 2009, at 2:53 PM, Neal Hammon wrote: So guess what, with 4.1666, you are back to fractions again, and so using the metric system has not [sic] helped you one bit! Few of us regularly navigate over any distance where we'd have to worry about the miles/kilometers issue. Let's see ho

Re: [MacGroup] Time Zone

2009-01-05 Thread Nelsn Helm
I believe the Louisville Chamber of Commerce pushed for EST, wanting to be on the same time as the eastern seaboard. It roughly coincided with GE & Appliance Park, so that may relate, too. ___ The next Louisville Computer Society meeting will be Januar

Re: [MacGroup] metric and fractions

2009-01-05 Thread Neal Hammon
Lee: Lee, you are certainly correct, but I can see you have never done any surveying. No survey that I ever heard about had a boundary using yards. If you check the Kentucky Department of State, you will find that the first 30,000 surveys made in Kentucky used the measurement of poles and

Re: [MacGroup] Time Zone

2009-01-05 Thread macgroomer
>Robert: > >I recall when we were on Central time, and Lexington was on Eastern >time. That lasted more or less until 1950. >Neal Hammon I started school in 1959. I remember we were still on Central time then, but it wasn't much later that the change came. -- Mary Anne from Mount Eden, KY _