It wasn't until this past fall, after a trip to Canada, that I was finally able to tell how comfortable a certain temperature is when reported in celsius (and I'm in my late 60s). Their evening TV weather reports are presented using that system. I now know that the ideal temperature is between 20 and 30 degrees C, which translates to between 68 and 86 degrees F (just transpose the two fahrenheit numbers). ________________________________ From: daniel turner <outwest112@yahoo.com> To: Utah Astronomy <utah-astronomy@mailman.xmission.com> Sent: Thursday, December 5, 2013 11:58 AM Subject: Re: [Utah-astronomy] U.S. students fail to crack top 20 I feel the same way about adults who can't make the simple conversion from Universal Time to Mountain Daylight Time, especially if they consider themselves astronomers. I'm not a math wizard but I've made it a point to learn how to make important conversions in my head, like miles to kilometers, Fahrenheit to Celsius and UT to either MDT or MST. I didn't master these skills until I was in my 50's. We need to be careful when we grumble about "the kids these days". We may sound like grumpy old men. DT
________________________________ From: Bruce Hugo <bruce.hugo@yahoo.com> To: "utah-astronomy@mailman.xmission.com" <utah-astronomy@mailman.xmission.com> Sent: Thursday, December 5, 2013 8:37 AM Subject: Re: [Utah-astronomy] U.S. students fail to crack top 20
Back on Nov 22nd, I purchased dinner and it came to $6.03. I gave the cashier $10.05 and she says "oh shit!" and walks off, rummages around, rummages around and finally finds a calculator. She entered $10.00 in the register before I handed her the change so the register didn't tell her what change to give me. I started to say something but decided to let it ride... it took her 3 tries on the calculator to come up with the correct change to give me. Sad.
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