1. Really Abitrary Points
    Jack s recent mention of the Greenwich meridian reminded me of an idea I had a while back for another class of points - intersections of important lines of
    Jun 21, 2001 @ 12:24 - bjbutler@bjbsoftware.com (bjbutler@...)
  2. Re: [BoundaryPoint] Really Abitrary Points
    That is indeed an interesting thought Brian! There are already some people active! see: http://www.confluence.org/index.php Btw. In the city of Utrecht (the
    Jun 21, 2001 @ 13:47 - Harry ten Veen ("Harry ten Veen" <h.ten.veen@...>)
  3. Re: Really Abitrary Points
    Interesting about Utrecht time. In the US there was no standardization of time zones until railroad travel made it necessary. Generally each city had its own
    Jun 21, 2001 @ 15:01 - bjbutler@bjbsoftware.com (bjbutler@...)
  4. Re: Really Abitrary Points
    I just checked the Confluence web site at http://www.confluence.org/index.php Wow! That is exactly the idea I was thinking about. The only problem I have
    Jun 21, 2001 @ 15:07 - bjbutler@bjbsoftware.com (bjbutler@...)
  5. Re: [BoundaryPoint] Re: Really Abitrary Points
    I have some meridian links in my favorites collection. Maybe an idea for someone to make an website with all these kind of links ??? The French meridean:
    Jun 21, 2001 @ 19:00 - Harry ten Veen ("Harry ten Veen" <h.ten.veen@...>)
  6. Re: Really Abitrary Points
    Watersheds hav also interested me, especially watershed tri-points. These would be the points where a drop of rain would be split into three droplets destined
    Jun 21, 2001 @ 20:32 - bjbutler@bjbsoftware.com (bjbutler@...)
  7. Re: Really Abitrary Points
    Is anyone familiar with this site: http://terra.geo.orst.edu/users/tfdd/ ? In casu watersheds: http://terra.geo.orst.edu/users/tfdd/register/index.html . Peter
    Jun 21, 2001 @ 21:06 - Peter Smaardijk ("Peter Smaardijk" <smaardijk@...>)
  8. More Border Pictures
    I have just published a new border picture page on http://www.litauen-nytt.org/jan/borders.htm Jan
    Jun 21, 2001 @ 22:05 - Jan Krogh ("Jan Krogh" <jakro64@...>)
  9. RE: [BoundaryPoint] More Border Pictures
    Jan, great pictures!!! Dallen ... From: Jan Krogh [mailto:jakro64@yahoo.no] Sent: Thursday, June 21, 2001 3:06 PM To: BoundaryPoint@yahoogroups.com Subject:
    Jun 21, 2001 @ 22:12 - Dallen Timothy (Dallen Timothy <dtimothy@...>)
  10. Re: [BoundaryPoint] Re: Really Abitrary Points
    I have a 1941 National Geographic map of the Indian Ocean which shown local time zones in each country, not hours or half hour differences form Greenwish, but
    Jun 22, 2001 @ 00:13 - Brendan Whyte ("Brendan Whyte" <brwhyte@...>)
  11. RE: [BoundaryPoint] Re: Really Abitrary Points
    i found an article in my personal archives that would be of interest. i don t have a scanner available so below is the transcribed script. the article appeared
    Aug 09, 2001 @ 22:23 - Beckett, Bob ("Beckett, Bob" <Bob.Beckett@...>)
  12. Re: Really Abitrary Points
    ... 2001. Yeah, what was all that about? Those purists were never that pure if you ask me. We all know the argument - there was no year zero, so the start of
    Aug 09, 2001 @ 23:12 - Grant Hutchison ("Grant Hutchison" <granthutchison@...>)
  13. Re: Really Abitrary Points
    I happen to like the millenium to begin in 2000, but there is also the liguistic element to this argument. AD (anno domini) is, I think, a possesive (the
    Aug 10, 2001 @ 00:47 - bjbutler@bjbsoftware.com (bjbutler@...)
  14. Re: Really Abitrary Points
    ... is ... Sure - that s a perfectly good reason to celebrate a new millennium at the start of 2001. It s a logical interpretation of AD numbering. But a
    Aug 10, 2001 @ 17:19 - Grant Hutchison ("Grant Hutchison" <granthutchison@...>)
  15. Re: [BoundaryPoint] Re: Really Abitrary Points
    I have never understood this fascination about the year 0. That is illogical thinking. Look at your Thermometer. Yes there is a 0 where - and + meet. 0 is
    Aug 10, 2001 @ 17:43 - Emil Boasson (Emil Boasson <eb3@...>)
  16. Re: Really Abitrary Points
    Just getting ready for Y3K. BJB ... numbering. ... Year ... years ... wasn t.
    Aug 10, 2001 @ 20:48 - bjbutler@bjbsoftware.com (bjbutler@...)
  17. Re: Really Abitrary Points
    ... You, me, Arne Saknussen and a bottle of fine single malt (Scottish of course) at dkvnmx - date? Grant PS: 3000 or 3001?
    Aug 11, 2001 @ 00:29 - Grant Hutchison ("Grant Hutchison" <granthutchison@...>)
  18. Re: Really Abitrary Points
    Thousand year old scotch? You re on. BJB ... of
    Aug 11, 2001 @ 01:50 - bjbutler@bjbsoftware.com (bjbutler@...)
  19. Re: Really Abitrary Points
    ... the problem is that there really is such a thing as zero degrees but never was such a thing as the year zero in our calendar even retroactively & when
    Dec 07, 2001 @ 09:00 - acroorca2002 ("acroorca2002" <orc@...>)
  20. Re: [BoundaryPoint] Re: Really Abitrary Points
    ... I sometimes wonder why historians use BC rather than Roman years. If Tolkien characters can cope with having year 1 follow year 3021, we ought to be able
    Dec 07, 2001 @ 09:15 - Anton Sherwood (Anton Sherwood <bronto@...>)
  21. Re: Really Abitrary Points
    ... evidently for the same reason we dont normally switch for no reason from fahrenheit when above freezing to centigrade when below or vice versa to continue
    Dec 07, 2001 @ 10:50 - acroorca2002 ("acroorca2002" <orc@...>)
  22. Re: [BoundaryPoint] Re: Really Abitrary Points
    A date which will live in infamy?
    Dec 07, 2001 @ 11:34 - Bill Hanrahan ("Bill Hanrahan" <hanrahan@...>)
  23. Re: Really Abitrary Points
    since bp is so fortunate as to trace its astrological origin to the exactly opposite side of reality as infamy i guess that means our day will live in er
    Dec 07, 2001 @ 12:23 - acroorca2002 ("acroorca2002" <orc@...>)