Best E-mails of the Week 07/18/04.   

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Math Equivalents you need to know...

 
1. Ratio of an igloo's circumference to its
diameter = Eskimo Pi
 
2. 2000 pounds of Chinese soup = 1 Won ton
 
3. 1 millionth of a mouthwash = 1 microscope
 
4. Time between slipping on a peel and smacking
the pavement = 1 bananosecond
 
5. Weight an evangelist carries with God = 1 billigram
 
6. Time it takes to sail 220 yards at 1 nautical mile
per hour = Knotfurlong
 
7. 365.25 days of drinking lowcalorie beer because
it's less filling = 1lite year
 
8. 16.5 feet in the Twilight Zone = 1 Rod Serling
 
9. Half of a large intestine = 1 semicolon
 
10. 1,000,000 aches = 1 megahurtz
 
11. Basic unit of laryngitis = 1 hoarsepower
 
12. Shortest distance between two
jokes = A straight line (think about it for a moment)
 
13. 453.6 graham crackers = 1 pound cake
 
14. 1 million microphones = 1 megaphone
 
15. 1 million bicycles = 2 megacycles
 
16. 365.25 days = 1 unicycle
 
17. 2000 mockingbirds = two kilomockingbirds
(work on it . .)
 
18. 10 cards = 1 decacards
 
19. 1 kilogram of falling figs = 1 Fig Newton
 
20. 1000 grams of wet socks = 1 literhosen
 
21. 1 millionth of a fish = 1 microfiche
 
22. 1 trillion pins = 1 terrapin
 
23. 10 rations = 1 decaration
 
24. 100 rations = 1 C-ration
 
25. 2 monograms = 1 diagram
 
26. 8 nickels = 2 paradigms
 
27. 2.4 statute miles of intravenous surgical
tubing at Yale University Hospital = 1 I.V. League

 

Pete, .......

We will be in the NJ section of the NY Times next Sunday. Feature article on
how campers communicate with their parents in the high tech age.  Times
called Chris' camp to ask and the director who I know fairly well said I was
perfect person to compare old way vs new way.  New way is internet posting
of pictures of kid by camp and e-mail.  James even sent home a cell phone
picture which he used to e-mail the picture to us. (I will send it to you in
another e-mail.)  NY Times photographer was here today and literally must
have taken 100's of pictures (on digital camera) of our computer (with
pictures from camp web site and me and Alice.   Jim

 

 

 


 

Congratulations James!  We'll look for you next week in the Times!

 

 

A little more Burr and then it's over I swear!

Here's a picture with my name that my sister Joanne found on

a newspaper web site and sent me.

Antonio Burr (C), a descendant of Aaron Burr's cousin, is rowed to shore as Peter ______(2nd-L) looks on during a reenactment marking the 200th anniversary of the Alexander Hamilton - Aaron Burr duel in Weehawken, New Jersey. The historic July 11, 1804 duel left founding father Hamilton mortally wounded and vice president Burr's reputation ruined.
(Getty Images)

July 11, 2004
 

Here is my cousin Carl dressed as Alexander Hamilton, and me as Aaron Burr,

giving a presentation to 55 people at our local library.

 

 

Later, in front of our town museum, we fired off the pistols just like last week

in a follow up Duel reenactment, and moment of silence tribute.

 

 

Good Morning, Peter,
    I am sure that Ann Marie will extend our thanks to you, Carl and his
daughters on behalf of the library, but I just wanted to let you know how
well your re creation and adaptation of the Burr-Hamilton Duel was received
by those who attended. Every comment I heard was positive. People loved the
costumes, the dramatic presentation and learning about an historical figure
who is both connected with our town and yet shrouded by the misinformation
of history. Many asked when we would be doing something like this in the
future and I had several requests for copies of the passage on the statue of
King George being converted to ammunition. It was by far the best attended
adult program we've had in a long time!

Congratulations,
Ellen

 

You are welcome Ellen!

 

This is the end of full time Burr work for me now.

( Except that a museum in another state has asked me to play Burr at their conference next fall.

And I am happy to oblige! )

Pete   

 

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