# Signature test, readeth not. . . **URL:** \ **Category:** About This Message Board\ **Created:** [April 8, 2002, 5:49am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/signature-test-readeth-not/102440 "2002-04-08T05:49:34Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Tripler](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/tripler/32/21807_2.png) [@Tripler](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tripler)\ **Post date:** [April 8, 2002, 5:49am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/signature-test-readeth-not/102440/1 "2002-04-08T05:49:34Z")
Sorry. Added a new part to my sig. Wanted to make sure it didn’t bust any unwritten rules. . . And yes, I took the one part from a Navy commercial. Tripler So sue me. ---
**Author:** ![Tripler](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/tripler/32/21807_2.png) [@Tripler](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tripler)\ **Post date:** [April 8, 2002, 5:50am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/signature-test-readeth-not/102440/2 "2002-04-08T05:50:41Z")
Damned timeouts. . . Tripler I still don’t know why I have to re-login every time. . . ---
**Author:** ![Tripler](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/tripler/32/21807_2.png) [@Tripler](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tripler)\ **Post date:** [April 8, 2002, 5:53am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/signature-test-readeth-not/102440/3 "2002-04-08T05:53:11Z")
SOB!! What a royal pain in the a\*\*!! Tripler No, I am not drinking tonight. :mad: ---
**Author:** ![Tripler](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/tripler/32/21807_2.png) [@Tripler](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tripler)\ **Post date:** [April 8, 2002, 5:57am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/signature-test-readeth-not/102440/4 "2002-04-08T05:57:49Z")
One. . . More . . . Time. . . Tripler I want to get this right. ---
**Author:** ![mnemosyne](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/c4cdca/32.png) [@mnemosyne](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/mnemosyne)\ **Post date:** [April 8, 2002, 1:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/signature-test-readeth-not/102440/5 "2002-04-08T13:39:15Z")
You know what I love about these sig test threads? I get to show up and read multiple posts by the same person, trying to get things right, and it always looks the same to me 🙂 That silly **Tripler** - can’t he see he spelt it right the first time…? 😃 Oh! Retroactive sig changes…LOL ---
**Author:** ![Loopus](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/loopus/32/15343_2.png) [@Loopus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Loopus)\ **Post date:** [April 8, 2002, 8:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/signature-test-readeth-not/102440/6 "2002-04-08T20:50:41Z")
I test my sig! ---
**Author:** ![Tripler](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/tripler/32/21807_2.png) [@Tripler](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tripler)\ **Post date:** [April 9, 2002, 3:11am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/signature-test-readeth-not/102440/7 "2002-04-09T03:11:30Z")
Oh man, a li’l love here. . . \*\* mnemosyne\*\*, I don’t know what the hell went wrong, but I previewed, and my user settings would clear the ‘show signature’ button. Dammit if I didn’t see anything in preview, so I figured it was whack. Tripler Seems to be working fine now, though . . . ---
**Author:** ![Derleth](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/b9e5f3/32.png) [@Derleth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Derleth)\ **Post date:** [April 9, 2002, 4:07am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/signature-test-readeth-not/102440/8 "2002-04-09T04:07:21Z")
**Tripler** , does that UTM stuff in your location mean anything? Could you explain it, please? 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![Tripler](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/tripler/32/21807_2.png) [@Tripler](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tripler)\ **Post date:** [April 10, 2002, 4:24am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/signature-test-readeth-not/102440/9 "2002-04-10T04:24:52Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Derleth \* > \*\ ***Tripler** , does that UTM stuff in your location mean anything? > > Could you explain it, please? 🙂 \*\* Sure! UTM stands for Universal Transverse Mercator. I’m an engineer, so I got some local surveying coordinates and worked 'em down. Those numbers are coordinates to more or less within 1/4 mile of my house. A little cooler than Lat/Long I think. 😃 Tripler Make sense? ---
**Author:** ![shelbo](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/3d9bf3/32.png) [@shelbo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/shelbo)\ **Post date:** [April 11, 2002, 6:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/signature-test-readeth-not/102440/10 "2002-04-11T18:06:58Z")
Just borrowing your testing zone. I hope you don’t mind! ---
**Author:** ![Tyrrell\_McAllister](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/tyrrell_mcallister/32/16772_2.png) [@Tyrrell\_McAllister](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tyrrell_McAllister)\ **Post date:** [April 12, 2002, 4:54am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/signature-test-readeth-not/102440/11 "2002-04-12T04:54:01Z")
Another sig test. ---
**Author:** ![Derleth](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/b9e5f3/32.png) [@Derleth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Derleth)\ **Post date:** [April 14, 2002, 7:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/signature-test-readeth-not/102440/12 "2002-04-14T19:49:45Z")
Well, this looks different. Thanks for the info, **Tripler**. Are there any good online places that will translate UTM numbers into Lat/Long? Maybe open-source software? I’m curious now… 😃 ---
**Author:** ![postcards](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/8e8cbc/32.png) [@postcards](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/postcards)\ **Post date:** [April 15, 2002, 9:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/signature-test-readeth-not/102440/13 "2002-04-15T21:59:10Z")
Beats starting a new thread just to check mine! ---
**Author:** ![postcards](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/8e8cbc/32.png) [@postcards](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/postcards)\ **Post date:** [April 15, 2002, 10:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/signature-test-readeth-not/102440/14 "2002-04-15T22:00:20Z")
Hmmmm… ---
**Author:** ![Tripler](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/tripler/32/21807_2.png) [@Tripler](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tripler)\ **Post date:** [April 19, 2002, 3:30am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/signature-test-readeth-not/102440/15 "2002-04-19T03:30:57Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Derleth \* > \*\*Well, this looks different. > > Thanks for the info, **Tripler**. Are there any good online places that will translate UTM numbers into Lat/Long? Maybe open-source software? I’m curious now… > > 😃 \*\* Nope, but [this li’l page](http://mac.usgs.gov/mac/isb/pubs/factsheets/fs07701.html) should explain things in detail. Basically, you find the zone (14), read your Easting from the ‘baseline’ of that zone. If the Easting has a 5 as the first digit in an odd-numbered string (as opposed to even), then just start counting from the central meridian. Northing is straight up from the Equator, minus a 10,000,000 ‘arbitrary’ value setting. Yeah, confusing as all hell, but it makes my math _soooooo_ much easier at times. And no, I don’t know of any commercial software that’ll give you a map. Tripler But if you can find my house, your grand prize will be a Miller Lite with _me_. ---
**Author:** ![Tripler](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/tripler/32/21807_2.png) [@Tripler](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tripler)\ **Post date:** [April 19, 2002, 3:44am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/signature-test-readeth-not/102440/16 "2002-04-19T03:44:07Z")
Damn. I got that all ass backwards. See how often I use it? But I did find a [link that’ll convert UTM to Lat/Lon](http://www.angelfire.com/geek/utmapplet/) . But you still have a little bit of an area to search. 😃 Tripler Grand Prize still stands. ---
**Author:** ![Raoul\_Anatherwan](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/7993a0/32.png) [@Raoul\_Anatherwan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Raoul_Anatherwan)\ **Post date:** [April 19, 2002, 1:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/signature-test-readeth-not/102440/17 "2002-04-19T13:10:46Z")
testing **Undertaker** ---
**Author:** ![yojimbo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/yojimbo/32/232_2.png) [@yojimbo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/yojimbo)\ **Post date:** [April 19, 2002, 4:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/signature-test-readeth-not/102440/18 "2002-04-19T16:37:12Z")
test ---
**Author:** ![Tripler](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/tripler/32/21807_2.png) [@Tripler](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tripler)\ **Post date:** [April 22, 2002, 10:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/signature-test-readeth-not/102440/19 "2002-04-22T22:37:48Z")
test Tripler I seem to be having posting difficulties. ---
**Author:** ![Bryan\_Ekers](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bryan_ekers/32/183_2.png) [@Bryan\_Ekers](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bryan_Ekers)\ **Post date:** [June 15, 2002, 1:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/signature-test-readeth-not/102440/20 "2002-06-15T13:24:07Z")
Just throwing in my own test. [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/signature-test-readeth-not/102440.md?page=2)