tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1915875085991225575.post7956418945009150650..comments2024-02-07T22:52:15.919-07:00Comments on Partial Ellipsis of the Sun: A Blog for Scientists who like Words and Writers who like Science: Geologic Tools of the Trade: No Monkey Wrenches Here, Only Bruntonian MotionWord Womanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15491300694641304112noreply@blogger.comBlogger54125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1915875085991225575.post-10366249150480290832015-08-04T20:13:54.130-06:002015-08-04T20:13:54.130-06:00New post on "Mugo Pine and The Redheaded Pine...New post on "Mugo Pine and The Redheaded Pine Sawfly: Counting Pro-Legs and Looking for 'Crochets'" is now up.Word Womanhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15491300694641304112noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1915875085991225575.post-36130200074382838242015-08-04T06:56:30.073-06:002015-08-04T06:56:30.073-06:00That's Cosmos, the wonderful, colorful flower...That's <i>Cosmos</i>, the wonderful, colorful flower. . .You <i> can</i> see the whole cosmos in them, though. . .But, you knew that, right?Word Womanhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15491300694641304112noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1915875085991225575.post-42930523670110471262015-08-03T22:35:12.428-06:002015-08-03T22:35:12.428-06:00You've got the cosmos in your garden?
Why s...You've got the cosmos in your garden?<br /><br /><br /><br />Why should I be surprised?Paulhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11114786604125384958noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1915875085991225575.post-44954092403866478132015-08-03T22:10:16.224-06:002015-08-03T22:10:16.224-06:00No, but I do have a fairly large leftover slab jus...No, but I do have a fairly large leftover slab just sitting in my garden near the <i>Cosmos</i>. Maybe I ought to bring that in and place it under 2-3 pillows (it's likely pretty hard to sleep on, I'd think).Word Womanhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15491300694641304112noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1915875085991225575.post-23168216395284843882015-08-03T22:02:08.932-06:002015-08-03T22:02:08.932-06:00And yet you still haven't chipped out a chunk ...And yet you still haven't chipped out a chunk and <a href="http://www.healing-crystals-for-you.com/labradorite-crystal.html" rel="nofollow">placed it under your pillow at night</a>?<br />I guess there's no accounting for some people's priorities.Paulhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11114786604125384958noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1915875085991225575.post-49245987488655379182015-08-02T11:00:04.854-06:002015-08-02T11:00:04.854-06:00Cool. What did he zinc?Cool. What did he zinc?Word Womanhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15491300694641304112noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1915875085991225575.post-40999125578588315402015-08-02T10:57:47.702-06:002015-08-02T10:57:47.702-06:00Thanks to PEOTS and Oliver Sacks, I was able to ex...Thanks to PEOTS and Oliver Sacks, I was able to explain the bottle of zinc supplements that someone got my son for his birthday janhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05927176621372532733noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1915875085991225575.post-53172488495275202912015-08-01T18:53:56.397-06:002015-08-01T18:53:56.397-06:00Sintered compact surfaces, as you may know, are fa...Sintered compact surfaces, as you may know, are factory made slabs of clay, silica and feldspar which are subjected to high temps and pressure without melting. The building industry has been using these slabs in place of natural metamorphosed rock (marble, gneiss, etc). The beauty of natural slabs with unusual markings is not usually seen as the maufactured slabs tend to be more uniform. There is the benefit of not using up the natural rock and the fact that the slabs can be uniformly load-bearing at much thinner thicknesses. <br /><br />I like looking at the labradorite crystals in my blue-eyes granite countertops and seeing how different it is at various spots. It was also fairly expensive and needed to be much thicker.<br /><br />I could see places and times for the natural and the fabricated.<br /><br />How's that for sitting on the fence, Sinterella?Word Womanhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15491300694641304112noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1915875085991225575.post-26070248855358837342015-08-01T15:51:48.288-06:002015-08-01T15:51:48.288-06:00Quite true. Trust is an important part of teamwork...Quite true. Trust is an important part of teamwork. I have been known, on occasion, to equate sarcasm with wit or humour, and they truly aren't the same. If you replace sarcasm with wit (even biting wit?) or humour, the article works better for my own "teamability." How about you, fellow PEOTSers?<br /><br />Also, Paul, I am researching your "sintering compact surfaces" question over at Joe's Puzzleria! A potter friend and I were talking about this very topic, fossil fish, and kaolinite over Ethiopian coffee yesterday. I may both post places as it is PDI.<br />Word Womanhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15491300694641304112noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1915875085991225575.post-81073217089735077622015-08-01T14:46:12.197-06:002015-08-01T14:46:12.197-06:00So
sarcasm may be an effective tool
but
moral of t...So<br />sarcasm may be an effective tool<br />but<br />moral of the story<br />trust needs to be placed elsewhere<br />?<br />just an hypothesisPaulhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11114786604125384958noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1915875085991225575.post-24407248749746907662015-08-01T13:01:50.609-06:002015-08-01T13:01:50.609-06:00Just read the synopsis and am adding that one to m...Just read the synopsis and am adding that one to my list (wonder if Blaine has read it with Commander Roderick "Rod" Blaine) together with:<br /><br />"Cutting for Stone" by Abraham Verghese<br /><br />"When the World Calls: The Inside Story of the Peace Corps and Its First Fifty Years" by Stanley Meisler<br /><br />"Notes From the Hyena's Belly" by Nega Mezlekia.<br /><br />Any other good recommendations for this brand new moñth?<br /><br />Word Womanhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15491300694641304112noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1915875085991225575.post-76981069608004798392015-08-01T09:17:09.824-06:002015-08-01T09:17:09.824-06:00Or an alternate term for Moties, the aliens in The...Or an alternate term for Moties, the aliens in <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Mote_in_God%27s_Eye" rel="nofollow"><i>The Mote in God's Eye</i></a>janhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05927176621372532733noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1915875085991225575.post-26354456645283194682015-08-01T07:57:55.769-06:002015-08-01T07:57:55.769-06:00Alternate definitions for Moter:
1. One who trie...Alternate definitions for Moter: <br /><br />1. One who tries to get across a moat <br /><br />2. One who shows emotions in real life, rather than online (as in e-moter) <br /><br />3. A place to stay overnight where the top of the 'L" was shot off and a little piece of rust formed to the right of the top of said letterWord Womanhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15491300694641304112noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1915875085991225575.post-35714089317438812942015-07-31T17:54:06.621-06:002015-07-31T17:54:06.621-06:00Sarcasm is good for creativity. . .but we already ...<a href="http://www.realsimple.com/work-life/life-strategies/inspiration-motivation/sarcasm-increases-creativity" rel="nofollow">Sarcasm is good for creativity. . .but we already knew that, right?</a>Word Womanhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15491300694641304112noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1915875085991225575.post-27181837944099835262015-07-31T15:13:06.541-06:002015-07-31T15:13:06.541-06:00Motor!
motor: a machine, especially one powered b...Motor!<br /><br />motor: a machine, especially one powered by electricity or internal combustion, that supplies motive power for a vehicle or for some other device with moving parts.<br /><br />moter: one who makes molehills out of mountains<br /><br />Lego:OneWhoMakesTypograficalErrorsAndOtherBlonderslegolambdahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/18081014756741740081noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1915875085991225575.post-91129612102594238962015-07-31T14:20:15.195-06:002015-07-31T14:20:15.195-06:00Good to learn about Oughtred and the slide rule, L...Good to learn about Oughtred and the slide rule, Lego.<br /><br />Looking forward to pitcher perfect photos and/or recreations soon either here or at Puzzleria!Word Womanhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15491300694641304112noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1915875085991225575.post-75455296209597085702015-07-31T09:32:40.985-06:002015-07-31T09:32:40.985-06:00Puzzleria! is uploaded. Four fresh puzzles plus on...Puzzleria! is uploaded. Four fresh puzzles plus one easily digestible puzzle appetizer.<br /><br />‘Tis a shame that the slide rule was not named for someone, like Estwick or Brunton, even though it is now pretty much a mechanical dodo that most people don’tdon’t use anymore. According to this <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Slide_rule" rel="nofollow">Wikipedia account</a>, a slide rule might have been called a “Napier rapier” or perhaps an “Oughtred reckoner.”<br /><br />As for my band saw pitching machine, alas no record of it exists. If we took a photo, it has probably bit the dusts of time. 8-millimeter movie film? Possible, but not likely. I built in in the spring of 1969, as a high school senior. I used it that summer and the summer of 1970. I also build a backstop in our back yard and spent countless solitary hours facing it down, man versus manmade machine.<br /><br />By the summer of ’71 I had stopped using my mechanical nemesis, my heart no longer in it. Until then I harbored youthful illusions that I would someday become a major league baseball player. When I tried out for my small college baseball team in the spring of 1970, but did not make the cut, I imagined Harry Carey, Vin Scully or some other radio play-by-play man saying at some future ballgame, “Can you believe that Joseph Young, this phenom and Triple Crown candidate, was actually cut from his college freshman team?!” When I didn’t make the team as a sophomore in 1971, I stubbornly but finally realized that my baseball future was not in the Cards… or Mets, Yanks, Phils, A’s or Sox, Red or White. My pitching machine sat silent and still. Cobwebs formed. Salvage loomed.<br /><br />Perhaps in next week’s Puzzleria! (where I can post pictures) I will try to recreate the parts and cobble together a pictorial facsimile of the machine. I’ve Duck Duck Googled a photo of the old band saw I used, including the moter, which I had to “gear down.” Other parts were mostly metal: pulley wheels (w/ black rubber pulley belts) and axles, springs, a piece of slotted angle iron (seemingly from Paul Bunyan’s erector set) that served as the pitching arm, and a section of bicycle fender (the pitching hand). The heart of the machine was a ball bearing that was attached near the base of the arm and served as the machine’s fulcrum; I bought it for $5 at a machine shop in Eau Claire.<br /><br />I called my brother, Mike, last night to pick his memory about what I built back in 1969. Mike is the real mechanic in our family, and has the tools to prove it… including, as it happens, a spare band saw. So I hit upon a crazy idea: relive 1969 and recreate my pitching machine! Heck, I did it once.<br /><br />LegoPerhapsI’llEvenMakeAnotherRunAtTheMajors <br />legolambdahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/18081014756741740081noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1915875085991225575.post-59157061324954186752015-07-31T08:42:10.739-06:002015-07-31T08:42:10.739-06:00Two Estwings ;-).
Gorgeous white bird images, Leg...Two Estwings ;-).<br /><br />Gorgeous white bird images, Lego!Word Womanhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15491300694641304112noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1915875085991225575.post-79422945197208256812015-07-31T08:19:54.907-06:002015-07-31T08:19:54.907-06:00jan,
I now regret saying an egret resembles an Est...jan,<br />I now regret saying an egret resembles an Estwing rock hammer, after viewing your and Steph's Ivory Billed Woodpecker links. In any event, the rock hammer resembles a creature with two Estwings.<br /><br />LegoAll<a href="http://birdfreak.com/top-10-white-birds/" rel="nofollow">WhiteBirds</a>&WhiteBirdHousesHaveAWestWingAndEstwinglegolambdahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/18081014756741740081noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1915875085991225575.post-67650279243336980872015-07-31T07:37:44.593-06:002015-07-31T07:37:44.593-06:00Where do you keep your slide rule?
My Brunton an...Where do you keep your slide rule? <br /><br />My Brunton and rock hammer are always handy in my car though I don't use them as often now.Word Womanhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15491300694641304112noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1915875085991225575.post-16955219867934525802015-07-31T07:34:16.518-06:002015-07-31T07:34:16.518-06:00Yes, thankfully, for both. Thanks, Paul!Yes, thankfully, for both. Thanks, Paul!Word Womanhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15491300694641304112noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1915875085991225575.post-5750034792075599952015-07-31T04:33:34.933-06:002015-07-31T04:33:34.933-06:00Have, yes. Use, no.Have, yes. Use, no.Davidhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03267575912220886002noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1915875085991225575.post-84032718181910238232015-07-30T21:06:37.763-06:002015-07-30T21:06:37.763-06:00On another end of the spectrum ...On <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mPS1TFE0500" rel="nofollow">another</a> end of the spectrum ...Paulhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11114786604125384958noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1915875085991225575.post-58480449102777049482015-07-30T20:37:29.100-06:002015-07-30T20:37:29.100-06:00And, thankfully, it's everywhere.And, thankfully, it's <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Vi2TIV3rYzc" rel="nofollow">everywhere</a>.Paulhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11114786604125384958noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1915875085991225575.post-30416858544103084742015-07-30T20:17:04.259-06:002015-07-30T20:17:04.259-06:00Huh. Infraviolet. What a day. What a fuchsia kinda...Huh. Infraviolet. What a day. What a fuchsia kinda day. Plane sight, Paul? Plain cite. Plane Cite. Always more to learn (thankfully).Word Womanhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15491300694641304112noreply@blogger.com