Archive for August, 2008
Q’s going to the Olympic Games …
We watched the opening ceremony for the Olympic Games in this 08-08-08 edition in Beijing - spectacular, as I’m sure you’ve all seen … we missed the start (there will be many opportunities later; this exhibition must have been canned in every medium available and i’m sure we’ll see many replays).
Then I recalled this handy reference to the antipodes, in Wikipedia - and collected this map. It appears that from here, central Argentina (31.95 South, 64.56 West *) we are exactly at the opposite side of the planet. So: digging straight down, through the core get us within a few miles of the Stadium - with some correction, our tunnel could emerge within the boundary and save us the cost of the entrance tickets - I suppose there are tickets, and that they must be pretty well sold out by now. The hole will have to be a mere 12, 742 kilometers … ah - deep? High? Both? Across! Not too bad. I will start digging presently - meanwhile, enjoy The Games.
Q
*Latitude and Longitude coordinates have been slightly modified: they actually belong to an obnoxious neighbor, so if any of you have a cruise missile handy … but please advise ETA as I’d hate to miss the fireworks - if I’m not too far down on my way to China
August - for us, last month of winter
Taking stock as winter ends for us, in Argentina:
My little e-book ha done well, and so has my association with Holly Lisle’s affiliate program - thanks to her, I began this Internet adventure. The whole series, “33 Worst Mistakes Writers Make About…” is at the Shop Page, in this journal
As a netwit, I’ve found the whole Internet adventure slower than I’d expected.
My main website www.byknight.com has gone through several transformations as I’ve been climbing the learning curve: it began with Kompozer, an excellent (free) editing software, with some limitations. I dug into our reserve funds and got properly set up (I hope), with Dreamweaver, Photoshop and Acrobat Pro … the good people at Adobe are a little richer - though I doubt they’ve noticed - and we have become considerable poorer (which we have!) … so BYKNIGHT should be out there before the end of August.
Writing - a good job with a printing and publishing contact, covering for the Drupa Exhibition in Düsseldorf, a long story (part of it sketched in my other web log, Mostly by Knight … a dull read for non specialists but intriguing; the story of publishing from the Lascaux Cave Paintings all the way to high speed digital printing (which just may be the future, and just may change the way books are published).
Sunday Morning and time to go and ring the bells at Mrs. Q’s church - so more of this later
Q
We watched the opening ceremony for the Olympic Games in this 08-08-08 edition in Beijing - spectacular, as I’m sure you’ve all seen … we missed the start (there will be many opportunities later; this exhibition must have been canned in every medium available and i’m sure we’ll see many replays).
Then I recalled this handy reference to the antipodes, in Wikipedia - and collected this map. It appears that from here, central Argentina (31.95 South, 64.56 West *) we are exactly at the opposite side of the planet. So: digging straight down, through the core get us within a few miles of the Stadium - with some correction, our tunnel could emerge within the boundary and save us the cost of the entrance tickets - I suppose there are tickets, and that they must be pretty well sold out by now. The hole will have to be a mere 12, 742 kilometers … ah - deep? High? Both? Across! Not too bad. I will start digging presently - meanwhile, enjoy The Games.
Q
*Latitude and Longitude coordinates have been slightly modified: they actually belong to an obnoxious neighbor, so if any of you have a cruise missile handy … but please advise ETA as I’d hate to miss the fireworks - if I’m not too far down on my way to China
Taking stock as winter ends for us, in Argentina:
My little e-book ha done well, and so has my association with Holly Lisle’s affiliate program - thanks to her, I began this Internet adventure. The whole series, “33 Worst Mistakes Writers Make About…” is at the Shop Page, in this journal
As a netwit, I’ve found the whole Internet adventure slower than I’d expected.
My main website www.byknight.com has gone through several transformations as I’ve been climbing the learning curve: it began with Kompozer, an excellent (free) editing software, with some limitations. I dug into our reserve funds and got properly set up (I hope), with Dreamweaver, Photoshop and Acrobat Pro … the good people at Adobe are a little richer - though I doubt they’ve noticed - and we have become considerable poorer (which we have!) … so BYKNIGHT should be out there before the end of August.
Writing - a good job with a printing and publishing contact, covering for the Drupa Exhibition in Düsseldorf, a long story (part of it sketched in my other web log, Mostly by Knight … a dull read for non specialists but intriguing; the story of publishing from the Lascaux Cave Paintings all the way to high speed digital printing (which just may be the future, and just may change the way books are published).
Sunday Morning and time to go and ring the bells at Mrs. Q’s church - so more of this later
Q
