new update on the Schmoyer sundial
My dear fellow dialists Since I last posted on this subject, Laurel Browning has received a check from Harris Morrison toward the cost of replacing the lost gnomon pattern for the Schmoyer sundial (Sunquest sundial). The original pattern makers are now at work on a new pattern and will be making a small initial production run of casting sets for the sundial. I will be working with Laurel to make complete sundial kits available before the end of Summer, if all goes according to plan. I am not yet able to quote a price for the kit or a hard and fast delivery time so this post may be a little bit premature. It is prompted, in part, by a request from Mr. Morrison to inform any interested parties that he has shown good faith in providing funds for replacement of the pattern which was lost while in his company's possession. Though I am not aware of any specific communications which he may have received about this matter, I believe that he has been getting some heat from members of this list or from others who had heard about the problem of the lost gnomon pattern. Thanks to any and all who have provided help in getting us to this point! I will post again as soon as I am able give concrete information about the availability of new sundial kits. happy regards Dave Gagnon
Re: New NASS Pages on the World Wide Web
Dear Friends, The North American Sundial Society is pleased to announce its new domain and Home Page on the World Wide Web. [...] The URL is: http://sundials.org Best regards, Bob Terwilliger I was struck by the lighted flat map of the world on the page, http://www.spiritweb.org/cgi/sunclock.cgi?width=300height=150usemapframe. it's a URL I can send to friends so they can see that (instead of having to get them to compile one of the programs I have that will accomplish the same). So I started creeping along the URL to see whether there was anything else of interest, and I found a calendar with moon phases http://www.spiritweb.org/cgi/mooncalendar.cgi Unfortunately, the phase display has little correspondence with the actual appearance of the moon at its various phases (they are more like eclipses if the earth's shadow were approximately the same size as the moon). These astrologers really crack me up. Their charts are off by a month because of precession, and the moon they display here has little relation to the actual moon. Jim === If astrology worked, all astrologers would be rich.
A couple of items on the web concerning the sun
http://www.foxnews.com/js_index.sml?content=/etcetera/wires/0622/e_rt_0622_2.sml World's Largest Sundial - But No Sun Reuters 8:36 a.m. ET (1237 GMT) June 22, 1999 PARIS - France inaugurated the world's largest sundial Monday, using an ancient Egyptian obelisk as the pin and Paris's famed Place de la Concorde as the dial. The trouble was that the relentless traffic made it hard to follow the time lines, the same traffic made Paris Mayor Jean Tiberi 45 minutes late for the unveiling ceremony - and the sun did not shine. [...] http://www.foxnews.com/js_index.sml?content=/etcetera/wires/0621/e_rt_0621_10.sml Summer Solstice Clash At Stonehenge Reuters 9:10 a.m. ET (1406 GMT) June 21, 1999 LONDON - New Age travelers invaded Stonehenge Monday, spoiling Summer Solstice celebrations before British riot police moved in to clear the ancient stone circle and arrested 22 people. Under cover of darkness, hundreds of travelers stormed through the fence surrounding the prehistoric monument and police in riot gear, backed by dogs and horses, responded by evicting some 1,000 people from the site. They literally trampled down the fence and ran into the stones, jumping over them, sitting on top, hurling all sorts of objects at police,'' said a spokeswoman for Wiltshire police in southwest England. They were throwing all kinds of things and we believe there has been some damage to the stones themselves,'' she said. There is a history of violent clashes between police and New Age travelers, whose alternative lifestyle often leads to mass congregations at summer festivals, ecological protests and anti-authority demonstrations. [...] Jim --- -- | Jim Cobb | 540 Arapeen Dr. #100 | [EMAIL PROTECTED] | | Parametric| Salt Lake City, UT | (801)-588-4632 | | Technology Corp. | 84108-1202 | Fax (801)-588-4650 | --- -- Have more than thou showest, Speak less than thou knowest. -- Shakespeare
Re: New NASS Pages on the World Wide Web
Robert Terwilliger [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Dear Friends, The North American Sundial Society is pleased to announce its new domain and Home Page on the World Wide Web. We are releasing the URL to members of The Sundial Mailing List so they can get a preview. Please visit the site and send any comments or corrections to the Webmaster from the site. [...] The URL is: http://sundials.org Best regards, Bob Terwilliger My congratulations on an excellent site. The immediate appearance is of a site with a very polished and finished look. It's clear I'll have to spend some time visiting the various links. I had never seen the shadow sculptures before; they are amazing... Jim === The hardest thing in the world to understand is the income tax. -- A. Einstein
Re: New NASS Pages on the World Wide Web
Robert, I like the NASS website. The world map with night shown as grey (note the correct spelling!) is BRILLIANT. Very elegant. Took me a few minutes to realise what it was showing, but it rerally is very nicely conceived and executed. Of course, the website is a conspiracy to transfer funds from anywhere in the world to the US to boost the ailing economy of the US! I will have to talk with my sister-in-law about a cheque on her US bank to send to you for a whole bunch of goodies and membership. Regards, John Dr John Pickard Senior Lecturer, Environmental Planning Graduate School of the Environment Macquarie University, NSW 2109 Australia Phone + 61 2 9850 7981 (work) + 61 2 9482 8647 (home) Fax + 61 2 9850 7972 (work)
Solstice sunrise
Thank you everyone for the interest you've shown in my photos. To save clogging up mailboxes, I have published them on a (hastily put together!) web page. If you would like these photos, please feel free to download them at www.jonurwin.dircon.co.uk/sunrise. I have put thumbnail pics on the first page, but I'm afraid it may still be a slow page to load. PS I'll buy a pint of beer to the first person who can create a reasonable animated gif out of these photos...because I know I can't! Best regards Jon Urwin
Millenium solstice mixup
Fellow diallists I stand corrected! Of course, there is at least one more Summer Solstice of this Milennium, according to your hemisphere and definition of Milennium. My apologies to everyone. Oh, and a pint of beer goes to Richard Langley for being the first to produce an animation of the sunrise in QuickTime format, which I am putting on my website ( www.jonurwin.dircon.co.uk/sunrise ) Best regards Jon Urwin
New NASS Pages on the World Wide Web
Dear Friends, The North American Sundial Society is pleased to announce its new domain and Home Page on the World Wide Web. We are releasing the URL to members of The Sundial Mailing List so they can get a preview. Please visit the site and send any comments or corrections to the Webmaster from the site. NASS would like to encourage anyone and everyone to contribute. Features, graphics, new pages or ideas - what have you?. If you are a NASS member with Web skills and would like to contribute, or just be involved, please also message the Webmaster from the site. Membership involvement in the pages is an important goal. The page includes a list of links to other pages on the Web. These links were derived from Daniel Roth's sundial links page with his permission and encouragement. Thank you again Daniel for your continued contributions to the Internet dialing community. The links are categorized. If you have a sundial page, please check for your URL. If your page, or a sundial page you know about, is not included, we would like to hear about it. Things to come include a 'Message Board' where any visitor can post a question or comment, and later visitors can respond. The URL is: http://sundials.org Best regards, Bob Terwilliger
Re: New NASS Pages on the World Wide Web
Bob, Great job. I especially like your treatment of the NASS logo. As shown, it would make a nice piece of jewelry. ++ron -Original Message- From: Robert Terwilliger [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Sundial Mailing List sundial@rrz.uni-koeln.de Date: Tuesday, June 22, 1999 9:57 AM Subject: New NASS Pages on the World Wide Web Dear Friends, The North American Sundial Society is pleased to announce its new domain and Home Page on the World Wide Web. We are releasing the URL to members of The Sundial Mailing List so they can get a preview. Please visit the site and send any comments or corrections to the Webmaster from the site. NASS would like to encourage anyone and everyone to contribute. Features, graphics, new pages or ideas - what have you?. If you are a NASS member with Web skills and would like to contribute, or just be involved, please also message the Webmaster from the site. Membership involvement in the pages is an important goal. The page includes a list of links to other pages on the Web. These links were derived from Daniel Roth's sundial links page with his permission and encouragement. Thank you again Daniel for your continued contributions to the Internet dialing community. The links are categorized. If you have a sundial page, please check for your URL. If your page, or a sundial page you know about, is not included, we would like to hear about it. Things to come include a 'Message Board' where any visitor can post a question or comment, and later visitors can respond. The URL is: http://sundials.org Best regards, Bob Terwilliger
Re: sundial bracelet
Which reminds me of Alexander's affliction: Lack of a second hand so he couldn't take Aristotle's minutes. *Groan* Sol Invictus: Traditionally tonight is a time of delightful frivolity. Greg Lambertson wrote: This reminds me of Aristotle's experiments with wine-soaked cloth, which gradually changes color when exposed to sunlight. He tied such cloth to his student Alexander's wrist, for use in determining the passage of time. It became known as Alexander's Rag Time-Band. ;-)
