The first 12 years of the millenium are interesting in that each month has
its turn in subsequent years
01/01/01
02/02/02
03/03/03
04/04/04
05/05/05
06/06/06
07/07/07
08/08/08
09/09/09
10/10/10
11/11/11
12/12/12
dialllist
Anselmo,
You are of course perfectly correct. But we rarely
find pine cones in Australian forests (other than in pine plantations which are
not terribly interesting places).
What about a GPS? Tells me my position, the time,
and it has a built-in almanac that tells me the time of sunset in
Folks,
Having just sent my tongue-in-cheek reply to
Anselmo, I should get back on-topic.
I have never seen any mention on the List of a
sundial watch I bought in Arizona in 1985 for $US 6.00.
It is made byFossil, a US maker of 1950s and
1960s memorabilia, and "collectible" watches. The
Huh, sundials ?!My watch tells
thetime more accurately
and it's much cheaper. What a waste of time
and effort!
I come across
this attitude all the time.
I was giving a
talk on sundials to a Rotary club recently, and this seemed to be the general
feeling among the audience.
So I asked
Many years ago (presumably in 1967, as we shall see..), as a schoolboy, I
seem to remember hearing on the BBC 'Today' breakfast programme, about
so-called 'straight-dates'. These are:
1/2/34
2/3/45
3/4/56
4/5/67
5/6/78
6/7/89
7/8/90
at which point the series seems to end unles we go to 8/9/01
Folks,
My apologies, the correct URL for Cabela's
is:
www.cabelas.com
Cheers, John
"Far better an approximate answer to the right
question which may be difficult to frame,than an exact answer to the wrong
question which is always easy to ask"John W Tukey,
statistician
Well said! (Pace all white-ball devotees.)
John
- Original Message
They should just pick up the ball and put it in the hole.
Much more accurate and much cheaper.
I'm doing some research relating to Acadian material culture, and came
across a brief mention of domestic sundials. The reference is originally
from Chéticamp, histoire et traditions acadiennes (CHIASSON, Fr. Anselme,
1961, Moncton). There is a passage describing the construction, layout and
