Just amazing! I propose to call it: a "Sun Toyal"
Jos Kint
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This Frank fellow is an amazing chap.
Firstly, he has us frankly dancing around with a yellow balloon and a room full of children !
Then he frankly has amazingly deep profound knowledge of calendars, which I had to read twice times three to get the hang of it !
It all leaves me gasping for
Dear Mr. Hunt,
I have been a member of this mailing list now for about 3 years and I
have never seen such a terrible treatment or attack on one person as you
have had to endure. I want you to know that some of the others, mostly
Mr. Moss, have come out of this as looking unreasonable and egotisti
Hi Roger,
It's amazing that your story reminded me of an expression my father
used to use -- a blowhard. A blowhard is person that tries to force
their idea purely by the vociferousness of their manner. Blowfish and
blowhard have the same number of letters in their spelling.
-cheers
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Hi John,
I heard an interview the other day with Wade Davis, an ethno-botanist
explorer, author and writer for the National Geographic. As a botanist who
has travelled and worked in Latin America, I thought you might be
interested.
The Blowfish has an interesting way of handling a perceived thre
Fellow Shadow Watchers,
In his final comments Mr. Hunt quoted two of my recent remarks, the first
of which is snipped to omit the simple question viz. 'would a vertical
pylon yield acceptable accuracy with his 'unique' design?' An innocent
omission or a fudged issue?..now we will never kn
On Sat 7 Sep 2002 (13:47:09 +0100), [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> I must agree that many people are surprised at how accurate a sundial
> can be BUT. plus or minus FIFTEEN MINUTES! With due respect that
> seems more like a calendar than a sundial.
> If you aren't charging VAT on your stated
>Without checking with me first, John Carmichael had replied with a
message
>which implied that we were getting 'customer complaints'. To do that
in a
>'public forum' was (at best) irresponsible, and (at worst) a
defamation of
>our business integrity.
>
I do not think so. I have never see
Mr. Hunt wrote:
BIG SNIP!
>
>In response to other remarks - I am not willing to disclose the details of
>our "Sunclock" design. If you own a business which has an annual turnover
>not far short of $100,000 (US) - then you do not place your 'proprietorial
>information' into the 'public domain', j
Hi Steve,
I too studied the photograph of the sundial at the School in Lafayette
(Louisiana, USA)at http://www.argonet.co.uk/education/sunclocks/pics/fs-015.htm
Using the same method of the bricks, which I too assume to be of equal width
and equally spaced, I became the followed distances betwee
, September 06, 2002 3:45 PM
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Subject: Re: Amazing!
I'll chip in 5 pounds.
John
John L. Carmichael Jr.
Sundial Sculptures
925 E. Foothills Dr.
Tucson Arizona 85718
USA
Tel: 520-696-1709
Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Website: <http://www.sundialsculptures.com>
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Subject: Re: Amazing!
> On Fri, 6 Sep 2002, Mr. D. Hunt wrote:
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> > In response to other remarks - I am not willing to disclose the details
of
> > our "Sunclock" design.
> >
> > If anyone wants to visit one
Since my PS has arrived back in my mail box, but my original posting has
not, I assume the original is lost in the ether. Apologies if this turns out
to be a duplicate. Steve
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Mr. D. Hunt wrote
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> If anyone wants to visit one of our layouts in a public location,
Darn, I forgot something.
I was saying that I suspect Douglas Hunt doesn't bother to deal with the
"October" problem - but one way to do it would be to calculate the position
of Oct 1 and Oct 31 twice over (for each of the two dial sizes) then split
the difference. I think that would reduce the m
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From: "Mr. D. Hunt" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
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> If anyone wants to visit one of our layouts in a public location, and then
> 'reverse engineer' it - I am perfectly happy for them to do so.
Oooh, there's nothing like a challenge! Unfortunately, in spite of their
apparent
On Fri, 6 Sep 2002, Mr. D. Hunt wrote:
> In response to other remarks - I am not willing to disclose the details of
> our "Sunclock" design.
>
> If anyone wants to visit one of our layouts in a public location, and then
> 'reverse engineer' it - I am perfectly happy for them to do so.
I have
Until now, I have not "risen to the bait" - choosing to ignore any remarks
which appeared to be questioning the alleged 'secrecy' of my business, its
volume of sales, or the level of 'customer satisfaction' which we achieve.
This response, now, is not directed at any particular person - but is j
So, in order to settle this debate once and for all, can we see a clear
sample drawing or closeup photo of one of your dials?
Hi, John and the rest,
I do not know why ;) ,but I am afraid that Mr. Hunt isn't going to
reveal us any detail of his successful
design. Anyway, as there are
On Wed, 4 Sep 2002, Bill Thayer wrote:
> So I'm relieved we got no flame war, but at the same time a bit sad;
> those of us who were online in the early days of the Net (92-95)
> regret them just a bit: the Net is not as vigorous as it once was...
>
> --
> Bill Thayer
Hi Bill,
Flames burn! Stop
nesday, September 04, 2002 3:15 AM
Subject: Re: Amazing!
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> On Tue 3 Sep 2002 (23:25:21 +0100), [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
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> > "Many tens of thousands" must be at least 30 000 to satisfy the 'many'
> > perhaps so over 20 years that is roughly four dials every da
On Wed, 4 Sep 2002, Bill Thayer wrote:
> So I'm relieved we got no flame war, but at the same time a bit sad;
> those of us who were online in the early days of the Net (92-95)
> regret them just a bit: the Net is not as vigorous as it once was...
>
> --
> Bill Thayer
Hrrmph! Those of us wh
flame war; I sort of suspected something of the kind -- there are
many ways of getting clients (many of my own clients when I was a
translator never came to me for a written translation, for example).
So I'm relieved we got no flame war, but at the same time a bit sad;
those of us who were o
On Tue 3 Sep 2002 (23:25:21 +0100), [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> "Many tens of thousands" must be at least 30 000 to satisfy the 'many'
> perhaps so over 20 years that is roughly four dials every day assuming
> no holidays or weekends off!
>
> Even at half that number we have a sure candidate
Mr. Douglas Hunt wrote
> In the almost 20 years that we have been running this business (comprising
> many tens of thousands of customers worldwide).
That is a truly amazing statistic. Can there be anyone else in the
history of dialling who is, or was, anywhere near so prolific?
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