JDG wrote: > >Notes: >-Poker, Dare, and Distaff are three games that are popular among males and >females alike? (pg 225) > Yes, I think so; unlike Chess and Life that were "male" games. >Clans: >Terrille - Four consecutive planetary supreme grandmasters in Chess (pg 225) > This seems to be inevitable, isn't it? But I guess "supreme grandmaster" can't qualify as a niche; this must be a side effect of what made Terrille win a niche, plus training in chess from birth. My notes: * Half-Lamai inherit a big breast from a dominant Lamai gene - hmmm, is this biologically correct? In other words, can two big breasted women with recessive genes have a small-breasted dau... oops... O:-) * What is a _reversible_ Life game? I suppose this is no Life game at all, but some kind of zip/compress utility * And last, but not least, the coordinates! If we match the coordinates 39<sup>o</sup> F8 16' N and 67<sup>o</sup> F8 54' E [*] to the Sanctuary [that, in stratosmap.gif at Steve Sloan's page lies at coordinates (x=597,y=341)], and use the Equator at (y=485) to generate a Mercator grid, we get: ** Central Meridian @ Pallas Isles ** Port Sanger @ 72 deg N ** Holly Lock ~ 500 km away from Sanctuary ** Grange Head - Holly Lock ~ 1500 km This is curious, because I would expect the zero-longitude Meridian to cross the landing point; OTOH, it seems wiser *not* to have it cross inhabitable areas. The Mercator Grid over Stratos will be ready soon, at ... http://www.geocities.com/albmont/stratosmapmercator.gif ... where the blue lines are spaced by 30 degrees and the red lines are spaced by 5 degrees Alberto Monteiro [*] what is this F8? Is this some typographical error?
