There was a programme on TV the other night about the effect the moon has on
the earth. It had never occured to me until it was mentioned in that
programme that in the southern hemisphere the sun and moon travel across the
sky from right to left instead of from left to right as it does in the
Dear Tamara, and Lacemakers,
On Monday, Nov 10, 2003, at 22:47 US/Eastern, Ruth Budge wrote, in
response to Linda Walton's:
trouble remembering which were the x and y axes when drawing a graph
- until
someone explained to me that x is a-cross.
OK, I'm *still* clueless... :) A cross
I just replied privately to Jean saying that it is exactly this phenomena which
makes it hard for my DH to navigate in Britain. I knew he complains that the
sun isn't in the right place as far as he's concerned, but had forgotten
exactly what the details of the displacement are! Now I know that
...carrying a handbag and keeping track of it doesn't seem to be second
nature to men the way it is to women :)
One of my students a couple of weeks ago (I'm an IT trainer) says he
carries a laptop computer case around with him, and uses it like a woman
uses a handbag, to carry his stuff. Being
Further to the comments on east-west dyslexia - I find that in certain places in the
country I get 180 degrees disoriented. One of the worst places for me is the area
where we have now moved, the Fraser Valley. Other places I can go and have no problem
with east-west (and of course,
Dear Friends,
the message below appeared on one of my genealogy lists tonight and I just
thought that someone here might be able to help Kim. Please answer her
direct on:
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I work in a museum and we recently came across a button on a pair of
corduroy trousers that date to the
At 05:13 AM 11/11/2003 -0800, you wrote:
Further to the comments on east-west dyslexia - I find that in certain
places in the country I get 180 degrees disoriented. One of the worst
places for me is the area where we have now moved, the Fraser Valley.
Other places I can go and have no problem
Linda wrote:
The Sun still rises in the East and sets in the West in the Southern
hemisphere, it is that it is in the North, not the South that seem to
confuse people.
If I stand and watch the sun in the southern sky rising in the east and
setting in the west, I see it pass from my left to my
i wanted to post this email i got from a very nice woman and the reply
i sent who is working to find relatives of a recovered shipwrecked
vessel.
if you know of any one by that name please contact the lady below.
thank you very much.
thank you for writing. the lace chat website sometimes gets
Hi everyone and Avital who wrote:
Iron-Pumping Avital,
who keeps a 5 kg dumbbell on her desk at work to use while the computer's
booting up and to intimidate cranky project managers
and Bev cheers -
no kidding! I have a 2.3 kg. set of dbells at my computer (on the floor
that is, where I can
Following the posting about LACE yesterday, I phoned the Lace Guild, as my
copy had not arrived. Apparently, they have had a number of phone calls and
there are still backlogs of post in that area of the West Midlands, which
could be affecting delivery. Hopefully it will arrive in the next few
It had never occured to me until it was mentioned in that
programme that in the southern hemisphere the sun and moon
travel across the
sky from right to left instead of from left to right as it
does in the
northern hemisphere. I'd find that very disorientating.
REALLY?! It has never occurred
Whew! Thanks, Linda! My immediate reaction was that our
earth is a big marble, and we all spin on the same axis...
so how did the sun do that trick of coming up in the west
down under?
Breathing at a regular rate again...
Clay
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Yes, Jean - but the same hold true in the Northern
Hemisphere! If you stand looking south, the sun will rise
on your left and set on your right. If you look north, the
opposite holds true. Same as in Oz - correct?
Clay
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To:
Hey, didn't someone here write a piece on The Earth is Flat recently?
Noelene in Cooma
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Yes, Jean - but the same hold true in the Northern
Hemisphere! If you stand looking south, the sun will
Now you buff ladies are scaring me!! ; )
Clay
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From: Bev Walker [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Tuesday, November 11, 2003 2:40 PM
Subject: [lace-chat] closet weight-training lacemakers
Hi everyone and Avital who wrote:
Iron-Pumping Avital,
who
I don't know, Noelene, but I can sense that there's a
lacemaker's vision of the earth, moon and stars just itching
to be born as a poem in you!! ;)
Clay
Hey, didn't someone here write a piece on The Earth is
Flat recently?
Noelene in Cooma
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It never occurred to me that folks might have trouble remembering which was
X and which was Y. Good thing I never taught analytic geometry, eh?
Perhaps it was because I learned the number line first. Then when we added
a second line running up and down, the first line was x and the second
Hi, I have just spoken to Sue Big. Both e-mail addresses of the Lace Guild
are down at the moment but they are aware and are working on it. As soon as they
are up and running I will let you know.
KEEP LACING, VIVIENNE, BIGGINS
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Thanks for your help.
Shelagh
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Sent: Tuesday, November 11, 2003 11:58 AM
Subject: [lace] Lace Guild
Hi, I have just spoken to Sue Big. Both e-mail addresses of the Lace Guild
are down at the moment
Sorry Clay, I iintended to send this to the whole list. (never get that
reply/reply all button stuff figured out)
Cearbhael
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Sent: Tuesday, November 11, 2003 4:48 PM
Subject: Re: [lace-chat]
At 03:46 PM 11/11/2003 -0800, you wrote:
It never occurred to me that folks might have trouble remembering which was
X and which was Y...- but I
learned that they *swap* some conventions: what should be theta is phi, and
what should be phi is theta. That would be a much bigger
From: Panza, Robin [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Date: Tue Nov 11, 2003 11:52:24 US/Eastern
To: 'Tamara P. Duvall' [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: RE: Right? Left?
From: Martha Krieg [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Also no coincidence that left-handed and sinister are the same
word in
latin. If you can't predict it, it must
And one of these days... it will be politically incorrect
to slur the left-handed any more than it is to say gone
south or tell an ethnic joke or tell the dumb blonde jokes.
The minorities have always been subject to derision, whether
it's politically correct or not. Face it. There are
Rose-Marie, could be that being surrounded there is no definitive place to
base direction, for instance, if I can see where Keira Mountain is I know
which way is west. Where you are every direction has mountains, so there is
no starting point.
Just my confused in the southern hemisphere two
On Tuesday, Nov 11, 2003, at 20:25 US/Eastern, Clay Blackwell wrote:
And one of these days... it will be politically incorrect
to slur the left-handed any more than it is to say gone
south or tell an ethnic joke or tell the dumb blonde jokes.
The minorities have always been subject to derision,
Noelene,
That was me. (I?) I wrote a short play for my philosophy class using Bugs
Bunny and Porky Pig as debaters over whether the earth was flat. You may
be pleased to know that I got an A+ on it! If any one is interested I
could send you a copy. (Although why you would want to see my
On Tuesday, Nov 11, 2003, at 21:02 US/Eastern, H. Muth wrote:
That was me. (I?) I wrote a short play for my philosophy class using
Bugs Bunny and Porky Pig as debaters over whether the earth was flat.
You may be pleased to know that I got an A+ on it! If any one is
interested I could send
Yes, Jean - but the same hold true in the Northern
Hemisphere! If you stand looking south, the sun will rise
on your left and set on your right. If you look north, the
opposite holds true. Same as in Oz - correct?
Clay
You are correct, Clay. It all depends which way you are facing -
On Tuesday, Nov 11, 2003, at 20:40 US/Eastern, donlynn (Lynn Scott)
wrote:
Just my confused in the southern hemisphere two cents worth, however,
since
there are no pennies here, I suppose that would be my five cents worth.
How funny... I've never thought about it before, but we (here in the
Tamara,
I've sent you a copy privately, but I'd like to clarify that the play was
about a Rational speaker (a speaker with the truth) and a Rhetorical
speaker (a speaker with all the bells and whistles). It was a requirement
that the audience reacted to the speakers positively or negatively.
On Tuesday, Nov 11, 2003, at 22:10 US/Eastern, H. Muth wrote:
Tamara,
I've sent you a copy privately, but I'd like to clarify that the play
was about a Rational speaker (a speaker with the truth) and a
Rhetorical speaker (a speaker with all the bells and whistles). It
was a requirement that
Rofl, Tamara, I would have but it is that same old problem of the
reply/reply to all button. I just have to hit reply for most things. This
list is the exception to the rule. (though it is an excellent method of
being able to email direct to the sender and not the list LOL)
So I am forwarding
Tamara writes:
and reddish in tint). The public toilets are free, so we don't go to
spend a penny.
Did you hear about the wealthy woman on a cruise ship many years ago, where it
was a requirement to put a penny in a box to gain access to a toilet. She never
carried money, and complained to
Hi,
With all the discussion of mail strikes and the LACE magazine - has any
one in the U.S. gotten their copy? I have not gotten mine as of yet.
Jane O'Connor in New Lenox, Illinois
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