Friends,
Since I was the lucky winner of the sundial verse contest, I feel I
should share with everyone what I won and why.
Here's WHAT I won:
[Image] It's an equitorial sundial designed and built by Tony Moss,
the host of our "festival" contest. It's solid brass with etched
numbers and lines, 4.2 inches tall, with an adjustment screw for
latitude, and the Equation of Time correction graph printed on the upper
surface. I love it! I'll keep it on my windowsill for now, but when
spring comes, I hope to mount it outside on my patio. (By the way, you
can see my vertical decliner gnomen on the garage gable in the
background.)
And here's WHY I won. Like many others, I submitted a verse. Here's
how Tony described the selection process: "At 18.30 BST , 2nd October
1998, Miss Stella Moss, aged two years and twenty days, in the presence
of independent witness Mr. George Carrick of 39, Windsor Gardens,
Bedlington, Northumberland, England, NE22 5SY drew a folded paper slip
bearing the number *13* from a bowl containing numbers allocated to each
of the entrants to the Sundial
Motto Festival." It's a good argument against being superstitious that
13 was my number!
My ... uh ... "winning" verse has no known merit above any other verse
submitted. Judge for yourself::
On September One, you can trust the Sun. Come Halloween, subtract
sixteen.
On Christmas Day, the dial's OK. For your Valentine true, add a
dozen and two.
Add no more the mid of month four. But the mid of May take four
away.
On June fourteen, don't add a bean. When August begins, add seven
little mins.
The rest is easy: For any date, all you do is interpolate!
Thanks again to Tony. Dialists should know that he lists among his
products the following: "Bespoke horizontal, vertical, declineing,
analemmatic & Capuchin sundials, wrought in solid brass -- gold plating
to service grade 4 optional -- dialling scales -- specialist gnomon
designer/maker for restoration work or new designs."
-- Tad Dunne
Friends,
Since I was the lucky winner of the sundial verse contest, I feel I
should share with everyone what I won and why.
Here's WHAT I won:
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It's an equitorial sundial designed and built by Tony Moss, the host of
our "festival" contest. It's solid brass
with etched numbers and lines, 4.2 inches tall, with an adjustment screw
for latitude, and the Equation of Time correction graph printed on the
upper surface. I love it! I'll keep it on my windowsill
for now, but when spring comes, I hope to mount it outside on my patio.
(By the way, you can see my vertical decliner gnomen on the garage gable
in the background.)
And here's WHY I won. Like many others, I submitted a verse.
Here's how Tony described the selection process: "At 18.30 BST ,
2nd October 1998, Miss Stella Moss, aged two years and twenty days, in
the presence of independent witness Mr. George Carrick of 39, Windsor Gardens,
Bedlington, Northumberland, England, NE22 5SY drew a folded paper slip
bearing the number *13* from a bowl containing numbers allocated to each
of the entrants to the Sundial
Motto Festival." It's a good argument against being superstitious
that 13 was my number!
My ... uh ... "winning" verse has no known merit above any other verse
submitted. Judge for yourself::
On September One, you can trust the Sun. Come
Halloween, subtract sixteen.
On Christmas Day, the dial's OK. For your
Valentine true, add a dozen and two.
Add no more the mid of month four. But the
mid of May take four away.
On June fourteen, don't add a bean. When August
begins, add seven little mins.
The rest is easy: For any date, all you do
is interpolate!
Thanks again to Tony. Dialists should know that he lists among
his products the following: "Bespoke horizontal, vertical, declineing,
analemmatic & Capuchin sundials, wrought in solid brass -- gold plating
to service grade 4 optional -- dialling scales -- specialist gnomon designer/maker
for restoration work or new designs."
-- Tad Dunne
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