Hi Dave

Here's the flawed sentence that Mac found:

"A metal rod or sheet protrudes from the window on
the outside of the building and casts the sun's shadow on the sundial face
design."

If you think about it, it's a misstatement because it says that the rod
casts the sun's shadow.  The rod does not cast the sun's shadow; the rod
casts its Own shadow.  The sun has no shadow!

It's a great lesson in dialing semantics, Thanks Mac.

How bout changing the sentence to:

<A metal rod or sheet protrudes from the window on the outside of the
building and, when lit by the sun, casts its shadow on the sundial face
design....>

John

----- Original Message -----
From: "Dave Bell" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: "John Carmichael" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Friday, July 04, 2003 10:06 AM
Subject: Re: Stained glass sundials page title


> > That's not the first time I've made that dumb mistake.  Could you fix it
> > Dave?
>
> Glad to! Funny part is, I read Mac's note, re-read the text, and STILL
> didn't see anything wrong!
>
> > Also Dave, since the webpage is becoming quite large it's download time
is a
> > little long, which is to be expected.
>
> I don't think I can squeeze too much more out of the thumbnails, without
> really reducing the quality. I'll try a little more compression, though.
>
> > But the first images the viewer sees are those 3 concrete garden
> > sundials at the top of the page. The window dials are much more
> > spectacular and attention getting.  Don't you think that the worst
> > examples should go at the bottom of the page and the best examples at
> > the top? (Chris's dials for example).  But if this is too much trouble
> > Dave, then don't worry about it.
>
> I'll shuffle them around a bit, and add a note about their note exactly
> being stained glass.
>
> > Also, do you think you need a little sentence at the top that says;
"click
> > on image for enlargement."
>
> Easily done...
>
>


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