Gnomon
I know that there are some readers of this site who do not use Flickr, and while I cannot claim to understand anyone who is not all down with the Flickr, I do get that some don’t get it. But I know that the Flickr-literate enjoy the advantage of knowing that even when we are not posting every little detail of our readjustment here, we are at least sending out a few scant little hints in photographic form of how it’s all going. And if you subscribe to the ‘picture is worth 1,000 words’ saw, then even by our recent lame Flickr-posting standards we are logging all kinds of column-inch action about how great it is to be alive.
While I am a great long-term hater of the phone, my new ‘mobile handset device’* is a great help in taking spontaneous pictures, and has the added benefit of being able to get those pictures to the web with a minimum of jibber-jabber or delay and with maximum EXIF detail. For the Flickr-literate, the level of GPS detail embedded in some recent pictures certainly reveals further stuff about where we are, to the extent of being disturbing.
But you have to be one of our Flickr contacts in order to see how dry our laundry is via satellite imagery.
* HATE this terminology
Alright, I’ll get the damn Flick’r account going again.
Has anyone yet pondered the question of what, indeed the isogloss will become now that it is a Sofia? I did note that part of the wording did transform, but perhaps we should invent a second definition for ‘isogloss’ and get it out there.
How about working with the word ‘mehana’ -
From Wikipedia:
In Bulgaria a ‘mehana’ is a restaurant with traditional food, decoration and music.
Perhaps an isogloss could, also, be an especially rabble-rousery, child-friendly corner of a ‘mehana’?
Comment by KP — Saturday 6 September 08 @ 01.39 MDT+2.00
I like Flickr. What I never seem to find time for is figuring out how to get the pictures directly from camera to Flickr, and by the time I get them put on a CD and then upload to Flickr, they would be so old news. Or, I suck.
I am glad you consent to use a phone at least once in a while. So sorry I had to run, but the market was a success tonight. The guy came with eggs. Not only did we purchase 3 dozen super-fresh eggs, I am buying one of his pigs. For butcher. For bacon. I am a happy woman tonight.
Comment by jdog — Saturday 6 September 08 @ 06.43 MDT+2.00
I adore the word “gnomon”. We had an enormous one on the campus of my high school. I made a replica of it out of cardboard and called it a physics (Kepler?) project.
But it’s not a word you’ll hear a Jamaican say. They are all so affirmative.
Comment by Erik R. — Saturday 6 September 08 @ 10.34 MDT+2.00
You refer, of course, to the Flickerati.
Comment by Lance McCord — Saturday 6 September 08 @ 15.08 MDT+2.00
Had a wiseacre friend in college, an English major, who took it upon himself to build a sundial made of snow. College being in Montreal, the sundial actually lasted, in some shape or another, for about a month. It’s precision was questionable after about two days as the gnomon shifted, melted, refroze quite a few times over that month.
He christened it, yes, this hurts to type, his Snomon.
Comment by DarkoV — Monday 8 September 08 @ 21.07 MDT+2.00
Oops! Sorry about the dupe. I’d posted it and hadn’t seen it up for 5-6 hours so I assumed it was lost in the wilds of Bulgaria.
Comment by DarkoV — Tuesday 9 September 08 @ 03.04 MDT+2.00
Ha! That’s a good one, DarkoV. I didn’t see that one coming at all.
Comment by Erik R. — Tuesday 9 September 08 @ 22.18 MDT+2.00