I hope the majority of those reading here get as much amusement out of
the various replays of the war of the Lilliputians under various guises
as I do.
For those not able to recollect the root cause of that war and thereby
get a chuckle from the parallels, here you are:
It was the outgrowth of an argument over which end of the boiled egg
should be uppermost in the boiled egg holder at your place at the dining
table and therefore be the end opened first to eat the egg out of shell
with your spoon. One faction supported the little end up and the other
faction warred to support having the large end up to be cracked open and
eaten first.
Proper true north alignment of the table setting got no consideration in
the face of the weighty big end/little end debate.
So, until the next bit of minutia comes along to obsess over, Happy
trails to you, good DX, and keep smiling.
Patrick NJ5G
On 12/25/2014 2:53 PM, Don wrote:
Dang! Don't 'cha you just love what science brings to our everyday
table. Sixty years of hamming and I never knew my old eyeballing of my
yagi's were so imprecise, ashamed! Must be way I couldn't break some
of the east coast curtain pileups from time to time.
I will start paying attention to the walkers and their dogs down in
the village. Suspect I will have to be fast though if I want to get a
good bearing from a local dog (I have a cat but think they are more
direction aligned to the direction of the kitty litter box). Perhaps
someone has some information on that. Hope the ladies don't think I'm
bit daft sneaking up behind their pooches.
Will try the solar noon trick when we see some sun next Spring.
What a great site for information.
Hope Santa brought what you all wanted.
Don W7WLL
-----Original Message----- From: RMorris
Sent: Thursday, December 25, 2014 10:47 AM
Cc: towertalk@contesting.com
Subject: Re: [TowerTalk] north
On Dec 25, 2014, at 1:39 AM, Spencer wrote:
In the northern hemisphere, the shadow of a vertical object at solar
noon will point north.
MERRY CHRISTMAS
Spencer W1GAK
Since about every subject comes around twice a year, I'll repeat the
north finding method reported six months ago, without cell phones,
stars, and sticks.
http://www.livescience.com/42317-dogs-poop-along-north-south-magnetic-lines.html
http://www.washingtonpost.com/local/watching-them-poop-researchers-discover-that-dogs-can-sense-which-way-is-north/2014/01/26/26f7f85e-83ae-11e3-bbe5-6a2a3141e3a9_story.html
http://news.discovery.com/animals/pets/dogs-have-a-butt-compass-poop-facing-ns-pole-140102.htm
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