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August 6th 2024
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Trying to overcome my (entirely reasonable) fear of driving in my son's car.
Today, up to Woodbury to collect some garnets, a few larger ones, time to start doing things with them.
And a walk along the lake at Balfour, looking for arrowheads. An hour, a few bits of debitage, then this:
It was actually point in to the gravel, a black obelisk, tough to spot. And unremarkable when I laid it out on the gravel.
very old and worn, knapped on both sides, a tough black rock. Noteworthy it's a thick piece of stone, and spirals slightly, perhaps not so suited for an arrowhead but more an aul or drill. Nonetheless, a great find and I'm quite pleased.
(Another) Ancient Map of the World
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While posting beautiful maps, here is Ancient Babylonian Tablet depicting a map of the entire known world.
Link: Wikipedia on the Babylonian Map of the World
Now, at first glance, a curiosity, but now let the Charming and Erudite Dr. Irving Finkel explain it to you:
Blaze Creek FSR
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And I was a little excited, my son having left me his car for a month, to finally get out and do some exploring.
On google maps I noticed Blaze Creek FSR, which leads off and through many switchbacks eventually comes to the west shore on the east arm of Kootenay Lake.
I'd tried it years before, failed, the road was closed off, deactivated, and so I hoped that somehow it had been reactivated.
A long drive to no results. Still closed off, and so exploring a few other places I've explored countless times before, I'm going to need a few days off in a row, time to gather up my pack and walk into the woods, it's the only way. Find new horizons, new treasures, this summer so far has been a bust but it's all there, there are too many signs and wonders.
Pi
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Epiphanies.
I've often puzzled over the irreducible nature of Pi.
Then I had that little flash, light-went-on in my head, Pi - by it's nature describing the relation of the circumference to the diameter, is an irrational number that somewhere within it contains all other numbers. All possibilities, all realities are compassed within Pi, hence it must be irreducible, it is infinite and unbounded.
And it's corollary, the symbol of infinity, an 8 on it's side - ∞ - is simply a circle warped into 3 dimensions. As writing must by it's nature reduce something to 2 dimensions we have the explanation.
The simple things. Math would have been a lot easier had we just gotten to the point.
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