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[belbbmfan]

Welcome home Leslie!

[MaineWriter]

Welcome home Leslie!

Thanks, Fabienne! It is good to be home.

While in Chicago, we went to a Map Exhibition at the Field Museum. It was very interesting...and I learned about the FLEMISH cartographer, mathematician, and scientist, Gerhard Mercator, who invented the cartesian system of cartography known as the Mercator Projection. When he came up with it, in 1585, everyone thought is was crazy, but it is the number one system used today to accurately draw a round earth on a flat piece of paper.

Leslie

[louisev]

morning everyone,

we finally had a "cold snap" here in northern California, and all the leaves fell off the trees at the same time!  Fall fell! in one overnight!

a little tough to get used to, shivering suddenly...!  I guess it's time for more warm socks!

[Front-Ranger]

Congratulations David and Ellemeno for joining the purple club! Elle, I was wondering what all that sudden verbosity was about!!

[belbbmfan]

Thanks, Fabienne! It is good to be home.

While in Chicago, we went to a Map Exhibition at the Field Museum. It was very interesting...and I learned about the FLEMISH cartographer, mathematician, and scientist, Gerhard Mercator, who invented the cartesian system of cartography known as the Mercator Projection. When he came up with it, in 1585, everyone thought is was crazy, but it is the number one system used today to accurately draw a round earth on a flat piece of paper.

Leslie

Ah, a famous Belgian, there aren't many of those around. Did you know that he launched the word 'atlas' for a collection of maps in a book.

[Kelda]

yup the vcold snap has hot here too.. time for the winter woolies!

[Ellemeno]

Thanks everyone!  Coul'na done it without ye. 

[MaineWriter]

Morning all,

38 degrees and rainy today. No blue sky this morning!

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[Jeff Wrangler]

David, I think you'll appreciate a story a friend told me this past weekend.

He recently had occasion to fly from BWI to Portland, ME. In the security line ahead of him was a gray-haired woman with just about everything possible that you aren't allowed to carry on in her carry-on bag. She was giving the screener lip about having to get rid of her enormous can of Aqua-Net, etc., until the screener, evidently fed up, said very loudly, "Bernie! I need Bernie!"

Bernie, it turned out, was about 6-6 and built like a linebacker. He very quietly said to the cantankerous passenger, "Is there a problem here?" The woman looked up at him, very meekly said, "No, sir," and that was the end of the can of Aqua-Net, etc. 

[Artiste]

Funny Nutmeg Guy! Funny Jeff Wrangler!

I wonder if your friend or you were one of those two who kind of stripped me when I past the Canada-USA border??

Those two were so handsome and kind that I was hoping that one touched much more of I when the other watched pleasantly too!!
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