Scenic Tevis, Enjoying the 80s, Virtual Tevis 2023

Awareness of the outside world. US Forest Service: Pando

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Virtual Tevis Cup 2023
100 Miles in 100 Days
19 April to 30 July

Rodney – 10 miles this week, 89 miles total
Milton – 13 miles this week, 83 miles total
Tues 30 May to Mon 5 June

Mileage from handwalk, ride, longline, drive.

Looking Around

The scenery is not new. We’ve lived on this property a while now.

The scenery is not dramatic. We are walking in a pasture instead of the foothills of the Sierra Nevada mountains.

The scenery sure is pretty. Blue skies. Green trees.

Virtual Tevis Posts [Dressing The Part, Solidly in the 70s, Virtual Tevis 2023] & [Archives]

Onwards!
Katherine

Fractal Square, Graphic Art

Art of the outside world. Smithsonian: Fractal Patterns in Nature and Art Are Aesthetically Pleasing and Stress-Reducing, Taylor, 2017.

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Fun with fractals #2, Fractal Square. [Fractal Triangle #1]

Process notes. Inkscape. Six iterations. Started with inner square, moved out.

Is it fractal if the design does not repeat cleanly and eventually runs into itself?

First iteration (yellow, big) – open on four sides
Second & third iterations (green & blue) – open on three sides.
Fourth iteration (pink) – some touch the yellow square and therefore are only open on two sides
Fifth iteration (red) – many open on two sides, the rest on three sides
Sixth iteration (purple, tiny) – anywhere from zero to three sides

Hat tip again to Gement for introducing me to this rabbit hole.

Onwards!
Katherine

A Day For Mnemonic Devices, Words

Awareness of the outside world. The six official languages of the UN are Arabic, Chinese, English, French, Russian, & Spanish. “A delegate may speak in any official UN language. The speech is interpreted simultaneously into the other official languages of the UN. At times, a delegate may choose to make a statement using a non-official language. In such cases, the delegation must provide either an interpretation or a written text of the statement in one of the official languages. Most UN documents are issued in all six official languages, requiring translation from the original document.” UN: Official Languages

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Skipping State of The Blog this month. Nothing of note to say on the subject. [Archives]

Writing about other writing instead.

In Language Writer: Let me mnow your mnemonics!, Gaston Dorren talks about the “mnemonic device known as ‘bridge for donkeys’ in German and Dutch: an artificial and often tenuous, but helpful connexion between the hard word and something familiar.” LW: mnemonics

I don’t know another language well enough – despite years of study – that I need such a device. The essay caused me to recall other ways I get around the short circuits in my own brain.

Merriam-Webster defines mnemonic as “assisting or intended to assist memory.” MW: mnemonic

When I was a kid – maybe 2nd grade? – I had trouble with lower case b and lower case d. On their own in space, they were indistinguishable to me. Fortunately, I had a friend name Robin. (Waves hi, wherever you are.) Let’s say I was going for a B. If I put it in her name and it came out Rodin, I knew it was wrong. No other letters, just those two, for long enough that I can still recall doing the mental exercise.

That was then. This is now.

On the blog, I wrote Coach Courtney as Couch Courtney so often that one reader (waves hi) thought it was an inside joke. Nope. Just me not having a clue. Couch? Coach? Shrug. All I know is that when I refer to the lady who teaches me saddle seat, the vowels should not match. C*OA*ch C*OU*rtney.

I mistype were & where. I have no idea why. I don’t even see it. This one I have to rely on my beta reader (waves hi) catching once the post is published. Oops.

Do you use any mnemonics?

Non-fiction 4U

Donkey dude’s website, Gaston Dorren, Language Writer. Article by, Aeon: Talking gibberish, The study of languages has long been prone to nonsense. Why is linguistics such a magnet for dilettantes and crackpots? Book mentioned previously. [Danish Horses Say Vrinsk]

Gretchen McCulloch, Internet Linguist. “I’m the Resident Linguist at WIRED, where I write a column about internet language.” & “Assorted other bylines” GM: Writing

Onwards!
Katherine

One Place, Lots of Pasture, State of the Fitness

Awareness of the outside world. CNN: Canada will start putting health warnings on individual cigarettes, Hassan, Newton and Maxouris, May 31, 2023. CNN: US cigarette smoking rate falls to historic low, but e-cigarette use keeps climbing, Christensen, April 27, 2023.

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Daily Walks

Bicenntennial Minipark, The University of Alabama at Birmingham. I will neither confirm nor deny that I walked in a new place so that I would have something to post. {Virtual Mississippi River 1 May]

The rest of my daily walks were in the pasture with Rodney for Virtual Tevis.

Monthly 5K

In pasture, handwalk Rodney for Virtual Tevis miles. [VT Archive]

Other

Bike a few times on weekends.

Last month [Sunny Days, State of the Fitness]

Onwards!
Katherine

Yet More Walking, State of the Now

Awareness of the outside world. 15 states have more than one time zone: Florida, Oregon, Kentucky, Arizona, Texas, Tennessee, North Dakota, Michigan, Alaska, South Dakota, Nevada, Kansas, Nebraska, Idaho, and Indiana. “Before the establishment of time zones in 1883, there were over 144 local times in North America.” DOT: History of Time Zones 2021. Hat tip to M.

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Updated Now page.

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June 2023

More walking.

More mileage.

Finishing Virtual Tevis.

🐎🐎

The dog training is going well.

As in, the dogs have us well-trained.

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Last Month [Walking Into The Future]

Onwards!
Katherine