cueforthekudu: March 2007

31.3.07

30.3.07

Condor inspecting Grand Canyon

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29.3.07

Struisbaai, harbour near Agulhas, southern tip of Africa

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I have looked at these calm waters on a duller day.

27.3.07

26.3.07

Metonymy, metaphor, synecdoche

clipped from en.wikipedia.org

Metonymy and Synecdoche

Synecdoche, where a specific part of something is taken to refer to the whole, is usually understood as a specific kind of metonymy. Sometimes, however, people make an absolute distinction between a metonymy and a synecdoche, treating metonymy as different from rather than inclusive of synecdoche. There is a similar problem with the usage of simile and metaphor.

When the distinction is made, it is the following: when A is used to refer to B, it is a synecdoche if A is a part of B and a metonymy if A is commonly associated with B but not a part of it.

An example of a single sentence that displays synecdoche, metaphor and metonymy would be: "Fifty keels ploughed the deep", where "keels" is the synecdoche as it takes a part (of the ship) as the whole (of the ship); "ploughed" is the metaphor as it substitutes the concept of ploughing a field for moving through the ocean; and "the deep" is the metonym, as "deepness" is an attribute associated with the ocean.

25.3.07

Lone Pine, Oregon

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Demonstrating that on a clear day, you can see Mount Fuji from Oregon.

Flyfishing in Yellowstone

I remember it well. Bought a rod in Missoula and stood on the great banks.
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24.3.07

A useful opinion on opinion

clipped from itre.cis.upenn.edu

IMHO, there is a great deal of confusion (and damage) done in this world by confusing personal opinion with professional opinion. We seldom distinguish between the two, often at great cost ( I can not begin to count the ways!). And in those areas where the two greatly overlap, chaos reigns. But that’s one of the things that makes life interesting – especially for those of us who live our lives on the ever-shifting border between the two, as you do. J

Please keep up the good work. Your professional opinion informs my personal opinion every day.

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23.3.07

Wildebeeste migrate in the Masai Mara

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21.3.07

A pub sign in Devizes, Wiltshire

A coursing scene on this pub sign in Devizes

A Cheltenham scene

All is still as the leader gallops into view and about to hurdle the flight before the stands at Cheltenham

Pheasant and hens

In the evening sun, a pheasant and hens venture out onto a ploughed field, near Guiting Power.

20.3.07

Salisbury Cathedral

Taken to the magnificent and uplifting sound of the great organ playing to an almost empty church as night fell.

5.3.07

sudoku : terminology forcing chain

This text gives a definition for forcing chain. I had always taken forcing chain to mean a chain which starting say from a cell XY forced a true value in another cell ie whether our starting cell is X or Y, Z is true in the other (another) cell.
I still prefer Implication Chain to Forcing Chain.

clipped from www.sudopedia.org

Forcing Chain is the generic term for all types of chains and loops which propagate implications from one cell or candidate to another.

"Forcing" refers to the fact that placing a digit in one cell can force another cell to another digit.

The effects from each cell to the next are the implications. A Forcing Chain is therefore also known as an implication chain.

eagle swoops on water

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4.3.07

Lonely tree

After the dark side of the moon, back to earth at her finest. Link

The moon over Paris coming out of eclipse

Taken at 1.30 on 4 March 2007. 4 sec exposure on 12X zoom.
The additional blue orb must relate to the movement of the eclipse across the face of the moon. At least I don't see how it can result from the moon's own movement. Whatever the reason, it provides a nice touch of colour.