Friday, 17 August 2012

finding where I am with an astrolabe

 well  regarding my employer  making me redundant  to quote douglas adams "so long and thanks for the fish"
I teach four subjects so have four skills areas to  look at other opportunities  in !

perhaps i will finish that  star compass    using my mariners astrolabe i find i am  under an unchanging north star
   remembered an old site I found years ago that  provides  kits   to build cardboard working models of the ptolemaic   and copernician   solar  system models http://cp.c-ij.com/en/contents/3148/03311/index.html
will give it a go   after all what else to do





re blog i have decided to do all my weekly book reviews on amazon  but  noticed in past weeks that despite my 95 reviews  over a year my most recent ones   are getting flamed   with hard faced criticism of my  use of punctuation  and paragraphing rather than the content


"two words for you - FULL STOP!" on my review of a dire alchemy romance novel  fate by LJ fredericks 

and long  comments from  two on Richard Dawkins  the greatest show on earth 

Hmm, my suspicion is you haven't read this book at all and were determined to post some kind of diatribe against it's author, regardless.

"If you're going to bother writing a review, could you stir yourself to use basic punctuation and correct spelling to make it readable? Surely anything less betrays some measure of contempt for anyone who might stumble on it.
Not sure what your point really is. For sure, evolution is not an appealing, human-centred fable. Are you suggesting Dawkins shouldn't bother setting out the evidence for it because it's not interesting? Isn't this partly why he's doing it at all?"


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