Posts

Arcminutes to meters

Image
An unusual sunny morning opened up the possibility of a cross campus measurement. Thoughts of the northwest corner of the B classroom building and the southeast corner of the allied health building had swirled in my head as I fell asleep the night before. Was that gap threadable on a constant line of latitude? A morning check of Google Earth suggested that the line might not be viable. The southeast corner of the allied health building occludes a line that just clears the northwest corner of the B building.  At 8:00 no students had yet arrived in the classroom, so I went to map the gap between the northeast corner of the B building and the southwest corner of the allied health building. This gap would constrain solutions on the ground for the other two corner clearances. The gap runs from North 6°54.562' to 6°54.568'  The northwest corner of the B classroom building is located at North 6°54.566' which means that the view above is essentia...
Post a Comment
Read more

Foods of Micronesia

Image
Note that this blog is not complete with respect to all the groups that presented. Only those groups for which a photograph of their food was taken are included below. Keisha and Grace from Pohnpei would present uht sukusuk. Grace presenting uht sukusuk. Uht sukusuk is pounded cooked bananas smothered in coconut milk. Austin and Breilon of U, Pohnpei, presented kehp neir, yam fritters. Yam fritters. Best when hot. Keanu, Baldezzar, and Joseph of Woleai along with Lyviane of Ulithi presented bulag gatip. Bulag gatip: boiled hard taro with coconut milk. Harston of Enipein, Kitti presented uht pirain solo. Uht pirain, fried banana slices. When hot not unlike a french fry. Note this would have been unripe bananas as fried ripe bananas will not hold shape once fried. En Neiritancy "Neiivahlynn" of Chuuk and Anastasia of Kitti, Pohnpei, presented boiled kehp neir....
Post a Comment
Read more

Latitude and longitude hide and seek

Image
Fall term recommended moving the solstice presentation to Friday of week seven, but the vernal equinox is not until Saturday 21 March 2026, at 1:46 AM local time. The solstice presentation will only make sense on Friday 20 March at the end of week ten, not the end of week seven. There is always this asymmetry in the term, first experienced when the ethnobotany class used the equinoxes to clean the Haruki cemetery .  That date moved between different weeks of the term, causing the ethnobotany schedule to have to be revised every term. Monday focused on latitude and longitude only, followed by a slide deck on the use of GPSTest , and open source Android app which is ad-free. The app has none of the downsides of GPS Essentials. GPS Essentials attempts to be the default app for PDFs and other formats. GPSTest is GPS and only GPS, but in doing only one thing, the app does that one thing extremely well.  The only quibble is that the Longitude wraps but the labels ...
Post a Comment
Read more