Fairy Tale Ark vs Scaled Down Model ... what about a House that's a Scaled Down Model?

And thus shalt thou make it: The length of the ark shall be three hundred cubits: the breadth of it fifty cubits, and the height of it thirty cubits
[Genesis 6:15]

So, a roof might be less than 3 m high, what about ... 2.10 ?

That would make the length 21 m. and the width 3 1/2 m.

In fact, longhouses are in Old Norse Scandinavia somewhat similar proportions, but typically broader in relation to the length. One of 29.42 m would have been 8 m broad. It had a middle room of 18 * 8 m, and shorter rooms at both ends of the house. There were sixteen of that exact model, grouped in four squares around the central courtyard of the Viking fortress, the Trelleborg near Slagelse.

Older longhouses in those countries are at Gudme, and archaeological finds are typically 200 to 550 AD, from very much closer to when I think Oden came up to Norse countries. Gudme is also 46.1 km from Odense, which literally means "temple" or "hallow of Oden" ... I wonder if Oden invented the longhouse (he certainly didn't create the world!) with the proportions of the Ark in mind? My suspicion is still, he was a Hebrew apostate. Parts of the Norse myths indicate he was familiar with the Ancient Near East, including but not limited to the Bible. Havamal could easily be partly inspired by the Ecclesiastes. So, why not the first longhouse inspired by the proportions of the Ark?

Not too easy to make a children's toy of, though. If you took half the proportions I suggested, you'd have sth small children could play in, but it would be adequate for a kindergarden rather than just a large family.

10.5 m = 393,7008 inches, so, 19.299 cubits.
19.299 / 300 = 6.433 % of each direction, one in 15~16.

Perhaps a new staple in private Evangelical daycare of the kindergarden type?

Hans Georg Lundahl
Paris
IV Lord's Day after Pentecost
memory of St. Maria Goretti
6.VII.2025

Must share (Purification of Water)

@Grandpakimo
The guy actually used bottles to make a device for extracting pure water #shorts
https://www.youtube.com/shorts/MskWjuCA-3k

If You Get Sea Water

Desalinate it.

Or dilute it.

Desalination is done by evaporating sea water and collecting the vapours as they condense on some surface, for instance a transparent plastic sheet, if you do it under sun light, or a pan if you boil the sea water in a kettle.

Totally salt free water is not too goof either, distilled water can be improved in taste by adding a very small quantity of sea water to it./HGL

A Spread Like Butter, that's Not Margarine?

A) You can buy Bregott.
B) You can make something similar.

Here is how.

• 400 g of butter
• 100 g of a vegetable oil
• salt, if needed

If the vegetable oil is rapeseed oil, I do reccomend adding salt.

Heat the butter gently until liquid, mix with oil (and salt), allow to cool./HGL

What's in a Good Restaurant Sandwich? Why Are they Complicated?

Some people would not from their homes be used to putting lettuce on the sandwich, between the butter and the topping.

But the lettuce has its use. It's not just to be fancy or complicated.

A solid fact : bread is usually porose, lettuce has a hard surface.

Yesterday, I made double sandwiches from Harry's bread, a French brand of sandwich bread. As a topping, I used cucumber salad and goat cheese. For the goat cheese, no problem. But for the cucumber salad, I was partly thankful I had a second bread on top, and partly regretting I had no lettuce below. My fingers got moist.

So, to serve the same recipe in a restaurant, one would:

• put a lettuce leaf below the cucumber salad so it doesn't ooze through the bread
• put spread butter below the leaf, so it stays in place.

If you think the butter is too hard, there are two ways around that:

• dip the knife in boiling water a few seconds before putting it to the butter
• or use Bregott or a similar mixture.*

Even if the topping is not liquid, it can be smeary, like some French goose liver** pâté, and on that occasion, I was happy to have, instead of bread above it, leaves of lettuce above it./HGL

* A Spread Like Butter, that's Not Margarine?

** In fact, it was something even stickier, if you don't have lettuce or bread on the top - mousse de canard.

"Kir léger"

En parties égales, ou à peu près ...

• eau cassis
• Cinsault rosé

À servir frais./HGL

PS, si vous avez un meilleur nom pour ceci que "Kir léger" n'hésitez pas de commenter!/HGL

Salade d'un sdf

Les haricots verts, c'est un peu sec, une fois qu'on a égoutté ... huile, beurre fondue, quelque chose serait bienvenu, non?

Les sardines, c'est assez fort en goût ... même avec du pain, c'est juste un peu trop, non?

Ah, mélanger ... les sardines, il y a de l'huile avec. Et les haricots verts, le goût est suffisamment fort pour rivaliser avec les sardines, mais pas du tout âpre (une fois qu'on a de l'huile).

Mais, le problème est, en quoi mélanger?

Bon - j'avais le petit bol en carton que j'avais eu pour un dessert de Hong Kong, à emporter, j'avais lavé les deux bols pour une éventualité comme ça, et il m'en reste un.

Être sans abri ne veut pas dire être sans goût!/HGL

PS - oui, c'était une salade composée très acceptable, sinon je ne serais pas en train de la partager (en recette) ici, non?/HGL

How to Tunnel Through a Mountain with Pre-Modern Equipment

Hannah Fry (a longstanding team member on Numberphile) had a lovely exposé about how the ends of the tunnel meet up:

Tunnelling through a Mountain - Numberphile
23rd Jan. 2022 | Numberphile
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kwrDX5qkwvA

She left however somewhat vague (though she offered suggestions) how they knew where E and S were, and that the elevations were equal on both sides, here I step in:

1) E, W and S, N:

5:54 Compasses - drawing tool, yes.
Magnetic tool for finding N, S, anything at right angles (E, W) and anything in between, no.

Marco Polo brought these latter ones from China. In his day magnetite was explained as:

• element earth
• under influence of Mars to make it iron
• and then under influence of Venus to make it attract.

Magnets worked even so, and as said, it was in China they were first used for compasses. In early modern times they were equipped with a paper that marked off not just quarters, not just eighth parts (NE, SW etc), not just sixteenths (NNE, ENE etc) but even thirtyseconds (E by N, ENE by N)* ... Belloc wrote an essay about a sailor who went mad as his captain or boatswain was explaining this.

Now - what did Polycrates (po-LEE-kru-TEES) use, as he lived before Marco Polo?

You might use the other type of compass or simply strings and pegs, in drawing straight angles, and that would include straight angles between a shadow marked at sunset and one marked at sunrise. At equinox these would be due W and E of what was throwing the shadow, and either way they would make a line due W-E, so that a straight angle would mark the exact time when the sun was in zenit, the shadow straight N.

Ensuing exchange:

Mark Tillotson

But the magnetic properties of iron were known the Greeks, its not a big stretch for them to have the compass - after all we get the word magnet from the greek region of Magnesia, so they had magnetic rocks and iron. Thales of Miletus described magnetic phenomenon (we only have second hand accounts of this apparently) - a lot of knowledge may have been lost to the ravages of time.

Hans-Georg Lundahl

@Mark Tillotson We have no direct reason to believe Greeks used magnets for compasses.

We have no reason to believe seafarers would have lost such knowledge if they had had it.

We have every reason to believe that Marco Polo got the magnetic compass from China. And that prior to him, it was unknown in the Mediterranean.

Greeks were not all that famous for practicality in using scientific discoveries. Nero used a lens as a magnifying glass, but corrective eye-glasses only came with the Middle Ages. Archimedes used a screw for elevating water slowly - around 1400, Europe had a practical push and lift pump and was attaching objects to each other with screws turned by screwdrivers. While screws for oil presses / wine presses already existed in antiquity, Europe added screws for woodcut pressing and printing with moveable types in the Middle Ages.

2) Elevation:

6:57 Build a momentary dam around the whole mountain or at least on one side the entrances need to have contiguity around the mountain.

Then fill that dam with water. Tada, entrance levels are equally high!

* Correction on these

"(in first quadrant) north by east (NbE), northeast by north (NEbN), northeast by east (NEbE), and east by north (EbN)"

Thank you, wiki:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Points_of_the_compass

Washing in Laundries? A Tip ...

Put a tennis ball or two into the machine.

If you wash without machines, you push the dirty clothes around with your hands, or if the water is too hot, with a wooden spoon. In a machine, you cannot get either hands or spoon into it, but a tennis ball will do the same work.

I got this tip from a man in the lavomatic who had it from his grandmother.

Best wishes with your washing!/HGL

Farce de fricassé

C'est une "salade de patates" on vient de me dire ce matin, de:

• patates
• (huile d'olive?)
• harissa
• thon

Et après on ajoute:

• œufs
• olives dénoyautés
• tomate

Pour le pain ou beignet, faudra attendre la recette.

Mon interlocuteur venait de la Tunisie./HGL

PS, paraît que certains au moins ajoutent salade méchouia aussi./HGL

PPS, je crois que l'instruction d'Inés pourrait être un peu plus instructive que ma conversation de ce matin:

❤recette fricassés tunisiens❤
Les delices d'ines | Ajoutée le 28 déc. 2014
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DyBcGaPk_K0

Getting a logo or URL for a poster the right distance of letters.

Imagine you were writing the German word PFEFFERMINZ. On a cardboard, with a pen or pencil, by hand.

You start out, at approriate distance P and Z and take an E right between them - but why?

Because the second E in PFEFFERMINZ is right between P and Z (this is also the reason why Eduard Haas III gave PEZ candy its name, as abbreviation of PFEFFERMINTZ).

Shall we check?

P P
F (1)
E (2)
F (3)
F (4)
E E
R (1)
M (2)
I (3)
N (4)
Z Z

Right. Four letters between P and E, four between E and Z.

Next two letters (see you later, PEZ, perhaps), or in this case four letters ... why four, why not two? With an uneven number of intervening letters, it would logically be two, the mid letter between P and E, the mid letter between E and Z. But with an even number of intervening letters, there are two mid letters in each stretch.

P P F (1) E E F F F (1) E E R (1) M (2) I (3) N (4) Z Z

P P F (1) E E F F F (1) E E R (1) M M I I N (1) Z Z

As you can see, some are already next to each other, so, now we have four stretches with one intervening letter each. Once they are all filled in, the word is fully written out:

P P F F E E F F F (1) E E R (1) M M I I N (1) Z Z

P P F F E E F F F F E E R (1) M M I I N (1) Z Z

P P F F E E F F F F E E R R M M I I N (1) Z Z

P P F F E E F F F F E E R R M M I I N N Z Z

Now, PFEFFERMINTZ has exactly 11 letters. This means there is a mid letter and this means the two new stretches of unwritten letters will be four letter spaces long, with two mid letters instead.

Anything in a series of 5, 9, 13, 17, 21, 25 (1+4n) will have uneven new stretches too, so you go for two mid letters on of each stretch in the second stage as for the one mid letter in the whole stretch first step. If you think of it, this means, you can also divide words with two thirds letters, if there are stretches (original and perhaps subsequent) that arrive in words with 4, 7, 10, 13, 16, 19, 22, 25 (1+3n) letters.

ROBBERS has a total of seven (so is HTTP:// btw) ...

R R O (1) B (2) B (3) E (4) R (5) S S		R R O (1) B B B (1) E (2) R (3) S S		R R O (1) B B B (1) E E R (1) S S
R R O O B B B (1) E E R (1) S S		R R O O B B B B E E R (1) S S		R R O O B B B B E E R R S S

I could just as well have gone from two ends to middle B. The main thing is, you start at end points, you continue to mid point or mid points, you go on from there. I am not going to detail each case for you.

Here is an example with more than one line, and I did longest, middle line first:

H

T

T

P

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(7, + 5 before, + 5 after)

L

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O

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A

N

T

I

M

O

D

E

R

N

I

S

M

|

(17)

.

B

L

O

G

S

P

O

T

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C

O

M

|

(13, + 2 before, + 2 after)

If it looks uneven, it is because I (in ANTIMODERNISM) and M (in COM) are superposed on equal space, and computer printed letters don't quite do that. If you do it by hand, as this is meant for, you can make the I slightly slanted to be a bit broader, the M slightly narrower or the vertical lineup slightly less even, so the horizontal distances get more even. By the way, here is the link to Latest on Antimodernism which is what the URL is URL to. It's a blog where I put widgets with latest five posts on each of the blogs that are featured in widgets on it.

Hans Georg Lundahl
Nanterre UL
Conversion of St. Paul
25.I.2019

Updated with bold letters for the ones being added to a layout./HGL

Square Root Extraction

Assorted retorts from yahoo boards and elsewhere : Sqrts · Recipes from Home and Abroad : Square Root Extraction

Here is a fairly normal procedure:



First group is 2. Nearest lower square is 1 of which the square root is 1. Write 1 in the result.

Write 1 to the left. Then write 1 under it. Multiply and write the result 1 under the 2.

To the left, you add 1 and 1 and get 2. Further right, you take 1 away from 2 and get 1.

Next to that 1, you put down the 8 from above, and then ...



2 in 18 is 9. So, one could write 9 in the result after 1.

However, this will lead to 29 * 9 = 267 sorry, 261 which cannot be deduced from 189 once you put down the 9 beside the 18.

Now, erase the 9 from everywhere, I'll skip trying with 8, and go to trying with next lower, 7.

Write 7 in result, 7 after 2 and 7 under that 7. Now multiply 27 * 7, this should land you with 189, which deducted from 189 leaves nothing, meaning 289 is the exact square of 17.

Is 27 * 7 really 189?



Seems so. So, sqrt(289)=17.

Here I show completed process for sqrt(121) = 11:



First group was 1, nearest lower square is 1 of which the square root is 1. Write 1 in result, 1 under the 1 to the left, multiply to get 1 to deduct from 1, add to get 2 to divide the 02, get 1 as result, put 1 in result, put 1 after the 2, put 1 under this 1, then multiply, 21 * 1 = 21, deduct from 021, leaves nothing.

Enjoy! A word of caution, though. I tried this on 2.00|00|00|00|00|00|00|00|00 ... and at about 8 decimals of the result, I got a value which did not square to 1.9999 ... plus some decimals at the end, but to 2.0000 ... plus some decimals at the end. I don't know why, generally, this should not happen, but I haven't detected my mistake, if such.

Hans Georg Lundahl
Nanterre UL
St. Timothy the Deacon
19.XII.2018

No Such Post on a Given Blog?

Here is how that can look:



Now, note the final characters %EF%BB%BF which I blued.

Remove them, and the post becomes quite findable and indeed found on the blog:

https://notontimsblogroundhere.blogspot.com/2016/04/two-of-these-quoted-silent-historians.html

If you want to check a link before pasting or clicking, see if the final l in html is removed when you put the mouse pointer after it and you click backward, then replace it.

If it has this stuff, it does not show, but you will have to click twice before actually seeing the l disappear, then you just make an l normally, replacing the l, but not the invisible additions that sometimes show up as "%EF%BB%BF"/HGL

Trucs pour une vidéo de rap

• Pour la vidéo:
  
  
  • trouver un endroit cool et pas pour l'instant fréquenté par d'autres
    
    
  • pour des zoom, celui qui tient la caméra peut s'approcher et régresser du rappeur (il doit avoir des bras bien tendus pour que la caméra ne bouge qu'avec le déplacement de ses pieds et il doit avoir un pas très soigné aussi).
  
  
  
• Pour le rap:
  
  
  • le texte doit être bien mémorisé en bon rythme
    
    
  • les mouvements des bras sont rythmés
    
    
  • et constituent une actio qui aide à se rappeler des mots exacts.

How does one use diagrams for webs or similar anyway?

If you want to sew or tie some kind of outer lock around strings interlocking with each other or around a string interlocked with itself, and you want the interlocking to have a certain look, the thing is to first make some kind of diagram for each point on the cardboard where you provisorically attach the string, until it is so interlocked that it can be fixated, and then you remove the cardboard.

It is also a good idea for objects meant to have volume./HGL

I am trying but failing to get a good diagram for this ...

You know, the kind of thread work in which the threads make a nice and curvy pattern, while being drawn straight.

I'd like to reuse such a pattern as basis for a little net. Two things would be necessary :

• making a diagram on cardboard;
• that this diagram in no point crosses more than 2 lines (or threads).

Because, then I could use the crossing points of lines as interlocking points for strands in the net.

Here are my failures:





As you can see, there are too many "threads" or lines crossing at some points. If you want to interlock two strands in a net, you need to have a point at which two lines are crossing, and you need it sufficiently distant from next point where two lines are crossing./HGL

PS : here too:

Ketchup Drink? Red Apple? How shall we call it ...?

Either way, you mix tomato juice with apple juice. Proportion should make it clearly thinner than tomato juice, without losing tomato flavour. That's it.

Reason for proposed names:

• ketchup as such contains tomato paste and apple sauce. So, a drink with tomato juice and apple juice would be a drink version of it - or a liquid version, hence "ketchup drink" or "liquid ketchup" - except it doesn't sound very good;
• while some apples are red, tomatoes are generally red, so tomato mixed with apple would in that sense be "red apple" as in "red plus apple" - but while red apple is very much better sounding, it is also less clear ... so, what about "red plus apple"?

Or do you have other suggestions? Comment box is in fact open, here as on other blogs./HGL

"Tapis turque" (normale et allongée)

Clicquez pour aggrandir:



Doubler ou tripler les cordes autour du nœud se fait après, les deux bouts qui se touchent en bas du nœud - l'un peut être enfilé à rebours le chemin de l'autre. Et à la fin, on laisse les bouts se toucher dans un endroit discret, au revers. Éventuellement aussi fortifier en cousant./HGL

PS, je ne sais pas si "tapis turque" est le bon mot en français, ça traduit "turkisk matta" - qui l'est en suédois./HGL

On veut du vin et des sucreries?

Si on est mendiant dans une ville où il y a des Musulmans, voici une méthode:

• Quand vous avez l'argent, achetez du vin, tenez-le visible en continuant la manche;
• Des Musulmans vont vous fournir avec des sucreries.

Hier, en débutant les fêtes d'anniversaire, j'ai pu avoir une quantité modéré du vin, en achetant un litre et en utilisant une bouteille d'un demi-litre déjà vide pour épargner la moitié à aujourd'hui.

Grâce à un Musulman avec du bon goût en pâtisseries, j'ai eu deux croissants fourrés de marmelade d'abricots. Et grâce à la providence de Dieu, que j'ai encore eu la bouteille, j'ai pu ni gaspiller, ni boire trop pour aller assez bien tout en ayant combiné alcool et sucre.

Deo gratias!/HGL

Folding quiers - plier les cahiers d'imprimérie (ou de photocopies)

1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8
9	10	11	12	13	14	15	16
17	18	19	20	21	22	23	24
25	26	27	28	29	30	31	32
33	34	35	36	37	38	39	40

D'abord la première ligne.		First the first line.
1 and 8 are extremes, and 4 and 5 are mid pages.		1 et 8 sont les pages extrêmes et 4 et 5 les pages moyennes.
Les autres pages en italiques sont les pages du côté verso de l'impression.		The other pages, in italics, are the pages of the verso side on the print out.
These should be folded to each other so 2 touches 3 and 6 touches 7.		Celles-ci doivent être pliées entre elles pour que 2 touche 3 et pour que 6 touche 7.
Après le premier pli, donc, on a les pages extrêmes d'un côté et les pages moyennes de l'autre.		After the first fold, then, you have extreme pages on one side and mid pages on the other one.
The second fold makes the two mid pages touch and makes the extremes the two outer pages of the whole folded quier.		Le deuxième pli fait que les pages moyennes se touchent et fait des deux pages extrêmes les pages ... extrêmes ... du cahier en entier.
Et les lignes suivantes répètes le processus pour les cahiers à suivre, jusqu'à page 40. Les pages 41 - 48, 81 - 88 et 121 à 128 reprennent le schéma avec chaque fois 40 de plus.		And the following lines repeat the process for following quiers, up to page 40. The pages 41 to 48, 81 to 88 and 121 to 128 reuse the pattern with each time forty more.

Hans Georg Lundahl
Bagnolet
5th Sunday after Pentecost
5ème Dimanche après Pentécôte
9.VII.2017