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General Discussion / Re: Snow near Adriatic sea...
« on: January 23, 2011, 08:37:46 AM »
Hi, axy! 
This globe/marble/atlas thing I have is great. I especially love that when I type in the name of a place and hover over it with the mouse it will give me the longitude and latitude coordinates. And I most especially like that I can then click on it and it will open up a Wikipedia page full of facts for that area.
I couldn't find any good maps, but I found some old faded dollar store type maps (the georgefcram .com kind) in a drawer and I put them up on the wall. They are not so special, but each country on the World Map and each state on the U.S. map is color coded.
It's amazing how this big world seems smaller when I can envision the whole of it and how the big picture then becomes clearer. Now I only need a supply of pushpins to decorate them with.
I have also found a Rand Mcnally and an AAA map book, but these road maps are terrbily outdated and they are not the laminated type that I can write on with a grease pencil.
I do see now that your country is near the Moscow side of Russia to explain some of the similarity in languages. 18 hours of sleep over 6 nights instead of 48 hours has prevented me from understanding the things I see on Wikipedia about your language though. But I do believe I could learn a bit about it since I loved the alphabet.
Also, before I forget, I wanted to tell you that my friends were supposed to come for a visit on Thursday, but they were delayed due to some unavoidable business. I did tell them of your message so I expect, if time permits, that they will type in another short message this week when they arrive.
Do you have newspapers there, axy? I am hoping to ask them to bring me a current newspaper. Would they be able to do that? I know there are places here to buy newspapers from around the world, but not in my city.
Have a great day, axy!
This globe/marble/atlas thing I have is great. I especially love that when I type in the name of a place and hover over it with the mouse it will give me the longitude and latitude coordinates. And I most especially like that I can then click on it and it will open up a Wikipedia page full of facts for that area.
I couldn't find any good maps, but I found some old faded dollar store type maps (the georgefcram .com kind) in a drawer and I put them up on the wall. They are not so special, but each country on the World Map and each state on the U.S. map is color coded.
It's amazing how this big world seems smaller when I can envision the whole of it and how the big picture then becomes clearer. Now I only need a supply of pushpins to decorate them with.
I have also found a Rand Mcnally and an AAA map book, but these road maps are terrbily outdated and they are not the laminated type that I can write on with a grease pencil.
I do see now that your country is near the Moscow side of Russia to explain some of the similarity in languages. 18 hours of sleep over 6 nights instead of 48 hours has prevented me from understanding the things I see on Wikipedia about your language though. But I do believe I could learn a bit about it since I loved the alphabet.
Also, before I forget, I wanted to tell you that my friends were supposed to come for a visit on Thursday, but they were delayed due to some unavoidable business. I did tell them of your message so I expect, if time permits, that they will type in another short message this week when they arrive.
Do you have newspapers there, axy? I am hoping to ask them to bring me a current newspaper. Would they be able to do that? I know there are places here to buy newspapers from around the world, but not in my city.
Have a great day, axy!
