Let’s start with the term “technologically advanced rowboat.” I think that might sum up the point I’m trying to make. As cool as I may think all of this is, I still think the term and the idea sound pretty silly. The more I meditated on this yesterday, the idea of mixing old and new technologies […]
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Day 31: Dark Times
It was the beginning of another day on the JRH. By that, I mean it was the middle of a four-hour row shift and I felt on the verge of collapse in my seat while waiting to cry, fall off my seat, or slam my shin with the oar. It’s hard to tell when one […]
It’s hard to describe as sometimes a day feels like a week and a week feels like a day. Even though our days are strictly managed with a business calendar on smart phones, with alarms going off every hour, time still seems to evade us. I’m much more in touch with the cycles of the […]
Daily Update 2.8 Week 3: Module 2: Date 2/22/13 We learned yesterday that the most powerful tool the early navigators had was that of past knowledge, this often came in the form of charts and maps. The first world atlas was created in the 2nd century CE by the Alexandrian astronomer Ptolemy. His atlas was […]