[Synapse elist] mowing the lawn

[Vicki]

Simon, 

I recall the first 'Charles and Diana' visit to NZ with wee willie William..
The gardeners at Government House in Wellington spent some considerable
months beforehand mowing the main lawns into a pattern of (and now I can't
remember: a kiwi? profiles of the happy couple?)...

>"Simeon Lockhart Nelson" <simeon at simeon-nelson.com> wrote:
> Mowing the lawn is one of my favorite things to do. When I was a
> child I mowed my family's large informal garden and would mow
> patterns 

and
>> The maps they submit make medieval cartography seem highly
>> empirically sophisticated by comparison! I find this strange in the
>> age of Google Earth when any of us can explore the most remote corner
>> of the earth with panoptic ease.

It's not at all strange to me. But then I'm someone who spends most of her
time on Google Earth 'zoomed in'... ie. using it to see detail.

Which makes the following much less surprising. Surely mapping done whilst
walking, with all the body memory that implies, stays with us for longer, at
a deeper level?

>> the Inuit
>> have extraordinary mental maps. They can remember many miles of
>> complex coastline and carve a piece of wood to represent this with
>> almost the same level of accuracy as GPS mapping. They can do this by
>> by traveling on foot or sledge through the landscape once.

Jeremy,

>>> From: "jeremy wood" <jwood.net at gmail.com>
>>> From the recording and mapping of my daily GPS tracks since 2002 I have
>>> certainly changed the way I treat my journeys, it has even influenced
>>> the way I mow the lawn.

Do you worry about becoming paranoid, knowing your every movement is being
recorded? 


Vicki