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| Thing-A-Day-2010 |
| Tuesday, 09 February 2010 19:35 |
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In Northern Canada, the various aboriginal people build stone structures called Inukshuk (literally “person stand-in”). They are made from unworked stone and are generally arranged to look something like a person. They serve as markers in the tundra (which is an extremely featureless place): they may serve indicate a way point, identify a cache of food / tools / shelter / etc, or simply serve as a reminder that someone once passed this way. Image of an Inukshuk overlooking Husdon’s Bay by subarcticmike used under the Creative Commons Attribution 2.0 Generic licence. I modified the original image in the following way: adjusted brightness, contrast and white balance, resized to be 800x600 pixels, saved as a lower quality JPG. The original image is here.
Instead of using rocks (which are so-o-o-o-o primitive civilization) I have updated to using materials likely to be found in any modern, progressive, Western home.
“I have passed this way and left this as witness.” |
Comments
Made me think about one of your posts a while back where you were commenting on the expense of foodstuff getting to Northerners. Milk being a spoilable commodity. Interestingly, in Spain, people almost exclusively drink UHT milk. Fresh milk is uncommon and costs 2-3 times what the boxed milk does. I pay 0.54 for a litre of milk. Fresh is almost always over 1 euro. Getting milk to the Northern aborigines should not be an issue in Canada.
UHT milk...does it come in cans?
The Northern issue...I think there are just a lot of people who have built careers around no solutions being found. It's kind of like what's happened with the healthcare industry -- chronic care rather than cures are more profitable. Send powdered milk up North -- less weight for the plane and a long shelf life. Add water when you get there... it's not difficult! It's not clever, either... so someone doesn't want it to happen.
a hundred years from now, when cockaroaches take over the world, and they will,
your pizza 'marker' might save civilization from a diet of only spirulina and broccoli.
reflect upon how tragic the world would be henceforth-- sans pizza and beer.
i remember one of the islands at matsushima...it was a tour by a ferry and the tour guide said that one of the islands looked like a man smoking,and it was actually a natural stone...although,i cudnt figure it out co we cudnt see it closer,the ferry was moving as well..
belated happy valentine's day,Richard!!
Thanks.