[NON BLOG] Cartographies
Apr. 25th, 2005 01:07 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
rfmcdonaldI've been looking over a National Geographic map that the National Geographic Society map sent to me late last year, in order to induce me to renew my subscription to their magazine. I've abstained--surely one decade's worth of subscriptions should be enough?--but I've kept the map.
With my eyes, I've traced triangles linking the places I've visited in my lifetime. For the most part, they form triangles close enough to equilateral triangles: Charlottetown-Toronto-Montréal, Toronto-New York City-Richmond, Toronto-New York City-Montréal. My 1993 visit to Alberta, as part of Scouts Canada's 1993 Jamboree in Kananaskis Country, is the only visit that produces radically non-equilateral triangles.
A goal for the future: Whenever I trace the cities I visit on world maps, these cities must never be able to form equilateral triangles, at least in three-dimensional space.
With my eyes, I've traced triangles linking the places I've visited in my lifetime. For the most part, they form triangles close enough to equilateral triangles: Charlottetown-Toronto-Montréal, Toronto-New York City-Richmond, Toronto-New York City-Montréal. My 1993 visit to Alberta, as part of Scouts Canada's 1993 Jamboree in Kananaskis Country, is the only visit that produces radically non-equilateral triangles.
A goal for the future: Whenever I trace the cities I visit on world maps, these cities must never be able to form equilateral triangles, at least in three-dimensional space.
