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If you can't beat 'em...
Aug. 22nd, 2002 02:28 pmthen rummage around the local stores until you find a way to join 'em.
Translation: I've been trying to keep the map of VicMage.Asia straight in my head, and it hasn't been working very well because I haven't been able to figure out where the equator and the prime meridian are in relation to the general vicinity of China. So I went to Staples today, and I can report that the Staples in Parsippany on U.S. Highway 46 does not have globes. . .
Getting an idea where I"m going with this? Good.
Next up was GOING to be Toys Ya* Us, on the grounds that they might have 'em as a concession to educational crap, but before I got into the car I looked across the parking lot. Lo! K-Mart!
Fifteen minutes of looking later (the season transition is hard on any retail setting, especially one where most of the people probably don't give a rat's ass any more because they're working minimum wage for a Chapter 11 employer), I had not only a lovely 12-inch globe, but a bottle of bluey-silvery nail polish that very nearly matches the colour of the oceans on this globe.
I will admit I am feeling horribly guilty about the idea of mutilating a perfectly good globe. I think my brain files it as an Educational Device of Accurate Information, rather the same category as a reference book, and is extending the protection offered to books to the globe as a result. It won't work, though. Tonight I'm getting an awl or something and boring holes through 0'0" and 0'180"**, then re-mounting the globe, then painting over anything that's now under water. True, the map will still be inaccurate due to geological shifting and such, but at least I'll have an idea of where things are in relation to each other. And I won't accidentally dress denizens of islands that ought to feel like Key West in, yanno, snow leopard furs or something.
*If I remember correctly, and there is no guarantee that I do, the backwards R that appears in the Cyrillic alphabet represents the sound 'ya'.
**I may have the second one wrong. The place where Longitude 180 crosses the equator.
Translation: I've been trying to keep the map of VicMage.Asia straight in my head, and it hasn't been working very well because I haven't been able to figure out where the equator and the prime meridian are in relation to the general vicinity of China. So I went to Staples today, and I can report that the Staples in Parsippany on U.S. Highway 46 does not have globes. . .
Getting an idea where I"m going with this? Good.
Next up was GOING to be Toys Ya* Us, on the grounds that they might have 'em as a concession to educational crap, but before I got into the car I looked across the parking lot. Lo! K-Mart!
Fifteen minutes of looking later (the season transition is hard on any retail setting, especially one where most of the people probably don't give a rat's ass any more because they're working minimum wage for a Chapter 11 employer), I had not only a lovely 12-inch globe, but a bottle of bluey-silvery nail polish that very nearly matches the colour of the oceans on this globe.
I will admit I am feeling horribly guilty about the idea of mutilating a perfectly good globe. I think my brain files it as an Educational Device of Accurate Information, rather the same category as a reference book, and is extending the protection offered to books to the globe as a result. It won't work, though. Tonight I'm getting an awl or something and boring holes through 0'0" and 0'180"**, then re-mounting the globe, then painting over anything that's now under water. True, the map will still be inaccurate due to geological shifting and such, but at least I'll have an idea of where things are in relation to each other. And I won't accidentally dress denizens of islands that ought to feel like Key West in, yanno, snow leopard furs or something.
*If I remember correctly, and there is no guarantee that I do, the backwards R that appears in the Cyrillic alphabet represents the sound 'ya'.
**I may have the second one wrong. The place where Longitude 180 crosses the equator.
