Found inscribed on the bottom of a reused limestone block at the Q'am Mosque in Cairo, "If you enjoyed our stelae on the great works of Pharaoh Khufu, then see our scroll 'How its made - the Pyramids' now in the library at Alexandria".
This is an ironic story, fictional at many levels, all in one sentence...
Sometimes the disclaimer takes the bite out, and has to be read as carefully as the material, so imagine you had not read the above disclaimer line.
I thought such a one sentence construct would be an accepted form of story/literature, but I could find no reference to such a form? What is a one sentence story called? Ultra short story?http://www.onesentence.org/stories/popular/
The above one sentence entities are based on reality.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Short_story
Short stories, though short, are typically longer.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anecdote
Anecdotes are typically based on reality.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Parable
Parables have an instructive moral.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fable
Fables involve anaimals or supernatural aspects.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joke
Jokes are meant to evoke laughter or humour.
The one sentence fictional story above is meant to provoke thought through thoughtful (not humourous) irony.
Friday, March 19, 2010
Wednesday, March 3, 2010
Cornell Clark Hall Car Cam and from Internet Archive Wayback Machine.
Internet Archive (Wayback Machine) has many uses: http://www.archive.org/index.php
Was trying to find my old webpages at the Cornell Materials Science Center (roughly 1995 onwards)http://web.archive.org/web/*/http://msc.cornell.edu/~putnam
http://www.ccmr.cornell.edu/~putnam/clcarcam.html
Had to navigate through link changes. http://web.archive.org/web/19990417232519/http://www.msc.cornell.edu/~putnam/clcarcam.html
So here is the record of my build archived in 1999. The actual Cornell Clark Hall Car Cam construction was in 1996. Wireless camera mounted on an RC car transmitting (on weak UHF) to a battery operated TV. But cannot claim to be first... it was based on an a segment on Letterman in 1994/1995.
There was one in toy stores in 2008.
http://dvice.com/archives/2008/10/-snooping-just.php
The ATV-360 camera on a tracked vehicle.
http://www.amazon.com/Wild-Planet-Gear-Video-ATV-360/dp/B0016A7PGU
Make Magazine 20 page 120 has a similar thing, but for a recording camera. http://makezine.com/20/
http://www.make-digital.com/make/vol20/?folio=120
ala George C Hale, Hale Tours - where cameras were mounted on trains, footage taken and shown in cinemas.
http://www.vintagekansascity.com/halestours/
http://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Phantom_Ride
Oddly enough only gets a reference in German - not in English?
Was trying to find my old webpages at the Cornell Materials Science Center (roughly 1995 onwards)http://web.archive.org/web/*/http://msc.cornell.edu/~putnam
http://www.ccmr.cornell.edu/~putnam/clcarcam.html
Had to navigate through link changes. http://web.archive.org/web/19990417232519/http://www.msc.cornell.edu/~putnam/clcarcam.html
So here is the record of my build archived in 1999. The actual Cornell Clark Hall Car Cam construction was in 1996. Wireless camera mounted on an RC car transmitting (on weak UHF) to a battery operated TV. But cannot claim to be first... it was based on an a segment on Letterman in 1994/1995.
There was one in toy stores in 2008.
http://dvice.com/archives/2008/10/-snooping-just.php
The ATV-360 camera on a tracked vehicle.
http://www.amazon.com/Wild-Planet-Gear-Video-ATV-360/dp/B0016A7PGU
Make Magazine 20 page 120 has a similar thing, but for a recording camera. http://makezine.com/20/
http://www.make-digital.com/make/vol20/?folio=120
ala George C Hale, Hale Tours - where cameras were mounted on trains, footage taken and shown in cinemas.
http://www.vintagekansascity.com/halestours/
http://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Phantom_Ride
Oddly enough only gets a reference in German - not in English?
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