[meteorite-list] Ad Announcing the

From: Shawn Alan <photophlow_at_meteoritecentral.com>
Date: Mon, 15 Mar 2010 03:39:42 -0700 (PDT)
Message-ID: <431164.8392.qm_at_web113606.mail.gq1.yahoo.com>

Knock Knock, Who's there, Count, Count who, Count that found the big honker :) congrats
 
Count, when you have a chance click on this link on eBay
http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=280478300077&ssPageName=STRK:MEWAX:IT
 
It looks like this could be one of Tims cm wood cubes. Well that is what I would assume that its a cm cube because that has been the standard I have seen day in and day out with orientation cubes. Now for argument sake, lets say its the inch cube and the only reference I can go off of is the image with no text. By default, I would assume its a cm size cube cause that has been the standard. But in actuality its the inch cube, or who knows, it could be 2.5 inch cube or 1.3 inch cube or a foot cube.
 
Now this can cause some confusion when people use orientation cubes as a set standard for scale. When the scale changes in size the orientation cube has no use now when a new size is introduced. I like that he made the inch cube in celebration for your big find. I think it would have been more fitting and fun if he also branded the wooden cube to say The Count Cube to distinguish it from his cm wood cubes that he sells. Cause what might happen now is people might take the inch cube and use it as an orientation cube scale and this could cause confusion if you cant see the inch etched in the cube because all of the other orientation cubes are cm.
 
Lastly, the last part of the post I said
 
"Now I think if you made the inch orientation cube
> ornate looking and pushed the humor by altering it so it
> doesn't resemble the cm wooden orientation cubes, I could
> see people not getting confused with the inch orientation
> cube and they would see the humor in it."
 
The Humor was referring to Tim saying hes having fun and not being serious in regards to the inch cube. I was only suggesting a way for him to have fun with the inch cube so that it wouldn't look like his cm cube and people wouldnt get them confused.
 
Shawn Alan

 
 
 


--- On Mon, 3/15/10, countdeiro at earthlink.net <countdeiro at earthlink.net> wrote:

> From: countdeiro at earthlink.net <countdeiro at earthlink.net>
> Subject: Re: [meteorite-list] Ad Announcing the
> To: "Shawn Alan" <photophlow at yahoo.com>, Starsinthedirt at aol.com
> Cc: meteorite-list at meteoritecentral.com
> Date: Monday, March 15, 2010, 1:20 AM
> Knock knock, Shawn,
>
> Push the humour? What? You think I'm funny? How am I funny?
> You mean I amuse you.....anyway...the one inch cube has "1
> INCH" stamped into it for craps sake...Jeez!
>
> Finding that honker was about as funny as having a heart
> attack. Like Tom went great lengths to explain.. he wants to
> create commemorative scale cubes....for historic finds.
> Thank you, Tom...I'm immodest enough to be honored. I'd like
> to see you have to come out with a 1M or a 1Ft.
>
> (dialogue above taken from the film "Goodfellas" Joe
> Pesci...all rights reserved.)
>
> Count Deiro
> INCA 3536
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
> >From: Shawn Alan <photophlow at yahoo.com>
> >Sent: Mar 14, 2010 11:50 PM
> >To: Starsinthedirt at aol.com
> >Cc: meteorite-list at meteoritecentral.com
> >Subject: [meteorite-list] Ad Announcing the "Count"
> cube Scale / Orientation cube
> >
> >Hi Tom and List,
> >
> >I like the direction your going with the wooden
> orientation cubes, however I have a question. You had
> said......
> >
> >"First off, I want you all to know I am not taking this
>
> >seriously, just having fun with it."
> >
> >Now when you say your just just having fun with this
> and not taking this seriously, is this in reference to the
> sizes of the new orientation cubes? Why I ask is because
> when I was looking at some of the images that you had posted
> on eBay with the new inch orientation cubes, I wasn't able
> to tell which one was the inch cube and which on was the cm
> cube.I think this could cause problems with documenting the
> size by using the inch orientation cubes instead of cm cubes
> for reference of size. I feel there is a reason why in
> science and meteorite science the metric system is used as a
> standard practices for measuring/documentation, if there
> wasn't standard size in measuring, science would be a mess.
> >
> >Now I think if you made the inch orientation cube
> ornate looking and pushed the humor by altering it so it
> doesn't resemble the cm wooden orientation cubes, I could
> see people not getting confused with the inch orientation
> cube and they would see the humor in it.
> >
> >Shawn Alan
> >
> >
> >[meteorite-list] Ad Announcing the "Count" cube Scale /
> Orientation cube
> >Starsinthedirt at aol.com Starsinthedirt at aol.com
> >Sun Mar 14 19:48:40 EDT 2010
> >
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> >Hi List, First off, I want you all to know I am not
> taking this
> >seriously, just having fun with it.
> >
> >About a month ago I came up with the "Martin" cube. A
> wood centimeter
> >scale / orientation cube that would look good next to
> historic meteorites.
> >Hence the nick name "Martin Cube".
> >
> >Well as it happened, I had just sent Count some Martin
> cubes when he made
> >his fantastic record setting 14.7 Kg Nevada chondrite
> find. I got to
> >thinking the little centimeter cube would look rather
> insignificant next to the
> >monster. So I made some 1 inch cubes.
> >
> >(I wanted to stay metric but I also wanted to keep to
> even numbers or the
> >whole scale easy size reference thing goes out the
> window. One inch is
> >about 25mm.)
> >
> >I listed some on eBay in sets of three cubes; 1 Martin
> Cube, 1 new style
> >cube with "CM" to designate centimeter and 1 Count Cube
> (The big one!).
> >
> >The link is at
> >
> >http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=260569117864&ssPageName=S
>
> >TRK:MESELX:IT
> >
> >Thanks, Tom
> >
> >
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