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Message #13900
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From: Jean auBois hogfather@earthlink.net
Date: Sat, 02 Jun 2001 20:52:07 -0600
Subject: Umm.. I don't think so.
(well, this is a better place to post this than the main list, particularly
given the postscript)
Let me start off with this: the artwork itself is lovely. It still makes
me think of fairly uncrushable robots.
http://www.solarbotics.com/images/gallery/hi-rez/Events/LANLY2K1/dscn0409.jpg
However, to quote from the related picture area on the Solarbotics' site:
>Jeff de Boer developed these exoform trilobite shells under Mark Tilden's
>direction.
Exoform? WHY isn't "exoskeleton", a good-old fashioned word good
enough? Actually, I've got a good suspicion why Yet Another Unnecessary
Neologism, but then you'd probably just think I'm being Cynical.
> Both are identical, but inverse of each other
More, far more importantly: the two shells aren't inverses of each
other. They are worked with different metals (not 'identical'), but if you
rotate the silver w/ the gold stripe one 180 degrees so that it is
"parallel" with the other you'll see that they are the same shape and not
inverses.
Boringly yours,
A Swift JaB In The Chops
p.s. check the second definitions for each of "neologism" and "cynical"
using the Merriam-Webster OnLine Language Center:
http://www.m-w.com/dictionary.htm
heh, heh, heh.
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