Fragments From Floyd

So he tells me. Photographically speaking, of course. His lenses are way longer than mine. Now he's got a gigapixel Canon EOS HyperDrive Mach VIII that I'll get to take a look at today. It will take an image big enough to spread out across the downtown section of Floyd. He also has the printer equal to the task.

Sure, I understand that a photograph is a representative sample of reality. But hey: a few more generations of biggie-sizing digital CCDs, and... well, let's just say it puts me to mind of this quip:

Lewis Carroll, in Sylvia and Bruno (1889), made a somewhat related point (re "the map is not the territory") humorously with his description of a fictional map that had "the scale of a mile to the mile." A character in the story notes some practical difficulties with such a map and states that "we now use the country itself, as its own map, and I assure you it does nearly as well."

Hmmmm. Life-sized landscape panoramas. Would they sell? Whaddaya think, Douglas?

And oh, when you visit DougThompson.com today, read his tribute to a quarter-century of marriage and wish him and Amy a very happy 25th.