03.12.01
Synchronicity
Amy and I were at Powell’s last night, she looking for Holocaust literature, me in search of French instructional materials. After a couple hours there, we began walking to the check out. Out of the corner of my eye I see a display of maps and atlases. As I’m walking by and scanning the State atlases, I see the name ‘Peter’s Projection’ printed on a rolled up map.
I think, “Hmmm, that’s interesting.” I begin to recall the number of different projections of world maps that are available. But thought is fleeting and I’m onto another trickle of conciousness. No streams, just trickles.
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So this morning I’m at work and we’re having a conference call with a client in New York. They’re a world-wide health-oriented non-profit that we’re building a web site for. Towards the end of the call, one of the guys on the client’s side says, “On the Regions page, what map are you going to use?”
I replied, “We’ll pull a piece out of our clip art files. Is there something in particular we should be thinking about?”
“There’s a particular kind of map that our group and other groups use…” he trails off. “I can’t remember the name of it, but…”
I ask, rather innocently, “Do you want something like the Peter’s Projection?”
“Yes, that’s the one, exactly.”
http://www.petersmap.com/table.html
http://www.diversophy.com/products/use_peters_map.htm