A rhumbline is a direct heading to a point. On a map it's a straight line. It looks like the perfect way to get where you're going. On a globe, though, it may be the long way around. For example, New York and Madrid are about the same latitude. On a map, a course due east from New York is the shortest distance to Madrid. On the round face of the earth, though, a curved path (called the great circle route) passing over Greenland and the northern Atlantic is shorter. Try it with a string and a globe if you don't believe it. That's probably what a lot of the comments on this blog will be like. Random? Disconnected? Circular? Probably. But maybe they will lead to a point eventually.



Thursday, October 13, 2011

What's with the Cardinals?

I'm not a rabid baseball fan, but I watch some games and usually follow the standings until the Cards are out of contention.  This year I gave up on them and looked up a month later and they're the wildcard.  Then they win the division series.  Now they're up 2-1 in the NLCS after winning a nail-biter 4-3 tonight.  Last time they won the Series they were a wildcard.  Could it happen again? 
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