Making Light :: Charnockite :: comments http://nielsenhayden.com/makinglight/archives/002380.html#comments Language, fraud, folly, truth, history, and knitting. Et cetera. en Fri, 28 Feb 2003 23:36:30 -0500 http://www.sixapart.com/movabletype/?v=4.261 Charnockite "Charnockite: A Deep and Meaningful Granitoid Rock," it says. This is part of Turnstone Geological Services' rock of the month... "Charnockite: A Deep and Meaningful Granitoid Rock," it says. This is part of Turnstone Geological Services' rock of the month... http://nielsenhayden.com/makinglight/archives/002380.html Charnockite -- comment #1 from Stefan Jones comment from Stefan Jones on 27.Feb.03 Have you read Oliver Sacks' _Uncle Tungsten_, Teresa?

In addition to great stuff about Sacks' own early love of chemistry, it's about the doctor's family, which was heavy with enthusiastic wonkish types: Chemists, engineers, doctors, and such.

]]> <p>Posted February 27, 2003 2:10 AM by Stefan Jones</p> http://nielsenhayden.com/makinglight/archives/002380.html#16302 http://nielsenhayden.com/makinglight/archives/002380.html#16302 Thu, 27 Feb 2003 02:10:59 -0500 Charnockite -- comment #2 from Mike Clinch comment from Mike Clinch on 27.Feb.03 What Turnstone's site doesn't mention is the origin of the name "Charnockite". Any newly-proposed rock name has to have a type section, where the characteristics of the rock are best displayed. The rock now known as charnockite was one that deserved a type section.

Unfortunately, it was known only from cut and polished stones in Calcutta, and the English geologists who studied the rock didn't know where it came from. Their solution was to use one of the cut stones as the type section. They went to the European cemetery, found the grave of Jacob Charnock, an official with the East India Company, and named the rock after Jacob, with the type section being his tombstone.

Mike Clinch

]]> <p>Posted February 27, 2003 11:27 AM by Mike Clinch</p> http://nielsenhayden.com/makinglight/archives/002380.html#16307 http://nielsenhayden.com/makinglight/archives/002380.html#16307 Thu, 27 Feb 2003 11:27:05 -0500 Charnockite -- comment #3 from barney gumble comment from barney gumble on 28.Feb.03 re: "don?t understand how the publishing industry works, but who are unaware that they don?t understand it, and who resist all attempts at enlightment."

Would it be fair to say that once I learned I'd be getting a $5,000 advance for 90,000 words that I learned all I needed to know, namely that I could make more doing almost anything else and my odds of making big money were better in Vegas and that I could satisfy my ego gratification needs with a free weblog?

(visit my blog at http://mwowatchwatchwatchwatch.blogspot.com/ )

]]> <p>Posted February 28, 2003 2:51 PM by barney gumble</p> http://nielsenhayden.com/makinglight/archives/002380.html#16364 http://nielsenhayden.com/makinglight/archives/002380.html#16364 Fri, 28 Feb 2003 14:51:02 -0500 Charnockite -- comment #4 from Teresa Nielsen Hayden comment from Teresa Nielsen Hayden on 28.Feb.03 Mike, that is seriously cool.

Barney, I went and looked at your weblog; then, as seemed only appropriate, posted a comment about it on a different website.

]]> <p>Posted February 28, 2003 11:36 PM by Teresa Nielsen Hayden</p> http://nielsenhayden.com/makinglight/archives/002380.html#16396 http://nielsenhayden.com/makinglight/archives/002380.html#16396 Fri, 28 Feb 2003 23:36:30 -0500