Glass Houses...

[casil403]

...well actually ceilings...this is the new ceiling installed at the Calgary Eaton Center, now known as The Core. It is almost 3 blocks long!

http://farm5.static.flickr.com/4050/4393115621_e892df7cd1_o.jpg

[Mad Aussie]

Cool shot. I like how it grows from left to right.

[Bambi]

me too!

[Iguanasan]

Most people wouldn't think to look up but you seem to do it very often. Good on ya as it yields some great results. Lovin' this one too. I like the pattern. :thumbup:

[ericmark]

Yes we don't look up that much good shot.
By the way how long is a "block" is that a Canadian measurement? We have gone part metric here so we have lost some measurements.
We always had metric 10 cables to a fathom and ten fathoms to mile (nautical) and one mile is on second of movement around the earth. But now moved to French metric who got it wrong as one Kilometre should = Nautical mile but French guy who measured earth got it wrong!

[Iguanasan]

Yes we don't look up that much good shot.
By the way how long is a "block" is that a Canadian measurement? We have gone part metric here so we have lost some measurements.
We always had metric 10 cables to a fathom and ten fathoms to mile (nautical) and one mile is on second of movement around the earth. But now moved to French metric who got it wrong as one Kilometre should = Nautical mile but French guy who measured earth got it wrong!

A "block" varies and is not really a consistent form of measurement. Generally, it references a row of houses/buildings as measured from intersection to intersection.

[casil403]

Here's the dictionary version of block....

An usually rectangular section of a city or town bounded on each side by consecutive streets.
A segment of a street bounded by consecutive cross streets and including its buildings and inhabitants.

Should we explain "kitty corner"?
That is a Canadian saying though and through!

FYi...."Kitty corner" is the opposite corner diagonally to where one is standing. So when a Canadian is giving you directions and says the building you are looking for is "kitty corner" to the bank, it means the diagonally opposite corner to the bank. :)
Just some Canadianism to start your day! :)

[Mad Aussie]

And where did a weird term like 'Kitty Corner' originate?

[Bambi]

And where did a weird term like 'Kitty Corner' originate?

Here's an explanation: Re: Where does Kitty Corner derive from (http://www.phrases.org.uk/bulletin_board/12/messages/475.html)


The word is "catercorner" or "catercornered." The "cater" is an Anglicization of the French "quatre," or "four," and "catercornered" originally just meant "four-cornered." To specify that something is "catercorner across" from something else is to stress the diagonal axis of an imaginary box, as opposed to saying "directly across" or just "across."

According to the Dictionary of American Regional English "catercorner" first appeared around 1883 in the South, and originally meant "askew" or "out of line." The "diagonally across" meaning soon took over, however, as did the transition from "cater" to "catty." Linguists call this process "folk etymology" -- people replacing an unfamiliar element in a word or phrase ("cater") with a familiar one ("catty" or "kitty"). "Cattycorner" has remained purely an Americanism.

makes sense now, doesn't it? ;)

[casil403]

Lol as clear as mud or a Kittycorner. :D
How about Chesterfield?

[Mad Aussie]

Ok ... cool. A combination of French Canadian and then a twist of folk etymology as they called it.

We have similar terms here where words are replaced with something rhyming.
We might 'Hit the Frog and Toad' instead of just 'Hitting the road' for instance.

[edG]

very cool shot