From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Message-ID: <46530A98.90504@authentrus.com> Date: Tue, 22 May 2007 11:22:00 -0400 From: Wes Kussmaul User-Agent: Thunderbird 1.5.0.10 (Windows/20070221) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Fans of the OS Plan 9 from Bell Labs <9fans@cse.psu.edu> Subject: Re: [9fans] XML References: <5344b7b5944391eefb6047acb8ed55d7@coraid.com> In-Reply-To: <5344b7b5944391eefb6047acb8ed55d7@coraid.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Topicbox-Message-UUID: 6fa52fea-ead2-11e9-9d60-3106f5b1d025 Nothing on the plane of the surface of the earth at the south pole can head or face south. Only something orthogonal to the surface (eg the pole itself or perhaps a penguin's head) can point south. wk erik quanstrom wrote: > however, one end would be *heading* north. the other would be > *heading* south.