<html><div>I was thinking in my wickiup def about where my brother Bill used to live on the Olympic Peninsula: Sequim, pronounced Squim. Linda PS My mother in law used to used wickiup for an all-purpose def of any small hut. <br><br>---------- Original Message ----------<br>From: Hutch <hutchinson.jeff@gmail.com><br>To: fictionary group <fictionary@swarpa.net><br>Subject: Re: [Fictionary] SQUOYLE results<br>Date: Wed, 25 Mar 2020 04:51:38 -0400<br><br></p><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"> </div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div class="gmail_attr" dir="ltr">On Tue, Mar 24, 2020 at 10:21 PM eLLioTT morEton <<a href="mailto:em@swarpa.net">em@swarpa.net</a>> wrote:</div><div class="gmail_attr" dir="ltr"> </div><div>[snippety]</div><div>Â </div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin: 0px 0px 0px 0.8ex; border-left: 1px solid #cccccc; padding-left: 1ex;">Jim:Â Apropos of very little, I once mused about how to calculate the <br> shape of the path a squirrel would take if it were trying to climb a tree <br> quickly while remaining out of sight of a pedestrian walking in a straight <br> line past the tree. I called the shape a squiral, but didnt actually work <br> out a formula for it...</blockquote><div> </div><div>I saw a video on YouTube a while back where the guy did work out a formula LIKE this one, not identical. I looked for it today, but couldn't find it :-(</div><div> </div><div>[snippety] </div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin: 0px 0px 0px 0.8ex; border-left: 1px solid #cccccc; padding-left: 1ex;">________________________________________________________________________________<br> # Hutch<br> squoyle -- n. -- (Am. Plains states, especially south central Nebraska)<br> correct width of a quarter-section farm field, approx 2,550 to 2,600 feet.<br> (For unscrupulous surveyor: Berwyn M Squoyle, notorious for platting<br> approximately 600 square miles over a period of five years with short<br> measures in order to sell the "extra" sections for his own benefit;<br> murdered in July 1898 outside Ansley, Nebraska).<br> <br> Pierre: I'm in a metes-and-bounds state, but I had to learn about division <br> of public<br> lands, so I'm pretty sure I'd have heard of this.<br> <br> Jim:Â Well, it cant be by Elliott, so perhaps David crafted this one? <br> Honorable mention.</blockquote><div> </div><div>There's actually a clue hidden in plain sight there. There *is* actually a town called Ansley, Nebraska. If you zoom in far enough on Google Maps, you will find a few miles outside of Ansley, the town of Berwyn: from which I named my villain. :-)</div><div> </div><div>[snippety]</div><div> </div></div><div class="gmail_signature" dir="ltr"><div>BB,</div><div>Hutch</div><div>Â </div><div>-----BEGIN GEEK CODE BLOCK-----</div><div>Version: 3.1</div><div>GCM/S d+>- s+:+ a++ C+++$ ULAC>$ P+ L+ !E W++$</div><div>N+ o K? w++++/--$ O? M- V? PS+ PE/- Y PGP- t++ 5?</div><div>X-- R !tv? b++++>$ DI++++ D G+> e++ h+ r--?* y++></div><div>------END GEEK CODE BLOCK------</div></div></div></html>