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cellioA long time ago, I published a set of instructions for building a yurt (aka ger), the Mongolian temporary dwelling. I had built one for SCA use, building on knowledge from others, and collected what I'd learned as the next contribution. I'm sure there've been plenty of works since then that should have deprecated my little article, but it's floating around out there so I get inquiries from time to time.
The letter from the middle-school class in Myanmar asking if I thought using bamboo would work was the most unusual query I'd gotten until the one from the fellow in Scotland considering a housing change who wanted to know if it would stand up to force-11 winds. But tonight I got something even better.
This was a request for permission to adapt my article. You see (the writer says), in Star Wars there's this (race? nation?) called the Mandalorians, who have many parallels to the Mongols, and he wants to publish a manual for building a vheh'yaim, which is something like a yurt.
The sender's web site refers to a Second Life Mandalorian community. (Also something called Star Wars Galaxies, which I infer is another online community. And also Wookiepedia, but the obvious URLs don't turn anything up.) I wonder if there are also Star Wars re-enactors who actually build stuff the way the SCA and Klingon and Civ War folks do.
The world-wide web: it's not just for Earth any more. :-)
(I said yes, and in the time it took me to compose this entry he wrote back to say that it's theoretical now, but he won't be surprised if that changes.)
The letter from the middle-school class in Myanmar asking if I thought using bamboo would work was the most unusual query I'd gotten until the one from the fellow in Scotland considering a housing change who wanted to know if it would stand up to force-11 winds. But tonight I got something even better.
This was a request for permission to adapt my article. You see (the writer says), in Star Wars there's this (race? nation?) called the Mandalorians, who have many parallels to the Mongols, and he wants to publish a manual for building a vheh'yaim, which is something like a yurt.
The sender's web site refers to a Second Life Mandalorian community. (Also something called Star Wars Galaxies, which I infer is another online community. And also Wookiepedia, but the obvious URLs don't turn anything up.) I wonder if there are also Star Wars re-enactors who actually build stuff the way the SCA and Klingon and Civ War folks do.
The world-wide web: it's not just for Earth any more. :-)
(I said yes, and in the time it took me to compose this entry he wrote back to say that it's theoretical now, but he won't be surprised if that changes.)
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Date: 2008-01-20 07:25 pm (UTC)The mug story made me laugh. (Sounds like a nifty mug, too.)
(Lest you wonder, by the way, I am well aware of the mismatch in fandoms produced by the icon I posted this with. It's not meant to be a Star Wars reference.)