very random

[erastes]

Over at the Macaronis - charliecochrane speaks about our experience of choosing the stories for the I DO anthology and gives some good advice for people who do submit their stories, to what ever market they choose.

Debra Parmley did an interview with me on her Make Believe Mondays Blog. Thank you, Debra!

Help needed!  Does anyone know what the name of the piece of the ship is that ... god - how do I describe it... *looks for photo*  this bit. the bit that you have to step over when you go through a door?



Wolverine and X-men rocks.

Comments

[mylodon.livejournal.com]

I think that would be called 'the bit mylodon always falls over'.

[erastes.livejournal.com]

He pushed open the polished wooden door and stepped carefully over the bit mylodon always falls over. He spotted John Lennox doubled up on a berth, almost invisible in the gloom of the cabin.

[mylodon.livejournal.com]

He was doubled up because he was laughing at me falling over.

That works. *nods*

[erastes.livejournal.com]

I can't stick with John Lennox though. No Strawberry Fields on a lighthouse.

[mylodon.livejournal.com]

Anthony 'Annie' Lennox? Don't think that has any pop connections.

[erastes.livejournal.com]

You are so helpful.

[mylodon.livejournal.com]

*sings*

If I can help somebody, as I pass along...

[mzcalypso.livejournal.com]

I'd call it the threshold or lower lip of the hatch or say X stepped through the hatch.

You come up with some fairly weird conundrums. Stick to wooden ships--they don't have these problems!

[erastes.livejournal.com]

ah - good point - this would be a wooden ship. It's the ship that transports people from the shore to a lighthouse, so it wouldn't have these trippy up things?

[alex-beecroft.livejournal.com]

It would have the trippy up things because those are there to stop water pouring in off the deck. I don't know if it has a correct name, but 'lip of the hatch' sounds good :)

[lee-rowan.livejournal.com]

ask atthe_algonquin. She has volunteered on a wooden sailing ship and has probably even repaired one of those foot-catching trippy things. Or ..

AHA!

No, they wouldn't have anything more than a regular threshold. I just dug out a picture I took on the Grand Turk, ages ago, in Portsmouth, and ships were built more or less like houses.

The logic here is that you would probably (hopefully infrequently) get huge surges of water across the deck, high enough even to slop over the doorsill -- so you would want the water to run out just as fast. Steel boats have watertight seals, (quick! throw it a fish!) so the architecture is different.

It's a horribly blurry pic, but I'll send it to you. This is a frigate, but I don't imagine a barge would be much different.

[erastes.livejournal.com]

Thank you thank you! I don't think there's anything I've ever asked that my flist couldn't answer.

:)

[schmoo999.livejournal.com]

Wolverine and the X-Men do indeed rock.

[erastes.livejournal.com]

*squee!* I knew you'd be watching - they've only just started to show it over here, but i've found somewhere else to watch it so I shall be gulping it in great lumps. I'm already love with warren and the bad one who is super fast and I don't know his name.

Brooding, falling apart Cyclops!!! Ha ha!!

[schmoo999.livejournal.com]

Now exactly what it is you are watching? The cartoon? The super fast baddie is Quicksilver, son of Magneto, twin brother of the Scarlet Witch. :) (Going on 20 years of reading X-Men comics.)

I have no XMen icons loaded. I have this plushie spidey one for some reason. lol. Tis cute.

[erastes.livejournal.com]

Watching this:

http://www.animefreak.tv/watch/wolverine-and-x-men-episode-1-english-dubbed-online-free

Quicksilver. Yum. Reminds me of a certain silver haired aristocrat, can't think who.....

:)

[schmoo999.livejournal.com]

Anime version of the XMen?? I so need to watch this:D but alas this won't load. I think too many peeps are trying to watch it right now:(

[erastes.livejournal.com]

Hee hee!!! I'm ahead of the x-men phile!

[schmoo999.livejournal.com]

*sigh* My geek rep is sadly tarnished now.

;)

[erastes.livejournal.com]

ah ha! it confused me as everyone called him Pietro!

Stupid mutants!

[erastes.livejournal.com]

Argh! Love Nitro more!

[schmoo999.livejournal.com]

Yes, that is his real name and his code name is Quicksilver, his twin sister is Wanda. :)

[aunty_marion]

Thirty years ago (or thereabouts) I worked in a company where I could have either looked that up or asked someone! It's a bulkhead, generally, I think, but that's the whole thing, into which the door is fitted. I think the bit at the bottom would just be called a doorsill, or sill - see this Statutory Instrument (I used to know all about those!) which has some useful bits of terminology. I googled (without the quotes) 'bulkhead ships construction'.

[erastes.livejournal.com]

I love my flist - they have the most obscure knowledge - thank you!

xxx

[moondancerdrake.livejournal.com]

I thought Wolverine and X-men wasn't out until the 23rd...did I miss something?

[erastes.livejournal.com]

It was on the BBC IPlayer, and that is episode 2, so i tracked down episode one and watched that first and then watched epi 2 on iplayer

[adventurat.livejournal.com]

Yeah, I was going to say "bulkhead" or "sill", but I see I've been beaten to both. :)

[erastes.livejournal.com]

Thanks, hun!

[venivincere]

The bulkhead would be any inner wall of a ship, but the bottom part of the doorframe is called the sill. So he would either step over or trip over or stumble over the sill. And maybe slam into the bulkhead before he hit the deck. Erm.

[erastes.livejournal.com]

*laughs*

Thank goodness they won't be on the damned ship for long, just long enough to get them to the lighthouse. I'll NEVER be able to write ship books, too much to trip you up!

[lferion]

I think it is coaming.

[erastes.livejournal.com]

WOW.

Thank you!

*impressed*

[aunty_marion]

Isn't that a vertical edge to a horizontal hatchway, though? i.e. when you're standing on a flat surface/deck, there's a hatch set in it to go down a level, with a raised edge (= coaming) around it, vertical to the horizontal deck, so you step over that to go down the ladder. I'm not sure if you can apply that term to this structure in the same way.

[lferion]

According to "The Lore of Ships" the raised bit at the bottom of openings in vertical walls is also called coaming.