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Jun. 12th, 2007 01:28 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
lederhosenSaw the Da Vinci Machines exhibition today with Rey and my father. It had a lot of interesting things, in particular models of many of his designs and a total absence of Dan Brown references, but it was still a little disappointing.
As far as I can tell, the models were built to be usable (except for a few involving weaponry and the flying machines) but only a few of the simpler ones were actually available for visitors to try out. Combine that with rather confusing descriptions, sometimes completely irrelevant to the machines to which they were attached, and it was hard to figure out how some of them were supposed to work. And I suspect one of them might have been put together backwards.
Exercise since last: 30 km, total 670km/402mi: 12th day from Weathertop, almost up to Glorfindel.
As far as I can tell, the models were built to be usable (except for a few involving weaponry and the flying machines) but only a few of the simpler ones were actually available for visitors to try out. Combine that with rather confusing descriptions, sometimes completely irrelevant to the machines to which they were attached, and it was hard to figure out how some of them were supposed to work. And I suspect one of them might have been put together backwards.
Exercise since last: 30 km, total 670km/402mi: 12th day from Weathertop, almost up to Glorfindel.
