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Posted in Florida Lodges, Miscellaneous, Patch Collecting by Robert Mathis on December 19th, 2007 at 8:38 pm No patch to display, just an announcement that the newest issue of the Florida Collectors’ Newsletter is now available at http://www.floridacsp.com/fcn/. See the latest of what Florida has to offer the patch world.
Posted in Personal Stuff by John E. Pannell on December 19th, 2007 at 6:11 am I saw this peace on a friends blog and just new I had to share it with yew. Follow these two pisces of advice.
1. Using a spell cheque program is not enough. I’m serial!
3. Proofreading is of the the utmost impotence!
You’ll also notice I have solved the problem of how to embed video on this blog. It’s an issue with one of the two editors that come with WordPress.
Posted in Personal Stuff by John E. Pannell on December 19th, 2007 at 5:21 am 
It’s no secret to those who know me that I have an interest in mathematical things. I’m one of those crazy folks whose college degree is in mathematics. In a “prior life” I used to work in the insurance industry. I have even previously written a few posts here on the Geometry of Patches.
Geometric motifs have also been used on many patches, most notably (to me) from the state of Florida. Aal-Pa-Tah lodge has use the geometric designs of Seminole patchwork jackets on many of their activity patches. Tipisa lodge used similar themes on their 2000 NOAC patches. Oceola lodge took this one step further making their 2007 events patches shaped like Seminole jackets. Tipisa lodge even based their 2001 activity and 2002 NOAC patches on the works of M. C. Escher.
So, of course this artcile about geometric tiling, The Trouble with Five, caught my interest. Craig Kaplan, the author, starts:
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