Wooden Dodo’s
This is a small Dodo puzzle that I made with my new scroll saw. From start to finish, it took about 45 minutes to make. I am actually quite impressed with how it worked out. For those of you who don’t know, the Dodo (Portuguese for stupid) is a small, flightless bird from the island of Mauritius, just east of Madagascar. It was made extinct by man a few hundred years ago.
When I was last in Mauritius, I went to the museum at Port Louis and saw a stuffed Dodo, as well as a few skeletons. Unfortunately I do not have any photos if it, since you are not allowed to take photos inside the museum.
One of my favourite authors, Jasper Fforde has writted a series of books about literary detectives, who are responsible for ensuring the correctness of novels, and that the characters and grammer etc behave correctly. In these books, Dodo’s are not extinct, and you can buy (or make from a home-cloning kit) them as pets. Our here, Thursday Next, has a pet Dodo called Pickwick.
More info on the Dodo and Mauritius can be found here. http://www.mauritius.net/.
More info on the Jasper Fforde books can be found here. www.jasperfforde.com
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