I've heard people say the same thing about rock-climbing: how it shrinks your universe to the half-inch of rock surface immediately in front of you, this crevice, that toehold.
Rather than tunnelling into the ground, Mr Dunstan is open-cut mining, which involves scraping away a few inches of rock with an excavator, and then periodically investigating for opals.
He has been working long hours with an army of friends and neighbors to gut his first floor and replace every inch of sheet rock and insulation.
Some climbers say that Mr. Ikumori knows every inch of the rock and has helped thousands of people climb across it, sometimes along routes he discovered himself.
He compared it to coal mining and he said that over the next undetermined time period (I was thinking maybe a couple of weeks, tops) he and I would be "inside the mountain," and we would study every square inch of the rock walls until we found exactly the right place to dig for musical gold.
Every square inch of the rocks was encrusted with marine life--sea fans, neon nudibranchs, urchins, sunstars, crown of thorns.
Place 6 inches (15.2 cm) of rock in the bottom of the holding container and line the interior of the holding container with landscape fabric.
Another, at virtualfestivals.com added: "Axl (dressed like your embarrassing uncle in a Jacko costume) is every inch the Gazza of rock, a sad old figure riding on past glories who leaves you pining for the genius days gone by".
Between the bon viveur repartee and sophisticated covers – Marty Wilde's vaudevillian Bad Boy is a standout – Homme's own songs gleam with 10 inches of stoner rock grit chiselled off.
Perhaps the most obvious nod to Bowie at the recent shows came via designer twins Dean and Dan Caten of Dsquared2 who put all their male models for spring/summer in six inches of glam rock boots (reportedly each had to prove they could walk in the boots before they got the gig).
Hikers climb inch-by-inch along a narrow spit of rock 1500 feet above the ground, all for the reward of spectacular views and bragging rights.
