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On Fri, 25 Jun 1999 19:39:58 -0400, Chris Maryan <cma### [at] geocities com>
wrote:
>Speaking of which, what's up with the unexpected concentration around
>Estonia and Finland?
There's something in the drinking water... ;)
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On Sat, 26 Jun 1999 4:27 AM, TonyB <mailto:ben### [at] panamaphoenixnet>
wrote:
>What about the lonely dot above Panama in Central America? Who's that poor
>isolated fellow? Will he ever meet others like him? ...tune in next week
for
>another exciting expisode of "The Lone POVer"...
Hmm
Anyone further south than me?
42deg 40min S, 147deg 20min E
Have Fun
Martin
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I speak for me.
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Bob wrote in message <3772E7C3.74469EE9@aol.com>...
>http://members.aol.com/wrld0rigin/povwrldjpg.htm
>
>Please try to click on either, or both, North America and/or Europe for
closeup views.
>If you click elsewhere on one of the faces of the world you will go to the
coordinate
>submission page. Clicking on the title will take you to a current list of
people.
>Keep in mind there has been no new additions, if you haven't sent your
location in,
>please think about doing so.
Who else is from the Detroit area?
Who is from Seattle?
Mark Wagner
from Novi
Originally from Renton
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Uh, say Mark, I think you are letting on about how you like the Southern Hemisphere
here; so much so that you sent in a latitude of 142 degrees and 40 minutes. That would
have put you back up north to -38 degrees instead of this 42 however ;)
I took the liberty of removing the 1 already, so you are set up to be rendered as
should
be. Much later today (6/26) that is.
6 new names added as of now, thanks all, and keep them coming.
Martin Crisp wrote:
>
> Anyone further south than me?
>
> 42deg 40min S, 147deg 20min E
>
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I lived in Seattle area 15 years from 1970 to 1985 (my growing pain years), and all I
have to say is: Yuck! Sorry. I did like it in it's own way though, many fun and fond
memories. But sheesh, that drizzly grey sky stuff is terrible. I like the slightly
more
dynamic weather of my birthplace, Alabama, much better. Warmer with shorter winters,
and
not too drastically dynamic a clime at that.
Oh yeah, Renton eh? How about that Renton Loop? Had to cruise that as a teenager a
time
or three. My brother works at Boeing in Renton btw.
Mark Wagner wrote:
>
> Who else is from the Detroit area?
> Who is from Seattle?
>
> Mark Wagner
> from Novi
> Originally from Renton
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Hi Tony B. Are you implying my great world map is askew or some such thing? Heh-heh.
Panama is a rather thin bit of land afterall and you're marker might be more in the
Gulf
of Mexico than on dry land. Not sure. But if you are talking about the marker closest
to
yours to the north, well, that's Florida and somehow I doubt that person could be
lonely
at all there in such a densely populated state ;)
Oh, I get it. You're saying "above" as in over the Panama area of the map. Or YOU in
other words. Yeah, bet you are lonely, huh...? Just kidding!
TonyB wrote:
>
> What about the lonely dot above Panama in Central America? Who's that poor
> isolated fellow? Will he ever meet others like him? ...tune in next week for
> another exciting expisode of "The Lone POVer"...
>
> --
> Anthony L. Bennett
> http://welcome.to/TonyB
>
> Graphics rendered
> by the Dreamachine.
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No, you're not seeing things. That's two (yes, 2) close neighbors of yours in Ottawa.
About the listing of persons and related info: despite some people willing to share
their info I can't see it as feasible. Many did not leave email addresses for one
thing.
I've thought this same thing over several times with the conclusion it is too messy a
proposition as is. It would either (1.) require a resubmittal/contact by all or (2.)
only be partial info for sending out/posting. The prime importance would be the
acquisition of everyones permission to redistribute. If I had the forethought to do so
I
would have asked also for the right to hand over all of it to anyone else and I did
not.
Sending it out to everyone with a supplied email address isn't totally out of the
question I would think, I just hate the idea of trying that since part of the reason
some people may have participated to begin with was due to a single person (me) being
sole caretaker of their information. I could be completely wrong, but hey like I say,
there isn't a reasonable way to find out or unless a partial set were to be done (or
redone, as the case may be) and I'm not really doing any more than gathering and
updating. Sorry folks, the main reason I'm putting it this way is due to other things
I've heard about people not wanting their personal info spread around, plus the fact
it
would be another task to start sorting in a way altogether different from the current
one.
The concept of internet technology demographics and the plotting on this particular
map
is a interesting one. To me only some places make sense and others do not. Not only
that, but the oddity (irony?) of some clusters of people very close to each other is
moreso fascinating. We would probably have to see the exact cultural settings to make
a
judgement. In my particular instance there are 3 locales plotted nearly in the same
place (including myself) and it is a region where the NASA space program, among other
such high-tech things, are occupants also of this area. Yet I do not have any ability
to
say a similar thing of other places.
Guess what... No. Okay, I'll tell you then. That Macapa, Brazil marker is an error.
Now
talk about a lonely poor sole, non-existant even!
Thankyou Chris M. for causing me to look it up. Turns out I had mistakenly switched
the
latitude and longitude numbers for London, England. *blush* I am so ashamed! I would
never have realized that if you hadn't brought it up and there was no email address of
the person it concerned, so sorry to you too, Londoner. Where ever you are J. W.,
there
isn't another person besides you in London, yet). Luckily it appears to be shown
already
marked (not really, just close by).
Chris Maryan wrote:
>
> On a related note: Bob, how about appending the list of names with
> locations for those who don't mind. Or how about just a list of
> coordinates for those interested in trying a pov map ourselves.
>
> And now for something completely different. Any thoughts as to whether
> this map accurately represents the use of internet technologies?
>
> Speaking of which, what's up with the unexpected concentration around
> Estonia and Finland?
>
> And while I'm ranting away... regarding TonyB's post about the isolated
> POVer, the most isolated seem to be our friends in Panama, Singapore and
> what I can only guess to be Macapa.
>
> I can't remember what my original reason to write this was, so I'll stop
> now.
>
> --
> Chris Maryan (The dot on the north shore of L. Ontario... is that a
> double dot or am I just seeing things)
> mailto:cma### [at] geocitiescom
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> ***
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> We will also accept donations to the Chris
> needs a Pentium III or SGI workstation
> fund and the Chris needs a car fund.
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Yes, good point. Ask away of anyone, anyhow, I just don't dare start throwing email
addresses around like confetti.
Somerville, AL here btw ;)
Mark Gordon wrote:
>
> Ken wrote:
> >
> > It is my understanding the Bob has intentionally omitted the association
> > between name and place for those who do not wish to disclose such information
> > publicly but wished to participate in the project. Therefore it would not be
> > polite to ask him to betray this trust.
>
> I took that to be an invitation to the person to please stand up, not a
> request on Bob's part to tell us who the person is.
>
> For the record, I'm the one in Madison, Wisconsin.
>
> --
> Mark Gordon
> mtg### [at] povrayorg
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Mark Wagner wrote:
> Who else is from the Detroit area?
> Who is from Seattle?
> Mark Wagner
My sister-in-law lives just outside Detroit in Flint and my brother
lives just outside Seattle in Redmond. Does that count ? Probably
not since neither one uses the program but you asked.
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Thank you Ken T., it does make much sense not to begin listing people and places even
here I believe and you spoke for me well.
I know who the "Aussie" is in Perth. Only problem is I found there to be a
impersonator
there as well. Namely the same person apparently. I had a integer number set of
coordinates along with a decimal precision set. No more ghosting in the next update.
Thanks to you Lance B. another error discovered. Gosh, I am beginning to wonder how
many
mistakes are present now. Not to worry though, I have reason to believe there is about
99.9% accuracy for now, plus or minus 1% ;)
Ken wrote:
>
> Lance Birch wrote:
> >
> > And who's the Aussie in Perth? ;)
> >
> > --
> > Lance.
> >
> > Gail Shaw wrote in message <37739fe8@news.povray.org>...
>
> > >Wow, Three in south Africa. Who are the other two?
> > >(I'm the one in JHB)
> > >
> > >Gail
>
> To all,
>
> It is my understanding the Bob has intentionally omitted the association
> between name and place for those who do not wish to disclose such information
> publicly but wished to participate in the project. Therefore it would not be
> polite to ask him to betray this trust.
>
> --
> Ken Tyler
>
> mailto://tylereng@pacbell.net
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