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26 miles across the sea
Santa Catalina is waiting for me.
Santa Catalina, the island of romance.
But, um, 26 miles *from where*?
Well, after eventually guessing the correct spelling (Is that "san" or
"santa"? "cataline" or "catalina" or "catarina" or...? Is that with a C
or a K?) I eventually discovered [as presumably everybody except me
already knows] that it's a small island off the coast of California.
Wikipedia claims that it's actually 22 miles off the coast, presumably
measured from the nearest point, so the "40 kil-o-meters in a leaky old
boat" must be from somewhere further along the coast. (Or perhaps
inland, although "26 miles *across the sea*" implies that the ocean part
specifically is 26 miles.)
Next topic: WTF is "huckleberry", and does it taste good?
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On 4/21/2011 2:45, Invisible wrote:
> 26 miles across the sea
> Santa Catalina is waiting for me.
> Santa Catalina, the island of romance.
>
> But, um, 26 miles *from where*?
Los Angelos.
--
Darren New, San Diego CA, USA (PST)
"Coding without comments is like
driving without turn signals."
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>> But, um, 26 miles *from where*?
>
> Los Angelos.
Impressive... And I bet you don't even live anywhere near there?
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http://www.zazzle.com/MathematicalOrchid*
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On Thu, 21 Apr 2011 19:19:42 +0100, Orchid XP v8 wrote:
>>> But, um, 26 miles *from where*?
>>
>> Los Angelos.
>
> Impressive... And I bet you don't even live anywhere near there?
Well, from Darren's signature, you should know where he does live, and
it's pretty trivial to see how far it is from one place to another.
Jim
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Darren New <dne### [at] san rrcom> wrote:
> On 4/21/2011 2:45, Invisible wrote:
> > 26 miles across the sea
> > Santa Catalina is waiting for me.
> > Santa Catalina, the island of romance.
> >
> > But, um, 26 miles *from where*?
> Los Angelos.
There seems to be no such place. Or is that some kind of local slang?
--
- Warp
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On 4/21/2011 12:21, Warp wrote:
> Darren New<dne### [at] sanrrcom> wrote:
>> On 4/21/2011 2:45, Invisible wrote:
>>> 26 miles across the sea
>>> Santa Catalina is waiting for me.
>>> Santa Catalina, the island of romance.
>>>
>>> But, um, 26 miles *from where*?
>
>> Los Angelos.
>
> There seems to be no such place. Or is that some kind of local slang?
No. It's not typing carefully. You really didn't recognize the name of the
second (or first, depending on how you count) biggest city in the USA?
Especially given "California" in the original email?
--
Darren New, San Diego CA, USA (PST)
"Coding without comments is like
driving without turn signals."
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On 4/21/2011 2:45, Invisible wrote:
> Next topic: WTF is "huckleberry", and does it taste good?
I wonder if I can hack into Andrew's email server, find any outgoing
messages with the string "WTF is ..." and mail back a link to the third word
on wikipedia automatically.
--
Darren New, San Diego CA, USA (PST)
"Coding without comments is like
driving without turn signals."
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On Thu, 21 Apr 2011 12:27:18 -0700, Darren New wrote:
> On 4/21/2011 12:21, Warp wrote:
>> Darren New<dne### [at] sanrrcom> wrote:
>>> On 4/21/2011 2:45, Invisible wrote:
>>>> 26 miles across the sea
>>>> Santa Catalina is waiting for me.
>>>> Santa Catalina, the island of romance.
>>>>
>>>> But, um, 26 miles *from where*?
>>
>>> Los Angelos.
>>
>> There seems to be no such place. Or is that some kind of local
>> slang?
>
> No. It's not typing carefully. You really didn't recognize the name of
> the second (or first, depending on how you count) biggest city in the
> USA? Especially given "California" in the original email?
"Los Angeles" I think is what you meant to write. ;)
Jim
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On 21/04/2011 08:28 PM, Darren New wrote:
> On 4/21/2011 2:45, Invisible wrote:
>> Next topic: WTF is "huckleberry", and does it taste good?
>
> I wonder if I can hack into Andrew's email server, find any outgoing
> messages with the string "WTF is ..." and mail back a link to the third
> word on wikipedia automatically.
No, you can't.
You *might* be able to hack into my ISP's server, however... ;-)
--
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http://www.zazzle.com/MathematicalOrchid*
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>> Impressive... And I bet you don't even live anywhere near there?
>
> Well, from Darren's signature, you should know where he does live
Damn. I never even noticed that...
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http://www.zazzle.com/MathematicalOrchid*
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