You're from where??

[Bilgefisher]

Re: Your from where?

sorry coach, missed your post the other day. Updated 10/25/07 11:40 MST

 

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[bflash98]

Re: Your from where?

Seattle, WA

 

[BLK85]

Re: Your from where?

Sioux Falls, SD

 

[Peter2]

Re: Your from where?

Can we please correct the title of this thread? :smx3:

 

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[Bilgefisher]

Re: Your from where?

Can we please correct the title of this thread? :smx3:

I'm game...what did you have in mind?

 

[MJ DeMarco]

Re: Your from where?

I'm game...what did you have in mind?

He means changing "your" to "You're" - I already corrected it, but it doesn't correct the main display title, at least without me having to go into the SQL database to do it manually.

 

[Bilgefisher]

Re: Your from where?

Slipped past me both times. Sorry folks, I don't pay attention to grammar and spelling. Thank god for the spell checker.

 

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[Luke12321]

Re: Your from where?

Wilkesboro, North Carolina

Luke

 

[CVentures1B12]

Re: Your from where?

Originally from Winchester, TN (Franklin Co. in Southern TN)
But I live in Nashville, TN, now.

--Josh

 

[ErikV10]

Re: Your from where?

I'm from St. Charles, IL.

 

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[biophase]

Re: Your from where?

biophase - Scottsdale

 

[Russ H]

Re: You're from where?

OK, Changed the thread title to "You're".

And made it a sticky.

-Russ H.

 

[MJ DeMarco]

Re: You're from where?

OK, Changed the thread title to "You're".

And made it a sticky.

-Russ H.

Thx Russ, I couldn't figure out how to edit the title -- now I do!!!

 

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[Bilgefisher]

updated: 10/29/07 9:46 MST

Thanks for the sticky and title fix Russ.

 

[kurtyordy]

I see no fellow keystone staters here. Looks like Pennsylvania is ripe for my picking.

 

[hawaiiloans]

hawaiiloans - Honolulu, Hawaii

 

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[ouie]

South eastern PA (right outside philly)

 

[gebbers]

Germany is in!^^

 

[andviv]

[start_hijack]
It would be cool if we could make this a google map with pin points to the locations where
everybody lives.... any ideas how to do this easily?
[end_hijack]

 

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[Bilgefisher]

[start_hijack]
It would be cool if we could make this a google map with pin points to the locations where
everybody lives.... any ideas how to do this easily?
[end_hijack]

Thought about that as well. Unfortunately I tried to make a colored world map. Failed miserably at photoshop. I have seen some else where...I'll take a look into it.

updated: 11/08/07 9:52 MST

 

[MJ DeMarco]

[start_hijack]
It would be cool if we could make this a google map with pin points to the locations where
everybody lives.... any ideas how to do this easily?
[end_hijack]

I think that there is a board hack that does this pretty easily... ill chk tomorrow.

 

[Bilgefisher]

[start_hijack]
It would be cool if we could make this a google map with pin points to the locations where
everybody lives.... any ideas how to do this easily?
[end_hijack]

Done! Here is the link. If you know a better way to show the map, please let me know.

Google Map Link

 

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[Bilgefisher]

MJ, I tried to thee map within the forum. No luck, any ideas? Perhaps photoshop crop?

To those outside the US, sorry the map centers there, I could not find a world map in google's selection. If you zoom out everyone should come into view.

 

[andviv]

very cool.... thanks.

 

[Bilgefisher]

I should mention, I am only going to update names on this list of those that ask. I know we have several more states and countries represented now and I would love to add your names. Please let me know.

 

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[Jorge]

Im from Mendoza, Argentina add me to the list! I feel proud to be the onlyone from my country in the forum

 

[Bilgefisher]

Im from Mendoza, Argentina add me to the list! I feel proud to be the onlyone from my country in the forum

I had to guess the location of Mendoza on Argentina's map. Google maps does not have any cities or roads listed for Argentina. I think its close to the right area though.

 

[Bilgefisher]

Lets spice this thread up a bit. How about some interesting facts about your area. What its known for, historical significance, home of the 5 legged cow...whatever works. I love factoids and I want to hear about everyone's area. Pictures of the area if you have them. Jorge if you have the time, I'd like to hear about this statue.

 

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[Jorge]

Cool! I like your idea

Ok, lets see...remember my English is not very good!

That statue is a tribute to the "Army of Los Andes". This Argentinian army defeated the Spanish troops and set Argentina, Chile and Perú free from them.

The statue is located at the top of a small mount "Cerro de la Gloria" (don't know how to call it, in Spanish "Mount of Glory") from where you can see the whole city. Also, next to that mount theres the local zoo wich is pretty cool although it has little budget, it has many many species.

Mendoza is the fourth biggest province from my country. It has about 1.7M habitants and its what is known as an Oasis, it means that this is a desertic zone with man-planted vegetation. An aunt of mine lived in Tucson AZ a few years and said that it was pretty similar in weather.

We are surrounded by mountains, with rivers fed by melting snow (dont know how to explain ) 200km far from the border with Chile. There's customs and immigrations also where I'm in charge of immigrations computer system along with the airport. In the border sits the Aconcagua, the highest mount in America and one of the tallest in the world. So a lot of climbers come every year trying to reach the top.

Life here is pretty chill (way too much for me) but tourists love this. We also have a lot of wineries since thats the main economic activity. Mendoza has one of the bests wines in the world (they are cheap here!)

It has a pretty good night life, theres the "Aristides Villanueva" street wich has a lot of bars with differents musics to different ages. We also have a lot of dance clubs.

Theres a lot of "extreme sports" such as rafting, 4x4, skiing, climbing, etc. Im not a fun of these I climbed a little as a kid but got bored.

People is really conservative in every aspect, which is the thing I hate the most. In here people with lots of money live in small houses and drives cheap cars, "just in case". I grew up hating these my hole life.

Anyways, its a good place to live. Although in the last few years it has became a lot more insecure with crime rising I'm sure that will change in the near future.

Here you have some pics:

Chile/Argentina Border:

A water press (don't know how to spell it):

View from a Vineyard (About 20km from the city):

Downtown (The tallest building in the city is from my mentor :icon_super

Aristides Villanueva (The place with all the bars):

The local mini-desert "Los Altos Limpios" (Something like "The clean heights")

http://www.flickr.com/photos/dhammza/tags/losaltoslimpios/

Hope you enjoyed the review!


Cheers!

 

[MJ DeMarco]

Wow, I gotta plan a trip to Argentina!