Quoth Ken Butler:
>On Wed, 31 May 2006 13:14:28 -0400, Alan Brand <alan.brand@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
>
>wrote:
>
>>Anen wrote:
>>> Ugh. Posting through google. Hope this makes it.
>>
>>
>>It made it this far ...
>
>And here too. (I suppose if it can make it chez Alan, it has to go via
>hereabouts first.)
Well, it could go over the pole, or bounce off Venus or something.
>>> Remember we used to have a map on the old afba website? One that was
>>> seriously out of date? Well, there's no website any more, but we can
>>> still have a map. Go to http://www.frappr.com/afba
and join up then
put
>>> yourself on the afba map.
>
>I had some clever scheme for working out an "average" for all our
positions
>(on the surface of a sphere), and then I lost track of where everyone is.
>And fell on my head.
That'll larn you to keep track of afbans.
>>> Frappr's a bit dodgy right now. For example, it let me create a map
>>> without joining frappr, but then it wouldn't let me add myself to the
>>> map and wouldn't say why.
>>
>>Worked OK for me ...
>
>I tried to place Amy and me on the map. I clicked on Not in US, and found
>it hadn't heard of "Brampton, Ontario, Canada". Fair enough, I thought,
so
>I tried "Toronto, Ontario, Canada" and it hadn't heard of that, either.
>Apparently there's a Toronto in Ohio, which, last I heard, was in the US.
>Ah well.
You have to join first. I got the same thing until I joined.
>PS for Anen: spectacular thunderboomers here this afternoon, a welcome
>relief from the temperatures of the last few days.
It was coolish and overcast here today, but still a bit humid. I wish
we had thunderboomers though. I like thunderboomers.
Anne
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"Eschew obfuscation."
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