Something You Should Attend

And actually take the chance of seeing any of you in person? I think not.

In Response to deerboy (#29230):

I'm the only other one I think... and I'm near Charlotte... I'd love to see it but I can't aford the gas to drive to Raleigh.

Neil

In Response to neild (#29245):

... it's in Raleigh? I'm going to be in Raleigh just before it ends.

Spooky.

In Response to tynic (#29246):

Looks more like Chapel Hill [google.com] to me.

In Response to zamphir (#29247):

It is called 'the Research Triangle', consisting of three cities(/towns) each hosting a major university, and overall hosting over 1 million peops. Really, no part is farther than 30 miles apart, and despite what people say, traffic ain't that bad yet. But, as you could guess, the sprawl is quite amazing. Especially as there is zone in the middle called 'Research Triangle Park', a low-tax island at least 10 minutes from anybody's house that houses the major industries.

Tynic, what are you doing around here? Playing with your robots?

And what is this whining about a 25% increase in the price of gas? If you work out how much it costs to run a car, it is only about a 10% increase in the cost of driving. If your budget is that close, time to find a night job.

In Response to deerboy (#29256):

But if I got the night job I wouldn't be able to come up there either.

Sorry for the Raleigh confusion... down here RTP is all the same place:).

Neil

In Response to deerboy (#29256):

I'm going to skip sarcastic comments about how I do actually know quite a bit - for a damn yankee - about the R/D/CH area. Although a cursory glance at the link I posted would have suggested that much of what you said was immediately obvious...

Also, I regularly commute 35 miles each way most days, so I know how close or far that is...

And I think that only two of those cities actually host a "major" university... (duke still sucks).

In Response to deerboy (#29256):

and overall hosting over 1 million peops.

In transliterations from the original Egyptian, the word is spelled 'pwfw.' How the Greeks transformed this into 'peops' is still something of a mystery.

In Response to sakuruth (#29264):

the word is spelled 'pwfw.'

Isn't that Welsh? Or would that be plwfllwllyl?

Crivens!

In Response to deerboy (#29256):

Tynic, what are you doing around here? Playing with your robots?

Something along those lines. Self-sabotaging my budding career in aeronautics, hopefully.

In Response to sakuruth (#29264):

How the Greeks transformed this into 'peops' is still something of a mystery.

Marshmallow, and lots of yellow food-coloring.

In Response to zamphir (#29247):

According to my sources, they're pretty much the same place.

By Australian standards, anyway.

In Response to tynic (#29271):

What, like Melbourne and Canberra?

In Response to zamphir (#29272):

They'd have to be the same, as they're both near Sydney.

In Response to tynic (#29266):

You probably want to go a little bit more to the east to start a career in aeronautics. It worked for some dudes from Ohio, to be sute.

In Response to zamphir (#29258):

Whoops, I missed it. Maybe because I was looking in Chapel Hill instead of Carrboro. Thanks for the help, Zammy.

In Response to deerboy (#29298):

a little bit more to the east to start a career in aeronautics

Ah, but where do I go to stop one?

In Response to tynic (#29302):

Ah, but where do I go to stop one?

NASA, apparently.