Date: Tue, 6 Jul 1999 10:10:43 +0200 From: Phil Regnauld <regnauld@ftf.net> To: "G. Adam Stanislav" <adam@whizkidtech.net> Cc: Dag-Erling Smorgrav <des@flood.ping.uio.no>, W Gerald Hicks <wghicks@bellsouth.net>, freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: how to start to be a hacker? Message-ID: <19990706101043.31810@ns.int.ftf.net> In-Reply-To: <19990705132404.A220@whizkidtech.net>; from G. Adam Stanislav on Mon, Jul 05, 1999 at 01:24:04PM -0500 References: <19990704115215.B220@whizkidtech.net> <199907050304.XAA00502@bellsouth.net> <19990705015548.B238@whizkidtech.net> <xzpr9mnv4pj.fsf@flood.ping.uio.no> <19990705113309.11732@ns.int.ftf.net> <19990705132404.A220@whizkidtech.net>
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G. Adam Stanislav writes: > > I asked them to find Siberia, which they could not. Same with Slovakia. So, > I showed them: "Here is Slovakia, here is Siberia, here is Rhinelander. Since > Rhinelander is much closer to Siberia than Slovakia will ever be, why don't > *you* tell her all about Siberian customs." > > They were rather embarassed, and quite apologetic. :-) Sometimes, this also applies to europeans visiting the US -- they'll casually say "Oh, I'll just rent a car in Seattle and drive down to L.A." -- people are just not aware of the distances (well, there's also the fact that you have time to dessicate at the wheel when driving 65 MPH). -- To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message
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