From owner-freebsd-chat Fri Aug 21 23:25:39 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id XAA03988 for freebsd-chat-outgoing; Fri, 21 Aug 1998 23:25:39 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from obie.softweyr.com ([204.68.178.33]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id XAA03982 for ; Fri, 21 Aug 1998 23:25:33 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from wes@softweyr.com) Received: from softweyr.com (zaphod.softweyr.com [204.68.178.35]) by obie.softweyr.com (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id AAA10659; Sat, 22 Aug 1998 00:27:44 -0600 (MDT) (envelope-from wes@softweyr.com) Message-ID: <35DE642A.EF88A3CD@softweyr.com> Date: Sat, 22 Aug 1998 00:24:42 -0600 From: Wes Peters Organization: Softweyr llc X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.05 [en] (X11; I; FreeBSD 2.2.6-RELEASE i386) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Mike Smith CC: Don Wilde , chat@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: site design References: <199808211750.RAA11180@dingo.cdrom.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Moved to -chat, since this certainly isn't on-topic over in Daemon News. Wes Peters recently blathered: % This was an open invitation for someone to slam me back, as I live % 5 miles from the only man-made feature on the surface of the planet % visible to the unaided human eye from orbit. Any takers yet? % % Where's Terry Lambert when you knead him? Oh yeah, he's not a % Daemon News type, is he? Heh. % % No, it's *not* the Great Wall of China. Mike Smith cleverly replied: > But it is visible to the human eye from orbit. > > And I don't think the Tabernacle is *that* gaudy. Don Wilde swagged away with: > Four Corners power plant complex? Another ugly brown stain, not to > mention a few assorted anti-government extremists.Okay, your air's got > as many vitamins as ours. No, and no. Salt Lake City does have it's lovely layer of smog; these idiots here have always wanted to be LA junior and now they're getting their wish, but we come by ours the old-fashioned, LA way -- car exhaust. No, to be seen from orbit, this has to be a pretty big structure. IIRC, it's nearly 5 miles across, and colored such that it stands out quite nicely from the background, which is mostly wheat fields and sage brush. -- "Where am I, and what am I doing in this handbasket?" Wes Peters Softweyr LLC http://www.softweyr.com/~softweyr wes@softweyr.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message