This was a close one. [link]
You lost the challenge with 20971 points against 21182.
This here's a recipe for unpleasantness.
Mal ,'Objects In Space'
Natter 71: Someone is wrong on the Internet
Off-topic discussion. Wanna talk about corsets, duct tape, or physics? This is the place. Detailed discussion of any current-season TV must be whitefonted.
aurelia - May 17, 2013 5:54:45 pm PDT #22813 of 30001
All sorrows can be borne if you put them into a story. Tell me a story.
aurelia - May 17, 2013 5:56:02 pm PDT #22814 of 30001
All sorrows can be borne if you put them into a story. Tell me a story.
Whew! That explains why I can't match your score.
I wouldn't be able to match your score without google.
§ ita § - May 17, 2013 6:00:40 pm PDT #22815 of 30001
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
I decided not to Google -- seems like it would be way too easy otherwise
I'm trying to work out the best strategies. Check 360. Pick a direction that looks like it will get you to the first signage. Examine the type of trees and work out if we're temperate or tropical. Check the dirt and the horizon. Look at the road markers/signs--are they familiar? How weird is weird (the weirder the more Russian, so far)? Language, alphabet, format of phone numbers. Style of cars. Start at the roof of the building and work down.
What else? I mean, if you don't land in downtown Boston or anything.
sarameg - May 17, 2013 6:09:38 pm PDT #22816 of 30001
I turned out to be really good at ID-ing former soviet republics and eastern Europe. Considering I was in the waning USSR and then Central Europe became my thing, I guess I shouldn't be surprised.l But I was when I'd nail a location in Poland (where I've never been) within 50 miles.
Polgara - May 17, 2013 6:18:03 pm PDT #22817 of 30001
Karma is a cat, sleeping in my lap cuz it loves me. ~TS
I couldn't do it without googling, I haven't traveled nearly enough. And even googling doesn't always work--Ireland and Australia are so not even close.
§ ita § - May 17, 2013 6:19:00 pm PDT #22818 of 30001
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
It was so pleasing seeing Moldov*** on some piece of signage. But I can't tell Hungarian from Polish, so...
Just finished Scandal--that was fun! I thought the ending wimped out, but it ended with a good twofer.
I just read a conversation where someone was talking about having been to the same university at the same time as Eddie McClintock, but of course they didn't know him, because they were in Comp Sci and he was in...does it matter? People don't cross socialise? Colin was English...something. John Rogers was Physics, but I met him through another Physics student who lived on my floor in residence--they were both comedians. I bonded with more people I met in improv, theatre, and martial arts than computer science students. And most of the comp sci people I knew well were also in the Gamer League with me.
Kate P. - May 17, 2013 6:30:48 pm PDT #22819 of 30001
That's the pain / That cuts a straight line down through the heart / We call it love
Jessica - May 17, 2013 6:35:25 pm PDT #22820 of 30001
And then Ortus came and said "It's Ortin' time" and they all Orted off into the sunset
Some hits, some misses: [link]
aurelia - May 17, 2013 6:36:24 pm PDT #22821 of 30001
All sorrows can be borne if you put them into a story. Tell me a story.
Google has led me astray a couple of times. It's been fantastic for anything in New Zealand so far. Sometimes there isn't anything to google. If there are no cars, no signage, and no architecture it's just a crapshoot based on terrain.
msbelle - May 17, 2013 6:44:24 pm PDT #22822 of 30001
I remember the crazy days. 500 posts an hour. Nubmer! Natgbsb
I just guessed Bermuda and it turned out to be New Zealand. worst guess yet.