Re: Visitation Graphs

Post #168,926 by a6l6e6x 8/12/04 2:52:46 PM 8/12/04 3:34:13 PM Reply	Re: Visitation Graphs [image\|http://www.world66.com/myworld66/visitedStates/statemap?visited=ALAKAZCACOCTDCDEFLGAIDILINIAKSKYLAMEMDMAMIMNMOMTNENVNHNJNMNYNCOHORPARISCSDTNTXUTVTVAWAWVWIWY\|\|\|\|] [image\|http://douweosinga.com/projects/visitedcountries/colormap?visited=CAUSAWUVCQJMMXANPRVIATBECZDKFRGRHUITMTMCNLNOROESSECHUAVA\|\|\|\|] Alex "If I seem unduly clear to you, you must have misunderstood what I said." -- Alan Greenspan, Federal Reserve chairman Edited by a6l6e6x Aug. 12, 2004, 03:34:13 PM EDT Expand All History
Post #168,928 by deSitter 8/12/04 2:58:33 PM Reply	You missed Route 66? :) -drl
Post #168,931 by a6l6e6x 8/12/04 3:00:11 PM Reply	Apparently so. :) Alex "If I seem unduly clear to you, you must have misunderstood what I said." -- Alan Greenspan, Federal Reserve chairman
Post #168,930 by ChrisR 8/12/04 2:59:16 PM Reply	All but 5 states, eh Skipping Arkansas and Oklahoma, was that intentional? :-)
Post #168,942 by a6l6e6x 8/12/04 3:26:46 PM 8/12/04 3:36:39 PM Reply	Skipped because there was no big attraction. Actually, even with Texas, where I've been a number of times, I've only flown in and out. Never crossed the Texas state line by car. Easy there, Spice! :) Most of the US states, and for that matter Nova Scotia and all the Canadian Provinces bordering the US, were covered while (travel trailer) camping with the wife and kids. Likewise, on the world map, I was born in Ukraine, but have almost no recollection of it. [edit] Contrary to deleted comment, Romania is listed. Alex "If I seem unduly clear to you, you must have misunderstood what I said." -- Alan Greenspan, Federal Reserve chairman Edited by a6l6e6x Aug. 12, 2004, 03:36:02 PM EDT Edited by a6l6e6x Aug. 12, 2004, 03:36:39 PM EDT Expand All History
Post #168,946 by deSitter 8/12/04 3:30:19 PM Reply	Re: Skipped because there was no big attraction. Mexico is placed in Central America :/ -drl
Post #169,052 by mmoffitt 8/12/04 9:45:44 PM Reply	Russia is missing? bcnu, Mikem If you can read this, you are not the President.
Post #169,075 by a6l6e6x 8/12/04 10:23:41 PM Reply	Hah, I make a distinction between Ukraine and Russia. Alex "If I seem unduly clear to you, you must have misunderstood what I said." -- Alan Greenspan, Federal Reserve chairman
Post #169,076 by mmoffitt 8/12/04 10:29:43 PM Reply	I did, too. But I've still been to both. You never went to Moscow, Leningrad/St. Petersburg/etc? bcnu, Mikem If you can read this, you are not the President.
Post #169,082 by a6l6e6x 8/12/04 10:35:39 PM Reply	Nope, not since escape during WW-II. Of course, the escape got redirected to a slave labor farm in Germany, but that's another story. Alex "If I seem unduly clear to you, you must have misunderstood what I said." -- Alan Greenspan, Federal Reserve chairman
Post #169,084 by mmoffitt 8/12/04 10:36:55 PM Reply	You need to write a book. I'll, of course, want an autographed copy. bcnu, Mikem If you can read this, you are not the President.
Post #169,117 by Ashton 8/12/04 11:46:47 PM Reply	Will buy a copy And promise not to pay with a F\ufffdnfhundert tausend Reichsmark note. It's a Very Good thing that you made it out; we need your vote in Nov.! (and for quite a few other reasons) Luck on Chapter 1; that's the hardest. moi
Post #169,118 by boxley 8/12/04 11:48:09 PM Reply	will return your dog for a signed copy :-) "delayed incessantly by people whose prevalent qualification was an excess of free-time" Philip Atkinson questions, help? [link\|mailto:pappas@catholic.org\|email pappas at catholic.org]
Post #169,126 by Another Scott 8/13/04 12:04:36 AM Reply	Ha! :-)
Post #169,129 by Another Scott 8/13/04 12:35:26 AM Reply	Me too. Let's see, we've got several unpublished books here. 1) Boxley: "It's My Life and You Can't Have It." 2) a6l6e6x: "20th Century History of the West - An Eyewitness Account." 3) Broom: "The Truth About IT and Management." 4) TJSinclair: "Subverting IT in Higher Education From Within." 5) admin: "Building the Best Forum Software (even with Broken Tools)." 6) folkert: "Doing the Job Right: Building and Running a Reliable IT Infrastructure." 7) ToddB, bluke and ChrisR: "Using the Right IT for the Job." 8) AndrewGrygus: "Everything You Wanted to Know About PCs, Pidgeons, Food, Wine, Rose (not her real name (also not her real name)), Home Remodelling, California Culture, and Nearly Everything Else." 9) pwhysall: "The Art of Online Aphorisms, One-Liners and Pithy Statements - Condensed Edition." And a few others ;-j 10) mmoffitt: "My Misguided Youth and Adulthood." 11) marlowe: "Saving America, One Post at a Time." 12) BP: "How to be Misunderstood On Line." 13) Ashton: "How to be Misunderstood On Line - Revised, Expanded and Annotated." 14) CRConrad: "CSL: Cursing as a Second Language" I'll bet there are a few more out there too. Get crackin folks! :-D All kidding aside, you folks should consider writing some books. I'd be interested in a copy of each. Cheers, Scott.
Post #169,131 by a6l6e6x 8/13/04 12:41:17 AM Reply	ROFL! Alex "If I seem unduly clear to you, you must have misunderstood what I said." -- Alan Greenspan, Federal Reserve chairman
Post #169,167 by mmoffitt 8/13/04 10:42:50 AM Reply	Xcellent. :-D bcnu, Mikem If you can read this, you are not the President.
Post #169,287 by deSitter 8/14/04 3:26:57 AM Reply	Kon Piekarski -drl
Post #169,290 by deSitter 8/14/04 3:44:15 AM Reply	http://polishjews.org/ I know you are not Polish, but it was a catastrophe for the Slavs, that didn't end until very recently, I think. Every story is important. -drl
Post #169,349 by a6l6e6x 8/14/04 8:52:09 PM Reply	I know what you mean. The people that remember the WW-II era are dying off like flies. But then, I was 5 years old when the war ended. In the eyes of a 5 year-old there is not much context in what one sees. It's the adults that have perspective. In retrospect, as bad as things were and despite the loss of the infant of the family, we were lucky to survive. We only spent a few weeks in a real concentration camp with people, mostly Jews, who undoubtedly perished. The slave work farm where we spent our days till the end of the war was not even guarded. You have to remember that almost all male Germans 15 to 45 were in uniform and at the front. The old man that ran the farm did nose counts. But, deep in Germany, where could a family run? Death would have been certain if you ran. I was closer to 4 years old in the concentration camp. I can remember the dark dingy overcrowded barracks with multi-level beds, the electrified barbed wire on concrete posts and the walking sentries with dogs. I can remember the smell of a rotting straw mattress, and of course, bed bugs and lice. Fog, and that's about it. I not certain, but probably because of my father's actions, we got sorted out and sent to the slave labor farm. It's slave labor because there is no pay, you get to eat and you get to live. On the farm, 3 or 4 families stayed in a small two story building. As I recall, one single guy and one or two couples who stayed upstairs. My parents were working in the nearby fields all day. I can't be sure if my mother was able to check on us midday, but I was in charge of my 3 year old brother and the infant brother. We must have been locked in because I don't remember being outside w/o a parent. As I've mentioned other times, the infant died, probably of pneumonia. His death was within weeks of the end of the war. A couple times my father was taken away for a few weeks to work with a shovel on defense construction projects, in particular anti-tanks traps. I can remember the elation of having him return. I can also remember, at dusk, walking up and down the road in front of the building where we stayed, my father and I looking for cigarette butts. In these days before cigarette filters, a tossed away cigarette butt had tobacco! A collection of butts and a piece of newspaper would become a makeshift cigarette. I can remember the sound of distant artillery as the front moved closer. I can remember the sound of diving fighter planes. No movie I have seen has duplicated these sounds. I can remember the US Army soldiers walking down that same road. Shortly after that, we had to make tracks to the British zone to avoid being sent back to the Soviet Union. That would have been certain death also. There's more to it, of course, but no book. As I said, we were lucky! Alex "If I seem unduly clear to you, you must have misunderstood what I said." -- Alan Greenspan, Federal Reserve chairman

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