On Wed, 16 Oct 2002, Huw Davies wrote:
> At 02:47 AM 16/10/2002 -0500, Tothwolf wrote:
> > If you notice the car on the left of the image, it gives two clues that
> > show the location is in the US somewhere. The license plate, even though
> > you can't see all of it, is US sized. The steering wheel is also on the
> > left side of the car. Another noticeable item in the photo is the DSS dish
> > on the roof of the red brick building.
>
> I'm inclined to agree that this photo is from the US, but of course
> the majority of cars in Europe have the steering wheel on the left
> hand side of the car. If the UK is anything to go by, there are lots
> of satellite dishes there too...
Revisting the first message about this to the mailing list, the original
message can be traced back to this post today in comp.sys.sgi.misc:
http://groups.google.com/groups?selm=3DAC895C.62302443%40hammerhead.com&oe=UTF-8
The original poster's IP address which happens to be for Pac*Bell ADSL.
So it's most likely California where that poster lives. The license
plate doesn't conflict with the style of current California plates.
The surrounding vegetation, especially the tree in the foreground,
matches that of SoCal. And the soft atmospheric haze you see in the
picture does actually match what we've been having here in Los Angeles
for the past couple of days. It's been bright and hazy due to the
marine layer from the morning through nearly noon time. Since the
original message was posted at 2:33pm PST, and he mentioned seeing this
earlier in the day, it doesn't contradict a hypothesis of it being local
to L.A.
Also,
http://www.hammerhead.com/, the website associated with the domain
of the original poster, is a small vfx company local to North Hollywood.
Since he said that the Onyx was located at an area service provider,
that will might narrow things down quite a bit. I'm assuming it's at an
SGI service provider. The main one is SGI of course, but there are some
others in town.
-brian.
Received on Wed Oct 16 2002 - 03:50:00 BST