Is there a reason why y'all don't contact the original poster of it?
On Wed, 16 Oct 2002, Brian Chase wrote:
> 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 - 12:14:00 BST