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Offline Styxx

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Reply #60 on: July 12, 2005, 04:22:53 pm
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http://maps.google.com/maps?q=rouen,+france&spn=1.641220,2.593597&t=k&hl=en


Nice. Doesn't show any town names, though.
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Reply #61 on: July 12, 2005, 04:32:50 pm
Yeah, I noticed that. Get Google Earth.
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Reply #62 on: July 12, 2005, 04:38:57 pm


Yellow area, in the "76", and then pinpoint to:

On same pic, north west of Rouen, Yvetot, that's where my parents are (about), and where I am right now :p
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Reply #63 on: July 12, 2005, 05:25:26 pm
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Reply #64 on: July 12, 2005, 05:31:39 pm
Sounds like an great trip - Vancouver and Vancouver Island are awesome.  2 weeks is enough to see a millionth of Canada, which I have to rate as my top country ever after England of course...:cool: :p
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Reply #65 on: July 12, 2005, 05:40:42 pm
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The US Embassy is the only one where I'd have to go personally to get a Visa, and the closest office is in São Paulo, which is two hours of flight away from here. I don't want to have to travel that much just to get a visa, so the US is definitely out of the picture, unless they change their tourist visa policy soon. I won't even get into any flights with stops or connections on the US, as a matter of fact.

It's a pity that you won't be visiting the States. Maybe you'll come when we revert from a theocracy back to a democracy. I wonder how many tourists we're losing to this strict policy?
 

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Reply #66 on: July 12, 2005, 05:56:20 pm
If you ever decide to come by the states, tell me. :p I doubt I can give you free lodging, though.

I did think about going to Australia this summer, until I realized that the total cost for the plane would be ~$2000, plus lodging, food, etc. Impulsive international trips are definitely reserved for the more well-to-do.
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Reply #67 on: July 12, 2005, 06:09:08 pm
Wow. If I wasn't 15 and stuck up here in Yorkshire I'd join you! btw Rictor :D
 

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Reply #68 on: July 12, 2005, 07:22:08 pm
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It's a pity that you won't be visiting the States. Maybe you'll come when we revert from a theocracy back to a democracy. I wonder how many tourists we're losing to this strict policy?


I'll go to the states once the tourist visa policy is slackened, or when (if) I decide to get a scholarship for a PhD on one of the top Computer Graphics universities (Utah or North Carolina, most probably) after my Masters are finished. Or when a friend of mine from here who's moving to New Jersey in two weeks for a PhD is settled in and invites me over. Then I'll round up some more HLPers for the slau- er, healthy fun times.

This one trip I want to go to as many places as I can while still having enough time to visit the nicest toursit spots and such, and I want to be able to say I've went on a trip around the world. All the trouble to get into the US is definitely not worth it right now.

But I still gotta check my vacation availability, if I don't get all the time I want I may have to cut the farthest places from the list, and that would be a shame. I just need to have things more or less planned before I start bugging the "boss" about it.
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Reply #69 on: July 12, 2005, 10:35:17 pm
Jersey? No kidding! What part? Princeton area?
 

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Reply #70 on: July 12, 2005, 10:56:26 pm
Er, don't know. Where is New Jersey State University (or whatever is called) located? He told me it's half an hour drive or so from New York. But that's for mid year 2006, at the least.
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Reply #71 on: July 12, 2005, 11:28:40 pm
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Coolness. Let me know when you find out, I'm serious about this. Shrike can attest to the fact that I'm not a murdering psychopath.

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I'm serious about it too. ;) Can you give me a ballpark figure of what month this trip will be during? That'll help me work out how feasible it is. :D
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Reply #72 on: July 12, 2005, 11:41:47 pm
Last week of January for my arrival at Sydney, for now. Can be adjusted, of course.
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Reply #73 on: July 12, 2005, 11:42:40 pm
If you drop by Singapore, give me a line - if its before December that I could probably provide you lodging (we have a spare room in the flat) and if tis after october, more the better, since the WCG finals will be coming around that time and I have a lot of free time, having finally left the army :)
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Reply #74 on: July 12, 2005, 11:45:05 pm
Last week of January... smack-bang in the middle of my summer holidays. Excellent. I talked to my brother and he doesn't mind. Now to ask my dad. :D
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Offline EtherShock

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Reply #75 on: July 13, 2005, 12:27:33 am
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Er, don't know. Where is New Jersey State University (or whatever is called) located? He told me it's half an hour drive or so from New York. But that's for mid year 2006, at the least.

There's no such thing. There was a plan for one by uniting a bunch of state schools, but that never happened. I'm thinking you are referring to Montclair or *gasps* Jersey City. It would be funny if it was my school (which is not Jersey City). If you stop on by in the future, I'll see if I can put aside some time to show you around.
 

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Reply #76 on: July 13, 2005, 03:47:26 am
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Shrike can attest to the fact that I'm not a murdering psychopath.


Is that the same Shrike who mysteriously hasn't posted for nearly two weeks now? :p
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Reply #77 on: July 13, 2005, 07:29:06 am
he did pop up every once in a while over the past few years :D
 

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Reply #78 on: July 13, 2005, 09:15:57 am
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There's no such thing. There was a plan for one by uniting a bunch of state schools, but that never happened. I'm thinking you are referring to Montclair or *gasps* Jersey City. It would be funny if it was my school (which is not Jersey City). If you stop on by in the future, I'll see if I can put aside some time to show you around.


Er, don't know then. Maybe they're sending him as a slave thinking that he'll be having a PhD. :D
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Reply #79 on: July 13, 2005, 12:08:23 pm
Yep, that sounds like college all right.
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