Maybe They’ll Name A Bridge After Me
Posted on | May 28, 2008 at 10:03 pm | 1 Comment
C’mon, admit it – you go ego-surfing every once in a while. Everyone does it. Heck, that’s why I picked a pseudonym that’s (mostly) not a real word. It’s easy to Google. You can find some pretty interesting things that way.
So I was indulging myself today, and came across this page, which uses a photo of mine that I posted on my Flickr site (it’s the third photo down on the page).
From what I can tell, the website is a Hungarian one that seeks to educate international travelers about our fair country, state by state. My photo appears on the page about the state of Delaware. The only problem is that I’ve never actually been to the state of Delaware, though I’ve come very close to it. Whoever put the page together thought the photo was of Wilmington, Delaware (which is evidently a suburb of Philadelphia), but it’s really from Wilmington, North Carolina. I concede that it’s partly my fault for putting “wilmington” as a tag and not specifying the state. But really, I didn’t even know there was a Wilmington in Delaware (or that it was a suburb of Philadelphia, which I have been to). Geography is not my strong suit. Still, the description under the picture mentions the “Cape Fear River”, which I’m pretty sure doesn’t run from North Carolina to Delaware. Those wacky Hungarians! Stephen Colbert was right about them.
I know I should let them know about the mistake, but I think it’s kind of cute. And I like having my picture up there.
Latre.
Jogged Today: No – my leg has suddenly been hurting for the last 24 hours or so, even though I didn’t injure it, afaik.
Pet Peeve of the Day: Really bad day at work!
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May 29th, 2008 @ 7:39 am
Used to be when I said I lived in Denver and people would ask if that was Colorado, I would sarcastically answer yes. Then I got a zip code table to play around with. Turns out there are Denvers in New York, Pennsylvania, North Carolina, Tennessee, Kentucky, Indiana, Iowa, Illinois, and Missouri. In addition, there is a Denver City Texas. (And there are nine states with a Wilmington, I just checked.)