A Map showing where we all live?

Posts: 105 · Posted: Thu Jul 17, 2008 6:48 pm

I haven't got the faintest idea where you get the link from but I have seen some sites with a map that shows where all their members live. Thought it might be worthwhile doing here...I think it would be intresting to see the distribution of Acaeum members across the globe. Question

Perhaps there could be a prize for the most obscure abode of an Acaeum member?

Posts: 1348 · Posted: Thu Jul 17, 2008 6:51 pm

Frappr, typically.

Posts: 7612 · Posted: Thu Jul 17, 2008 6:55 pm

simonmwh wrote:

I haven't got the faintest idea where you get the link from but I have seen some sites with a map that shows where all their members live. Thought it might be worthwhile doing here...I think it would be intresting to see the distribution of Acaeum members across the globe. Question

Perhaps there could be a prize for the most obscure abode of an Acaeum member?

well that would generally be bombadil most of the time, i would imagine, so its not really even a contest Smile

Posts: 342 · Posted: Thu Jul 17, 2008 7:15 pm

simonmwh wrote:

I haven't got the faintest idea where you get the link from but I have seen some sites with a map that shows where all their members live. Thought it might be worthwhile doing here...I think it would be intresting to see the distribution of Acaeum members across the globe. Question

Perhaps there could be a prize for the most obscure abode of an Acaeum member?

Vacation schedules and alarm codes would also be helpful. Twisted Evil

Posts: 2921 · Posted: Thu Jul 17, 2008 7:28 pm

In fact am heading north of the Circle again in a few days.

Did I tell you guys about traveling from Costa Rica to Svalbard in February?

Met a guy from Cambridge up there, went out on snowmobiles for a few days from cabin to cabin (-50 windchill, blowing snowstorms), looking for polar bears and the inimitable svalbard reindeer, and was going on about how I was prob'ly the first guy ever to show up on the archipelago while still taking malaria pills (not to mention the fact that half my face was swollen and miscolored from a run-in with a poison dart frog that damn near left me partially numb permanently, but so far the only remaining damage is a facial scar), but he just scoffed and said I'd been beaten by 14 years by a guy who had done the same. Bastard. (both of them.)

Anyway, sounds like a good way to map out the collections we'd all most like to pillage. Very Happy

Posts: 1077 · Posted: Thu Jul 17, 2008 7:28 pm

JZavoda wrote:

Vacation schedules and alarm codes would also be helpful. Twisted Evil

Well, we could post city-only information and not specific addresses.

Posts: 1348 · Posted: Thu Jul 17, 2008 7:30 pm

I've nothing no one would want to pillage... but, you can't have it anyway! Wink

Posts: 1440 · Posted: Thu Jul 17, 2008 7:35 pm

bombadil wrote:

In fact am heading north of the Circle again in a few days.

Did I tell you guys about traveling from Costa Rica to Svalbard in February?

Met a guy from Cambridge up there, went out on snowmobiles for a few days from cabin to cabin (-50 windchill, blowing snowstorms), looking for polar bears and the inimitable svalbard reindeer, and was going on about how I was prob'ly the first guy ever to show up on the archipelago while still taking malaria pills (not to mention the fact that half my face was swollen and miscolored from a run-in with a poison dart frog that damn near left me partially numb permanently, but so far the only remaining damage is a facial scar), but he just scoffed and said I'd been beaten by 14 years by a guy who had done the same. Bastard. (both of them.)

Anyway, sounds like a good way to map out the collections we'd all most like to pillage. Very Happy

umnnn.......... okie dokie
....take it a little easy sometime wont you?

Posts: 342 · Posted: Thu Jul 17, 2008 8:04 pm

bombadil wrote:

In fact am heading north of the Circle again in a few days.

Did I tell you guys about traveling from Costa Rica to Svalbard in February?

Met a guy from Cambridge up there, went out on snowmobiles for a few days from cabin to cabin (-50 windchill, blowing snowstorms), looking for polar bears and the inimitable svalbard reindeer, and was going on about how I was prob'ly the first guy ever to show up on the archipelago while still taking malaria pills (not to mention the fact that half my face was swollen and miscolored from a run-in with a poison dart frog that damn near left me partially numb permanently, but so far the only remaining damage is a facial scar), but he just scoffed and said I'd been beaten by 14 years by a guy who had done the same. Bastard. (both of them.)

Anyway, sounds like a good way to map out the collections we'd all most like to pillage. Very Happy

Just watch out for the Tartars.

Posts: 995 · Posted: Thu Jul 17, 2008 8:24 pm

bombadil wrote:

In fact am heading north of the Circle again in a few days.

Did I tell you guys about traveling from Costa Rica to Svalbard in February?

Met a guy from Cambridge up there, went out on snowmobiles for a few days from cabin to cabin (-50 windchill, blowing snowstorms), looking for polar bears and the inimitable svalbard reindeer, and was going on about how I was prob'ly the first guy ever to show up on the archipelago while still taking malaria pills (not to mention the fact that half my face was swollen and miscolored from a run-in with a poison dart frog that damn near left me partially numb permanently, but so far the only remaining damage is a facial scar), but he just scoffed and said I'd been beaten by 14 years by a guy who had done the same. Bastard. (both of them.)

Anyway, sounds like a good way to map out the collections we'd all most like to pillage. Very Happy

One of my old teachers at the Australian National University (palynologist), went from an extended field trip in West Papua (Irian Jaya) straight to Antarctica. His claim to fame is being the first person to actually come down with malaria while in Antarctica. That lucky guy has also been to all the islands in the Tristan da Cunha group.

Posts: 128 · Posted: Thu Jul 17, 2008 8:32 pm

I guess the closest my claim to fame would be spending the night in five different countries in the same week and three of those countries I didn't even get to sleep.

Posts: 579 · Posted: Fri Jul 18, 2008 7:18 am

bombadil wrote:

In fact am heading north of the Circle again in a few days.

Did I tell you guys about traveling from Costa Rica to Svalbard in February?

You have my envy. I'd love to see Svalbard. (Not so Costa Rica.) I haven't been anywhere north of Geiranger.

Posts: 995 · Posted: Fri Jul 18, 2008 8:46 am

guerret wrote:

You have my envy. I'd love to see Svalbard. (Not so Costa Rica.) I haven't been anywhere north of Geiranger.

I've spent a month in the far north of Norway: Lofoten Islands, Tromsø, Kirkenes, Øvre Pasvik NP, Karasjok etc. One of the best trips of my life and some of the most beautiful terrain on the planet. Never made it to Svalbard though - one day......