26 Nov
2003
26 Nov
'03
3:07 p.m.
An IBM 5362 in England. The address makes no sense to
me: I
think this is an estate sale company in four locations(?)
North Leaze Farm, North Cadbury, Yeovil, Somerset. Take your
pick. Sorry, my geography of the UK does not enable me to
figure out where this is exactly. Or maybe it IS the address
(quite odd by US standards at least). Or maybe it doesn't
make sense anyway.
Makes perfect sense. I'll parse it for you in case you want to
fly over and take it back in your hand-luggage:
It's a place called "North Leaze Farm",
so it's big enough that "142 Widget Road" would be inappropriate.
It's in a village called "North Cadbury" (or, since it's a farm,
it's probably near to this village).
There are possibly hundreds of places called "North Cadbury" so
to give you a hint you get the name of a big place that's probably
reasonably near (for some suitable definition of "near"). In this
case that's "Yeovil" - a place that is of sufficient size that
most UK inhabitants have a clue about which corner of the country
it's hidden in.
Finally you get the county: "Somerset". That's really there to
catch the retards who forgot where Yeovil might be. If you
don't know where Somerset is, you don't deserve any sort of
IBM (even a PC :-)).
I presume that this thing is in storage but just in case someone
wants to go and fetch it here is roughly where it lives:
http://www.streetmap.co.uk/newmap.srf?x=361862&y=129008&z=0&sv=…
st=2&pc=BA22+7BD&mapp=newmap.srf&searchp=newsearch.srf
Antonio
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Antonio Carlini arcarlini(a)iee.org