> > Triax (Jonathan) hatches an evil plan...
> >
> > I ended up on one of the American Antartic base websites the
> > other day.  Being scientist types they must of heard of Perl,
> > maybe we can encourage them to code Perl for fun...
> > wasting US taxpayer's money!  >:)
> 
> Jonathan, looking at Sec's map, it looks like you too have
> to endure a "Brass Monkeys" climate. In fact, it looks like
> you live about a 7-iron from St Andrews, the home of golf.
> Does anyone know which city/town Jonathan lives in?
> (Alas, `/anick's BoG does not have an entry for him).

I am most impressed, my little red dot somehow appears roughly
in the correct place on the map.  I was expecting my home to
mysteriously move into the middle of the Atlantic ocean,
and was thus impressed.

However, the impression was slightly dented because clicking
on my little dot doesn't reveal my golfing profile.  No, it 
coughs up a hairball:

http://babyl.dyndns.org/golf/book.xml?style=golfer;id=UNKNOWN

Moving on to Andrew's observation, it is clear he missed my
mention first time around.  I live in the shadow of the Forth
bridges, in a small town called Dalgety Bay, in Fife.

The county of Fife, or more fully The Kingdom of Fife is home
to the very town which brought golf into the world - St. Andrews.
The following link is for a costal map of Fife:

http://www.fifecoastalpath.co.uk/html/fife_coastal_map.html

Dalgety Bay is between North Queensferry (the northside of the
Forth bridge (rail)) and Aberdour on that map.  The rail bridge
is interesting, so allow me to extract some figures on the
bridge before presenting a link:


  * 2.5 km. [1.5 mile] long
  * 54,000 tons of steel and 6,500,000 rivets.
  * Total cost was �3,200,000 - in 1890!!!
  * 57 men died in construction.
  * 2nd largest Cantilever bridge in the world of it's type, but
    was finished 28 years before the longer bridge in Quebec.

http://www.forthbridges.org.uk

I make particular reference to it because I travel across it on a
regular basis :)

Strange, I know the expression "Brass Monkeys" and can certainly
be applied around here sometimes.  As I write, hail stones are
pouring down from the sky... what did we deserve those for?
Fortunately, they aren't like those vicious ones other countries
seem to suffer.

I really must get my homepage sorted, then it would be easier to
respond when someone asks "where do you live?".

Take care Andrew et al,

Jonathan Paton

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