PinkSkull
The picture your using for your sig is one of my favorite images from that game. I have a poster of that and I would constantly get shit for it in the dorms. But some people are just lame. They also gave me shit for having the Pink Floyd poster with the naked chicks with album art imagery in the form of body paintings.
Money
At 6/18/07 02:09 PM, Deathcon7 wrote:
'( It sucks that America is the more powerful nation in the world, but our cash is worth crap. I know europe has always had stronger currency but damn... 1 to 2 is awful! I blame it on Bush /overused
BAH! I hate mindless Bush bashing. Their money may be "worth" more but everything there cost respectively more money. But yea, we have a acquired a nice national debt but that was there far before Bush came about.
Regardless, Britain is one of the few countries that can claim their money is worth more than ours. The Euro MAY be worth more, but it is also worth much less than the pound and that is why the British refused to use it, it would make their money worth less. But currency exchange is very awkward. Japan is one of the wealthiest nations and one dollar is worth about 124 yen.
Pictures of Home
I feel like I live in a very awkward part of Jersey where nothing is too far away. I live in a somewhat traditional suburban area that is very close to a major highway. On the other side of that highway there are some very expensive houses(I'm talking multi-million dollar, just down the street are houses that go for over a million). Before you can get there you need to pass a farm on the end of my street(there is one on either end) and a Starbucks on the highway. There are five different lake communities in my town and the center of town has a somewhat traditional economic center(with another Starbucks). There are also various major highways that come through my town including: 80, 10, and 46. There is also a train station. In the surrounding towns there are very varied places that include: urban areas, farms, backwoods, lakes communities, a community college, public parks, revolutionary war sites, and a very large military facility that predates the civil war. I'm nearly directly in center of Northern New Jersey(specifically, Denville in Morris County). If you travel directly east you can get to New York City in less than hour(depending on traffic). If you go directly west you'll get to Pennsylvania in about the same time. If you go southeast you'll get to the famous Jersey Shore. That is where I go to school, and it's a little over an hour to get there.
I couldn't think of anything all to interesting around where I actually live, or at least nothing that exemplifies the widely varied area. I did find a decent picture of the back of my English building at school though. It is an old mansion and the picture doesn't do it very much justice.