User talk:Marte Kinder

Welcome to the Brussels Wiki pages, Marte

and many thanks for starting Brussels english translation ! --Velojef 09:09, 23 June 2007 (PDT)

Cool typeface!

Marte, Where did you get that cool typeface (the one used with the rainbow fill)? D 17:00, 9 Oct 2006 (PDT)

Daniel, I found it at abstract fonts. The type face is called "chick" and I found it back on page 18 of 24 when sorting on fonts by letter C displaying 30 fonts per page. All the fonts you can get there are free and they have thousands. I am trying to decide on a new font for my 2007 promo stuff. The rainbow fill is a tool of the Arcsoft PhotoImpression 4 software that came with my PC.

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--Nsayers 15:35, 11 October 2006 (PDT)

Canberra meeting point

Hi Marte,

For the ride meeting point on Canberra, also on the Australia press release, I nearly modified AKA into aka. Though these are about equivalent, I feel 'aka' to allow paying most attention to both names instead of to the 'AKA' abbreviation itself.
Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary redirects AKA to aka (and does not recognize a.k.a. or A.K.A.). For Canberra, Australian Karting Association seems likelier than American Kickboxing Association/Academy, American Karate Association or Advanced Knowledge Associates. Also a.k.a. might not be best. Wikipedia's so-called proper professional a/k/a/ must be a joke [mentioned 'citation needed'].
On Australian sites, as an abbreviation, aka is slightly more common than AKA - also when the alternative name is not put between commas or parenthesis.

But then...
As an outsider, I also couldn't figure out whether "Kuttabul Place" is another name for "Barrine Drive Carpark" or for "Commonwealth Avenue". A quick bit of googling indicates the Avenue to run through a series of suburbs, while Barrine Drive runs through two, one of which has the Place. Elsewhere, I read "Barrine Drive carpark", small c. Hence It seems that the meeting point is not far from Commonwealth Avenue, at or on the unnamed carpark that is located at the junction of or between Kuttabul Place and Barrine Drive.

My attention was drawn to the location mainly by a few huge image files that became uploaded by User:Wnbr.canberra.
A far more reasonable size upload shows a route map that puts the starting point near the junction of Parkes Way and Commonwealth Ave.

If I'd be in the neighbourhood (unlikely), I would like to join the group that might be at a point often near but maybe never coinciding with my continuously changing location: In despair, I might miss the start. Or even won't take that risk and decide to stay away. Let's have Google Maps. I now described the meeting point as "The Kuttabul Place carpark (at the end of Barrine Drive), immediately SW of the Commonwealth Avenue and Parkes Way junction". I dropped the reference to the relatively large lake that could disorientate rather than precisise: the avenue and Parkes Way are good larger scale references and their junction is much more accurate.

Phrases on a wiki tend to be more often ambiguous or simply slightly mistaken than one realizes. Your interpretation of "or" made you change it into "AKA", apparently bringing it even further from a proper interpretation. Unless I just made things worse than ever: Google Maps has been known to unofficially or inaccurately place streetnames. A local's information might be valuable, e.g. in case the pier would be signposted from farther away or more clearly than nearby carpark signs.
SomeHuman 2010-03-05 08:51 (GMT)