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  • Thank you, your TPR DBA address in Chicago may explain (finally) why Chicago-based Sears sells Kenmore [sears.com] appliances. Us Boston folk have wondered if their old, elegant Regional admin and warehouse at 309-401 Park Drive / 201 Brookline Ave [emporis.com] (near Kenmore Sq and Fenway Park, now the "Landmark Center" [brunercott.com], a urban-mall theatre/Staples/BestBuy) was really that great an influence on a Chicago chain. If the Sears household appliance line is named for a street in Chicago, or the town the street is named for, that make
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    Bill
    # I had a sig when sigs were cool
    use Sig;
    • I think the streets are named for the appliances. I've been trying to find out the origins for the names of the streets around me, but I haven't figured out Kenmore yet.

      There are an amazing number of household names that come out of Chicago though. This month's Chicago magazine goes through most of the roster. :)
  • Actually the photo of a camel that came with London.pm's Camel Adoption Pack was just a random camel. It wasn't a picture of the camel that we adopted.
  • Instances of the string "Perl" in everyday life. I remember seeing an image of a European road sign pointing to "Perl". I think it was German, but I can't find it.

    I can't help you with the road-sign (although I didn't look too closely), but a little wine village on the banks of the river Mosel is called Perl. They even have a website [perl-mosel.de] with a pretty emblem.
    • Curious font on that page. Where have I seen that before :)
    • I once got a bottle of wine from "Perl" as a price for an obfuscation at the German Perl Workshop 2002. Unfourtunatly, I have neither the bottle nor an image of it. But maybe somebody from the GPW orgas can help..., I'll ask them..
    • I looked closer, but even some quality time with Google didn't bring up anything. I wonder what the look on the receptionist's face will be if I call the town hall and ask them if someone has a photo of the road sign.

  • I have an ugly scan of a receipt from Café Perl, in Lyon (where Lyon.pm meets). The receipt itself was given to me in 2000 (before Lyon.pm even existed) by a friend who knew I was interested in Perl and kept it for me. Note that the prices are in FRF, not EUR. I scanned it only a while later, which explains why it looks so... old.

    Grab the shot at http://paris.mongueurs.net/meetings/2001/cafeperl.jpg [mongueurs.net].

  • Good thing Tim Bunce didn't decide to actually call it "GDI", as that acronym is taken [microsoft.com], as the name for the group of drawing functions in the Windows API.

    But which was first? Windows' GDI probably already had that name in Windows 3.0 (1990 [computerhope.com]) or Windows 3.1 (1992 [computerhope.com]). I thought DBI's roots lie in 1994 which is definitely not as old as Windows.

  • I have a picture of the road sign "Rue de la Perle", in Paris, taken at YAPC::EU. Of course it's on my website at home, which is down while I am away. I'll send it to you next week.

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    mirod
  • I'm currently tending to Amelia so I'll try and get a photo of her sometime soon. I can also supply photos of the front and back of the original Perl is my Bitch tshirts, the sticker (which I thought I was given by Dave Adler at OSCon 2001 but memory may fail). I've also got examples of the last London.pm tshirts (which had logos for Sunnydale.pm, Rivendell.pm, Ankh-Morpork.pm, Tatooine.pm and ZZ9pluralZalpha.pm) as seen http://www.thegestalt.org/tshirts/ Also - The first ever London.pm meeting htt
  • in the original first few TPJs. I don't think it was until they went to glossy format that the dreaded cards that fall everywhere began. I've got a picture of MJD's hairy ass from YAPC EU :)
  • http://www.getty.edu/vow/TGNFullDisplay?find=Perl&place=&nation=&prev_page=1&eng lish=Y&subjectid=7019688 Perl Island, almost as if somone in the USGS knew....
  • I have one of those berets if you still want an image ...
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