Comments on: Where I’m At

By: Anne KG Murphy

Anne KG Murphy — Mon, 20 Jul 2009 18:05:01 +0000

Oh, that’s a beach! On the iPhone the strip of water was so small it just looked like some desolate desert setting….

By: Jim Wright

Jim Wright — Sun, 19 Jul 2009 17:05:20 +0000

Steve @ 23

…only to discover that he was evil and that they must battle to the death for supremacy of the internet.

There can be only one.

By: Steve Buchheit

Steve Buchheit — Sat, 18 Jul 2009 21:16:38 +0000

Jim @ 22

… and then by use of a magic felt painting, brought him into existence.

By: Jim Wright

Jim Wright — Sat, 18 Jul 2009 17:12:25 +0000

Who’s this Wheaton person/character you guys keep going on about? Is he real or fictional? Just wondering . . .

He’s completely fictional. Scalzi imagined him one day, as sort of a younger, hipper version of himself.

By: Blaine

Blaine — Sat, 18 Jul 2009 17:08:26 +0000

Hey! I know that beach. I built several of the cellular sites around that area. Stayed there about 3 weeks and it was one of the nicer field jobs I had. Hard work, but wonderful downtime. A couple of months later I did Sonoma and Napa Valley areas. Also very nice.

By: Nugu

Nugu — Sat, 18 Jul 2009 08:07:39 +0000

Who’s this Wheaton person/character you guys keep going on about? Is he real or fictional? Just wondering . . .

By: George William Herbert

George William Herbert — Sat, 18 Jul 2009 04:03:57 +0000

Jim -

I am not getting in my car and driving up to (mumblemumble), nor naming it here for anyone else who has a lack of net/life boundaries sense. Scalzi and Wheaton deserve their private (mumblemumble) weekend tryst privacy etc etc.

I thought I recognized the location from the photo, confirmed it with a Google Earth surface view (I had guessed right to within about 30 meters of the photo location), and went off to check the coastline website after someone suggested using that to find the place. Hopefully indicating “that won’t be a helpful resource” will avoid much frustration but not usefully help anyone who has the aforementioned lack of net/life boundaries and MUST MUST MUST GO SEE TOUCH ANNOY THE HELL OUT OF FAVORITE AUTHOR.

I can’t help it that he went somewhere that I know (or at least, remembered well enough to guess correctly). Anyone who’s spent much time on the California Coast would have a chance to recognize it, though you’d have to have gotten out of the car and hung out on the beach.

Perhaps mentioning that I figured it out was impolitic, but I figured it was harmless, as long as I don’t aid or abet anyone with aforementioned lack of net/life boundaries from stalkerizing.

By: Jim Wright

Jim Wright — Sat, 18 Jul 2009 03:24:46 +0000

George @ 16 you do realize that restraining orders have been issued for less, right?

Then again, 50,000 people read this blog every day – they can’t stop all us. Can they?

By: allium

allium — Sat, 18 Jul 2009 03:17:28 +0000

Scalzi and Wheaton, sitting by the sea.
Es-chew-ing tech-nol-o-gy.
Scalzi won’t blog.
Wheaton won’t Tweet.
Then come disasters that don’t fit in this met…er.

By: George William Herbert

George William Herbert — Sat, 18 Jul 2009 03:11:29 +0000

Hank@15 –

Californiacoastline.org’s photos of that area are all from sufficiently different angles that you’ll probably not catch where it is.

If you know where to look and pretty precisely where to put the cursor and view angle/attitude, the Google Earth view lines up. But I suspect anyone who doesn’t know the area already will not know how to focus in on that being the right place to start looking in detail. Going by “beach next to river” gives you too many candidate locations and if you don’t guess exactly where to look at the one (I think / am reasonably sure) he’s at, it looks all wrong.

You also have to know that there’s a seasonal sandbar in play.