Friday, December 11, 2009
Annendale address
I signed up for a free 7 day trial of Google Earth. I was looking up places that I have not been in a long time to see if they are like what I remember. I cannot remember the Annedale house address (I probably never knew it to begin with). I tried just going of the road shapes as I remember the house faceing a "T' intersection with houses on each corner and then narrowing it down to houses with horseshoe driveways. Annendale has lots of these though, of-course and possibly time has changed the scape significantly. Would Pop or Mom mind posting it? Am I right remembering the street to be "King" or "King somthing"?
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I think it is the intersection of pleasant ridge rd and marshall drive. It looks a little different now, but I'm pretty sure that is the place. Can Mom or Pop confirm?
By the way, I found it by remembering a nature center that I biked to at least once and traced my way back from there. You can look the address up online. It's the Hidden Oaks Nature Center in Annandale. I didn't remember that name, but it was the only nature center that came up in Annandale.
I thought about using the nature center as a reference point too but didn't know what it was called. And Marshall is defintley right...I'm pretty sure. Gonna go there right now and look, Thanks!
The intersection looks right but the house dosnt. Unless it was razed and replaced with what looks like apartments with a parking lot in back.
Jake, I am not real familiar with Google Earth. Why don't you just go to street view on Google maps. I am 99% sure that is the place. I even recognized the house across the street where "John?" used to live. Are you only seeing an above view or a view from the street?
I didn't see any apartments.
You must have been looking at the wrong intersection. There are no apartments or parking lot. I suggest trying again, and doing street view from Google maps. I sent you a link via email.
Sorry for a billion comments Jake. I looked at the same thing through Google earth and I kind of see how you could think it was a parking lot. That is actually the back side of the roof that I think you are seeing. The street view is definitely preferable and it is available on Google earth as well as an option on the left hand side.
You spell it Annandale!
That's not what the schools are teaching.
http://upcoming.yahoo.com/venue/50752/VA/Annendale/Annendale-High-School/
Luks lik thu hol speling filosofy in this cuntree has com ful sercl..bak to da daz befor Noe Webster wen evryting wuz spelt foneticlee an ther wuz no reel stanerds.
That's awful! Poor spelling speaks volumes to most people when you are writing a good letter or applying for a job. I wonder if spell check and instant messaging is going to make poor spellers of this coming up generation.
actually, it would be "are going to make", but I suppose that is grammar and not spelling.
Oh, you got me! I was just testing ya'll. (is ya'll o.k.?)
Should've been added to the dictionary a long time ago.
Phonics are the best way to learn to read. To bad they don't actually exist in our language.I support it as the best method for beginners but once we learn to read we are all sight readers. If there were just an exeption here and there it would make sense but the whole system has way too much discontinuity. Perhaps it comes down to whether you value art or logic more.
oops i meant exsepshun not EXEPTION. Sorry.
This up and coming generation might be poor spellers but 2 or 300 years ago what you think is correct spelling would have looked foolish.
Jacob you just don't get it!!! Phonics DO exist in our language. All you children learned to read phonically!!! The public schools have gone back to phonics a lot but when you were kids much of the public schools were using the sight reading method. There are some words that have to be memorized like "the" but most can be sounded out. That is why you kids were reading everything at ages 4,5 and 6!
I don't want to speak in Jake's place, but it seemed to me that he was agreeing with you. He was simply stating that several hundred years ago written english was not bound to any standard, because not much of any standard existed. In those days, much of modern day english would have been very difficult for them to read since it is not easily "sounded" out.
I guess the point I am trying to make is that even if you took someone with absolutly no insight into our languge,but taught them all about our phonetic rules with no word memorization, they would be hard-pressed to read a book.
I still believe that phonics is the best way to learn to read, but this must be (and normally always is) paired with instruction on the many many exceptions to the rules. Boy, we sure deviated from the original intent of this post!
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