Michael, the 25 cents you found are part of the Wikimedia Argentina's
viral campaign to bring people to Wikimedia 2009 in Buenos Aires.
I'm glad to hear the research we conducted was right, and people get
the urge to make use of those 25 cents and spend a couple of Franklings
to do so. I'm currently in Europe spreading the campaign.
BTW, Aerolineas Argentinas is in the process of being statized; I don't
know if that means it is better than before or more chaotic.
Good wiking,
Mariano.
--- Damian Finol <damian(a)igluve.org> escribió:
Haha, something like this happened to me a couple of
weeks ago, but
with the argentinian flag (due to soccer fandom), I helped a cousin
of mine move a couple of weeks ago, and he left an argentinian flag
in my car (he's a big fan of the argentinian soccer team, I'm a
sucker for the french team though hehe) maybe it was a sign hehe.
On a related note, I bought the roundtrip tickets from caracas to
buenos aires on monday :).
Tip, travel agent said to totally avoid Aerolineas Argentinas
supposedly they suck really bad, so I went with LAN, they're part of
the oneworld alliance so I'm getting miles I can use on american
airlines.
Regards,
Damian
-----Original Message-----
From: Casey Brown <cbrown1023.ml(a)gmail.com>
Date: Thu, 19 Feb 2009 16:44:00
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Subject: [Wikimania-l] slightly OT; Fwd: [Foundation-l] A funny
coincidence
Cute story about Wikimania from foundation-l. :-)
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Casey Brown
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From: Michael Snow <wikipedia(a)verizon.net>
Date: Thu, Feb 19, 2009 at 2:04 AM
Subject: [Foundation-l] A funny coincidence
To: Wikimedia Foundation Mailing List
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On Tuesday, after Kat and I had spent a couple days assisting Sue and
Erik with interviews for the CPO position (an intriguing group of
candidates, by the way), I was at the BART station on my way to the
airport. I bought my ticket from the machine, and when I pulled my
receipt out of the dispenser, I also found a 25-cent piece. Once I
got a
closer look I realized why somebody might not have bothered to take
their change - it wasn't a U.S. quarter. Neither was it Canadian,
though, which is what you would typically find in that case. Of all
things, it happened to be Argentine, so 25 centavos actually.
I have no idea how 25 centavos from Argentina ended up in San
Francisco,
in just the right place for me to pick them up. It was quite amusing
to
me to think that later this year I'll actually be in Buenos Aires, I
suppose I should bring it with me whether I spend it or not. Anyway,
I'm
looking forward to Wikimania, and seeing any of you that are able to
make it.
--Michael Snow
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