This morning, I was sitting at my desk at work, and I had my home laptop up on my desk off to the side. I work in a tech support call center for my company, and we're allowed to have our personal laptops at work as long as they aren't connecting to our secured network. For my background this week, I've been using the background from the MR site of the City Edge layout in this year's issue of GMR. So, my manager comes by to see me. I turn to talk to him, and he's just staring at my laptop. I asked him what was up, and, still looking at my laptop, he said, "I'm trying to figure out what city that is." He was blown away when I told him that it was a model in somebody's house. Thought it was pretty funny that it'd been confused for an actual photo of a real city. Does say a lot too of the quality of the work on the layout.
Kevin
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I had a photo of my first subway station, Saint Anne Street after my daughter, as my computer wallpaper at work. A co-worker, a native New Yorker, mind you, was looking at the picture, trying to figure out where on the New York Subway System "Saint Anne Street" was. I'd fooled a native.
(not even a very good photo, if you ask me.)
It takes an iron man to play with a toy iron horse.