libertango | Sometimes, I scare myself.

As part of writing that earlier entry on Anna Lindh, I went to the web site of Afro Celt Sound System.

When I clicked on "About" (they have a weird page layout, hence, no link), I saw an image that puzzled me for... about half a second.

Then I recognized it, re-oriented, and did just fine.

Trick is... well, I'm reasonably sure not many people would've figured it out that quickly.

Just to test, I'm going to now show the image to you. Remember, you have to figure out what it is in... oh, let's say two seconds, just to make this interesting.

Go.

Answers?

I'll put in some spoiler space:

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It's Boston. The Charles goes to the top of the photo (with the bridge with the Museum of Science there), Charlestown is on the right-ish side, Southie is the not-quite-rectangular bit towards the left. It clips Logan airport off.

To line it up so North is toward the top again, it needs to be like this:

You all did that in your head in two seconds, same as me, right? Especially you Worldcon folks who were there just last week... :)

It's not unlike how, when I was a kid at Midland, I saw an aerial photo of Moscow and started going, "There's St. Basil's, there's GUM, there's the Kremlin, there's the Rossiya, there's MSU..." -- and pulled myself up because, in the deepest Cold War, I as a high school sophmore pretty much knew my way around the Capital of the Enemy. (If it comes to that, I was doing the same thing as I watched the Moscow sequences of The Bourne Supremacy recently. And Berlin. Neither of which I've been to. [yet])