Categories: just-life
Date: 19 April 2005 17:25:50
I'm so sorry, were you that interested?? In that case head to http://www.maps.google.com and over on the right hand side you'll see the satellite button. You can use the map section to find somewhere and then switch to look at the satellite image. It's really quite cool, though it's not complete yet. The really close up zoom is only available over the main city centers in the States and Canada. But then again, yesterday the zoomed out map didn't include the rest of the world, so that's a good start!!! And it is good enough that you can count the cars on the Golden Gate Bridge (166) though I've yet been able to spot an aircraft in the air at one of the airports. I've checked some of the big ones (like JFK and LAX) but no luck. Though I once watched a programme about air traffic controllers at JFK and what a hard and stressful job it was...... Having seen the size of the place, it doesn't surprise me!! (anyone missing Concorde?? there's one at JFK) I've even managed to find the church I visited in Niagara falls!!!
So play with this if you will, if we're lucky they'll open up the rest of the world, won't that be cool???
Now I feel that there was something else that I was going to 'complain' about, but again, this map thingy has meant that I can't really remember...... I know I was going to complain about the jumping on the bandwagon of certain programmes, most notably Grumpy Old Women....
Now, Grumpy Old Men was a show that stared just personalities as Sir Bob Geldof, Jeremy Clarkson, John Peel, Arthur Smith, Will Self, etc..... and it was a truely entertaining programme, ignoring "political correctness" and letting them rant about any number of things. Mobile phones, the young, the old, polititions, television programmes, fashion...... it really was a jolly good grump. They remade the format. Let's try grumpy women, on come women like Germaine Greer and Janet Street-Porter, and it's rubbish. It's no longer people being grumpy, but a load of self-pity nonsense!!! "Oh no, VCRs we can't use them..... we need young people to set them for us........ oh, pity pity pity....."
In the case of the men, they'd first complain about the stupid design of the VCR, say what they'd like to do to the designer, how'd they have the VCR working and that sort of thing. That was funny and good.
And with the stupid computers crashing I got out bid on some stuff on Ebay, which is v.annoying, cause one of them I need and so I'm going to go have a grump......... Grrrrrrr.........