Well, um... no. But I hear he does a great job....
Hmm... If you need me, I'll be over here, being suspicious of everyone.
Where'd they get CAT scan from?... I mean, did they test it on cats? Or does the machine sort of look like a cat?
Dawn ,'Sleeper'
Natter 41: Why Do I Click on ita's Links?!
Off-topic discussion. Wanna talk about corsets, duct tape, or physics? This is the place. Detailed discussion of any current-season TV must be whitefonted.
TomW - Dec 14, 2005 4:54:56 am PST #1850 of 10002
"The fact that we live at the bottom of a deep gravity well, on the surface of a gas covered planet going around a nuclear fireball 90 million miles away and think this to be normal is obviously some indication of how skewed our perspective tends to be."
tommyrot - Dec 14, 2005 4:56:15 am PST #1851 of 10002
Sir, it's not an offence to let your cat eat your bacon. Okay? And we don't arrest cats, I'm very sorry.
It's a Tom trifecta....
Kate P. - Dec 14, 2005 4:58:35 am PST #1852 of 10002
That's the pain / That cuts a straight line down through the heart / We call it love
Happy birthday, Gar!
TomW - Dec 14, 2005 4:58:42 am PST #1853 of 10002
"The fact that we live at the bottom of a deep gravity well, on the surface of a gas covered planet going around a nuclear fireball 90 million miles away and think this to be normal is obviously some indication of how skewed our perspective tends to be."
tomistas.org
Finally, my plans are coming to fruition.
Theodosia - Dec 14, 2005 5:00:38 am PST #1854 of 10002
'we all walk this earth feeling we are frauds. The trick is to be grateful and hope the caper doesn't end any time soon"
Would that be a Tompacalypse?
tommyrot - Dec 14, 2005 5:01:57 am PST #1855 of 10002
Sir, it's not an offence to let your cat eat your bacon. Okay? And we don't arrest cats, I'm very sorry.
Hec once coined the term Tomtastrophe.
DXMachina - Dec 14, 2005 5:02:57 am PST #1856 of 10002
You always do this. We get tipsy, and you take advantage of my love of the scientific method.
It works a lot better in IE than it does Firefox.
Of course it does.
TomW - Dec 14, 2005 5:04:13 am PST #1857 of 10002
"The fact that we live at the bottom of a deep gravity well, on the surface of a gas covered planet going around a nuclear fireball 90 million miles away and think this to be normal is obviously some indication of how skewed our perspective tends to be."
Interesting. Looks like they have different sources for their satellite imagery (the "aerial" view). I thought it was the same, because the imagery of our house was the same as in google maps. But their imagery of Somerville and Cambridge is just plain bad.
Okay, back to work.
JZ - Dec 14, 2005 5:09:08 am PST #1858 of 10002
See? I gave everybody here an opportunity to tell me what a bad person I am and nobody did, because I fuckin' rule.
Tomaggedon?
The spy-on-yourself-from-above thing doesn't work at all in Safari. Bah.
Also, happy birthday Gar! May this coming year be the year your book gets its props!
Actually, Allyson's book too, even though today is not her birthday. And deb's new series, and Hec and Corwood's book proposals, and all the novels and screenplays and song lyrics so many Buffistas are working on. May the coming year be the year the Buffistas OWN the printed word.
For me, I'd just like one idea for one short story. Just one. That's all I ask.
§ ita § - Dec 14, 2005 5:09:59 am PST #1859 of 10002
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
It'd be cooler if the pictures were stitched together. I can't zoom in on my apartment, because it's off to the edge of the bird's eye view. The semantic distinction between aerial and bird's eye seems a little arbitrary, but I like looking at everything from a height where a bird would actually be able to fly. Looks more like home, with the angle.
Also, the transition from map to bird's eye is a bit messy, and the pushpin I put in is a bit off when I go to the roads view.