Hec once coined the term Tomtastrophe.
None of it means a damn thing.
Mal ,'Objects In Space'
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.
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.
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.
DebetEsse - Dec 14, 2005 5:10:19 am PST #1860 of 10002
Woe to the fucking wicked.
Many happy returns of the day, Gar.
Nora Deirdre - Dec 14, 2005 5:12:47 am PST #1861 of 10002
I’m responsible for my own happiness? I can’t even be responsible for my own breakfast! (Bojack Horseman)
psst, TomW, if you mouse over Mully's on the map, his info pops up. I suspect that's where the familiarity comes from.
ION, Next year I will buy my own gifts and have my family send me checks, because even spoon feeding them requested information is too overwhelming for them. Or maybe just tell them not to bother. Whatever. I don't care much about the gifts, but it is annoying to keep having the same dialouge about what I want/need over and over again, and I don't even want or need anything and it just seems to suck all the "it's the thought that counts" out of things and makes me feel mercenary and I hate it.
Trudy Booth - Dec 14, 2005 5:13:38 am PST #1862 of 10002
Greece's financial crisis threatens to take down all of Western civilization - a civilization they themselves founded. A rather tragic irony - which is something they also invented. - Jon Stewart
Ginger - Dec 14, 2005 5:15:36 am PST #1863 of 10002
"It didn't taste good. It tasted soooo horrible. It tasted like....a vodka martini." - Matilda
Nora seems to have my family. How did that happen? If I have to answer one more question about what kind of coffeepot I want, bad things will happen.
tommyrot - Dec 14, 2005 5:16:15 am PST #1864 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.
Tomaggedon?
A Tomaggedon is what you use to slide down the snow on the MounTom during the Tompacalypse.