Mal ,'Ariel'
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.
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.
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.
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.
Many happy returns of the day, Gar.
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.
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.
Tomaggedon?
A Tomaggedon is what you use to slide down the snow on the MounTom during the Tompacalypse.
amazon wishlists are no good for them? I freaking love the wishlist.
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.
Oh boy do I hear you, although it's more that nobody knows what we're doing this year, so some people aren't sure if they are doing anything and others are carrying on like normal. I'm trying for the latter, my motivation is low, and my sense of what to get people is practically non-existent. I've done some, which I'm pretty happy about, but now I'm just flummoxed. And this is more on friends than family. Bleh.