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Syd
Posted: Mon Apr 18, 2005 5:46 pm Reply with quote
Site Admin Joined: 21 May 2004 Posts: 12921 Location: Norman, Oklahoma
Quote:
As I was out walking the streets of Las Vegas
As I was out walking Las Vegas one day,
I met a young lady all dressed in white satin,
All dressed in white satin and as sweet as the May.

"I see by your unicorn you are a virgin
I know it for sure by the horn on its head."
"Alas," she said, "Its horn is so mighty
I fear I'm a virgin until I am dead."


I forget the rest, except it takes the obvious turn.

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yambu
Posted: Mon Apr 18, 2005 7:04 pm Reply with quote
Joined: 23 May 2004 Posts: 6441 Location: SF Bay Area
If you're still mapquesting, you owe it to yourself to check out http://maps.google.com.
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Rod
Posted: Mon Apr 18, 2005 7:18 pm Reply with quote
Joined: 21 Dec 2004 Posts: 2944 Location: Lithgow, Australia
Marj;

"Rob"?

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Syd
Posted: Mon Apr 18, 2005 7:49 pm Reply with quote
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yambu: That's cool, but I still can't seee my house from there.

The Washington Monument really stands out there, and you can see the gridmarks in one of the stadiums in Washington.

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yambu
Posted: Mon Apr 18, 2005 8:28 pm Reply with quote
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Those satellite photos are from Keyhole, Inc., which Google recently purchased. For a really good time, go to http://www.keyhole.com and download their demo software. It has full screen satellite views, and much better zooming and tilting features than Google Maps. The tilting is amazing. I can "fly" over the Marin Headlands north of the Golden Gate, rotate my view 360 degrees, descend into valleys, follow hiking trails and bike paths.
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yambu
Posted: Mon Apr 18, 2005 8:32 pm Reply with quote
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Back to Google Maps. You're looking at a local map (like mapquest, only much better. Type in "pizza", and it will locate all pizza outlets in that map view.
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Syd
Posted: Mon Apr 18, 2005 8:50 pm Reply with quote
Site Admin Joined: 21 May 2004 Posts: 12921 Location: Norman, Oklahoma
Tried it again. This time I found my house, and the building I work in. Couldn't tell if the cat was in the back yard when the picture was taken. It looks like 3-9 months ago since it has the new Journalism building, but no trace of the dorms which are under construction.

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burritoboy
Posted: Mon Apr 18, 2005 8:59 pm Reply with quote
Joined: 14 Apr 2005 Posts: 17 Location: Chicago
"hey burrito,

take some time to learn how to use the quote function. Yer posts are confusing as hell."

First, I gotta post. Then, I gotta learn somethinks. Whattapeoples gonna ask me next for?
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Rod
Posted: Mon Apr 18, 2005 9:33 pm Reply with quote
Joined: 21 Dec 2004 Posts: 2944 Location: Lithgow, Australia
As a minor post-script to our Watergate/Government scandals conversations, last night, eager for a movie good to listen to I put on All The President's Men, and a new realisation came to me. Nixon and his cronies got it in the neck for taking the assassinate-the-enemy's-reputations approach too far, but in the end their approach has become the mandatory right-wing strategy. Nixon's career died so that his legacy might take strong root.

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lshap
Posted: Mon Apr 18, 2005 9:49 pm Reply with quote
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Hey Burritoboy, paint my house.
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lshap
Posted: Mon Apr 18, 2005 9:53 pm Reply with quote
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Nixon's career died so that his legacy might take strong root.


Nixon in politics, Ben Johnson in sports, Napster in technology -- all martyrs for a greater bad.[/quote]
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yambu
Posted: Mon Apr 18, 2005 10:00 pm Reply with quote
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No admistration is about to burglarize the opposition, so there is a difference. There is more accountability post-Watergate, due to the Wash Post showing that investigative reporting with honest support from the owner and editor down can make money and reputation. I'm no journalist, but I thought the film made this point well. It's still a fav of mine.
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Rod
Posted: Mon Apr 18, 2005 10:13 pm Reply with quote
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[quote="lshap"]
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-- all martyrs for a greater bad.


Well put.

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yambu
Posted: Tue Apr 19, 2005 12:46 am Reply with quote
Joined: 23 May 2004 Posts: 6441 Location: SF Bay Area
Syd wrote:
Tried it again. This time I found my house, and the building I work in....
Syd, if you paid attention to what I said about keyhole.com, by now you will have viewed your house from about 2,000 ft, front, back, and sides.
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Posted: Tue Apr 19, 2005 1:14 am Reply with quote
Joined: 24 May 2004 Posts: 3058 Location: Gotham, Big Apple, The Naked City
mo and Marc, TEARS OF THE BLACK TIGER is queued up. Thanks for the prompt.

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