My New Toy
Yet another means of distraction has presented itself to me. It’s called Google Earth and will no doubt become the next big thing on the net, until the next big thing after that comes along.
If you haven’t discovered this yet, basically it’s like a virtual globe, which uses keyhole satellite pictures of varying magnification to build up images on the screen. The detail is just staggering. The Golden Gate Bridge, Grand Canyon, White House, Everest… all like you’re flying over in a plane, right down to about 500 feet. Even my house in Blackheath. I have had the utterly surreal experience of zooming around above Sydney, being given directions by my uncle via MSN to find his apartment in North Bondi! ” see the swimming pool at the end of the beach?”… “yes”… “follow road up to roundabout and take second exit”… “there are some trees on the left?” Unbelievable.
I’m thinking now what I need is my own personal spy satellite to hook up to it with live feeds, and I can go looking for nuclear weapons and stuff. Maybe the Russians will sell me one.
Between those clever buggers at Google, and Messrs. Flintoff and co, I probably won’t get much work done this weekend.
