Tales of Home [5]

it's like god is peeking out between the clouds  love the picture

Went out to play with my camera today...

That building even looks spooky in sunshine.

Love old castles- where is that one Lance?

And cracking pic too Amarie.

is it Hadleigh castle Lance?   love ruined castles   

Great pics Lance !! I also love an old ruin  

So though we've often been amazed at Google Street view, I've always felt somewhat removed from it by living 7 floors above the streets.

But now I realize that when you turn on the flyover 3D feature in the iphone, if you live in a super exposed city like I do, anyone can come within about 1 zoom factor shy of looking in my apartment windows!    You can fly around my damn building like superman, it's uncanny. Hmm..I got a sharing app, wonder if I can share pictures...

but it was your apartment window in the past, its like something out of Inception.

Okay, here's looking at the front of my apartment: it's the thing to the left with the blue ball over it (not centered because I wanted to include the small park).



Now I use my fingers to fly around the thing like a damn drone, and I can see my windows at the back (yellowish wall).  Top floor, count to the 5th window from the left and that's where I'm sitting, the next small window is the bathroom, then the large living room, then the kitchen.  The blue ball isn't over this building because of the angle.  it looks rippled because of the infamous apple map image morphing that made bridges look melted, but now only makes things look a little off.




Then for shits and giggles I flew over to college campus up the street where I work, circled around the main building and took a shot:




Here's the best I can do in google earth of my apartment, doesn't even come close:





I kind of played around with this a bit before, but the shock didn't hit me until flying around my own place like Underdog.

Penthouse is it Halfy?

No, the penthouse is right above me. Them folks got keys to the elevator.   

Its the sort of roof Spiderman lands on.   

If you want to be spiderman then you want to be swinging through mid town, maybe towards Central Park like this:



this is fun. give me some other New York landmark you want to fly through...

Hello good people of forumshire! I've missed most of you. It's been quite a while since I've been around, hope you all are well. It's my intention to catch up on some of what I've missed, but it's been so long that I may just pick up in the middle so to speak.

Great pictures everyone. I hope to visit the beautiful places where you live someday. Maybe when the cranberry ship comes in. Until then, I really appreciate the landscape pictures.

Hillbilly!   Great to have you back again.   

The day was already made great by blowing off work related projects to post pictures, now it's a splendid day!   

Welcome back!

I love you guys. (In a purely non-homoerotic Christian way that only us Christians understand)

Is that anything like drunken non-homoerotic love?

"I love you mate! I bloody love you!" and then you have a fight five minutes later?

Hillbilly wrote:I love you guys.  (In a purely non-homoerotic Christian way that only us Christians understand)

Damn I forgot how much I miss you...

Pettytyrant101 wrote:Is that anything like drunken non-homoerotic love?

"I love you mate! I bloody love you!" and then you have a fight five minutes later?

I thought you fight first and end up sprawled on the ground in each other's arms shouting out the love.    maybe we Americans do things backwards.

Yes, anger first, then the kissing, then... well, anyway that's how I always imagine it. Did I write that out loud?

I suspect you have touched a drop or two in your life.   

In addition to attempting to participate in forumshire more, I've also promised my kids to do a few things.  Taking them fishing now, so I'll catch up with everyone later in the weekend.  Happy diecisiete de mayo.

Have a good trip!   

(you may even post a picture or two?)

Pettytyrant101 wrote:Love old castles- where is that one Lance?

And cracking pic too Amarie.

Figgy was (somehow) right. It is Hadleigh castle and pictures at the end are the views along the Thames that the castle would have been protecting.