About the slickest thing they've come up with since snail-spit is the spinning Earth globe on the internet they call Google Earth.
Being free for the asking, Google Earth takes a bit to download (on our dialup modem) but not much effort to get used to. Use your forefinger to push the mouse button and set that sucker a spinnin'. Then press that other button and take a dive down through the clouds to where you can see better. The roads are on there, as well as the standard political and geographic boundaries.
They must have had those fella's in the space station busy taking all the pictures, cause you can see real good. I can even see my car parked in the driveway - no kiddin' - I just wish they had waited till we had cut the grass.
I see where people have pasted their pictures on the globe and there's descriptions of places to see and of what is happening to the earth. I'm going to have to figure out how to get the trips we take down here put on that thing as well.
Sunday, November 16, 2008
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