How to waste your evening on Google Earth

[andygates]

1: Visit all your old houses in order.  I'm kinda glad that Cowper Road is still standing, but what the hell, the place I grew up -- they demolished the factory?  Turn on the Flickr and Panoramio layers for maximum notsalgia.

2: The Youtube layer is just utter lifesuck death.  But it tells me one thing: People are the same the world over.  Granted, people are mostly lame, but they're the same sort of kinda-funny kinda-annoying lame.  Country, colour, creed, it's trivial compared to the uniting power of looking like an ass on the internet.

Comments

[fox-uk.livejournal.com]

you grew up in a factory? Explains a lot!

[andygates.livejournal.com]

I grew up in Wolvercote on the edge of Oxford, and the village's defining landmark was a huge gert paper mill. If you look From Space now, you'll see a great big expanse of, well, flat dry dirt. It's been demolished, and the two pubs on the green now have no backdrop. That mill's warm outflow meant good fishing round the back, y'see. And plenty of blue-collar kids to have fights with.

It looks weird. Like a fake Wolvercote that someone knocked together but missed out an important landmark because it was so much of the background that nobody ever mentioned it.

There is no justice.

[xeeny.livejournal.com]

'cos of buildings that _should_ be destroyed, the House of the Rising Slum surely must near the top.

Re: There is no justice.

[despaer.livejournal.com]

Nah, you forget that Dominic (our useless landlord) got his mum round to help us clean it up when we all finally moved out. Last seen in relatively good nick. Plus, it was in Redland so will probably cost as much as the surf-side house that Ben showed us a few days ago.

Re: There is no justice.

[andygates.livejournal.com]

It's certainly looking structurally sound and not, say, the centre of a Hellmouth.

Re: There is no justice.

[justoneway.livejournal.com]

Some friends of mine were looking at a house down the end of the road there that was going for 450k.
It was semi-derilict, with a roof you could see the sky through, no bathroom, no kitchen and all the stirs needed replacing. Plus a total redecorate from the bricks out.
If we all clubbed together we would not be able to afford the squalid hole you used to fester in as students.
Depressing thought really.

Re: There is no justice.

[andygates.livejournal.com]

It was only squalid because we were in it.

In fact, looking around at all the ex-Cowper Roadies now, I think it was only squalid because I used to live in it.

[teahisme.livejournal.com]

Happy Anniversary of your something day. ;)

[andygates.livejournal.com]

Wha?

[teahisme.livejournal.com]

I stopped having those B named days. I now have anniversaries. You see I had the 3rd anniversary of my 29th birthday this year.

[andygates.livejournal.com]

I'm too old to worry about how old I am any more. :/