My most intimate encounter with Google Street View mapmobile (described here and here) was not my only encounter.

A few weeks later, in late April or early May 2012, while driving eastward on Batavia Road in Warrenville, I observed the bug-eyed Google Maps vehicle headed westward.


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Remember my April 12th entry?

I discovered that a Google Street View mapping car was visiting my neighborhood, and laid in ambush with my camera.


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Spotted the Google Street View car, not for the first time, yesterday on Batavia Road in Warrenville, not far from the Emerald Green complex where I used to live ( Read more... )

I walked out of my house this morning and observed an unfamiliar vehicle on Newton Court.


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On Friday, I lost my hat. Fortunately, the loss was temporary.

There were extremely high winds most of Friday-- weather reports said 20 to 30 miles per hour. I was camping in Michigan and having a splendid time. I was wearing the hat I acquired from a souvenir dealer on the Piazza San Marco in 1989.


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An announcement appearing on the United States Geological Survey Astrogeology site brings news from the International Astronomical Union's Working Group for Planetary System Nomenclature.Six New Names Approved for Features on MarsThe following names have been approved for features on Mars: Avarua, Dowa, Fitzroy, Greg, Pál, and Waikato Vallis. For ( Read more... )

Wow.

Spotted this on BoingBoing.

If you are cruising, and you find something cool that's been put out at the curb, and you don't want to scrounge it yourself, you can assist fellow trashpickers. Shoot a photo of it. Then post it to the site where phonecam pictures are pinned to Google Maps of their street locations ( Read more... )

Remember this?

The ever-alert whl, who knows the area like the back of his hand, points out that I have planned our rendezvous, not for one of Panera Bread Co.'s many delightful cafes, but for their Giant Bakery Warehouse.

Oops.

While whl himself-- who also knows how to use Panera's Web storefinder, an improvement over punching the company name into ( Read more... )

I propose to meet the jetlagged tlunquist and her chauffeur grey_lensman immediately after he collects her at O'Hare this coming Saturday. There we will be the first in North America to hear an account of her whirlwind trip through the institutions of Korea ( Read more... )