over the cliff, onto the rocks.: Google Street View has come to Houston.

Wednesday, September 12, 2007

Google Street View has come to Houston.

Hey... That's not Humberto, is it?

update: via comments, a collection of google street view links [scary!]

9 comments:

Steve Bates said...: Oh, goody! No, that's not Humberto, because Humberto never came here. But I think that SUV or wagon on the right of this view almost sideswiped me a few days ago...

anonymous, out of curiosity, how do you know she was going in for an HIV test? Maybe she was a clinic employee? I mean, I share your concern (boy do I ever), but aren't you making an assumption of exactly the sort the abusers of this technology might make?; Thursday, September 13, 2007 12:04:00 PM
Steve Bates said...: I confess I'm enjoying this. I don't know if I'll show my home, or if it's even on their route, but here is where I went to elementary school. So, I'm told, did Walter Cronkite, though we weren't there at the same time. :); Thursday, September 13, 2007 12:23:00 PM
Steve Bates said...: Heh. Fortunately, my street isn't on their routes yet. But in the good not-so-old days, I did a fair amount of business at the bicycle shop behind this cluster of trees, just a few blocks from where I live. Hey, the mean guyz have my address already anyway...; Thursday, September 13, 2007 12:42:00 PM
hipparchia said...: steve, those were cool. thanks for the screen shots. i lived west of there, out of the reach of google's cameras. lot of fun looking at other people's houses, but not so much when it could be your own.; Thursday, September 13, 2007 5:18:00 PM
Steve Bates said...: As long as the shots are out of focus that much, I'm OK with it. I'm quite sure I couldn't recognize any individual in them. Maybe they provide the good stuff only to the No Such Agency. :)

Cronkite's biography names a different elementary school. But I was told many times, by many people, when I was growing up, that he went to that school. Maybe he's ashamed of us or something. He shouldn't be; the quality of public education was excellent there and elsewhere in Houston in those days.; Thursday, September 13, 2007 9:02:00 PM
Steve Bates said...: BTW, not screen shots... Google provides URLs to take you to the same location, orientation, etc. as I was viewing.; Thursday, September 13, 2007 9:04:00 PM
hipparchia said...: you're right, i was a bit haphazard with my wording.; Thursday, September 13, 2007 9:16:00 PM
Unknown said...: Will the expansion of cyber space ever slow down?; Thursday, September 13, 2007 10:53:00 PM
hipparchia said...: well, i'll admit that there are parts of cyberspace i like to see expanding --- blogging-for-all has been a godsend for me --- but there are other parts i'd like to see reined in too.; Friday, September 14, 2007 5:33:00 PM