Does anyone else find it disturbing that Celine Dion intends to cover “Shook Me All Night Long?” I would find it in far better taste for AC/DC to cover her. What’s next? Sandy Patty covers Metallica? Bette Midler covers GunsNRoses?
Also disturbing…pet insurance. Aren’t we in a health care crisis? Isn’t the insurance industry supposed to be struggling and striving just to stay in the black? Is this new product supposed to shore up falling profit margins? What in the world? All I know is we are probably only three good months away from Dateline running a story on some blockhead who insured their dog ahead of their kid.
Deep breaths.
Potentially disturbing…Google Maps Street View…Now, if you know me, you know I am slightly freak about maps. Google Earth pretty much rocked my 2005. I am crazy about the bird’s eye view. However, Google Maps has added a feature known as “street view.” They have not covered Springfield yet (guess they aren’t as prolific in their coverage as Celine). Go look at a bigger city…say, St. Louis. Zoom in to where you can see side streets, then click “street view.” It will CREEP you out! It’s like you are driving down the street! How do they DO that? What would George Orwell think of that? Google…it’s like they’e taking over the world.
Sadly disturbing…Kansas City’s Royals. I am truly getting soft in my old age. I carried a bitter grudge against that town for 21 years…couldn’t even truly enjoy The Plaza until my Redbirds finally won a series. But, let’s face it. You can’t really hate a rival that is so pathetic their franchise is in jeopardy. I find myself secretly pulling for them! I ACTUALLY pay attention to their highlights on KY3 because I just want them to be respectable enough again to at least DISLIKE them. *Sigh* It disrupts my mellow to feel pity for an enemy that I would prefer to despise.
Disturbing only to me…I did not…NO…COULD NOT post the entire month of June! I have started a post about Yancey’s Soul Survivor at least 1,000 times in my head and half a dozen times in print. I just can’t get it out…I’m blocked…and I’m bugged…because it’s only the most thought provoking, convicting, informative thing I’ve ever read outside of Scripture! Maybe SOMEDAY I’ll find words to express it. The older I get, the more I find that words fail. Too often, they fail. Nonetheless, they are what we have.
In other not so disturbing news, I won a gift card to Marias! Did I hear date night? 
Hey Natalie:
I agree Google Earth ROCKS!
For what it is worth here is how Google does its Street View…
http://gizmodo.com/gadgets/office-voyeurism/the-google-maps-street-view-camera-264972.php
If your inner geek really wants to find out about it here is a Popular Mechanics article that goes into more detail.
http://www.popularmechanics.com/technology/industry/4232286.html
Unreal…just the magnitude of the task.
Thanks, Riley. My inner geek is now placated!
Chris hired the google people to take the street view pictures around Springfield. They drove around with cameras on top their cars making $15 dollars an hour. A pretty good gig if you ask me, although now the google people are collecting lawsuits of people who consider them to be infringing on their rights as they’re trespassing on their properties.
NO…WAY…! I was hoping to be hired for that!