Eye in the Sky
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written Thursday, February 28 2008 19:53
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The idea here is to use Google Earth to provide images of places important to you, but I must explain how to do this first. * You don't need to download Google Earth to use it. Go to google.com and type in the name of your city (e.g. Winnemucca, NV, USA). If you don't live near a city you'll have to view the closest one and scroll around from there. If you truly live out in the middle of nowhere, I suppose you're out of luck. * Simply click on the Satellite tab to do this. If you don't want street names shown, hover over the Satellite tab and uncheck "Show Labels." * If you don't know how to capture an image of your desktop: -Windows: Press the "Print Screen" key (by F12) and open up the Paint program. Simply use the paste option to place your image in the program. -Mac: Command + Shift + 3 to take a picture of the whole screen; Command + Shift + 4 to take a picture of part of the screen. It will automatically save the image to your hard drive. * Use this site to host your image, which must be in JPEG format. All they ask for is a username and e-mail, and I can assure you they won't spam you and the like. You'll have to select the "My Images" tab and click on the photo you just took. Then all you need to do is provide a link here. And finally... My house, I also framed our property with a black trapezoid. My high school, it's actually quite a bit bigger than it looks. An image of the main part of town. I placed an arrow pointing to my neighborhood. A better view of town. The image doesn't encompass the numerous farms and ranches further down the highway that are bascially part of town, just not in city limits. Also note that Google Earth doesn't use up to date pictures; they're all taken at different times, about spring and summer of 2007 in my case. [ Thursday, February 28, 2008 19:57: Message edited by: Excalibur ] -------------------- Decca Records - "We don't like their sound. Groups of guitars are on the way out." Posts: 1384 | Registered: Tuesday, February 6 2007 08:00 |
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Guardian
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written Thursday, February 28 2008 22:03
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My cities. My elementary and high school (the building on the upper left). My university. -------------------- Save money like there's no tomorrow! Posts: 1509 | Registered: Tuesday, January 10 2006 08:00 |
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Shaper
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written Friday, February 29 2008 02:55
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Where I live. My house is just about the "c" in the second "Havelock". Ahh, English Suburbia... No explanation is required. -------------------- Nikki's Nook - Come back to Camden, and I'll be good. Posts: 2864 | Registered: Monday, September 8 2003 07:00 |
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Shaper
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written Friday, February 29 2008 06:20
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*takes notes to sell to stalkers* -------------------- My Myspace, with some of my art The Lyceum - The Headquarters of the Blades designing community The Louvre - The Blades of Avernum graphics database BoE Webring - Self explanatory They Might Be Giants - Four official websites for one of the greatest bands in existence Posts: 2957 | Registered: Thursday, October 4 2001 07:00 |
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Master
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written Friday, February 29 2008 08:05
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My house. You can't miss it, there's big arrow in front of it. My current school. It's the big building to the left, in case you didn't guess. The faculty of Biology of Leiden University. That's where I hope to go study next year. Schiphol airport. Because I enjoy watching the airplanes. -------------------- Play and rate my scenarios: Where the rivers meet View my upcoming scenario: The Nephil Search: Escape. Co-designed with Nikki: El Presidente. Give us your drek! Posts: 3029 | Registered: Saturday, June 18 2005 07:00 |
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BANNED
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written Friday, February 29 2008 13:43
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I gather you are Dutch--no worries, but that is not a "faculty," so much as a "facility." Posts: 134 | Registered: Sunday, February 3 2008 08:00 |
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Raven v. Writing Desk
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written Friday, February 29 2008 15:43
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Faculty could refer to a building. Although it typically refers to a set of teachers, it can also be used to refer to a grouping of disciplines within a university: for example, the Faculty of Social Sciences or the Faculty of Biological Sciences. If said grouping was a smaller one, as is often the case with biology divisions, it could conceivably be housed in one building and it would seem reasonable to call that building the faculty of biology building. At any rate, "Faculty of Biology" sounds a lot more plausible to me than "Facility of Biology" -- I doubt any native speaker would produce that last phrasing. -------------------- Slarty vs. Desk • Desk vs. Slarty • Timeline of Ermarian • G4 Strategy Central "Slartucker is going to have a cow when he hears about this," Synergy said. Posts: 3560 | Registered: Wednesday, November 7 2001 08:00 |
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written Friday, February 29 2008 21:20
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Perhaps. "Facility of biology" as an awkward phrasing seems likelier than "faculty of biology building," given 'faculty' to mean 'division,' even though the latter is correct. I apologize in that case. :) Posts: 134 | Registered: Sunday, February 3 2008 08:00 |
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Law Bringer
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written Saturday, March 1 2008 00:47
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Here is my apartment.  Here is where I work. The arrow points to approximately where in the building.  Here is my parents' house.  Here is the high school I went to.  [ Saturday, March 01, 2008 00:48: Message edited by: Tyranicus ] -------------------- "Dumbledore returns from the dead and declares it to be hammertime, Harry proceeds to break it down, Voldemort is unable to touch this." —Dintiradan Spiderweb Chat Room Avernum RP • Summaries • OoC • Roster Shadow Vale - My site, home of the Spiderweb Chat Database, BoA Scenario Database, & the A1 Quest List, among other things. Posts: 1556 | Registered: Sunday, November 20 2005 08:00 |
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Infiltrator
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written Saturday, March 1 2008 04:42
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Here's a map of my home area. The red dot is my house, the bluish dot is my access to internet. It's amazing how accurate maps you can find from such middle-of-nowhere places like this. -------------------- Life is a neverending carneval where everyone has multiple costumes. I just hope mine are pleasing to the eye. Posts: 617 | Registered: Tuesday, April 13 2004 07:00 |
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Agent
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written Saturday, March 1 2008 09:20
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It seems as if everyone else lives in places with an abundance of trees...and people. -------------------- Decca Records - "We don't like their sound. Groups of guitars are on the way out." Posts: 1384 | Registered: Tuesday, February 6 2007 08:00 |
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Law Bringer
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written Sunday, March 2 2008 17:03
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Get the picture yourself. I'm at 50.787250 degrees north, 6.071563 degrees east. -------------------- The Noble and Ancient Order of Polaris - We're Not Yet Dead. Encyclopedia • Blades Forge • Archives • Stats • RSS (This Topic / Forum) • Blog • NaNoWriMo Did-chat thentagoespyet jumund fori is jus, hat onlime gly nertan ne gethen Firyoubbit 'obio.' Decorum deserves a whole line of my signature, and an entry in your bookmarks. Posts: 8752 | Registered: Wednesday, May 14 2003 07:00 |
