Taken this past winter, at a time without snow.
Looks like I picked the wrong day to stop shooting down small planes.
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They say that Louis XIV had the inscription Ultima Ratio Regum cast into all the cannon of the French Army. It means “The Ultimate Argument of Kings,” and that always struck me as one of the most honest and up-front things any ruler or would-be ruler ever said. “We can dress it up prettier than this, but when it comes down to the unvarnished truth this is what it’s about: You’ll do as I say or I’ll send my goons to kill you.”
I thought about that for a long time. If there’s an ultimate argument, it seems only logical that there must be an ultimate answer. For years I thought the ultimate answer must be the bullets in my rifle, but it never seemed quite right. I’ve got bullets – he’s got frigging Cannon Balls. I mean, if there were three hundred million rifles throwing bullets at him, then maybe. But we all know that’s not going to happen. So if there’s an ultimate answer to his ultimate argument, it sure as hell ain’t bullets.
It finally came to me – and that’s when I abandoned the city and most of my stuff, and gave all that was behind me a good stiff Randian Shrug.
The ultimate answer to kings is not a bullet, but a belly laugh.
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I have entertained myself by using the time slider to observe changes in the neighborhood. I can tell which neighbor was home when by which cars are in which lot (we have more than one). We even found a cheating significant other. Ain’t technology great? I’d be better if MY car weren’t in every damn picture…
You must get updated a lot more often than we do. I guess that would make sense. For reasons of bandwidth and aggravation I don’t spend much time with Google Earth and this is only the second update I’m sure of since I first screwed with it, though it may happen a little more often. So it hasn’t inadvertently caught any of our [joke redacted].
I have sufficient free bandwidth that I waste a lot on time on-line. And, who says my [redacted joke] was caught inadvertently? Ha. Apparently, some people make a hobby of sorts out of attempting to get socially verboten stuff photographed by the google cars. I wonder how big a grove of trees would have to be for google to see a message from the planes or satellites. Hmm. A long-term project, I suspect.
I dunno, but when I was planning to shingle the Lair instead of using the big red sheets I had definite plans for a middle-finger salute symbol right in the middle. Now I wish I had.
You could still paint one up there.
And I may yet.
Wait, wait, wait… I thought Photography Is Not A Crime! Radley Balko told me so!
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Photobombing Is Not A Crime, Either. 🙂
May not be a crime, but it’s damned annoying when I’ve gone to this much trouble to get some privacy.
“May not be a crime, but it’s damned annoying when I’ve gone to this much trouble to get some privacy.”
Sadly, I fear the notions of what exactly constitutes “privacy” are undergoing radical changes. Maybe some asteroid miner in the future will have a measure of it, but I don’t know I’d bet on it.
Sadly, I fear you’re correct on all counts.
Although I’m happy to say that Ian’s place (not in frame on the pic I posted) appears to be almost invisible from the air. If it weren’t for the solar panels…
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