Street view

Call me slow.. but I only just discovered Google's Street view functionality in Google Maps. For cave persons like me, who haven't heard of it, its a feature available on certain locations which gives you a view of the street in terms of a photograph. So what's cool is that through a sequence of pictures, you can move up/down a street and turn 360°C to see buildings, stores and what not. Though it's a bunch of stills, it's like the oldest animation trick in the world, the movement of frames and pictures gives an illusion of you moving as well. I just checked out the amazing resolution in my Paris home. It of course led to the inevitable. I checked out every address I lived in. I particularly delighted in checking out UC and going up and down from Riddle Road to ERC... my most dedicated route. It was pure nostalgia.. and with every turn I took, I remembered the 2.5 glorious years I spent there.. the friends I made, the experiences I endured. And they left a huge smile on my face. Next on the nostalgia track, I waded through the ghostly empty streets of Ames, retracing my favorite joints, the cinema that this blog witnessed as the maximum movie reviews and finally to San Diego, the last of my US stay.... the long walk from Regents to Gennessee every morning... such an overdose of nostalgia... and really worth every bit of it. You should check it out too... just go to Google Maps and enter the address you want to see and when it finds it, click on the red bubble in red on the left pane and when it finds the location on the right, in the ensuing bubble, see if you can find the 'Street View' link. And have a blast! Find familiar places, famous monuments and what not...