Wednesday, August 06, 2008

Stalker-drive-by shot my house

I was initially undecided if I should be impressed that Acting legend Morgan Driving-Miss-Daisy Freeman was driving someone else's 1997 Nissan Maxima when he got into an accident.

After all, Warren Buffet famously drove his oldsmobile around for ages, even while he had a part share in a gulfstream jet.

But with a gold statuette under his belt and a likely spot in the hall of fame you'd think car dealerships and companies would be literally catapulting maseratis and bentleys at the guy. At least an Aston Martin ? Too flash ? Ok. A Cadillac - At the bare minimum.

But a Nissan Maxima ? Wow. +2 respect to Morgan Freeman.


Speaking of cars, I must've missed the day that the Google car came around our place taking pictures but judging by the view of the pictures, it wasn't too long ago (autumn/winter because the grass isn't very green) and at least one of us was at home (car in the driveway).

I guess I don't really care that Google has a satellite photo of my house, and a stalker-drive-by-shot of what the side view (or the front view) of my house looks like. After all, what's the worst that could happen ? Some evil house robs a bank and uses photoshop to superimpose my house on the security camera footage instead ?

I predict that in the not-too-distant-future, there will be an updated movie version of "1984" set in the context of modern technology. And there will be an uproar of passive apathy.

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