Saturday, May 24, 2003  

I hate it when I leave the TV on for ages and suffer through a rubbish movie because I'm too lazy to change the channel... and then when you finally change the channel, you get to watch the ending of Spaceballs. I love Spaceballs! And I missed it!

Anyway, just a couple of fun things today... fun for me, anyway. Given that I grew up under the flight path of one of the busiest airports on the planet, I do like planes, and Airliners.net sucks up way too much of my time. It's one of those sites you rediscover on the net every few months, spend the night pouring through it, only to forget about it the next day.

Aside from checking out a bunch of pretty wild pictures -- examples here, here, here, here and here -- I also like looking around the Hong Kong pictures for pictures of my neighbourhood. And I did actually manage to find one of my house. It's hard to spot, but with a little help from Photoshop, it's pretty clear. You can click the image to go to the full-size version. Maybe later I'll find and tag shots of school and my cousin's house, both of which are also visible in other shots.



The other fun link (I guess I'm making up for the lack of Interesting Links of the Day, eh?) is from the BBC, and it also involves photos of my home. Kinda. Rather than from 50 metres up, these are from... 139 million kilometres up. From Mars, to be precise. Check out the story here, and also be sure to check out the rather cool image at the bottom -- another shot of Earth, but this time from Neptune.

(Incidentally, if you liked all that, the original link for the Earth-from-Mars pictures are here, and aside from more detail, they also show Jupiter and three of its moons in the same shot)

Posted at 2:21 PM

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