Google Street View

So Google Street View for Toronto was released today. Pretty cool actually but equally as creepy. Creepy like that Google Latitudes feature on smartphones where, using GPS, you can track your friends like missing animals, children, or lost keys.

After looking at all the random things other people are searching for (http://www.blogto.com/tech/2009/10/google_street_view_now_live_in_toronto/) I decided to check out my house first, then to go hunting for my shoe.

So here it is... there's no "CSI" enhance button so whatever, blame Google.

Uh oh!

Looks like my shoe is about to jump. It wants off soon! Probably will take a nice windy day or a big storm to push it off that light. I mean it has been how long since I kicked it up there? Clearly it doesn't want anything to do with the elements anymore. This summer seems like as good as any to make the leap.

If it falls and causes an accident can you kindly not reference this site? Thanks...

Still pretty awesome.

(Blackberry Curve, July 4th, 2009)
(P.S. I hope everyone realizes that this photo is almost taken head height. It's not perched on the previous light, this is a much lower light...)

First post of 2009!

I think my shoe decided it wanted to be seen by more people, so it grabbed onto some wind and booked it to the middle. Normally I don't really go check to see if it's there, but on my way home I looked for it from the ground. I didn't see it tucked underneath the light so I figured the people who put up the fake Bay facade saw it and removed it. As you can see, that was not the case. My shoe and I are awesome.



April 6th, 2009 (Blackberry Bold)

When you need that extra performance from a shoe,

turn to the new Adidas ballet shoe! Yes!... wait what?



(Blackberry Curve - October 18, 2008)

Walking to my streetcar stop I just happened to glance up and what do I see? The latest in athletic performance footwear of course. I bet you Adidas thought of some really awesome way to market the fact that each shoe is a different colour.



Could go something like "Never get confused which shoe goes on what foot ever again!" or "When you forget how to walk, just pick a colour to start!".

You might be wondering why anyone would want to hang these shoes off a pedestrian traffic light. I bet they went with Nike-Bloch instead.

Liar liar pants on fire!

Sometimes people tell me my shoe isn't on the skywalk anymore, or that they can't see it. Hhhmmm maybe you should do what my mom told me to do when I was a kid and gave up too easily when trying to look for something, "Use your EYES"! She's really good at stating the obvious, as you can tell.

In the blind's defense, nobody uses that skywalk ever. The only reason I even visit that tunnel of safety glass is to take photos like this.



(August 07, 2008 using my Blackberry Curve)

Yup still there, but it's gotten pretty damn dirty.

EDIT: and on a side note, it's been pointed out to me that today is the official start of the Olympics in Beijing and it's also Happy Good Luck Day (wow, even the name sounds Asian without even trying). 08-08-08

It's shoe season afterall.

Here we see the rare shoe bearing species of tree known as Eastern Shoe Pine, from the Pinus Genus of the Family of Pinaceae, Order of Pinales. It's about that time of the year when shoes are ripe for picking. It's exactly what that song says "Good things groooowwwwwww in OOOOntario!" Fills me with pride every time I hear it.

(Photo Credit: Josh using a Canon EOS Digital Rebel XTi, July 24th 2008)

Let the Wilberforce be with you!

So somewhere along the way to "who the hell knows where" in Ontario, there are shoes hanging off power lines. There better be something wrong with all of those shoes, like holes at the toes or they smell really bad because some of them I'd actually wear.

Look at those spiffy brown ones. I could wear those to work! Those white ones look pretty keen too. The next time you see me wearing nice brown shoes, you won't have to ask me where I got them from.

(Photo Credit: Josh using a Canon EOS Digital Rebel XTi, July 24th 2008)