Newsgroup: it.cultura.linguistica.inglese
Titolo: Camminando a New York

Sebapop and others homesick for New York now can go on a virtual walk in
that city, and in a number of other places in the United States of A.
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Amazon.com's A9 search subsidiary has combined photographs and maps in a
new search service launched in beta earlier this week, offering users
street-level photos of addresses and driving directions for some two dozen
U.S. cities, CNET writes. The A9.com Maps service integrates interactive
maps with photos of both sides of streets. The 35 million pics taken so far
are also used in Amazon's Yellow Pages search, with photos of businesses
showing up alongside addresses and phone numbers. 
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Source:
http://www.marketingvox.com/archives/2005/08/17/amazons_map_search_shows_streetlevel_photos/index.php
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Xakero

 Sebapop and others homesick for New York now can go on a virtual walk in
I forgot to give you the URL: 
maps.a9.com
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Xakero

 that city, and in a number of other places in the United States of A.
Thanks! I am walking around "my" block!
Sebastiano

 Thanks! I am walking around "my" block!
OMG, Mr Buffy's Cleaners! Gristedes!
Now I am sad. :(
Sebastiano

Wow!  I can see the street I used to live on where my parents's house
is.  Amazing!
Thanks
ari

 is.  Amazing!
Sorry...I meant *my parents'*.

 is.  Amazing!
Yes! I saw where I bought a bottle of wine, where I had my jacket cleaned,
"my" coin laundry store (laundercenter), the entrance of the building where
I had my room. I can't see my "window" because there's a car parked in
front of it. I was below street level. :D
Sebastiano

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Don't you mean there's a car parked over it?  :>)
Joe from Massachusetts


Gee, I didn't know you were a displaced New Yorker! Where did you live
in NYC?
I grew up in Manhattan and in two places in the Bronx.
Joe from Massachusetts

 in NYC?
I was looking at a SF map.  I never lived in NY, but if it makes you
happy, my grandfather lived in Rochester, NY in the late 20s, 30s and
40s until 1949 when he came to CA with the rest of the family  So,
see....I have some NY blood in my veins.

 Don't you mean there's a car parked over it?  :>)
Yeah. :)
Sebastiano

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I thought you were looking at the same stuff Seba was.
I spent a lot of time in Rochester, but it's not my cup of tea.
I worked for Sprint maintaining remote sites between
Rochester and Buffalo, and there was just too much snow
in that area for me. There's nothing like leaving a rest area
on the NY Thruway, and seeing a State Police car following
behind your 4WD vehicle as if you were plowing the road
for him.
Joe from Massachusetts


Those manhole covers must be pretty heavy.
Joe from Massachusetts

 Thanks! I am walking around "my" block!
That was my good deed for the day :-)
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Xakero

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LOL..that's funny.  I love the snow and I miss it here.  KIds in
California don't get to enjoy that unless they go to the Sierras.  Even
then, it's not like waking up on a school day, seeing a glow in your
room, running to the window and looking down at that beautiful white
blanket of snow.  When I lived in Milan, it used to snow three or four
times a year, sometime we'd get as much as a foot of snow.  Such sweet
memories...

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As much as a foot of snow!
When I worked for Sprint, it was customary for all technicians who
worked on the road maintaining remote sites to check in each
morning from one of the remote sites, using what is called an
"order wire", that is, a communications channel which connects
all sites, and which is used for maintaining the system.
One morning, after a very bad snowstorm, I made my way to the
local site, and checked in. Some people were arriving late,
because of the snow all across the Northeast, and finally
everyone had checked in, except the guy in Buffalo.
Finally, at about one in the afternoon, the voice of the guy from
Buffalo was heard. When asked why he was so late, he replied
that he had spent the morning digging DOWN  through the snow
to get to the front door of his radio site. The snow was higher
than the height of the one-story builiding!
As much as a foot of snow! Huh!
Joe from Massachusetts

 As much as a foot of snow! Huh!
It must have been distressing, but I'd like to see so much snow.
Bye, FB
-- 
Mrs. Palmer, in her way, was equally angry. 'She was determined to drop his
acquaintance immediately, and she was very thankful that she had never been
acquainted with him at all'. (Jane Austen)

 It must have been distressing, but I'd like to see so much snow.
You're not that far from the Alps or the Dolomites. They still have
snow there, don't they?         :>)
Joe from Massachusetts

 That was my good deed for the day :-)
A very good deed indeed. :)
Sebastiano/echoing

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And then some...
Bye, FB
-- 
Sir Robert Chiltern:   And women represent the irrational.
Mrs. Cheveley: Well-dressed women do.
("An Ideal Husband", Oscar Wilde)

 Joe from Massachusetts
I know...I know...there's a lot more snow back east.  The only reason
why I stated that there was a foot of snow is because many people don't
even believe that it snows that much in Milan (or that it used to snow
that much).  I am sure one foot of snow looks like summer to you.
bye
ari

 Joe from Massachusetts
I know...I know...there's a lot more snow back east.  The only reason
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Are you sure the average American can tell Milan from Naples, the sea, the
sun, mandolini ecc.? Nothing against the latter, but I don't think most
foreigners have any idea what Northern Italy is like.
Bye, FB
-- 
"Is this Miss Prism a female of repellent aspect, remotely connected with
education?" "She is the most cultivated of ladies, and the very picture of
respectability." "It is obviously the same person."
("The Importance of Being Earnest", Oscar Wilde)

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The good thing about Buffalo is that when it snows in the winter,
Buffalo gets twice as much snow as we do here in Massachusetts,
because of the "lake effect" from Lake Erie. When there is a storm, we
don't feel so bad about the weather, when we see on TV how badly the
people in Buffalo are doing. Actually, we feel a little smug. :>)
Joe from Massachusetts

 Those manhole covers must be pretty heavy.
Yeah. I had to use my whole strenght to get out.
Anyway, my basement room was quite comfy. I even had a blue fridge there,
thank you very much. And I could see legs walking on the 55th. :D
Sebastiano

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Did you notice the crowds around the Ed Sullivan Theater on Broadway,
where the David Letterman show is recorded five days a week? Often
some part of the show takes place on the street outside the theater,
so people hang around hoping to get on television. Maybe you were on
TV and didn't know it? Maybe I even saw you, but mistook you for a
homeless person.  :>)
Joe from Massachusetts

 where the David Letterman show is recorded five days a week?
The other day I was thinking how patently Conan O'Brien and Jay Leno copied
him: the host talks standing, then he sits down; there's theee desk; he has
guests, I think usually two (always on his right); there's a band; he talks
with a member of the band; there's a musical guest.
Bye, FB
-- 
"Suppose I say I'm not interested."
"Does five hundred dollars interest you?"
"Very much."
"Then bring it: it's an expensive restaurant".
(The Cheap Detective)


The format was first developed by the pioneers of American television.
It was first used by comedians Morey Amsterdam and Jerry Lester, who
had the first late-night TV program, "Broadway Open House", in1950.
They
even had a "sidekick", a buxom blonde named Dagmar, who became the
real star of the show.
http://www.huntingtonquarterly.com/Issue35/dagmar.html
Later, Steve Allen and Jack Paar refined the format.
Johnny Carson put the final touches on this format, and he lasted for
almost three decades.
Letterman, Leno, O'Brien, and now the upstart Craig Ferguson, all
copy this successful format to some extent.
Joe from Massachusetts

 homeless person.  :>)
I was not homeless! I shared a basement room with a cab driver! :D
Sebastiano

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Seba, at the entrance to his NYC apartment.
http://www.danheller.com/images/Topics/Manholes/Slideshow/manhattan-manhole-data.html
Joe from Massachusetts


http://www.danheller.com/images/Topics/Manholes/Slideshow/manhattan-manhole
-data.html
And with a vertical peep-hole!!!
Seba!
You could see much more than legs.
Shame on you!
cheers,
Peltio

 
http://www.danheller.com/images/Topics/Manholes/Slideshow/manhattan-manhole-data.html
Who cares, I was in Manhattan and for that room I was paying 20 bucks a
day. :)
Sebastiano

 Shame on you!
^_^
Sebastiano