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My place in the cloud

June 19, 2015 by Dave Knadler

A stroll for the ages.

A stroll for the ages.

Now I am immortal. For the next year or so, anyway. In March of this year I was on my daily walk when I noticed the Google Street View car rolling by right in front of me. A quicker man might have flipped two birds or reversed course and dropped his pants for a moon shot. But I’m more mature these days and anyway my reflexes aren’t what they were.

So if you call up a street view for the corner of 7th and Walnut in the city of Jacksonville, Fla., you’ll see a guy on the sidewalk, hat and sunglasses, who looks like he could have been a second gunman in Dealey Plaza. They didn’t really get my good side. Even if they had, they blur all the faces anyway. But look! There I am!

I take kind of a childish pleasure in it — just as I knew I would on that sunny day in March. Somewhere, I’m sure, there’s a group of dorks who are competing to see how many times they can appear in Street View. If there isn’t, there should be. I totally understand the impulse.

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About Dave Knadler

Obscure writer. Lazy photographer. Bashful guitarist. Perhaps too fond of wine. Tireless nemesis of New York Times crosswords.

Comments

  1. John H. says

    June 19, 2015 at 11:44 am

    Congrats, Dave. You are living a little part of the 21st-Century American Dream.

  2. Deb says

    June 21, 2015 at 2:58 pm

    not many can claim that particular piece of fame!

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