glebe homie: "...I've lost the last day and a half...."

Sunday, June 15, 2008

"...I've lost the last day and a half...."

It's Sunday... Father's Day... I was writing a letter yesterday to Alan McKinny in Killaloo when I found this site:

Click to visit Site.

The Sites PR states:

"A virtual prelude to the real world experience that awaits you!

Welcome to iSpyNI.com, a new internet portal that showcases the best that Northern Ireland has to offer using stunning full-screen, high-resolution immersive video photography.

The keystone of the iSpy concept is the virtual tour or immersive photograph as we prefer to call it - fullscreen 360-degree photographic panoramas, which allow the user to pan left, right, up and down - a far superior format than the standard photograph as it gives the viewer a real sense of actually 'being there'.

Our Mission is to provide the most immersive and engaging experience of Northern Ireland's tourism assets on the web, bringing the real world to people's desktop across the globe.

No 3D modeled environments, no frills, no lies. See exactly what our photographers saw. Stand where they stood and discover places you may never have seen by traveling through space and time without moving from your desktop."

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The best VRs actually have the sound of water running and birds singing! Try the Roe valley ones in Full Screen Mode.

My favorite is "Downstream at Carrickrocks, Roe Valley Country Park."

(Careful... You can get dizzy in full screen if you spin around to quickly...)

THIS IS TOO COOL!

I've lost the last day and a half!!!

I can't wait for October!

~

obeedúid~
15/june/08

1 comment:

AnonymousJune 18, 2008 at 9:08 AM
It looks to me very much like the St. Lawrence River valley than anything I saw in the south of Ireland which was full of pastures, sheep & stone walls and totally gorgeous.
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Welcome Homie!

Glebie-Glue!

Glebe Ho. stands for "Glebe House".

A Glebe or Glebe House was in the Roman Catholic and Anglican church traditions. The glebe was an area of land belonging to a parish, the revenues from which were intended to help support the parish.

A Glebe-house is a rectory built for the parish priest, vicar, pastor, or rector, usually at church expense.

Also : archaic : Land specif : a plot of land. Also : land belonging or yielding revenue to a parish church or ecclesiastical benefice.

My guess is that "yielding revenue to" is what my ancestors were up to. They were Coopers by Trade and more than likely would have been employed in the making of barrels, to store or ship the "yielded" product of Flax or Grain.

Nessasary B.S.:

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The 1909 Copyright Act and the 1976 Copyright Act as originally enacted required a notice of copyright on published works. For most works, a copyright notice consisted of the symbol ©, the word “Copyright” or the abbreviation “Copr.,” together with the name of the owner of copyright and the year of first publication.

In other words: ©Glebe Homie and the Poetry/Artwork that I have created contained on this blog are the sole intellectual property of Mark W. P. T. O'Brien alias: ""obeedude". Jan. 2009 to the present.

Anything and everything else I have endeavored to to give credit where credit is due. If I did not do so I most humbly apologize. If I have not done so it is simply because of My omission and the inability on my behalf to otherwise determine that credit by circumstances beyond my control.

With that having been said: Just give me Credit and/or at least attempt to communicate with me, thats all I ask.