March 18, 2008 • 3:56 pm 0
Okay so I’m skipping over the Gummi Bears picture in my ongoing series of blogging my Flickr faves, but I found both of these around the same time, while I was on sort of a colour binge. The Gummi Bears I faved because I thought the title was funny; I’m sure there are way better Gummi Bear photos to be found all over flickr.
This photo, though, is amazing. They kinda look like jello shots, but I’m not certain. Anyway, the colors and the quantity make this photo pretty great.
March 1, 2008 • 11:56 am 0
This one’s the first, I think, of many many rodent photos I’ve faved on flickr. This one is great because you can only imagine what the hamster is thinking as he tries to shove the entire cracker into his mouth-pouch.
My totally original, non-obvious conclusion: hamsters are cute!
June 26, 2007 • 8:36 pm 0
Yeah, I spoke up on the flickr forum about my photo transfers (it’s a pretty active forum; I’m definitely one of MANY people who had problems). Luckily, staff read the forum so I got put on a priority list, and the transfers went through.
So you can now browse my old Yahoo! photos at the end of my Flickrstream! There are a lot of Europe photos, but also some parties and pics taken at Beurkley. I’m not going to specify which ones, so as to make you go there and look yourself *evil*
Also, somehow I got an extra three months of Pro added on. Well-played, flickr!
Filed under: flickr
June 18, 2007 • 10:06 am 0
I just remembered that Yahoo!Photos was closing so that Yahoo could “focus our efforts on Flickr.” No comment on whether that’s the best thing they could be doing with their resources, but I had a few things up on Yahoo photos, and while naturally, I have copies of these photos in various places, I didn’t want these to get lost in the dead-service ether.
Luckily, they provide a number of options for you to take your photos with you – you can export them to flickr, but also to Shutterfly, Photobucket, Snapfish, and another I’ve forgotten. You can also get a 3rd-party service (whose name I also forgot) to sell you a cd of the photos in your old account. I hadn’t realized how many photos I had on there. I thought I could use their one-by-one download tool, which they recommend if you have around 20 photos. I had 129!! I have no idea why.
So I chose the flickr option, but only because as a thank-you, they offer 3 free months of Flickr Pro account status! I received that once before, with the clogged-tubes contest, so I know flickr pro is great (I’m just too cheap to buy it myself).
And after I give my approval to have the photos moved, they’re like, “We’re so glad you picked us! thank you! yippee! (or should that be ‘Yahoo!’?)” Flickr’s always been kinda cutesy, but in a fun way, and (usually) not in that overly contrived, insincere way. More like, in an unabashedly enthusiastic glee that I find sort of endearing.
Anyway, they seem to promise an easy-to-export experience, so I hope to find that they make it clear which ones were imported from Yahoo (the better to tag them with), and that the photos transfer okay. I don’t doubt they will, though.
update: Grrrr, I am disgruntled! Flickr sent me another happy email yesterday morning saying the migration had been completed, but I’ve been checking my Flickr intermittently since then, and my photos have yet to arrive! And I can’t login to my Yahoo! Photos account anymore, as they say it’s been locked for migration. So where the heck are my photos, flickr??
A quick check of the forums reveals this isn’t an isolated problem, so I won’t be shooting off an angry email just yet. But seriously, if this is a known issue, can’t they just delay sending that happy “We’re Done Moving your Photos!” email until, like, you know, they’re actually done?
On the plus side, I do have Pro now. Yay.
April 24, 2007 • 9:17 pm 0
An alarming number of my flickr faves are photos of strangers’ pets and other Internet animals. However, I am pretty sure this was one of the main reasons why the World Wide Web was invented, so I don’t really have a problem with it.
As you will learn from the owner’s caption for this photo, this is a pic of a dog named Moxie. I love how his energy leaps off the screen the same way he does as he fetches a toy called Henrietta the New Sexy Chicken.
(I’m all too familiar with the practice of over-naming fake chickens, having once owned a Pez dispenser top in the shape of a chicken head, which my high school friend dubbed Eduardo the Great Lover and Valiant Vigilante Against Anti-Capitalism, or something like that. I confess, I’m not sure what inspires people to apply racy/anti-Marxist adjectives to anthropomorphized poultry, but find it a bit too disturbing to worry about right now.)
Anyway, the overall adorableness of the doggie and his enthusiastic leaping prompted me to add this pic to my faves.
March 21, 2007 • 10:53 pm 0
Yeah this is crazy. He basically re-visited every site he’d been to in the last week or so, weeded out the sites with no favicons (or generic ones, like Blogger), and then screenshotted his tabs, one. row. at. a. time.
How could you not fave this? It’s like, the least a person could do after all the time he wasted doing it. That’s like, an hour of his life he’s never going to get back.
Much like the five minutes I just spent blogging this (to keep up my daily streak) is five minutes I will never get to use to work on my paper. Oh well.
March 17, 2007 • 6:27 pm 0
So, the next picture in my flickr faves is another one of pandas. As you can see, I was going through a bit of a panda craze at the time.
But can you blame me? First there’s the lovable, homegrown Butterstick, and then comes news from China that there was something of a panda baby BOOM over there, with 18 adorable furballs! [The sad part is that I think all of them were brought into the world via artificial insemination, because grown pandas kinda don't know how to go about it the natural way, and don't really even want to.]
Anyway, I liked this picture the best because it’s somewhat mysterious. Why is that little baby panda so dirty, when the other ones are clean? Still, he looks even cuter for it.
March 7, 2007 • 6:56 pm 1
Oh, Butterstick! This name, as far as I know, was first used by Wonkette, I think, which was obsessed with the panda, probably because it lives in the National Zoo in Washington, DC.
Actually, the moniker was inspired by one of the zoo’s press releases around the time of its birth, as it was noted that a newborn panda is about the size of a stick o’ butter. This, of course, was a strangely evocative and memorable name – perfect for an irresistible baby panda!
Seriously: I remember reading that press release, and finding links to these pictures many weeks later (pandas are definitely not this adorable when they’re newborn!), yet I still knew exactly what they were referring to when they called him Butterstick.
Of course, the zoo later gave it its real name, Tai Shan, which means like, mountain or something (I’m too lazy to look this stuff up right now, so I’m pulling these facts randomly. I’m sure you’ll find the real ones, or maybe just more fake ones, if you search either name on Wikipedia), but he’s always gonna be Butterstick to me and thousands of other panda-lovers!
Sadly, it’s been about two years now since its birth – Butterstick’s probably ginormous, lazy and not that cute anymore.
March 5, 2007 • 12:35 am 3
If Web 2.0 Applied to Real Life
Originally uploaded by darthservo.
I faved this when I was just getting into folksonomies and the wisdom of crowds, Web 2.0 craziness, and people were going completely nutso with the tags. *Every* web app had them, including us, whether or not they made any sense.
Yeah, that got old kinda quick.
I don’t love this photo that much anymore, but I’ll keep it in my faves just as a reminder of how crazy I was about folksonomies. I still believe in the idea behind this whole semantic web thing, but know it’s gonna be awhile longer before stuff like this will actually be of any use to anyone. And in the meantime, we’ll just poke fun at it. I mean, it is kinda funny, in a smiley-face way, if not wholly in a ha-ha way.
Filed under: faves, flickr, folksonomy, fun, g33ked, life, meta, mug, post-its, school, tags, web2.0
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