Deliberate.Serendipity

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Originally uploaded by ckphotos.

It appears that the Flickr Bug I posted yesterday is even bigger than it first appeared.

Flickr Mail is not being delivered, group threads are different depending on which server your login points to, sets that you create in Uploader get created but you can’t see them when you’re logged in.

I feel bad for the techies who are going to have to figure out how to “merge” the different databases to get them back into synch. And what happens to the group discussion threads that have diverged in the interim. There are going to be some crazy, non sequitur type threads once this is all fixed.

But I have faith that my Flickroonies will sort this one out.
*Update* Flickr is now “having a massage” so it looks like they decided these problems couldn’t wait until Monday.
*Update#2* Flickr is back up… and (almost) all is well. No data lost. Good job guys. Flickr rocks!

This group thread came through my RSS reader, but when I go to Flickr, the page says “Oops, looks like you followed a bad link.” I’ve reported it as a bug, but I thought I’d post the RSS feed here so that I can refer to it later.

Reply to Petition to Make “Magic Donkey” Flickr’s Official Mascot: “Jayel Aheram posted a reply:

Except Dos Pesos does not do anything useful! The Magic Donkey decides Interestingness! I, for one, have never heard of this little canine runt. But the Magic Donkey, wise and all-powerful, is well-known!

I am defending my petition! Magic Donkey as official mascot 4ever!”

Oh, and how can he call Dos Pesos a canine runt!
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high tail it

Originally uploaded by curiouskiwi.

Okay, so I don’t have any photos of turkeys, so I thought this pukeko might do. I understand that they were quite popular “eatin’ birds” back in pre-European days here in NZ.

Probably tastes like chicken.

Found this site today about counting on your fingers. Read on…

When counting on our fingers, we instinctually count in decimal or base ten. After all, we have ten fingers. In actuality, however, there are many different ways to count on your fingers, and most other methods allow you to count much higher than ten. Read on to learn how to count on your fingers beyond 10, 100, or even 1,000. The secret is to use different numerical bases other than ten.

By using binary, you can count up to 1,023 on your two hands. I said to my husband, did you know you could do that? Of course, he said. And if you can bend your fingers just right, you can count up to even more. Turns out he thinks in binary most of the time. Well, he is an electrical engineer who does a lot of computer programming all day long.

pileofbeads-amazingcircle.jpg

Originally uploaded by curiouskiwi.

Yet another Flickr meme, it’s the Amazing Circle. See all the others in the Amazing Circles slideshow on Flickr.

Got myself some new blue shoes yesterday.  No, they aren’t Converse, but  BOC – Basic Original Canvas.  Not sure how original though.