Twentysomething

Flickr Fubar'ed

Jack Fisher

19 Feb 2007

Is it me or has Flickr been acting funky ever since Yahoo took over? Recently, I've noticed that other users photos have been popping up on my photostream and icons. So clicking on an image of a Laos kid will get me a softcore porn shot of someone's butt, for instance. Or the icon will show a Chinese take-out box but I'll actually access my elephant shot from Laos.

It makes for a fun period of 'guess the picture' but .. um.. kind of annoying Flickr dudes. Anyone else think that the corporate culture will take all the fun out of Web 2.0?

Bay Area art girls

Alysa Liu won gold for the Olympics and I've been binging her story. What a story! I think people are really loving what she represents because it shows what humans are capable of when we have room to express ourselves. In a world of AI and Trump and

Broke a Mirror

I've been in a serious-reading kick lately. Just finished Memories of a Pure Spring by Duong Thu Huong and am starting on Immortality by Kundera. It takes a certain mood to get Kundera, and I suppose with the season changing and the opportunity to people watch, I'

Buy in bulk

My 78 year old mom came to visit, and we dropped by Safeway, today. She loves this store. They don't have Safeways in Texas. She insisted on buying 3 cases of bottled water (40 bottles each case). I grabbed the closest one I found, but those were $6.

Appreciation

My daughter muttered, "Fuckyoufuckyoufuckyou" on Saturday when I was going over her allowance on Greenlight. Her mom was sitting right there. I think I'm the only person she would curse at. She knew it was bad, because she didn't say it loudly. But she

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Bay Area art girls

Broke a Mirror

Buy in bulk

Appreciation