Sunday, November 9, 2008

Organized Flickr collections somewhat. Lots of errors when trying to rearrange Flickr collections—they don't have the code worked out properly for that, but none of the errors seem to be damaging. It just doesn't behave like you expect until you reload the Organizr. Discovered Nathan Siemers' Flickr search tool, aka Flickr Hive Mind—interesting. Stretches. Read lots of stuff on the web. Stretches. Lunch at home with Patrick: steamed pig dumplings. House chores: vacuumed, repotted a plant, tidied, cleaned in the bathroom, candle maintenance. Nap. Shower. Dinner at home with Patrick, psychobauble, Nate, Drew, and Danny: Italian salad with salami and parmesan, buttered egg noodles with parsley, beef stew, potato rosemary bread. Dessert: cherry pie with Breyer's vanilla ice cream. Drew and Danny brought a delicious Yalumba muscat which we enjoyed with dessert. psychobauble and Nate gave me 2 books from my Amazon wish list: Second Drafts of History by Lance Morrow and Information Graphics: A Comprehensive Illustrated Reference by Robert L. Harris. Edited photos. While working on my iMac tonight, it crashed. Here are the comments I left in the Apple problem report that was delivered following the restart. [all i know is that as soon as i saw the gray curtain fall i said (on the inside), "oh noooooooooooooooo!" and then the dreaded multi-language power button of gloom appeared and a second after that i thought, "there goes my flickr batch upload!" you must use the information stored inside this droid to find the answer to this problem. our fates depend upon it!] After submitting the report and then finishing/repeating things I was in the process of doing when the crash happened (setting out of office notice, replying to a student's email message, uploading a batch of photos to Flickr), I did a Google search on "power button of gloom" and found that no one else has used this term yet, so I guess I'll be the first.