I’ve been using Flickr for about a year now and I’m really quite pleased. I’ll quibble that they don’t show titles or descriptions when you view a slideshow, but aside from that it’s a wonderful platform from which to store and share my shots and sometimes, just sometimes, even people I don’t know wander into my small domain (protected under a free, Attribution-ShareAlike Creative Commons License) and brighten my day with unexpected praise or sometimes something stranger.
Today is one of those days.
No, today was not a day when I discovered a porn maven had favorited pictures of my sisters and girlfriend (a true story, that person is now blocked from my account), and today was not a day that I found a shot posted up on a local Shanghai city-blog (also true)
Rather, it seems the shot I took here, at my grandparent’s house in Yarmouth Port, Cape Cod, was spotted by a contributor to Wikimedia Commons (his profile indicates age 31, from Israel) and used to illustrate an enyclopedia entry for flowering Bluemink (Ageratum Houstonianum). Lovely.
http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Image:Ageratum_houstonianum_(alverson).jpg
In other news, I recently cleaned our 5-gallon water dispenser. I’ve heard horror stories about cloudy water and ensuing food poisoning. We weren’t quite at that phase but it seemed time after a year of use and, indeed, a strange film of orange substance had collected on the internal holding chamber. Naturally, I thought it would be exceedingly wise to doubly disinfect by flushing the system with a bit of alcohol. Tequila to be precise. See, not wanting to waste the spirits we actually drink, I chose to sacrifice our neglected bottle of José Cuervo Silver. Unfortunately, every glass of water since then has carried a hint of Mexico. ¡Qué lástima! Ah well, on the upside our coffee now has more of a kick.
