Wayward Whale Lifted from San Diego Bay (humor)
Perhaps he was trying to get to SXSW?
My sweetie threw this together and sent it my way for a quick chuckle – thought it was too cute not to share!
Fun background on the San Diego whale
There’s been a young grey whale swimming around the San Diego Bay since March 10th, 2009 (almost a week ago). While experts say it’s not unusual for whales to enter bays or other shallow water, they usually leave after a couple of days. San Diego’s 30-foot visitor has created quite a buzz, even prompting a “Name That Whale” contest in the Union-Tribune.
Fun background on the “Fail Whale”
from ReadWriteWeb:
Twitter users are very familiar with the iconic image of the Fail Whale. This social object has been latched onto by Twitter fans not just as a representation of Twitter’s downtime, but also as a representation of the community’s love for the service and their hope for its triumph over their many struggles. Despite Twitter’s troubles, most of its users stayed true, watching and waiting as the team began the long process of recoding the application in order for it to scale up. As Twitter succumbed to the strain of running their under-provisioned service, the Fail Whale “over capacity” image would appear. And this image began to take on a life of its own. (read full story of the Fail Whale at ReadWriteWeb)
image credit: Downtown San Diego - Jen Wallace via Flickr , “Fail Whale” – Yiying Lu
hat tip: ReadWriteWeb article via @KimSherrell
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Thanks for letting me know you used my photo – I love the fail whale on it!
Great blog, nice and easy to read and informative which I love.
Your site is so adorable, and thanks for visiting my site! I love the whale picture as well… Did you know that Facebook also copied the fail whale in its latest update?
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One of the radio stations had a name the whale contest last week. I was going to suggest Twitter but I couldn’t get through.
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