Is that a great logo or what?!?! Twitter connected me to this interesting website, and although it’s aimed at the fairer sex, I’m a big fan of the web design and graphics. Here’s what they are/do:
“The Wine Sisterhood is the world’s first interactive web site dedicated to getting to the bottom of what women want… at least as far as wine is concerned.”
Women want wine. And cool doodles! At least as far as websites are concerned… Or so I’m guessing.
After many moons of sidestepping the Twitter, Facebook questions, I’ve waded into the sea of tweets. Now, mind you “told you so” types, it’s just the tip of my big toe at this point. And I reserve the right to head back to the beach at any moment if the waves start to whip up and the dread of drowning in a Twitter typhoon kidnaps my imagination… But for now, I’m going to try bberry-ing some updates to twitter.com/virtualDavis.
Hmmm… Bad karma? Coincidence? A bit uncanny that the same afternoon I chose to join the mad tweeting crowd the system got bogged down. Here’s the message that greeted me this evening:
“Twitter is over capacity. Too many tweets! Please wait a moment and try again.”
Uh-oh! And a moment later I tried again. Still the little twitter birds were hauling the whale over tossing seas. And again a moment after that. The blurring was a cross between seasickness and a gentle, prolonged belly laugh. I can explain neither.
Now — a leisurely shower later — the system seems to have restored itself. For now.
That image above is one of the “picture poems” I included in 40×41: Midlife Crisis Postponed and it combines contour drawings that I made in 1994 during my final year in college with abstractions from photographs that I took in Peru in 2011. I’ve previously posted elements of “Contours & Artifacts” in Choice (June 4, 2012) and Wonder (December […]
