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Well, the big news today is that there was a giant, global outage with Amazon Web Services (AWS). I got my first clue first thing this morning when, spraying the shower with shower spray cleaner, I went to the Amazon app to re-order my next bottle. I keep getting this "SORRY - something went wrong" page. Every time the page comes up it includes a photo of a dog, which is named, and has a hyperlinked "Meet the dogs of Amazon." I don't give a shit about your dogs! I did check the link, though, and
that one works.
I took to social media to see if anyone was saying about when things might come up again. I found
this post on Threads with screenshots of logos for a ton of the companies that use this service and therefore are also down. Snapchat, Venmo, HBO Max, Zoom, Delta, and much more—it feels a little like: you name it, it's affected by this outage. Amusingly, the ones commonly mentioned alongside Amazon in headlines are Fortnite and Snapchat. Apparently Amazon monopolizes "
30% of the total cloud market." Jesus Christ.
So. Guess what else was affected?
Flickr. As I write this, none of my Flickr photo pages are loading. So, I couldn't find photos to embed into today's Daily Lunch Update (DLU) as usual. That's two places this has now inconvenienced me personally—on the Amazon website itself, and on Flickr. And now you too! I'm sure you miss the photos. You're devastated they aren't there. I mean, I am assuming they aren't there as I write this. If you do see photos here in the end, that means Flickr service was restored by around 12:30.
I'm just glad I don't have anything truly critical that depends on this. For me, right now it's just an annoyance.
Fascinatingly, the photos embedded in my previous posts are still loading on this blog. For instance,
yesterday's post in which I wrote all about Saturday, so I wouldn't have to go over it all today. That was a very big day: Shobhit and I went to the Diwali Festival at the Seattle Center's Armory building; we attended the No Kings Rally at Seattle Center's Fisher Pavilion and then the March down 5th Avenue (allowing for my
very cool video clip gliding above the crowd from the Monorail); and Laney and I went to a movie that proved to be pretty disappointing.
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So what of the rest of my weekend, then? I know you're dying to know. Settle down!
I took
myself to a movie on Friday: also disappointing, but at least I knew to expect that from reviews:
After the Hunt. At least that one was provocative, in its way, and had a lot of fascinating discussions in it. In the end I liked it a little better than Saturday's movie,
Good Fortune (B-minus versus C-plus).
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—Oh hey! Flickr returned. You should see the photos. It's all loading very slowly, but at least it worked. It only took like five hours. Side note: today is the actual Diwali holiday. The photo at the top of this shot is from the festival at the Seattle Center Armory in 2023; the middle photo above is if a
diya, or Diwali lamp Shobhit lit for Diwali that same year; and the photo below is of a clay Ganesh seen at the Diwali Festival at Seattle Center this past weekend.
I was going to see a movie tonight, but I decided to stay home when I realized it was Diwali, and I figured Shobhit would rather have me home. He actually bought two new
diyas at the festival this year. Now he has four.
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Anyway! That brings us to yesterday, when I had a Braeburn Condos Theater double feature with Alexia: we watched
Death Becomes Her, which she clearly liked more before all the comic dismemberment happens than after, something that admittedly just amused me; and
Something's Gotta Give, in honor of the late, great Diane Keaton.
We replaced
Moonstruck at the last minute with
Something's Gotta Give, when I figured out that we both forgot we had already watched it—in 2022. I kept thinking she had still never seebn it. You see why it's good that I write everything down? Granted, it might have worked just fine had we just gone ahead and watched it. We might have both never remembered even after seeing it again, in which case, what's the harm? But, I did figure it out, so I texted her the proposed change and she went with that.
Shobhit was gone, headed for an audition in Olympia, once I got back upstairs. I might have gone with him, except he needed to leave too early
and he expected to get back around 11:00, which was way too late for me. I don't even know when he actually got back home; whenever it was I was in bed, sound asleep. He did respond to an email at 11:43 so he was definitely home at least by then.
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[posted 12:33pm]
