Flocked Minis September 17, 2006
Posted by dllh in flock.trackback
While waiting in line at a craft store today, I saw the item pictured here in a display by the cash register. Next to it were some other “Flocked Minis” of Halloween figures (ghosts and pumpkins), but for my purchasing power, the birds were it. (There were also some little bears that I almost always think about getting for my daughter when I see them, but they didn’t come in the tangentially-Flock-relevant packaging, so I opted out of those once again.)
Lest you think this is an ill-advised product placement, let me explain that flocking is (among other things) a technique of texturing or patterning something with pulverized wool or felt (source). These turkey figurines are flocked. I wonder if turkeys actually flock in the wild.
I’m no good with version numbers, but I hereby propose that whatever version number we’ve reached when we’re down to the letter “T” in our count (our already having used Buzzard and Cardinal and heading into Danphe) that we name the browser Turkey.
My daughter enjoyed playing with the turkeys.
[...] There are no doubt better ways to handle caching of large data sets, but for our purposes, this little trick has proven effective. I imagine about 1% of my already limited readership probably found this even remotely interesting. Still, I occasionally wonder if it might be appealing to some to have a glimpse into some of the less glamorous things that go on behind the scenes in a project like Flock. So, what do you think is better? Turkeys and neat little discoveries or things like this post? [...]
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