As I signed up for twitter during a period of “high maintenance” (that’s polite for almost-constant brokenness), I encountered the fail whale quite often—and learned to like it, in its own way, because it had become a tradition of sorts, like fathers chasing kids around with power tools.
Twitter’s Charming “mascot”, the Fail Whale
And funnily, every time I visit the page in my Firefox instance, the Awesomebar keeps reminding me of the times when the whale was ubiquitous:
If these were the presidential elections, I would demand a recount, but in dubio pro reo and all, let’s assume he is right. Of course I wanted to know how many big macs that totals per day, so I entered into Google:
23 000 / (36 years)
and what did I get back? Obviously, big macs per second:
By the way: Using more conventional units, this totals between 1 and 2 big macs a day.
PS: Random fact I am sure none of you wanted to know, Heinrich Hertz, the guy whose name became the unit of frequency “hertz”, was a professor at University of Karlsruhe (my home uni), where he discovered the electromagnetic waves.
Looks like they’ve got awfully little to do down there in Geneva
Yo! (And by the way, if you understand very little of what that all means, don’t feel too bad: I just noticed my last physics class was a while ago as well).
