Your Personal Cloud
December 4, 2020 4:39 AM Subscribe
“Tell me your name and the name of your cloud and I'll send you a photo of your personal cloud from the skies above my home.” Name your own cloud, and check out the gallery of clouds others have named, like “Dustbunny”, “Floaty Friend”, and “Bartholomew.”
Clouds are ephemeral.
posted by Meatbomb at 7:02 AM on December 4, 2020 [1 favorite]
posted by Meatbomb at 7:02 AM on December 4, 2020 [1 favorite]
So are we.
posted by ricochet biscuit at 7:20 AM on December 4, 2020 [1 favorite]
posted by ricochet biscuit at 7:20 AM on December 4, 2020 [1 favorite]
It's tempting to request a cloud named for a lost person or place, as a short-lived virtual memorial... but in a year of so much loss, how would one choose? Can't deluge her with requests.
Maybe I will start naming clouds, just to myself as an everyday thing. I think it would help, to pin the memory to something beautiful and watch it sail away into the sky for a bit.
I hold onto things, places, people; I don't admit to myself that they're never coming back. I should spend more time watching clouds.
posted by Pallas Athena at 9:14 AM on December 4, 2020 [2 favorites]
Maybe I will start naming clouds, just to myself as an everyday thing. I think it would help, to pin the memory to something beautiful and watch it sail away into the sky for a bit.
I hold onto things, places, people; I don't admit to myself that they're never coming back. I should spend more time watching clouds.
posted by Pallas Athena at 9:14 AM on December 4, 2020 [2 favorites]
I never got my personal cloud, unless there’s a months-long backlog.
posted by bixfrankonis at 9:22 AM on December 4, 2020
posted by bixfrankonis at 9:22 AM on December 4, 2020
Finally, someone's taken up the slack from Rodney Morelli's International Cloud Registry.
posted by UltraMorgnus at 12:57 PM on December 4, 2020
posted by UltraMorgnus at 12:57 PM on December 4, 2020
There will only ever be one Namer of Clouds.
posted by thatwhichfalls at 10:45 AM on December 5, 2020
posted by thatwhichfalls at 10:45 AM on December 5, 2020
Hey! Hey! You! You! Get offfa my cloud.
The startingly young Rollng Stones, featuring a nerdy librarian lewk by Keith Richards.
posted by kirkaracha at 6:24 PM on December 5, 2020
The startingly young Rollng Stones, featuring a nerdy librarian lewk by Keith Richards.
posted by kirkaracha at 6:24 PM on December 5, 2020
For the record: not long after this thread, my cloud showed up in my inbox/on the site.
posted by bixfrankonis at 11:50 PM on December 5, 2020
posted by bixfrankonis at 11:50 PM on December 5, 2020
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http://www.gosuperego.com/rodney-morellis-international-cloud-registry/
https://youtube.com/watch?v=Z9Sn3zDdsog
posted by Snijglau at 6:27 AM on December 4, 2020