Foto Friday: words in pictures 8 August 2008 10:21 am
Posted by Tracy in : events,friends,geekery,good news,meta,news,pictures,travel , 1 comment so farWordle is a shiny applet that takes a big list of words and arranges them into a pretty collage-thing based in part on the frequency words appear (users can mess with the fonts and colors and tweak layouts). It’s a fascinating game, and yesterday I spent a very long time giving it all the tags I’ve ever used on TracyFood posts, with the following result (finally saved a few minutes ago, after lots and lots of the aforementioned tweaking):
Click through for a larger version; I think it’s pretty awesome. But another awesome thing happened yesterday, (more…)
Fun facts! 6 August 2008 3:33 pm
Posted by Tracy in : books,Morning Glory,news,not even vegetarian,work , 2 commentsI started writing these on Friday, for extra bonus alliteration points, when I discovered that our toaster oven does not work unless it is plugged in (I know, I know, dur-hurrrrr, but in these exciting times I’m not exactly the swiftest). Then I got distracted (no big surprise). Whatever. The toaster oven was unplugged because Peter installed shiny new GFCI outlets in the kitchen, thus satisfying (more…)
(Late) Monkey Monday: many goodbyes edition. 5 August 2008 11:56 pm
Posted by Tracy in : eugene,friends,garden,Morning Glory,people,pictures,weird,work , add a commentI’m posting this super-late on Tuesday, the day of my last Morning Glory paycheck. Last Wednesday was my last day at work, and it was a good one, and I don’t really know what else to say about it. Instead, I will try to write about my time at the café in more general (and even more glowing) terms…. but not today. (more…)
