Walking at Work – Week 3
Short work week and rainy but here are a few from this past week’s wandering. I love the paintbrush. […]
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Illustrating Odd Autocompletes
Turns out “hiss and preach” is a line from a rap song. Blatantly copying this post for a #ds106 assignment. Google Autocomplete is an oracle with strange powers to bring oddities into your life. This assignment asks you to seek out that randomness. Start with a strong phrase (things like “I hate . . .” […]
Web Ephemera
Despicable? I looked at rate my teacher and rate my professor. Certainly some stupid stuff but it’s just an element in a larger picture. I don’t know why you wouldn’t look. Even bad reviews might cause me to think positively about someone. I found these responses strangely emotional. Image vs Text Inspired by Alan Levine’s […]
Video Game Equation?
It’s supposed to represent the role of mind/emotion in creating engagement but the very fact that I feel compelled to explain that probably means I’m not doing a great job and I wonder about the degree to which I’m joking. There are elements here I may end up making work though. I can parse a […]
Weekly Web Harvest (weekly)
BitTorrent Sync Open Source Dropbox replacement . . . tags: dooo bittorrent sync dropbox weekly opensource Interactive Billboard Tells You Where The Airplane Overhead is Going – Neatorama Blending the digital and the real in interesting ways. tags: mechanized mixed airplanes planes billboards weekly Terminal Cornucopia by Evan Booth “Can common items sold in airports […]
Week No. 2 – Walking at Work
A few photographs from my walk to and from work during week two. Farther down are some shots of Hollywood Cemetery in Richmond– someplace I’ve always meant to go. I managed to forget my charger at work this weekend and it turns out the cemetery is only a few blocks away. We’ll consider it a […]
If That, Then What?
The Google spreadsheet passing the information on to this chart, which should be live, is being fed by an IFTTT recipe. For the record it doesn’t seem like you can mess around with the non-used portions of the actual worksheet where data is being written by the recipe. I was able to add another worksheet […]
If it seems like playing . . .
If it seems like I’m playing lately it is because I am. The last week or so has been an exploration of all sorts of fairly odd things. Markov chains, Twitterbots, McRibs1, photo walks to name a few items. These are easy things to dismiss as trivial. It’s not necessarily obvious how these strange wanderings […]
Text Acrobatics in Google Spreadsheets
I’ve established here enough times I’m not a programmer so I have to find ways to get things done until I learn more. I found this gigantic list of edtech related conferences compiled by Dr. Wright thanks to Stephen Downes’ feed. It’s in Word1 for a variety of reasonable reasons and I can’t fault anyone […]
Weekly Web Harvest (weekly)
The Rise of Twitter Bots : The New Yorker “What drives affection for Tofu is less narcissism than reliable ersatz companionship in Twitter’s crowded, cliquey lunchroom; Tofu Product is everyone’s imaginary friend.” “One of my first bots was Exosaurs, which combined Wikipedia’s list of dinosaur species and the Kepler telescope’s list of confirmed exoplanets—both freely […]