Saturday, June 28th, 2008
If you have never read French Laundry at Home treat yourself. It is an exemplary foodie blog. This post is enough to hook the casual reader . . . Conversing with those who practice verbal diarrhea is a waste of time. I know better . . . Happiness is the smell of chili is wafting through the house . . . Strange things I remember: It’s Ricky Barab’s birthday. I haven’t seen this guy in more than 20 years, but I remember his birthday. Go figure . . . Congratulations to the Boston Celtics. It’s been a long time since they had a championship. I have fond memories of the old Boston Garden. Of course, the best moment at the Garden was in ‘82 . . . Wordle is fun . . . Thomas Sowell is a smart man. He writes well too. Usually I agree with him . . . A somewhat stream f conscious piece, but my mother pointed me to a Slate article (When’s the last time I visited there? I suspect when Kinsley first went to work for them, but he has moved multiple times since.) about catch phrases. I really thought It is what it is was a phrase made famous on the first season of Top Chef . . . One of the better Deviant Art animations I have seen . . . Wish lists work. I received a book (But Didn’t We Have Fun?) for my birthday because I had it listed on my wish list. Feel free to pick off a few treasures from it, if you are so inclined . . .
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Wednesday, June 18th, 2008
The blogosphere is abuzz with Wordle. It’s a tag cloud generator. I have seen these before. Folks run famous documents such as the Declaration of Independence and Gettysburg Address through these. The tag cloud weights the frequency of the words used.
Wordle is set up to generate the tags one uses with del.icio.us. It is easy to get the tags for one’s Flickr set too. Here is Floopy’s based on more than 11,000 photographs. I was looking for how to pull Wordpress’s tags, but haven’t found that yet. My boring cloud sits there unenhanced.
Earlier today I stumbled across a GSAK macro that is designed to create a text file of one’s logs. I modified that maco a bit and then stripped out the images and punctuation. I completed this on my Neverending Scavenger Hunt database. I then ran the resulting text through Wordle. Above are the top 200 words I used in my logs.
Here is the cloud of my top 1000 words.
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Wednesday, June 18th, 2008
Here is Fritz’s first blog. He typed it while I was drafting something else. Not bad for a one-year-old. Way to go, Bud!
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Tuesday, June 17th, 2008
of vacation! Woo hoo!
Of course, I am already working on lesson plans for next year, reading books to cover in class, re-designing a database, working on a report for the school, and re-tooling my data collection. And if I walked in 76 days from now without having gone in for a couple weeks, I would be totally unprepared to begin the school year. At least I get to sleep in late do most of this in my pajamas.
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Friday, April 11th, 2008
I’ve said it before, I’ll say it again, the US government loves the life Gert and I live. Having a mortgage with children reduces the tax load significantly! . . . My nephew passed his jury for Eagle Scout this evening. Way to go, Parker . . . Well, this is certainly not the kind of press an upstart magazine should want . . . I’ve must not be well-read. I believe there are 
but 13 books on this list that I have read. I have a few others on the bookshelf . . . Not that anyone needed any further proof, but President Clinton does not tell the truth . . . Obama wasn’t going to win Pennsylvania, but thanks to foot-in-mouth disease (aka elitism), he surely has no shot now . . . spring has finally sprung . . . We all make mistakes, but shouldn’t a school district’s language arts supervisor not send e-mail with typos? . . . The AP counts differently than I do. According to Tom Hester, “Corzine’s $33 billion budget proposal would cut spending by $2.7 billion.” Yet, this year’s NJ’s budget was $33,293,000 and the proposed budget for next year is $33,968,603. That’s a spending increase the way I teach my fourth graders. Budget numbers are fluid, but I’ve yet to see a set of figures which actually shows spending will be less next year . . . Yikes! I shudder to think what this college would have done to us for our radio shows 20+ years ago . . . I agree with Justice Alito. I even wrote about it back in 2001. Of course, I approached it from a citizen of New Jersey, not as an Italian-American . . .
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