Tag: just for fun
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Colonel Mustard in the Refrigerator
Happy Friday, all. I have been eating a lot of leftovers and things scrounged up from fridges this past week, and being home today it shall likely be the same. But that does not mean you want to be looking into my refrigerator and seeing just what condiments I have available. Spoiler: (pun intended) it…
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USAI! My Eyes!
Of all things, this came to me through social media I follow for news about the Red Sox. But it’s Friday and after seeing this I definitely need a drink. The AI-made map purports to show the locations of World Cup home bases for the various competing teams. It certainly shows…uh…something. It does not take…
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The Long, Winding Road
At the beginning of the week I wrote about a table as a chart, for which I designed a light-duty interactive bar chart. Tables can be great, when used well, but they are not ideal for showing trends in data—hence the term data visualisation. But today is now Friday and we made it to the…
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Words. Words. Words.
This year—and last—I have been making a more concerted effort to read more and use social media less. I just finished reading an Isaac Asimov novella, Lucky Starr the Moons of Jupiter, but that interrupted my reading of The Carpathians, a non-fiction book about the history of the northern slopes of the Carpathian Mountains—the Polish…
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Peeps People in Pennsylvania
As many long-time readers know, my Carpatho–Rusyn origins means my family observes Orthodox Easter, which usually does not coincide with what I call Catholic Easter—because the other part of my background is Irish Catholic, so growing up there were two Easters. Now we just observe the one and so later today I am headed back…
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Breakfast Talents
Initially I planned to post something different today, but the more I thought about it over breakfast, I realised it would make more sense for a Monday post. Consequently, I needed to change this one up, but still wanted to keep it fairly light as I try to do on Fridays. Yesterday, Jessica Hagy over…
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Iran, Not Persia
So if you’ve a date in Tehran, she’ll be waiting, in, well, Tehran. Happy Friday, all. On Monday I critiqued a graphic from Bloomberg about airstrikes in the Middle East. As we head into the weekend, I opted to pull one of my (many) atlases off the bookshelf, because I just wanted to see how…
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Reticulating Splines
Happy Friday, all. In looking at my calendar the other day, I saw that in three weeks I will be in Appalachia for Orthodox Easter. That means driving through Pennsylvania’s Ridge and Valley region and then sleeping in the mountains. But wherefore the mountains? Thankfully, xkcd posted a map explaining why all the natural features.…
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Don’t Buy It
Literally. Whatever “it” is they’re selling. Happy (?) Friday, everyone. Today’s light-hearted post comes from This Is Indexed. I watch very little television, nor would I consider myself an avid streamer of content. Recently, however, I did have occasion to watch some without the benefit of ad blockers and I forgot how much I despise…
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On a Pale Blue Dot, Talking ’bout Little Red Dots
Well that certainly was a week. I would say we made it and, technically, I would be correct because I the writer and you the reader are here to type and read these words. But many hundreds of others are not, because decision makers in Jerusalem and Washington chose to go to war. To try…