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Thought Cloud

By Chewxy, on November 14th, 2007%

A thought cloud is a good way to organize data, especially the ones in your head. This is my thought cloud:

New Episode of Vodcast Startup Stockmarket Find Job Immi.gov.au Her Religiousity and Moral Hazards Culture and Economic Thought Terrorism and Religion Unread and Unreplied Email Cleaning My Room East-West Divide Laundry Make New Movies Shortest, Fastest Route to Uni

Basically what I did was I sat and observed my own thoughts for 10 minutes. Each time I observe a new thought in my head, I write it down. And because my thoughts are recursive, I also tally my thoughts. For example, I think a lot about making my new vodcast (9 times in 10 minutes), while I think less of my emails. I then port the thoughts and my tally into Excel and construct a weighted function for the purpose of sizing the fonts ala tag-cloud style.

The function is weighted so the font size never exceeds 30 and never below 7. I wanted to never make it go below 9, but the visual style won’t be striking. Now, who says math isn’t art. Tell me what you think.
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Intriguingly Alliterative Titles

By Chewxy, on November 11th, 2007%

What does Introspective Perspective, Indexed, Interesting Parallels, It’s Here! V-Log #2, and Indeterminate Idiocy have in common? Well, asides from being blog posts of mine that you should read, they were also punblished in that order. Every post of mine starts with an ‘I’. It’s an alliterative title sequence. Interesting? I guess not.

And, no, they were not planned.

Another curious fact – look at my drafts:

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Indeterminate Idiocy

By Chewxy, on November 8th, 2007%

Says Alan:

Why don’t you put your Coke in the fridge? That way you don’t have to keep adding ice

D’oh!!! Why didn’t I think of that? A simple solution. Right. Off to exams, . . . → Read More: Indeterminate Idiocy

It’s Here! V-Log #2

By Chewxy, on November 7th, 2007%

Yep! It’s here! Episode 2 of my v-log.

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Interesting Parallels

By Chewxy, on November 6th, 2007%

Quick question:

There was a man. He was a con-man and a thief (and a scallywag in general), and he got caught. He was sentenced to hang, but there were ‘angels’ that prevented him from dying. He ended up being Postmaster General, and took his job very seriously. He started rubbing shoulders with the rich and the famous.

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