Silent Sunday

19/365 Mugdock
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Which Wikipedia are you?

Today’s TDC asks us to take a quiz and share the results. Here’s mine.

Wikipedia of the Future_ The Data-Driven Researcher
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Wikipedia of the Future: The Data-Driven Researcher

Welcome to the Age of Clarity, or the Age of Balance.

You’re inquisitive, analytical, and maybe a bit too pragmatic, but not to a fault.

Your future is well-thought through and you have the data to back it up. In the future you got, Wikipedia users will be able to travel through knowledge using quantum computing. It will be fully, globally accessible for people with all different abilities. There will be a Wikipedia you can access with different senses — you will be able to smell knowledge.

The internet won’t even be the internet, it will simply be, as part of everything, everywhere. What will you be wearing? We predict some smart glasses and other wearable devices.

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Frankentab poetry

Today’s TDC is another riff on the Frankenpoem. Submitted by Alan (with a little help from his friends!) it asks us to visit Alan’s post and see what he did. Now, actually I don’t usually have many tabs open while I am at work apart from admin screens, but here’s what I found:

A quantitative data scientist
will involve film screenings
Observation:
real music matters
They’re right to be scared
This site works best composed from bits and bobs stitched together

 

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Ning Nang Nong

Today’s TDC asks us to:

Find a poem you love. Memorise it. Recite it. Create an audio file so we can all enjoy your poem.

I immediately thought about a Spike Milligan poem – dad used to read them to us at bedtime so I already know quite a few. I decided to try this tongue twister.

On the Ning Nang Nong
On the Ning Nang Nong
Where the Cows go Bong!
and the monkeys all say BOO!
There’s a Nong Nang Ning
Where the trees go Ping!
And the tea pots jibber jabber joo.
On the Nong Ning Nang
All the mice go Clang
And you just can’t catch ’em when they do!
So its Ning Nang Nong
Cows go Bong!
Nong Nang Ning
Trees go ping
Nong Ning Nang
The mice go Clang
What a noisy place to belong
is the Ning Nang Ning Nang Nong!!

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Blackout Frankenpoem

This Daily Create just keeps growing. Today’s TDC asks us to go to a site created by John and

Use tdc5110 Random Frankenstein poem to create a poem and then black it out.

I got this poem:

It was a tranquil spotthat seemed to smile
While it hums its little song in the beautiful sunshine,
For half the summer long.
Watch till dusty Death has piled
Of the wide earth it flew,
Death from the o’erbrimming deep;
And what you meant
And here it linger’dhere my heart might lie;
And companiableand bare herself so fair,
The creator of the nations,
And last of allthy greedy self consum’d,
And thy sad floor an altarfor ’twas trod,

Alastor: Or, the Spirit of Solitude by Percy Bysshe Shelley, The Beautiful Sun by William Topaz McGonagall, Peggy’s the Lady of the Hall by John Clare, Fragment: ‘When a Lover Clasps His Fairest’ by Percy Bysshe Shelley, The Daemon of the World by Percy Bysshe Shelley, Lines Written Among the Euganean Hills by Percy Bysshe Shelley, After You Speak by Edward Thomas, Lines Written Beneath an Elm in the Churchyard of Harrow by George Gordon, Lord Byron, The Canterbury Tales. The Nun’s Priest’s Tale. by Geoffrey Chaucer, The Peace-Pipe by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, On Time by John Milton, Sonnet on Chillon by George Gordon, Lord Byron,

And highlighted these words:

A tranquil smile hums
Half dusty earth linger’d bare
Last sad self

Blackout Frankenpoem
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Space Animals

For today’s TDC. I took the doodle I drew last time and put it through a kaleidoscope filter.

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A Thousand Plateaus Haiku

A Haiku for today’s TDC

A Thousand Plateaus
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Do you like rhizomes?
Then you will enjoy this book
Nomad War Machine

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Silent Sunday

11/365 Viola in the rain
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SpaceTypeGenerator

It’s hard to explain how much fun the tool suggested for today’s TDC  is. Go ahead and give the SpaceTypeGenerator site a whirl for yourself.

Space Type Art
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Rubbish Art

I am procrastinating today as I have a writing deadline, so messing around with TDC5116. First I downloaded a pic of Lacey cat that I had taken yesterday and printed it as a 3.5 x 5 pic. Then I got out my lightbox and drew around the outline of the image in pencil. I added whiskers, eyes and feet to make it look a bit more like rubbish art.

Ta da!

Rubbish Art
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