Lego Cats

Today is International Lego Day! In celebration of this auspicious event today’s TDC asks us to

Take a photo and turn it into Lego by using an online editor such as Lunapic.

Here’s mine

Lego Lacey
Lego Lacey flickr photo by NomadWarMachine shared under a Creative Commons (CC BY-NC-SA 4.0) license

Cagney Lego Style
Cagney Lego Style flickr photo by NomadWarMachine shared under a Creative Commons (CC BY-NC-SA 4.0) license

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Make Art Deco Art Dammit

Make Art Deco Art Dammit
Make Art Deco Art Dammit flickr photo by NomadWarMachine shared under a Creative Commons (CC BY-NC-SA 4.0) license

Today’s TDC was a bit footery to do. It asked us to go to a site and play with the fonts, but the link to do that was a bit broken by the website itself, so I needed to work around it to complete this. I went to the Velvetyne page and typed my words ‘make art, dammit’ into the search bar, then clicked on the word ‘art deco’ in the results and then clicked on ‘get the fonts’ – ‘my fonts’ and followed the links to the page. That brought me to a page with my words displayed in different fonts on a page.  At this point I realised that I should change my phrase, so I repeated everything using the phrase ‘make art deco art, dammit’ and then screenshot the one I liked (see above). All in all, fun to do.

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Time Cycle

For today’s TDC

Dalek cat on a time cycle
Dalek cat on a time cycle flickr photo by NomadWarMachine shared under a Creative Commons (CC BY-NC-SA 4.0) license

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Silent Sunday

19/365 Mugdock
19/365 Mugdock flickr photo by NomadWarMachine shared under a Creative Commons (CC BY-NC-SA 4.0) license

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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
Wikipedia of the Future_ The Data-Driven Researcher flickr photo by NomadWarMachine shared under a Creative Commons (CC BY-NC-SA 4.0) license

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
Blackout Frankenpoem flickr photo by NomadWarMachine shared under a Creative Commons (CC BY-NC-SA 4.0) license

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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
A Thousand Plateaus flickr photo by NomadWarMachine shared under a Creative Commons (CC BY-NC-SA 4.0) license

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

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