Oh wow! A dedicated Nutella just for scraping the tastiness out of the nearly empty jar:
Here’s a recent webcam shot of me holding my own jar, a jar that is long gone. Alas! Soon I will acquire the knife and finish a jar properly… OK, I probably won’t, but it seems fun.
OK. I admit it. I watch American Idol! There! I said it. I blame my mother entirely. And can I just say I’m pretty amazed that Constantine was voted off? I think it’s the www.votefortheworst.com effect. What a weird way to entertain yourself, i.e. dialing a phone for a few hours just to mess with television results. I actually like watching the show, yet I’m not willing/don’t have the time or energy to compete against a bunch of 13 year-olds in a phone dialing race. Watching American Idol has also become this great bonding thing between my mother and I. I used to ridicule her for watching it. Now we like to gossip on Tuesdays after it’s over. I think that’s probably better than the ridiculing thing… you know… in terms of being a less shitty daughter.
Oh. There is another confession to make today. I bought four of these:
Does that make me shallow? Do you see what they are? They hold fully frosted cupcakes so well that you can store them upside down and they are fine. I don’t even remember the last time I made cupcakes, and when I did, I’m sure I didn’t frost them, but I can’t resist such a cute kitchen gadgety novelty.
At least I was brave and didn’t buy this! I mean, it isn’t like I didn’t want to or something. I was just really strong! OK, maybe I didn’t buy it because it was just an April Fool’s Day joke, but it was also the strength thing.
Flickr is an excellent web site. I’m amazed by its elegance. That said, its search capabilities are too limited for my liking. What I wish is that I could use Google to search Flickr. You know how sometimes you can use Google to search within a web site? For example, if I type in to the Google box:
site:www.amazon.com fishing
Google is able to search Amazon effectively. Another perk is that I can use Google’s Advanced Operators to increase my ability to search.
This doesn’t work with Flickr. If I want to locate pictures that include the colors orange and pink but NOT the color blue, there is no way to do that. I can only use the advanced search page on Flickr, pull up the pink and blue pictures, then scan them to rule out blue ones.
I was complaining about this a few weeks ago, and Aaron (what with his big brain and endless desire to learn new things) decided to write a little code to accomplish this. It isn’t perfect yet, but it’s improving. The main limitations are the number of pictures it can process (if the inclusive tags are very common, then it can’t grab all of them) and the slow speed. It really does take a while, but I think that is mostly related to the things Aaron can’t control with code. It’s more a Flickr thing. Still, I can do the tag search I want, which is very groovy.
Eventually, maybe he can get it looking like this using this, and then we can stick ads on it and become multi-millionaires! That would be soooo glamorous!
It’s a wonder Aaron gets any work done. Me with all my big ideas. And I tend to have even more when there’s real work to do! (Like now.)
Give his Flickr search engine a try, see what you think, and get back to us!
It’s just that my dissertation defense is in 15 days and 23 hours, and I have a lot of other stuff to do before then. I’m not sure I’ve been working on my dissertation. I’m not sure what I’ve been doing, but I haven’t been blogging, and I haven’t been Tribing. If I haven’t called you… if I haven’t written… then wait until May 16th to bother me about it 😛
For a correct up-to-the day countdown, please check out the "This and That" area of the sidebar. If you click on the picture, you can read all of my previous posts about my dissertation… You know, for the fun of it.
