Just as I suspected . . .
literature aficionado, grammar lover, sparkling individual
i'm really into brunch so if you ever wanna have brunch contact me: katherine (dot) henderson9 (at) gmail (dot) com
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i started a tumblr about the training i did for a triathalon here check it out!
on wednesdays i used to do trivia. and while there we would draw a new episode of this comic
i'm really into brunch so if you ever wanna have brunch contact me: katherine (dot) henderson9 (at) gmail (dot) com
click!, tweet!
i started a tumblr about the training i did for a triathalon here check it out!
on wednesdays i used to do trivia. and while there we would draw a new episode of this comic
Jul 02
I just heard about this last night! So cool!!Did you know that whenever you fill in one of these tests, you’re helping digitize a book?
There was a great Nova ScienceNow segment on Luis von Ahn, a young computer prodigy who has invented some pretty cool stuff. See the image above? I just knew it before as the authentification system for buying a movie, a book, or any number of things online. Turns out this system, Recaptcha, in addition to being an anti-spam tool (bots trolling online can’t decipher the distorted words in the images) is also a text digitization aide. As researches and programs scan books online, many of the words aren’t recognized by a computer’s OCR, and so come out confusing the computer. Think of an old manuscript that is being scanned where all the characters that look like “f’s” are really “s’s,” or strange Old English words, or just poetic license with spelling, and so-on. As you type in words to verify that you’re a user, you’re also helping Recaptcha identify words and digitize books and other texts. Nova claims that more than 20 years of archived New York Times has been digitized with the help of Recaptcha in less than a few months.
Luis von Ahn has devoted his career to creative solutions like this that harness the work-power and work-time of millions of users, worldwide. Click here to find out more!
Jul 01
If you give a Pat some peanuts
- Pat: buy me a beer
- Dave: no way
- noooooooooo way
- never
- ever
- Pat: well then buy peanuts for me
- Dave: that'd be even worse
- Pat: why?
- Dave: many reasons
- 1) I think that peanuts are more expensive than a beer
- 2) I then have to watch you eat peanuts
- 3) I then have to listen to you eat peanuts
- 4) You will create a mess
- 4a) That mess will embarrass the rest of us
- 4b) Someone will slip on those shells, and hurt themselves
- 4bi) That person will be a guy that was just about to give us a bunch of free hats
- 5) You won't shut up about how great the peanuts were for the rest of the night
- 6) Eating the peanuts will make you thirsty, and then you'll just bug me for a beer anyways
- that's it
Jun 30
» The Urge
Why is it I get most excited about writing in the middle of the afternoon when I’m sitting at my day job with no chance of getting to my writing desk for several hours?
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» Free Middle Aged Northern English Husband (Boulder)
46 years old, Slightly balding..
Mild beer belly..
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Comes with his own green card, pajamas, mini van, uneasy silences, vacant stares, lack of motivation, and horrible cooking sense.
hahahaha
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Jun 26
I’d like to see a computer generated picture of what this Michael Jackson would have looked like at 50. Internet, can you help me?retrozone: bebelestrange: jackson + allen
“ As a last ditch effort to score tongiht, I will stand in the middle of the bar and yell, “THIS FACE WON’T SUCK ITSELF!” and see what that brings in. It’s a solid plan. My future is bright.
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I think it sounds solid. (via micek)
I just spit out a sip of my drink onto my computer screen. No making me laugh when I’m drinking - thems the rules.
(via booksarebetterthanboys)
Jun 25
