Things learned today (a bullet list)

[anagramofbrat]

• It is possible to give yourself a raging headache from going in and out of environments with vastly different temperatures/humidities. Today post 4:45 ranged from meatlocker, to sticky to SAUNA back to sticky to stuffy to sticky to chilly to sticky to ANTARCTIC and back to sticky. Am currently in the upstairs of our house because my nails are still blue. :(
  
  
• Four people around a table make for highly entertaining discussions about science fiction movies.
  
  
• Apparently my, er, our doctor's office is now noting down number, type and names of pets in medical charts. Okay.
  
  
• I apparently spend a good chunk of the day after doing anything major with my website camping my visitor stats. They often reveal surprising information, like how many of you are actually still checking your LJ friends lists even though you haven't posted in four years. Also that there are still a few folks actively checking my LJ even though they don't have accounts themselves. (and due to IP tracking I have a pretty good idea of who you are, too.) Wellp. Um, hi everyone!
  
  
• I don't miss the PVTA. That said, the trip home from Northampton on it passes significantly faster now that I have an internet-anywhere device in my pocket.
  
  
• apparently this is what my email metadata between now and 2009 looks like.
  
  
  
  This is the result of an MIT project called Immersion. (immersion.media.mit.edu) All the varying size dots are someone I've emailed. Obviously, the bigger the dot, the more emails there are. Since it also tracks things like reply-alls and CCs, it can pick out relationships between your dots and make little clusters out of the ones that seem to be interconnected. I'm rather fascinated by my clusters... you can probably figure out the big blue dot and from there the orange, blue and green clusters; the red one off to the side is kind of a wildcard group, but an interesting one.
  
  
• People get FROGGY with you when you gently point out that Channing Tatum may be of Sontaran descent.
  
  
  
  Clearly at least one person out in the greater internet agrees with me, cause I didn't make that graphic.

Note to self - sometime soon I need to post a ramble about beading, belly dance, appropriation, and liking problematic things. Not tonight tho.


ETA: I apparently learned something else - I need to make some apple touch icons, apparently.

Comments

[kshandra]

There's a giant blue dot on mine that isn't connected to ANYBODY ELSE. (It's The Complicated One, who would no doubt freak the fuck out if he knew his name was attached to it anywhere.)

[mahasin.livejournal.com]

I've always said that Channing Tatum looked like a Sontaran, so there!

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[(Anonymous)]

Hi Andee!
I do check out your livejournal :) and I love reading your updates. Glad things are going well.
Karolina

[carolatina.livejournal.com]

Re: Channing Tatum is a Sontaran -- bwahaha! I've never thought he was all that attractive, and this is probably why.