Entry tags:
to the lighthouse, to google, and tomatoes.
My new game is The Google Image Labeller!
Very cleverly, following the lead of the distributed proofreader movement and citizen scholarship everywhere, Google has developed a system where we do their work for them.
What happens is you and another person are shown random low-res images and you propose labels for them blind -- you don't see theirs and they don't see yours, until you match. Then you get points. If you can't think of any more labels, you pass, and get a new picture. The images are way too low-res for me, and some of them don't even come up for me at all, so I have to pass a lot. But still I have accumulated 25890 points tonight! It's more fun than f-bomb, color box, bunch or word worm!
On another front, we went to see the Pigeon Point lighthouse get lit up for its anniversary last night. We were late, but all that meant was that we got to walk around under the beams for a long time after the early birds were gone, and that traffic was less insane when we did leave. As always, it was a cosmic experience. The only thing I need now is to get inside a first-order fresnel lens.
Also, we bought a case of tomatoes. Tomorrow: I guess it's time to put up tomato chutney. And chili sauce if I feel like it. Chutney for sure.
I washed a lot of dishes and folded a lot of laundry but I did not write anything. I did get holiday thingies for Frank's box.
Oh, and Nazis in Prague are scarier than you thought. On the other hand, antifa.
Very cleverly, following the lead of the distributed proofreader movement and citizen scholarship everywhere, Google has developed a system where we do their work for them.
What happens is you and another person are shown random low-res images and you propose labels for them blind -- you don't see theirs and they don't see yours, until you match. Then you get points. If you can't think of any more labels, you pass, and get a new picture. The images are way too low-res for me, and some of them don't even come up for me at all, so I have to pass a lot. But still I have accumulated 25890 points tonight! It's more fun than f-bomb, color box, bunch or word worm!
On another front, we went to see the Pigeon Point lighthouse get lit up for its anniversary last night. We were late, but all that meant was that we got to walk around under the beams for a long time after the early birds were gone, and that traffic was less insane when we did leave. As always, it was a cosmic experience. The only thing I need now is to get inside a first-order fresnel lens.
Also, we bought a case of tomatoes. Tomorrow: I guess it's time to put up tomato chutney. And chili sauce if I feel like it. Chutney for sure.
I washed a lot of dishes and folded a lot of laundry but I did not write anything. I did get holiday thingies for Frank's box.
Oh, and Nazis in Prague are scarier than you thought. On the other hand, antifa.