Create Word Clouds

From the website:

Wordle is a toy for generating “word clouds” from text that you provide. The clouds give greater prominence to words that appear more frequently in the source text. You can tweak your clouds with different fonts, layouts, and color schemes. The images you create with Wordle are yours to use however you like. You can print them out, or save them to the Wordle gallery to share with your friends.

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It really picked up on "tasteless", I see.

Discarded Doll in the Dumpster

I was taking out my trash yesterday evening when I noticed a splash of color on the dumpster down the alley.



It was a clown doll, in fairly good shape, looking incongruous amongst the nasty dumpster, the tall weeds and the abandoned and run-down houses at the end of the block.



The sight made me sad for some reason, and my first inclination was to rescue the doll, at least throw it in with the rest of the discarded items, save it from such an embarrassing postion.

As I knelt down to take the photos, the doll's smile gave me pause. I tilted my head to look into its face.

It was as if the doll was saying to me: "I've done my job, I've been a faithful companion, made a child laugh. It was time to put away childish things. Don't feel sorry for me."

My City Was Gone - The Pretenders

EDIT: Had to find another version of the tune since YT took it down. If this one is gone by the time anyone reads this, just holler and I'll find another if I can.



The opening riff of this song is heard on the beginning of the Rush Limbaugh radio show and today is the 20th anniversary of his nationally syndicated show. I heard the first one while waiting on the TSTI lunch room to open. Listened for a few months, but stopped.

Reminds me of a joke, but it's tasteless, so I won't repeat it. (yes, even too tasteless for THIS blog) It involves Rush, the Hindenburg and a Nazi reference; you can Google it if you are curious.

Personality Recipe

The Recipe For Mike

3 parts Playfulness 2 parts Style 1 part Whimsy Splash of Naughtiness Limit yourself to one serving. This cocktail is strong!

What's the Recipe for Your Personality?

Add a little olive juice to me, I'd be a Dirty Mike.