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Optimized Halloween Costume!
Still not sure what to be for Halloween? Here’s yet another idea for the tech-savvy procrastinator: the homemade tag cloud! Forget social media for a night… this year, publicize your personal information the old-fashioned, analog way by wearing it!
Here’s what you’ll need:
- A sheet of white posterboard
- A blue marker
- A steady hand
- Some scissors (a scissor? Whatever)
- Interests
- Some string or something
- A piece of paper and a pen
How to make it:
- Use the pen and paper to make a short list of your interests (about 10 should do). List them in descending order according to how interested you are.
- On the posterboard, crudely draw a giant cloud.
- Cut out said cloud.
- With your list as a reference, write each of your interests on the cloud (for authenticity, try to make your handwriting look like the typeface “Arial”). Space them out sort of randomly and vary the size based on their position on your list (for example, if “rock tumbling” is your #1 interest, make it the biggest).
- Attach the string or whatever you found to each side of the cloud, hang it around your neck, and voila! You’re optimized!
Thanks to Amanda Smyth Connor for allowing me to creepily yank a picture of her from Facebook, make ridiculous alterations to it, and then post it on this blog.
