Patrick Micka

WRT54Z is a short no-budget live-action film being produced by the UK Film club. It chronicles Claudia and Michael’s attempt to survive a zombie infection on campus and prevent it from spreading elsewhere. Additionally, this film is being released under a Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-Share Alike 3.0 License. Have fun watching! And, we hope to see you at the premier later this month. It has been a lot of fun working on an open film project and we think you’ll enjoy it.

The film will premier on October 30th at 10:00pm in the Worsham Theatre of the Student Center.

Download the trailer!

Draw a crazy picture,
Write a nutty poem,
Sing a mumble-grumble song,
Whistle through your comb.
Do a loony-goony dance
‘Cross the kitchen floor,
Put something silly in the world
That ain’t been there before.
-Shel Silverstein

I’ve already made a wordle text cloud of Obama’s portion of last Friday’s debate. As promised, here’s McCains:

If you’re interested in having a look at the text used you can find it here.

I’ve written about wordle before, and I am still completely blown away by how useful it is at conveying information without completely removing the context. I feel that this sort of word count analysis has been especially useful in the current political setting. The New York Times used this method recently to compare the Democrats and Republicans during their conventions this year.

Below is a wordle I created using Obama’s portions of transcript of the first presidential debate. Before simply copying and pasting the transcript into the wordle creator I parsed the text myself in order to remove words and phrases that would simply clutter and overshadow the key issues mentioned during the debate - from over 4000 words to about 1500. You can find the text file here.

I’ll post McCain’s portion of the debate soon.
UPDATE: I’ve posted it here.

I’ve finally gotten somewhat settled into my new house. Here’s another doodle, also from the fridge, that was once acompanied by a somewhat passive-agressive note that read “If you eat food that isn’t yours, you are a communist.” It makes me laugh, and my milk was thereafter safe.