I’m not a celebrity. I don’t get to cut in the front of the line and go through the hallowed velvet rope. The average person spends approximately an hour a day waiting in line, which totals to about 2 to 3 years in a lifetime. Two to 3 years of just standing there, people waiting with you, for whatever you are waiting for! I have to admit that there are some things that are worth waiting in line for:

I was surfing Whims blog the other day and while digging deep into the archives, I happened on a cool meme that went around but happened to slip by me. This one required a little more thought and input as opposed to #3wordsyouhate on Twitter and “What kind of dinosaur would you be if you had to travel back in time?” on Facebook. It’s a simple concept that yields some interesting results:

I was going through some old bookmarks and stumbled on Wordle, which is used for generating “word clouds” based on the number of times a word is used. Kinda like a tag cloud, but with a few more options. After trying out a few fun things like President Obama’s Inaugaration Speech, I wanted something with more words, something that would really put the Wordle algorithm through its paces.

Are “Left 4 Dead” Players Really This Lonely?

A lot of the time I will have quit a few apps running at the same time bouncing between files, programs, and the web. I consider myself bi-techual when it comes to working in different OS’s…I use both Windows and Mac environments without leaning one way or the other. But there is one thing that I can’t fathom why the folks in Redmond would allow me to do in Vista.