{"id":11544,"date":"2015-07-19T01:41:28","date_gmt":"2015-07-19T05:41:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/aforgrave.ca\/detritus\/?p=11544"},"modified":"2021-06-21T09:57:54","modified_gmt":"2021-06-21T13:57:54","slug":"google-says-i-am-not-a-number","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/aforgrave.ca\/detritus\/2015\/07\/19\/google-says-i-am-not-a-number\/","title":{"rendered":"Google Says &#8230; I am Not a Number"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_11546\" style=\"width: 610px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"http:\/\/aforgrave.ca\/detritus\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/07\/Google_IamNotANumber600.gif\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-11546\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11546\" src=\"http:\/\/aforgrave.ca\/detritus\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/07\/Google_IamNotANumber600.gif\" alt=\"&quot;Google ... I am not a Number ...,&quot; animated GIF by @aforgrave\" width=\"600\" height=\"353\"\/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-11546\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">&#8220;Google &#8230; I am not a Number &#8230;,&#8221; animated GIF by @aforgrave<\/p><\/div>\n<p>I like <a href=\"http:\/\/assignments.ds106.us\/assignments\/illustrating-odd-autocompletes\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><strong>Visual Assignment 1244: Illustrating Odd Autocompletes.<\/strong><\/a> I&#8217;ve done it a couple of times before, although I can&#8217;t find any examples in my Media Library and it&#8217;s not showing up in the Assignment Bank examples. Maybe it&#8217;s in the Assignment Bank more than once? Like maybe in the AnimatedGIFAssignments?<\/p>\n<p>For this one, I didn&#8217;t necessarily illustrate the odd autocompletes, but there are a&nbsp;couple good ones in there.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>&#8220;I am number four.&#8221; (Six would not say that.)<\/li>\n<li>&#8220;I am not a robot.&#8221;<\/li>\n<li>&#8220;I am not a nugget shirt.&#8221;<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Anyway, I knew what I was expecting with this one, and Google did not disappoint. The real fun was getting that tiny little visual summary of the opening credits to animate&nbsp;in the search results. &nbsp; (2 &amp; 1\/2 Credit Units)<\/p>\n<h4>Process<\/h4>\n<p>This challenge is essentially driven&nbsp;by adding letters one at a time into the Google search bar, but taking a screen shot after each new letter so as to capture the autocomplete suggestions and hopefully capture some interesting gems. I also like to try to capture the odd text cursor, and put in a few &#8220;pauses&#8221; where the cursor blinks as if waiting for input. That&#8217;s simply done by repeating two successive frames (one with the cursor and one without) a couple of times. &nbsp;A 0.5 second interval seems to be appropriate.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_11548\" style=\"width: 596px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"http:\/\/aforgrave.ca\/detritus\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/07\/Snapx-Pro-X-and-Skitch.gif\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-11548\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11548\" src=\"http:\/\/aforgrave.ca\/detritus\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/07\/Snapx-Pro-X-and-Skitch.gif\" alt=\"Image Capture Tools:  Snapz Pro X2 (left) and Skitch (right)\" width=\"586\" height=\"250\"\/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-11548\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Image Capture Tools: Snapz Pro X2 (left) and Skitch (right)<\/p><\/div>\n<p><strong><del>Snapz Pro X<\/del>&nbsp; <\/strong>\ud83d\ude41&nbsp;<strong> Skitch?<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>My long-standing screen capture tool of choice, <strong>Snapz Pro X<\/strong>, doesn&#8217;t play nice under the latest versions of <strong>Mac OS X<\/strong>, and unfortunately<a href=\"http:\/\/www.ambrosiasw.com\/forums\/index.php?s=ac5adc239a480dc7224addeb6528606b&amp;showtopic=131652\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"> it appears support for updates is not forthcoming<\/a>, which is sad. I&#8217;ve used it for over a decade.<\/p>\n<p>Recently I&#8217;ve been making use of <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/evernote.com\/skitch\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Skitch<\/a><\/strong> for my screen captures. My limited&nbsp;familiarity with Skitch has me having to pause after each snapshot and save the file out to a determined location. (Snapz Pro X and even the native OS X screen capture tool just save to a predetermined folder automatically.) Given that the save-each-capture-every-time slows things down considerably, I investigated the Skitch integration with Evernote. (<em>Turns out Evernote bought Skitch 4 years ago.<\/em>) Authenticating Skitch with your Evernote account allows for a single &#8220;Save&#8221; button, and the files go to Evernote automatically, numbered in sequence. Fortunately there was an easy <strong>Save Attachments<\/strong> command in Evernote that let me get the images back down out of the clouds. &nbsp;The nice thing about Skitch that makes it work nicely is the &nbsp;<strong>Previous Snapshot Area<\/strong> command, which allows you to grab successive images from the same section of the screen &#8212; something that really comes in handy when you want to layer them for animation later on. And the integration with the cloud and access on multiple platforms is a benefit when you need to share files between devices. &nbsp;But I think I&#8217;ll be investigating something that I can count on locally for when I&#8217;m deep in the throes of creating. <em>Uploading just to download don&#8217;t make no sense.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>In the meantime, I think I need to find the duplicate entry of the Google autocomplete assignment. I know I&#8217;ve done it before. <em>Or someone I know has.&nbsp;<\/em><\/p>\n<p><strong>#BeSeeingYou<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I like Visual Assignment 1244: Illustrating Odd Autocompletes. 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