It's up! Only uh, five days after I thought?
Edit: added cut. Also fixed index bugs that made first evaluation task impossible.
My index to Hyperbole and a Half is up at http://web.simmons.edu/~kadel/handh.html
It's lacking data on the last few stories in the book, but it should be complete for the blog. (For some version of "complete" -- this sort of indexing is a subjective process, and if I indexed every idea and entity the thing would be gargantuan and unusable, instead of just big.)
Feel free to take a poke at it whether or not you're going to evaluate it for me. It turns out I have until Wednesday morning to hand in my write-up of the project, so evaluations I receive by Monday night will be useful for the write-up. I welcome other feedback just to make the thing better. (For technical reasons, I can't link to the middles of the blog posts, so the index entries for the blog posts all point to the top of the entry, not a specific location within the entry.)
To formally evaluate the index, please send an email to kadel at simmons dot edu answering the following questions about each of the six quotations/images given below:
(a) How many terms did you look up in http://web.simmons.edu/~kadel/handh.html ? What terms were they? (This means words you looked for that didn't turn out to be in my index, as well as the index words you found.) You needn't try more than five index terms, if it takes more than five then the index didn't do its job.
(b) How many locators (links, or page numbers if you're also looking at the book) did you look up? Which ones?
(c) Did you find what I sent you to look for?
and overall, in the course of doing the evaluation tasks (d) Was there anything you found confusing or difficult about using this index? Did you notice terms or types of terms that you think shouldn't have been there? Or that should have been there and weren't?
Quotation 1. "Dear Cosmopolitan Magazine,
I have written a column about 100 ways to spice up your sex life. I think this piece would be a refreshing departure from your usual lineup.
I promise, you have never, ever, ever heard these ones before. These are completely new concepts. My article does not contain one single word that your readers will recognize from previous issues. I have most definitely not listed exactly the same things on every other list you have ever published except with a few bizarre twists that no guy actually wants done to him. " (credit to Allie Brosh of http://hyperboleandahalf.blogspot.com)
Quotation 2.
"And then I started to cry big blubbery tears into my milkshake. It was at that point that my mom noticed all the people glaring at her and realized that, from an outside perspective, it appeared as though she was not only refusing to let her poor, mentally disabled daughter go to a park and/or a birthday party, but was also taunting her child about her disability." (credit to Allie Brosh of http://hyperboleandahalf.blogspot.com)
Image 3
(credit to Allie Brosh of http://hyperboleandahalf.blogspot.com)
Image 4
(credit to Allie Brosh of http://hyperboleandahalf.blogspot.com)
Thematic quote 5.
Find material *related to* this quotation. The quotation itself is not present in the comic or the book.
"“Never put off till tomorrow what may be done day after tomorrow just as well". (credited to Mark Twain)
Thematic quote 6.
Find material *related to* this quotation. The quotation itself is not present in the comic or the book.
"The great mother whom we call Innana gave a gift to woman that is not known among men, and this is the secret of blood. The flow at the dark of the moon, the healing blood of the moon’s birth - to men, this is flux and distemper, bother and pain. They imagine we suffer and consider themselves lucky. We do not disabuse them." ( Anita Diamant, The Red Tent)
My index to Hyperbole and a Half is up at http://web.simmons.edu/~kadel/handh.html
It's lacking data on the last few stories in the book, but it should be complete for the blog. (For some version of "complete" -- this sort of indexing is a subjective process, and if I indexed every idea and entity the thing would be gargantuan and unusable, instead of just big.)
Feel free to take a poke at it whether or not you're going to evaluate it for me. It turns out I have until Wednesday morning to hand in my write-up of the project, so evaluations I receive by Monday night will be useful for the write-up. I welcome other feedback just to make the thing better. (For technical reasons, I can't link to the middles of the blog posts, so the index entries for the blog posts all point to the top of the entry, not a specific location within the entry.)
To formally evaluate the index, please send an email to kadel at simmons dot edu answering the following questions about each of the six quotations/images given below:
(a) How many terms did you look up in http://web.simmons.edu/~kadel/handh.html ? What terms were they? (This means words you looked for that didn't turn out to be in my index, as well as the index words you found.) You needn't try more than five index terms, if it takes more than five then the index didn't do its job.
(b) How many locators (links, or page numbers if you're also looking at the book) did you look up? Which ones?
(c) Did you find what I sent you to look for?
and overall, in the course of doing the evaluation tasks (d) Was there anything you found confusing or difficult about using this index? Did you notice terms or types of terms that you think shouldn't have been there? Or that should have been there and weren't?
Quotation 1. "Dear Cosmopolitan Magazine,
I have written a column about 100 ways to spice up your sex life. I think this piece would be a refreshing departure from your usual lineup.
I promise, you have never, ever, ever heard these ones before. These are completely new concepts. My article does not contain one single word that your readers will recognize from previous issues. I have most definitely not listed exactly the same things on every other list you have ever published except with a few bizarre twists that no guy actually wants done to him. " (credit to Allie Brosh of http://hyperboleandahalf.blogspot.com)
Quotation 2.
"And then I started to cry big blubbery tears into my milkshake. It was at that point that my mom noticed all the people glaring at her and realized that, from an outside perspective, it appeared as though she was not only refusing to let her poor, mentally disabled daughter go to a park and/or a birthday party, but was also taunting her child about her disability." (credit to Allie Brosh of http://hyperboleandahalf.blogspot.com)
Image 3
(credit to Allie Brosh of http://hyperboleandahalf.blogspot.com)
Image 4
(credit to Allie Brosh of http://hyperboleandahalf.blogspot.com)
Thematic quote 5.
Find material *related to* this quotation. The quotation itself is not present in the comic or the book.
"“Never put off till tomorrow what may be done day after tomorrow just as well". (credited to Mark Twain)
Thematic quote 6.
Find material *related to* this quotation. The quotation itself is not present in the comic or the book.
"The great mother whom we call Innana gave a gift to woman that is not known among men, and this is the secret of blood. The flow at the dark of the moon, the healing blood of the moon’s birth - to men, this is flux and distemper, bother and pain. They imagine we suffer and consider themselves lucky. We do not disabuse them." ( Anita Diamant, The Red Tent)