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Scripting News: Fortune cookie collage.

Posted on September 8, 2013 by Dave Winer

My friend Yvonne Burgess helped me move out of my house in Berkeley in 2010.

Moving is something I’m very bad at (even though I do it a lot), and something she’s very good at. I went back to Calif with about a week to pack up the house, give away a lot of my stuff, put the rest in storage, before turning it over to the new owners and returning to New York. I went there having no idea how I was going to do it. Yvonne saved my ass. It was an amazing experience.

One of the things I left behind was a drawer full of fortune cookies. Every time I ordered takeout, apparently, I saved the fortunes, in a special drawer in the kitchen. I have no memory of doing this. Yvonne did something beautifully creative with this collection, turning it into a collage, which she sent to me in NY in August of this year. Here’s a scan of it. Click on the image to see a full-size version of it on Flickr.

And here’s Yvonne’s blog post about the collage.

What an amazing thing to have a friend like this. 😉

PS: Yvonne is a programmer. So much for me remembering all the programmers I’ve ever worked with.


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