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Hello, Fluffsters! Happy Tuesday!
So, some friends of mine recently passed a lovely gem on to me. It’s another YouTube thingy. It’s about a new form of Parkour. For those of you unfamiliar with parkour, here’s a video of what a lot of people think of when they hear that word:
Now, as I was saying, someone’s come out with a new style. You should watch the video.
Have a great day!
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Hiya, Fluffsters!
I found something rather amusing today. It’s a Typewriter that writes in Comic Sans.
I found that rather amusing. Kindof like, “Hey, look! I’m a pretentious typewriter! BWAhahaha!”
So. Is it bad that I sort of want one? You know, especially to watch all the double-takes as people see that I have a typewriter, and then go “wait. Whaaaaa…?”
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Hiya, Fluffsters!
I discovered something when I was writing an email last night. Actually, two somethings. FOUR NEW SMILEYS! Represented in TWO WAYS!
Would that not be eight new smileys, then? If four can be represented two ways?
Nope. Four. Two of them are homonyms. (Does that even apply to smileys?)
They are “)” and “(“: The Blinking Smileys.
The trick is to determine whether it’s a blinking happy smiley, or a blinking sad smiley. Now your emails can become more challenging! ) <- See what I did there? )
Anywho, I hope you have a good Sunday!
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Greetings, readers!
Have you recently stopped to consider how weird language can be? A few random consonants and vowels, arranged in a particular order, connote a meaning. It is a constantly changing, growing, shrinking, mind-boggling structure.
Take, for instance, the word “meh”. It is not yet accepted by various spell-checkers. But it does bring to mind a meaning.
Or even “spell-checker”. I cannot imagine that this term existed before computers.
Your words and language are fascinating.
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Greetings, readers.
I had originally intended to provide another October themed post to you, or to at least update a Doctor Who idea. However, I got distracted by my surroundings. One of the slightly older news (but still somewhat relevant) internet “scandals” caught my attention, and I got sidetracked.
The existence of the scandal got me to thinking, however. Has anybody tried to study how political frameworks can be applied to the internet? After all, there are such ideas as “flame wars”, and there are definite subgroups on the Web. (One only needs to look to reddit, imgur, or even Twitter to see that this is the case.) And the scandal I was looking at (“GamerGate” for those of you masochistically minded and interested) also clearly demonstrates this.
Of course, there are not exactly any sort of genuine “resources” on the internet, and it is connected to the real world. Much of the scandal I spent time looking at was very connected to the real world- it is loosely related to the topic of making commodities in the real world. However, those commodities from the real world are for the online world- video games.
Since there are group dynamics, I would like to think that there are political aspects.
But how would one define them? There is a huge amount of data. How would one use it?
(I would apologize for this post not being particularly “fluffy”, were it not for the fact that I am still, at the core, discussing video games. By many metrics, that makes this topic fluffy.)
So, readers, do you have any thoughts on a metric or framework for understanding the politics of the internet?
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Hi, Fluffsters!
I haven’t mentioned recently enough how much I like Russian music.
Seriously. Even their stuff with words is generally fairly creepy. For example, there’s a lullaby that basically tells the kid to sleep, or else the creepy guy entering the house will get you.
Have a nice day!
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Greetings, readers!
This day marks the fifteenth day of October. There are therefore only about 15 or so days left to do Halloween Decorating. I have some ideas for you that I have been unable to implement on my own, for various reasons…
Like being in the internet?
Yes, that is part of it.
Regardless, I did have some ideas. They would take some time, but there should still be enough time for you to implement one of these, if you wish.
And for those of you who don’t wish, and aren’t interested, there’s a new post up at cooking.totalfluff.com
…smooth. Not.
Yeah, well, whatever.
First of all, I should let you know that I watched all of the newer seasons of Doctor Who over the summer, and I enjoyed them.
With that in mind, I came up with some ideas for how to rather creep out Whovians. Today, I’m going to focus on my…
This one would be fairly subtle, but you could turn it as complicated as you would like. It is inspired by the episode “The Time of Angels.”
The bare minimum would be to hang lovely pictures of landscapes or cemeteries, frame them, and label one or more of them as “The Weeping Angel of (put in your location here)”. Fill in other information (such as sculptor, location, etc.) as desired.
If you wish to “step the game up”, you could do this one of several ways. The first way would be a bit more expensive, and/or time consuming. What you would do is have statues of angels “hiding” at various locations. If you know an engineer, you could try to step it up further and have the angels be animatronics. That seems like it would be a fair bit of work, however.
A different possibility would be to ask at least one guest (preferably as many as you hang pictures of) to dress as angels and arrive at your party early. Have them skulk around, and try to spook your other guests.
Even better would be to mix it up, and have both statues and Angel actors. And possibly periodically move the angel statues.
At the very least, it would make for some excellent photo opportunities for your guests.
Your thoughts?
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Hi Fluffsters!
So recently, I was on YouTube. Which is highly unsurprising, since I frequently use it to listen to music. And then I realized how sad my poor little YouTube algorithm follower thingy must be. For, you see, I listen to a fairly wide variety of music these days, and watch some rather odd little movies. So my listening habits range all the way from about 10 seconds of the opening song of the opera Otello, to Rachmonanoff’s Variations on a Theme by Paginini, to Swing Dance Music of both the older and newer style, to broadway music, to craft tutorials, to political commentary (Speaking of which, has anyone heard from Vermin Supreme recently?)
So, I really feel kindof bad for my poor little algorithm follower. I mean, the little thing’s just following me around, looking at my history, and trying to keep one step ahead of me with his mad math skills.
Poor thing.
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Greetings, readers!
It appears that the Webmaster previously had a post scheduled for today, but I am going to postpone it in light of the fact that the Sister Site (cooking.totalfluff.com) has a new post up. This one is a recipe for “biscuit-breaded baked chicken“, and it sounds interesting.
I hope that it lives up to your expectations.
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Fluffsters, we have… a problem.
Oh, not again.
I know, right? It’s like you can’t go even a minute without there being some sort of problem in the world!
The problems of your world are not what I was referring to…
You mean to tell me you’re not actually upset by the problems of the world? Isn’t that a bit selfish of you?
But I digress. I was talking about a PROBLEM I recently encountered.
You see, it has to do with snacks and snack foods. I recently received a package of white-chocolate-covered-pretzels. I opened them, and only had a few, and the next thin I knew, a majority of them had disappeared! I compared notes with a friend who likes goldfish, and she mentioned that she had a similar problem. So I started to think about how things disappear.
Recently, my friend and I have just had this problem with goldfish and pretzels. So we’ve discovered explanations.
The goldfish were fairly easy to understand. They clearly just swim away when you’re not paying attention.
…Clearly.
The pretzels were a little bit harder to figure out. But Fluffsters all, I’ve FOUND THE SOLUTION. They fall through their own holes, and get LOST.
THAT means that somewhere… THERE ARE A BAJILLION PRETZEL SNACKS FLOATING AROUND FOR THE CLAIMING!
…
…Anybody want to help me find this magical place?