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Greetings, reader! I am Fluffy McGiggles. In my world, I was an actress of the strongest sort, the melodramatic sort. Recently, I find myself confined to this... website, as its anthrompomorphization and personality. The Webmaster and I have a bit of a dispute as to how this should be run. The Webmaster can change anything I do, but I can also change anything the Webmaster does. However, the Webmaster can also delete me at will. So that means I'm temporarily behaving myself. This is my own choice, however, contrary to anything The Webmaster may say. So, don't blame me for the over-the-topness of the website. You have been warned.

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Random Digits- Revisited

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Greetings, readers!

I was once more exploring some of the archives of this site, and found the book review of “A Million Random Digits with 100,000 Normal Deviates” from RAND. I revisited that page, and thought I would share some of my favorite “helpful” reviews:

  • “Pretty good, but why 1 million random digits and 100,000 normal deviates? Why not 967,273 random digits and 71,038 normal deviates? Or was the author going for irony? Sometimes I have a hard time picking that up.”
  • Titled Clearly Plagiarised though still an exciting read, “having read it very carefully, I do believe the author plagiarised most of the middle chapters and the climax ending from the 400 million digit calculation of pi by a university in Tokyo. Did they really think we would not notice?”
  • Titled  Not a good idea for a password, “I decided to use all 100,000 as my password only to discover everyone that owns this book now has my password to my bank. BTW, online banking now takes several days to complete a login.”
  • Titled I have to write a report…, “Is there a Cliff’s Notes? I don’t really have the time to finish reading it before my report is due…” 
  • Titled NOT RANDOM!!!, “I purchased 10 of these books because I am in need of 10 million random digits. However, I was extremely disappointed when I opened the books and each one was exactly the same. Random? No, sir. Not by a longshot.”
  • Titled Out of date, “While I’m sure this was a breakthrough in its time, I’d like to see an updated edition with new random digits. Who wants to use random digits from 2001 anymore?”
  • Titled I can’t say I loved it, but . . ., “. . . once you get used to the style, it’s far easier to get through than her prior work, “Atlas Shrugged.” The narrative voice is more humane, too, and ultimately I have found it makes more sense as a coherent philosophy.”
  • Titled Not random!!, “There are a million of them but they are not, alas, random.
    You sheeple need to learn to read between the lines when you purchase books of this type. What is it? Random Numbers. By whom? The RAND Corporation. What was that title again? RANDom Digits.
    This so called “book” is nothing more than a clever advertising ploy. If you plot the “random” numbers on a 600×600 grid, using a simple transformation on the numbers, the result will be a series of images of the CEO of RAND mouthing the words “buy this book. Read The Hidden Persuaders for info on this alarming trend.
    I know, I did it.
    Disappointing and beneath Amazon to carry it.”
  • Titled Beautifully inane and tedious, “After I got over my obsession with the Twilight saga, I didn’t think I would ever come across anything quite like it. Its breathtakingly insipid plot and the witlessness of the characters kept me hooked for the whole four books. Once I finished the series for the fifth time and seen all of the movies, I didn’t know what to do with my life. I slumped into a massive depression and I needed something to fill the gap that was left by Stephenie Meyer’s genius. Miley Cyrus’ autobiography held me over for a couple of weeks, as did the collective works of L. Ron Hubbard, but it just wasn’t the same. I needed something truly entropic! Then I found A Million Random Digits with 100,000 Normal Deviates, and it was like a breath of fresh air. Even it isn’t quite as jumbled and incomprehensible as the story of Edward and Bella, but it has a very unique charm to it. Highly recommended for anyone else who loves pulp romance, cheap science fiction novels, or anything else that is crass or half-baked. Overall, I’d have to give it a 4/5 because the title spoils the plot.”

I hope, readers, that you enjoyed that little foray into Amazon’s comment section.

New Music Video – Very Impressive

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Greetings, readers!

My apologies for posting yet another YouTube Video to this blog, now making it five times in a row that the post has been a video, but I found this to be very impressive.

It is a new music video that is making the rounds on the internet

Although I am not particularly taken with the music itself, the video performance aspect of it is incredible. There are many performers, and they all seem to be synchronized.

Furthermore, I appreciate the “digital” effect the designers were able to achieve with the umbrellas. That is quite cool.

I also admit to being intrigued by the devices the four main performers were moving on. What is that device? How does it work? Is it as much fun as it appears?

However, I do not understand how the music video itself ties to the choreography. When the four colors came in at the end, it looked almost like a Windows Logo, but the colors were out of order. (And besides, tying the Windows Logo to a song where the lyrics are “I won’t let you down” ad nauseum seems a little… wrong. Unless they were trying to be ironic.)

I suppose that at a meta-level, it is impressive that everybody got the choreography correct. Maybe they were singing to each other about not letting each other down on this take?

Outside the meta-analysis, though, I really do not understand the link. It seems to me that any song with a very strong beat would have “worked” (from a choreography mapping perspective), and some might have worked better. If there were lyrics about twisting through the elements of time, for example, that would have flowed nicely with the music video’s choreography. Or some sort of reference to time and rhythm. As it stands, however, I do not think the song did the technology and synchronization justice.

What are your thoughts, readers?

Ironic Bank

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Greetings, readers!

I have once more encountered something quite bemusing in your world. In this particular case, it is a personal piggy-bank equivalent… in the shape of a bust of Karl Marx.

Personally, I think it is quite ironic to celebrate the man who desired to abolish property by making him a storage container for… private property.

But what do you think?

A Whovian Halloween- part 2

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Greetings, readers!

If you are neither a Whovian nor someone who does Halloween, my apologies. This post will not be the most inspiring for you.

For those of you who do appreciate Doctor Who, however, I am here today to share another idea for how to make a Doctor Who themed Halloween Party.

This idea is inspired by series 6. (Of the reboot, of course.)

It will not take too much preparation, just a little bit of “sneak” talent. Basically, take a black marker, and sneak tally-marks onto people.

Also, if possible, put random items into their pockets, or by their hands.

If you can do this without being noticed (maybe in a completely darkened room, holding your “target”‘s hand?) this has the potential of being adequate for a Halloween Party. For a bonus, if you could either stop the clocks at 5:02pm without anybody noticing, or just get all the clocks in your house to skip ahead to some time (after you have put tally marks on your guests, of course) that could increase the effect.

Alternatively, you can randomly disappear, and then come back, claim “no memory” of where you just were, and have tally marks on you.

That would not be as successful, however.

New Lindsey Stirling Video

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Greetings, readers!

I was originally going to do another “Whovian Halloween” post, but I am postponing it by a day.

I see what you did there.

…What do you mean?

“Post”-poning your post?

…

I assure you, that was unintentional.

Regardless, the reason my post has been delayed is that there is a new video by Lindsey Stirling up on YouTube.

In fact, it was only released two days ago!

I generally enjoy her music (with a few rare exceptions), and I enjoyed this one. One of the things I liked about the movie is the story it tells. For there is definitely a story being told.

It is also rather remarkable how in less than four minutes, the creators of this movie were able to make an entirely new universe.

In fact, this is a universe that it might be interesting to read some stories in.

What do you think, readers?

“Meh”

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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.

Has Anyone Studied the Politics of the Internet?

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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?

Creepy Lullaby Supposedly From Russia…

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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!