You like science? Pseudoscience? Statistics? Being part of weird projects? Just really passionate about surveys maybe?
Well aren’t you in luck! As you may or may not know (probably may not), the website xkcd, home of the webcomic of the same name and of the incredible What if? articles, has launched a survey full of kinda-weird questions in hopes of getting enough data to analyze it.
What even is the point?
If enough people answer, we have a good chance of finding ‘meaningful’ correlations (yes, just like in science!). The fun fact though is that given the content of the questions, these will be pretty interesting correlations. (Like.. “People who have already flown in an airplane are way more prone not to like cilantro” or stuff like that.)
Sure but why are you talking about it? Well. Because the more people there is, the more ‘accurate’ those correlations will be because we’ll have more data to analyze.
Also, some of you might like to analyze data, and can be interested in having a bunch of it to have fun with.
.. And maybe some of you peeps just like to take surveys, who even knows?
So I’ll just be giving personal (even if weird) data to who-knows-who ? Data will be anonymous. People will just have access to your answers. If that still bothers you though, I would definitely recommend you to avoid this survey.
I’m sold! Where do I sign up?
That’s the kind of energy I like to see! Well once again, the survey is here. Have fun and feel free to share it to everybody you know! The more random the ‘sample group’, the more accurate the correlations!
this survey is a gift to the world
It’s not every day you have a completely valid and scientific excuse to mash the keyboard for a good thirty seconds straight
I predict that my answer to the keyboard-mashing one will be the most common answer, and am curious about what it’ll correlate with.
I probably should have checked off “beer” on the list of foods I dislike, but oh well. (I’ve never had beer, but I dislike wine, hard cider, and creme de menthe/cacao all for the same reason (they taste like being stabbed with countless little needles), which suggests the reason generalises to all alcohol.)
… And I have nowhere to stay. It’ll be at the end of my stay in Canada, and the college I’ll be at during the few months I’m there will kick me out on the 17th, fly me to Toronto, and then hope I don’t die in the 10 days before I can go home.
OTOH, if I *do* die, the scholarship people don’t have to pay to fly me back home. Either way, *someone* is happy. It’s a win-win, really.
If you live in/near Toronto, or know someone who does, and have a mild preference for fewer Alison-shape popsicles littering your city streets, would you consider hosting me for at least some of that time? I’m not particularly messy, and I’ll probably spend most of that time cowering under the bed and avoiding human contact. Unless you like human contact, in which case I can indulge your bizarre preferences.
If you aren’t in the general vicinity of Toronto but have followers who are, could you please reblog this? Thanks.
Remember: Only you can prevent Alison-popsicles.
Sorry, I don’t have people-hosting authority for my house, and a 90-minute drive might not count as “near” Toronto anyway. (It’s certainly far enough that we hardly ever go there, and consider it an Event when we do.) If you can’t find anyone to give you housing but can find someone to give you…*looks up numbers* ~CAD$260, I recommend the Canadiana Inn hostel. I had a good experience there.
Why is Deez Nuts not on the list, though? Does argumate not love us? They’re not our real mom!
Why can’t I shake the nagging feeling that ilzolende and sinesalvatorem are working together on some nefarious plot to take over the market, possibly by winning the presidency themselves?
It’s the kind of thing a dystopian cyberpunk teen protagonist would do, after all.
Never let it be said that I’m not a dystopian cyberpunk teen protagonist. Get me a flight to the US and I won’t even need citizenship. I’ll be Benevolent Space Empress before you can say “border control”.
In other news, you just retitled my blog :p
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#anything that makes me laugh this much deserves a reblog
Ever since reading Jingo, I’ve been wondering what happened in the other leg of the trousers of Time.
All we really know is that the Klatchians attack Ankh-Morpork, take the city, and a bunch of people die.
Carrot dies. Littlebottom dies. Reg Shoe dies…more, or again, or something. Dorfl and Detritus both die, within minutes of each other, which makes me reallycurious about what kind of firepower the other guys had. Vimes dies.
Vetinari presumably gets killed or captured, which means captured, which means he’s fine. And pity the poor invaders who have to occupy a city that contains Sybil Ramkin. I can never keep track of what order the books happen in, but if Moist was in the city when the army was arriving he proceeded to manage not to be. The wizards will notice that the city fell when they miss the next daily delivery of a week’s worth of food.
The thing is, though, this isn’t all that destabilizing. I mean, mass death, bad, but the city has a procedure for this. When the bodies have been carted away and buried or tossed in the Ankh to make it that much cleaner, the first Morporkian voice you hear belongs to the most Morporkian person there is.
“Meat pies! Sausage inna bun! Hot dogs! Onna stick!”
Because when the invaders are battering down the walls, you open the doors and sell them things and before you know it they’re as Morporkian as you are. There’s most of a national anthem about it. Ankh-Morpork the province of Klatch is going to be worse than before. Most of the Watch and a lot of bystanders are dead, and Vetinari can’t keep the Guilds handled until he gets back in power. But it’s still Ankh-Morpork. And even with half our favorite characters gone, well, the Turtle moves.
How come I haven’t seen anyone talking about the end of dashboard nested reblogs except in future tense? I’m already seeing the new design. Am I actually in the first wave of a gradually rolled-out update for once?
I’m hopeful about it, really. Sure, every change takes some getting used to, and it’s a little annoying not being able to see at the beginning of a thread how many entries it has, but I do like actually having people’s names next to their writings.
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#The Great Tumblr Apocalypse #(which I use for all posts regarding Tumblr updates) #oh look an original post
If Ben Sisko didn’t say this in his head at least once during that office scene in ‘Emissary’, I would be very disappointed =p
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#Star Trek #DS9 #fanart #puns #Dukat would probably be even more confused by Sisko making puns than he was about #’we’ll try to keep the dog off your lawn’
// When I wrote this, only God and I understood what I was doing // Now, God only knows
#define TRUE FALSE //Happy debugging suckers
stop(); // Hammertime!
// drunk, fix later
// Replaces with spaces the braces in cases // where braces in places cause stasis $str = str_replace(array(“\{“,”\}”),” “,$str);
/** * For the brave souls who get this far: You are the chosen ones, * the valiant knights of programming who toil away, without rest, * fixing our most awful code. To you, true saviors, kings of men, * I say this: never gonna give you up, never gonna let you down, * never gonna run around and desert you. Never gonna make you cry, * never gonna say goodbye. Never gonna tell a lie and hurt you. */
Brinens and Things 