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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?
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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.
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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?
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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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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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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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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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I know that this link has been shared on this blog previously, but it is well worth visiting. It is a webcomic called “Girl Genius.” It is a marvelous steampunk webcomic, with beautifully done artistic detail, and a well thought-out plot. It is also incredibly long, and will probably take you more than just today to read if you have never read it before. However, it is well worth it. Especially at least the first four years of comics- there is a set involving coffee that is brilliant, but only in context. And after that, there are multiple marvelous scenes even further on.
And after you read that far, I can practically guarantee that you will be hooked.
Have a great weekend!
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I recently encountered an amusing YouTube video- the Cyber (orchestra) Conductor.
The script is in German, but there are English captions below. You should watch the video.
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Today, I encountered a marvelous thing on the internet. Somebody on Tumblr has started taking modern songs, and is putting them in the form of Shakespearean sonnets. There is one for “Let it Go” from Frozen, “Royals”, “Stayin’ Alive”, and many others. They are brilliantly done, and actually provide a bit of meaning for the songs.
I hope you enjoy them.