Have you ever gotten the feeling that whenever IMDB reports that "this plot synopsis is empty", they're being slightly more truthful than you expect?
On a completely unrelated note, Facebook has become the new Myspace. I theorize there exists a constant which approximates how much time any social networking site will take from initial popularity to when it becomes effectively Myspace.
T = G * H * S * B
where...
T :: Time to becoming Myspace
G :: Growth rate in hundreds of people per month
H :: Henderson's Constant, an as yet unknown number (likely an expression of months squared)
S :: whether or not high schoolers are allowed, 1/4 if they are not, 2 if they are
B :: whether or not there is a blog function, 1/4 if there is not, 2 if there is
This time is measured as soon as an appreciable growth rate of more than 100 people per month is measured consistently (across three months). I suspect that the Henderson Constant is based on other features available in the site as well, and as such could be subject to chaos theory, applicable only as a rough estimator rather than a precise measurement, similar to coefficient of lift in non-simulated environments.
TRH
2 comments:
I was over at CBB reading the latest chapter thinking "Man, Yves meets Mr. Miss when he's a teenager and then runs him off the road years later in 'The Extra Cars.' What a small world!" Then for whatever reason I clicked your link to your blogger profile and see you're in Grand Forks! My wife and I lived there for two years and we just moved away in May last year.
Small world indeed.
Did you happen to know a Mark Ondov in the aerospace program there? He graduated last year.
no, sorry, I don't think I do know that person. I am in that program, but it's a big program. Congrats on getting the hell out of this godawful town! I hope wherever you are now it's better than here.
TRH
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