I'd say more, but well, I got an ass to wipe...
UPDATE: BMR has requested an explanation, which is as follows: The rise in laptops has allowed people to bring their computers with them into the bathroom, which has allowed them to have IM conversations or create blog posts (such as this one) while sitting on the toilet. It's really a pretty sweet development.
As for humor, my intent was to force any viewers of said post to picture me sitting on the toilet while drinking their coffee early on a Monday morning. Which makes me laugh, if not you.
Did you get this out of the New Yorker? Does it make sense? I can't decipher humor from it. NFL football is a cruel and heartless wench. When I get home tonight, I'm compiling a recap of mine and T-Large's weekend. It was jackal as fuck. To give you an idea, watch this, it's a big water jug meeting one of these guns and it was much fucking cooler in person. The rain didn't show up until Saturday night and we made it back for football, but the game I wanted to see came down on the shoulders of a fucking kicker, because Ravens D is not what it used to be. Still, I sense something, a presence I have not felt since...
ReplyDeleteI guess I don't understand how frequency can be depicted at one point on a time line, but you're the fucking genius.
ReplyDeleteFrequency is just (# times something happened)/(time they took to happen), so I don't really see a problem with it: "Head used to hang out 3 times a week. Then he went to college and only hung out maybe a couple dozen times a year. Then he moved to NC and only hung out maybe 5-6 times a year. Then he had a kid and now we only see him every six months or so. But he's still more jackal than Schubert who never hangs out since he became a doctor..."
ReplyDeleteP.S. I was thinking about your weekend in the wilderness and wondering how that went...glad to hear that we're going to get a post on it.
Now that I think about it frequency is a rather odd y axis to accompany the x axis time. In fact when you depict it on the same plane as "laptop sales" which is certainly using "numbor of" as the y axis it's downright foolish. A more mathematically appropriate y axis in thie case would be "number" and the line showing shit talkers would simply be labeled "conversations where one participant is on the toilet".
ReplyDeleteSorry Head, your Nerd cartoon is mathematically bullshit.
ps yes I am willing to discuss mean and median income and the effect of an outlier on them at any time. just say the word pussy.
just be glad you don't share a toilet with this guy
ReplyDeleteIt's not at all unusual to have multiple curves on the same graph, with each using a different scale on the y-axis. So that's not really an issue.
ReplyDeleteIf you assume the definition of frequency that I did above (# times something happened/time they took to happen), it's inconsistent that the "shit-talkers" curve is labeled with "Frequency of..." but that's really all - presumably laptop sales and dysentery cases would also be per year (or some other period of time), which is really all that frequency means.
You could also interpret "frequency" to mean "percentage or proportion" (definition 2b), in which case there's not even an inconsistency. This is probably what the author meant, as the growth in total worldwide population over time would skew the shit-talker curve upward if it wasn't normalized.
I fucking hate you, Head
ReplyDeleteI also hate you. I also plan on stabbing you in the stomach with a corkscrew if you clog my toilet the weekend of Nov 14th. You've been warned.
ReplyDeleteI've got some better cartoons to post but you guys keep bugging me about math so I haven't gotten the chance yet.
ReplyDeleteSince when do I clog toilets? My shit comes out in a million pieces and I'm pretty efficient with TP, so that's not usually a problem I have...
Remember when we were kids and your brother not the Wiz clogged the toilet and your mom made us go over to the Henrys (wasn't that their name?) house and pick up a plunger to borrow?
ReplyDelete#1 Why didn't you all have your own fucking plunger?
#2 What the fuck was your mom thinking? That's some embarassing ass shit for a kid to do, and we weren't even responsible. Good thing whats her name wasn't a hot girl we would want to hit on...
...stupid vegetarians and their mud butt
ReplyDeleteIs it bad that I have absolutely no idea what you're talking about? I don't recall anything of the sort at all...the story really made me laugh a lot though.
ReplyDeleteWhere was this neighbor located? I don't think we ever had a neighbor by the name Henry.
Not Henry, Martin, what was her name Lauren Martin? The basketball player? I think I got her mixed up with sleepy eyes's ex Laura Henry for a hot sec. Ringing any bells yet?
ReplyDeleteStill don't remember, but that does make a lot more sense. You should have a kid so Linus can have him/her over and I can make them go get some embarrassing thing from one of our neighbors...
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