The Agrinautica

Statistic of the Day
   So now I've got way more statistics at my fingertips than one can reasonably digest, so I think I'll dollop them out one at a time. Let us begin with an ode to the common man blogger -- A review of who got the median numbers in all categories I looked at.
   For those of you who have successfully avoided anything remotely math or statistic related since high school / probably didn't even make it to that part of HS, the median is the middlemost of the data set. With the addition of theferret to the data set (who blew even hipstomp away holy crap), there are 31 subject livejournals. This therefore is a list of the 16th in each category. (note most of these numbers are actually year-to-date, not livejournal totals)
Entries per month: The remarkably attractive basicallyasap, with 8.75 entries per month.
Comments Made Per Month & Comments Received Per Month: They're different categories, but robroy10280 keeps everthing in balance by being the median in both categories, with the same number: 61.
Friends-of / Friends Ratio: Median is robroy10280, whose friends-of is 5.1% larger than his friends list.
Friends-of Added Per Month: geni_ratto05, one of last year's 30 in 30 participants, with a friends-of growth of .75 people per month.
Friends-of Added Per Entry: emosnail, with .115 friendings with every entry -- ie for every nine entries I make someone new friends me.
Comments Received Per Entry: Local newspaper copy-editor jegskaltisse with 7.11.
Comments Received / Comments Made: basicallyasap with .87 comments received for every comment made.
Friends-of: Early blogological pioneer jdryznar with 108.
Growth of Friends-of List: professor_david with 11.4% growth rate over the previous year.
Most Median Bloggist: Therefore goes to robroy10280. Its almost as illustrious a title as city council member...

Entry of Day(s)
   So while I was dead people kept on blogging. Here are some noteworthy entries that accrued while I was hanging upside-down in pantranscendencelvania:
June 16th: roter_terror posts a picture of an emo knight (left), whose sword seems to be stuck to him without a scabbard through the miracles of being a giant refridgerator-magnet.
June 20th: apoplecticfittz posted about a doughnut-cheeseburger. Apparently its forreal.
June 21st: Things started to get crazy on the 21st with:
   (1) eagon drove across the United States, purely as a blogging stunt I assure you.
   (2) Then things got crazy, with first emd posting about this thing called Lazy Town, then minutes later apoplecticfittz posting about the same thing! Scandal ensued. Apparently they both came up with the idea independantly, or at least independantly by the same cues maybe.
Also xaositecte wrote about his experiences "in the closet," and countless pictures of Clay Aiken were posted, much to the detriment of culture on a whole. eazyt posted saucy conservative political views, but people are reluctant to engage him in discussion due to fear of his automatically screening of comments...

In other news:
I love food. Infact, let it be known to all of you (Even though a good bit of you already know) I like food more than 105% of you.
I'm sorry, but you're not a big ol' tasty burrito!
Well, I hope you're not. If you are, I'm going to eat you. I'm going to eat you, and I'm going to enjoy it and NOT feel bad about it either!

There are certain foods that I love more than others.
These foods are....

1) chicken strips
2) burritos
3) stew
4) gyros
5) The souls of my enemies

   Now the question is, am I copying Oetimus, or copying Apoplecticfittz copying Oetimus?


Previously on Emosnail
   Three Years Ago Today: Airplanes & Racists - Racism is alive & well at the airport security checkpoint
   Two Years Ago Today: 30 in 30 I - 10 & 11 - Adopt A Minefield - Which is a For-Reals endeavour! And Iraq & Al-qeada...
   Year Ago Today: 30 in 30 II - 22 - Rating Ratings Communities - I've been meaning to continue this one...

   This entry is post-dated from Saturday, in preparation for my expected death on 06-18-06.


Roommate Replacement
   As of Saturday morning, Kristy had somewhere between 4 and 7 people living in her apartment ... its really unclear.
A. The Korean Girl(s)
   Kristy's floormate Chrissy has left for the summer and subleased her room. Because Kristy was gone at the time, Kristy delegated her approval to Jardine, and Jardine approved "the Korean girl."
   Chrissy doesn't even know the girl's name apparently, having her in her phone as "Korean girl." This is particularly silly in light of the fact that Chrissy herself is a "Korean girl," and grew up in Korea.
   Whats more, in the several days since she's moved in, the Korean girl has had two female friends staying with her, and none of us knows which one actually is going to live there. There's even a concern that maybe they all plan on staying there... in which case there's going to need to be some reapportionment of the rent.
   An important contributing factor to the confusion is that the girl has never introduced herself to anyone. She just started moving in and hasn't communicated with anyone other than some awkward "are you done with the bathroom?" type exchanges.
   AND, most suchsauce of all, all three are TERRIFIED OF CATS. WTF. Who's afraid of cats seriously? Bailey sauntered into their room and all three started screaming. One of them came into Kristy's room and pointed to their room with horror, Kristy went in to find Bailey lounging placidly on the bed. She scooped up our furry purring friend and relocated him. WTF.
B. The Vet Student
   This was earlier in the week. On Saturday afternoon Kristy came in and found another girl in their livingroom. "Hi, Becca must have told you about me" she introduced herself. "uh no" "oh... I'm Becca's new roommate."
   Fortunately, this new girl, Veronica, seems really nice (well I personally haven't met her, but according to Kristy), and gets along with Bailey. Kristy overheard her talking to him when she was alone with him, so plus ten points.
C. In Conclusion
   Two more peices of wisdom I would have thought one could take for granted, but apparently not:

• You have to clear new roommates with your existing flatmates
  
• For gods sake introduce yourself if your moving in with people. Especially if they're already living there, its just weird if you don't and unnecessarily insensitive to the fact that your moving in on their personal space.

Picture of the Day

Added on Sunday, from the party on Saturday.
Seriously you need to see all the pictures.


Previously on Emosnail
   Three Years Ago Yesterday: A Meme - Says I'm emo to the core, or something.
   Three Years Ago Today: Leafy Spurge - And roommates
   Two Years Ago Yesterday: 30 in 30 I - 4 - World Leaders & Music - "How would the world be today if Vladimir Lenin had embraced a regime of bolshevik emo-ism rather than communism" and other interesting questions.
   Two Years Ago Today: 30 in 30 I - 5 - Party At Sashie's Place - And polls indicate 66% of respondants want more tales of debauchery.
   Year Ago Yesterday: 30 in 30 II - 18 - Statistics Revisited - Analysis of blogological statistics, which scientifically explain the weird fluke that is the fact that some people have otimus on their friends list.
   Year Ago Today: 30 in 30 II - 19 - Little Big People Park to be Demolished - and I flee south.