Andrew's the Man

Sending out some big props to Andrew for his domination of this quiz thing at www.quizyourfriends.com. He beat out both family and exes for top spot of the "How well do you know me" quiz.

Yeah, I don't want to do that.

Just wanted to post a few things that have been making me quite happy over the last few days.

1. Punch Drunk Love .

It's my new favorite movie. It's so good. So good. I don't really have the words to describe how it made me feel. It's really aimed at a particular audience though. I would say that it was made specifically for me, but as I don't know PT Anderson very well, I suspect he also made it for other people. If the frogs, songs, and opening sequence of Magnolia were your favorite part of that movie, you'll love this one. I've already seen it twice and I don't see movies twice in theatres. And it's not even open yet in most cities. So if you're lucky enough to have the chance to see it, make sure you grab that opportunity.

2. Badly Drawn Boy.

Tonight! Live! At the Phoenix! Men with Toques! Excellent!

2. Physicists Exposed!

Remember Alan Sokal? He was this idiot physicist who tried to discredit post-modern/sociological theory by getting an article published in a big journal and then claiming that it was nonsense. Anyways, there were hundreds of articles after that by grumpy old men who tried to use the Sokal affair to show how terrible modern theory was. Their arguments usually went something like this: "Blah, Blah, Blah. Relativism sucks. Blah, blah, blah." It pissed me off.

But now, the shoe is on the other foot. A couple of sociology grads interviewed people who knew about string theory to get the jargon, made up a nonsensical theory using it, created a little bit of hype about having great ideas, and got themselves published and got themselves a Ph.D in physics!!! It's quite one thing to "make up" a paper in a discipline that believes facts are constructed anyway. It's another to "make up" a theory in a discipline that believes itself to "reveal" the real world. I wonder if this is going to catch on in the same way that the Sokal Affair did. Either way, I think those people who said that "relativism sucks" have got themselves some 'xplaining to do, if they're going to keep believing that.

Anyways, you can see the thesis abstract here. Ha ha! I feel so redeemed!

Absent

Told an ex about my site last week, just as I was getting excited about keeping it updated. Anyways, needless to say, I am no longer excited.

However, I am still enjoying on a daily basis the exploits of Andrew, Sara, Chelsea, Mike, Kari and others. Just now, while avoiding doing work, I was looking through the servustats of the pages of the people I know and noticed the search queries page.

Andrew's total, I think, must have been upped when he was doing some searching on google for his own page. Otherwise, he's collecting a very diverse group of web surfers. Take a look (the first column is the search term, then percent, then number of visits):

helicopter helmet picture 5.88 1
jennifer tilley fan site 5.88 1
kurt smeaton 5.88 1
lego skytrain 5.88 1
scott feenstra 5.88 1
jessica holmes holmes show 5.88 1
birthday bumps 5.88 1
monkey helicopter 5.88 1
monkey worker pics 5.88 1
pics on the pan flute 5.88 1
canada%27s ferry 5.88 1
mv holiday island 5.88 1
andrew limmert 5.88 1
lviv crash movie 5.88 1
monkey operated helicopter 5.88 1
soviet hovership 5.88 1
air tango august 2002 out of business 5.88 1


Helicopter helmet picture? Kurt Smeaton, for god's sake. Pics on the pan flute? (I hope that's one of yours, Drew, I don't want to imagine what else it could be).

The other person with significant search engine traffic is Chelsea. Hers seem to be even more random, if that's possible.
kehils
steal eletricity
gsm water-level sms flood
chelsea hair punk
hrh princess elizabeth perfumes
buffy board game
nataile portman
spolana mercury contamination

I wonder what the person looking for Natalie Portman, Steal electricity, or HRH Elizabeth thought of your site.