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Someone called me “dawg” on my birthday which I guess means I’m aging in reverse?

@ironsoapJanuary 09, 2012 at 03:21PM

RT @wilw: Hex-based maps are infinitely superior to grids. That’s just science, man.

@ironsoapJanuary 09, 2012 at 03:10PM

The Facebook Birthday Bonanza

It has become a tradition. Every year, Facebook reminds people who log in on January 6th that it is my birthday. It’s so easy to click the name and write a pithy wish for happy day. No longer do people need calendars or reminders or memory, Facebook handles the effort for them.

Perhaps people are going to assume by this that I’m demeaning the effort of Facebook birthday-wishers, but I assure you that isn’t the case. I’m surprised that people don’t completely ignore my birthday, for the most part. Even taking a low-resistance path and flooding my Facebook wall with well-wishes is more than I’m probably deserving of.

I don’t hate the birthday bonanza, I just think it’s strange and kind of funny. So this year I thought I’d take the posts I received and do a bit of statistical analysis on them, just for kicks. The fruits of my labor follow:

  • First Post: 01/05/2012 15:44
  • Total Posts: 40
  • Exclamation Points: 80
  • Average Exclamation Points Per Post: 2
  • Most Exclamation Points in a Single Post: 22
  • References to Relationship With the Poster (cuz, nephew, etc): 5
  • Number of Personalizations (mentioned me by name): 16
  • Number of Other Addresses (mr, sir, dawg, etc): 5
  • Number of Friends Referring to Me as “Dawg”: 1
  • Call-Outs of My Age: 2
  • Wishes Regarding the Quality of the Date (other than “Happy Birthday”, such as “have a great day”): 16
  • Uses of the Exact Phrase, “Happy Birthday”: 35
  • Shortest Post, In Number of Characters: 9
  • Longest Post, In Number of Characters: 138
  • Median Post Length: 65
  • Average Post Length: 40
  • Total Characters: 1,612
  • Amount of Posts That Solely Consisted of Variants of “Happy Birthday”: 8
  • References to My Family, Wife or Daughter (Not Counting Posts From Wife and/or Daughter): 4
  • Terms of Endearment: 3
  • Affirmations of Affection (“I love you,” “love ya,” “xoxox”, etc): 7
  • Abbreviations: 6
  • Likes on Birthday Related Posts: 2
  • Typos: 3
  • Number of People Featured in Profile Pics Across All Birthday Posts (as of this writing): 55
  • Number of Weird, Hybrid Monster Cartoons in Profile Pics Across All Birthday Posts (as of this writing): 1
  • Blood-related Family Members Posting: 12
  • Marriage-based Family Members Posting: 5
  • Non-family Members Posting: 23
  • Emoticons and Other Adornments: 5
  • Amount of Posts Containing the Word or Variants of “Birthday”: 40
  • Final Post: 01/06/2012 21:57
  • Duration of Birthday Bonanza, In Minutes: 1,813

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from Like a Detuned RadioJanuary 09, 2012 at 02:21PM

Someone needs to come up with a device that is well suited to removing raisins out of any given container.

@ironsoapJanuary 09, 2012 at 08:43AM