Anyone fill in the XKCD survey?

random chaotic stochastic poissonesque montecarlovian

Some of these might not be words, as such.

Oh, right, location of the Internet. I put Seattle, because that general area is where a lot of the major server farms are, like Google.

It said Fill it so I filled it :slight_smile:

I typed cat but said to myself “A lot of people are going to type “cat””

OMG I did the same thing! I was thinking “Tom Cruise” and then “ugh I hate that guy” but I wrote it in anyway.

We need a support group.

Not an underground bunker in Colorado? :dubious:

I don’t quite see why anyone would include the quotes in their response to the “type ‘cat’” question.

For the location of the internet one, I just put something like “not applicable” because I literally don’t imagine the internet physically being anywhere. It’s a magic locationless entity something like God.

I chose Cate Blanchett and I’ve no idea why.

Many of the words you’re asked if you know the definitions of are obviously not real words.

I used the same ones—they’re the most likely ‘random numbers’, since for each digit, most people will shy away from the extremes of one and nine, but also want to keep clear of the middle; either of those seem like nonrandom choices to us. I sometimes aske people to think of a random number between 1 and 100, and then guess either 37 or 73; I’ve gotten a few right, which always leads to much amazement.

But then, you also know the difference between use and mention.

I chose Kevin Bacon. He was in a movie with the actor you picked. Sort of.

I really struggled with this. I hadn’t really thought about it before and when I tried to just not think too hard and let my first instinctual vision of the location of the internet float to the surface I just got nuthin’. I came to the conclusion I just don’t think of the internet as being an object; I think of it as being a system. It’s like asking me “where is mathematics?”.

The question is, did you write cat or Cat? The latter is obviously correct.

(My animals were cat, dog, horse, dinosaur and dragon, my random words included “Thumbelina” and “random”, and the internet is on the Astral Plane).

My words were:
type five random words elephant

My African Grey occasionally stands on my laptop’s keyboard, activating something called “sticky keys” which I then have to fix.

My walls are beige, my top is grey and my actor is Angelina Jolie.

I too want to do the sock thing, but can’t afford it! Maybe I’ll start a go fund me.

I started mashing keys, and then it started printing the survey. I couldn’t stop it and it locked up Firefox. I stopped mashing after that. I’m not sure what keys I hit as I wasn’t near the ‘Print Screen’ button, or any of the ‘F’ keys.

I put Rob Lowe for the actor, I’m not even sure why.

I wonder how long an answer could be put down for the ‘fill the box with random gibberish’ question. Seems that the longer I typed, the larger the box got.

When he asked for five random animals, I thought dog, then zebra - which led to crocs, lions and rat, for some reason. :slight_smile:

Ok, I’m really surprised that everyone here actually did type in “cat”, with or without quotes or colons or whatever.

I was totally expecting a bunch of people would have put in “tulip” or “washing-machine” or “Macbeth”

(yeah, I did type cat, myself. I just thought the average smart-ass level was higher round here…)

cat

Marilyn Monroe

Yeah, that key mashing was starting to feel like work about halfway through.

:smack: If I’d thought of that, I’d have done it. No. I’d have felt too guilty about a straight copy and paste - I’d have done random copy and paste bits. Then maybe some random cut and paste. To shuffle it.