I’d be interested to know how variant my answers were from the norm. I suspect I’m in the “Weirdo” category,
Huh, he has all his ducks in a column.
Typed “cat” in quotes, 50 and 25, James Caan, off-white, embarrass, and I don’t remember any of the list-y ones.
Charlie Chaplin was my movie star; my numbers were 3.14159 and 2.45725; walls are white(ish); animals are my wife’s guide dog, our cat, Mister Ed, a lizard I saw once, and a parrot I once saw riding on a guy’s shoulder while he was driving; there are no popular foods I don’t like (because if I don’t like something, it’s not food); I don’t visualize the internet; I’m a 9 at spelling, a 4 at driving, and my favorite of the first five integers is 3; I have no food allergies; I spend very liittle time in the sun; and I often feel sleepy.
My five random words included goat and gate, but I don’t recall the rest.
And working on my tablet, I apparently submitted two partial surveys before completing it successfully.
Harrison Ford. And the internet’s clearly in the library in L-Space
I think you meant: “…being used ‘everywhere’ for ‘emphasis’ and that’s not ‘okay’”
I’m looking forward to what he does with the data too.
It’s not about what he’s doing with the data-- He’s making it public, and letting everyone do with the data.
Since that was stated up front, we can be sure many of the responses will be calculated for maximum lulz in the end.
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Lesser… typed “cat” but didn’t catch it on the random word question. I started to put
“cat” here.
but figured that was just being a smart ass. For that I went with hello, purple and grace. I don’t remember the rest. Favorite numbers were 16 and 47, which I use a lot for bigger, arbitrary numbers for some bizarre reason. The first actor that came to mind was Meryl Streep, but then my lust took over and I put Chris Pratt. Quesadillas and tacos are not sandwiches, so there.
I saw that damn dress as white / gold at first, and my top was blue, while my walls are green. Which wasn’t totally fair. Where I’m at now is white, but we just painted the living room and I had to go with that because reasons. The Internet is in some humongous room somewhere nebulous, with rows and rows of giant servers like in an old Tracy and Hepburn movie. I wasn’t trying to be clever with my animals and picked dog, cat, cow, tiger and horse.
I think that’s everything. It was fun and although I don’t have a lot of experience reading Randall, I look forward to playing with all the results. So cool I’ll pass it along.
Having taken a lot of surveys, I intuitively assume those question that tell you to write something specific are a test, where if you don’t do what they say, you’re results will be discarded. I did use “random words” and a few others to be smart alecky, but those didn’t violate the rules. The idea of screwing up any of the rest didn’t even come to mind.
I also avoided saying I knew any of the words that weren’t real words.
As for the Internet, I treated it like three different questions. I don’t have any metaphorical view of it. The only physical sense I have for the Internet is that it’s in the air flying though my house to the Wi-fi Router, through the phone lines to the DSLAM, then across the wires everywhere else. There is no one place where pages exist before I call upon them–they exist in the servers–sometimes in partial form with “Cloud” servers. So no single place, hence no answer to the third question.
I picked 4 as my favorite, partly because it was a number I was obsessed with as a kid, and partly because I know it would be the popular answer for the same reason 7 is in 1 through 10. I filled the box in the sense of making sure that I could scroll up and have all the lines have something in them.
And “the dress” looked light blue and brown when I first saw it, I think. Though it turns out to be the color temperature of my monitor–when I saw it on my phone, it was black and blue, even though I couldn’t figure out how it would ever appear black when looking on my computer screen.
And I think the twin thing was supposed to be about people the same age as you, but it’s worded so you would include those who were not a twin with you. Plus, as any twin will tell you, they aren’t exactly the same age. I’ve never met a twin who didn’t care who came out first.
And I’m neutral on emoji. I think either they should be different like emoticons, or they should be all pretty much the same. Not this weird hodgepodge.
One of my cousins is very big on responsibility, since she has to lead her siblings because she’s the eldest. Even though the second- and third-eldest followed her by only minutes.