She's still looking good, folks! Yes, I am talking about Oprah Winfrey and her gratitude journal. Are you wondering what sudden rush of blood to the head brought this on? I can see at least one of my favourite cousins making a face already. Well , back in the day when media was not quite so... Continue Reading →
Equations of Everyday Life #2: Inane Celebrity Memes
Incredibly clever, and very funny I thought. You probably will too!
“You’re not famous until my mother has heard of you”–Jay Leno
(Jay Leno graduated from Emerson College the same year I did. Aren’t you unimpressed?)
Lindsay Lohan…Paris Hilton…Charlie Sheen…you just gotta follow these people to be “with it” in this day and age. What I can’t figure out is exactly what “it” is. The nonsense involving these silly (do I dare say ridiculous?) excuses for humanity, and the speed with which their inane meme virality propagates throughout the internet and general mediasphere is stultifying.
How do we quantify this vacuous tripe? Quite obviously with:
The Index of Inane Celebrity Meme Virality
Get out your calculators folks, though the math on this one may require something more like a Cray supercomputer. This process requires not one step, but three.
- Rate the inanity
- Compute the Virality Index
- Classify the virality using the Virality Classification Scale
Rating Inanity
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