25 Entropic Things About Me: A Torroid Affair

So, that "25 Random Things About Me" meme finally caught up with me, and I don’t want to be a spoilsport… but its kinda in my nature, so here are my answers:

1. I’ve been reading a lot of fun math books for a project I’m researching (not the same one that made me look up "zombie cross stitch.")
2. Because I’ve been reading these books, I’m too aware of how unlikely this list is to actually be random.
3. I know that in the act of selecting things, my mind is likely to create some kind of order.
4. My mind will want the things to all be different. That’s not random.
5. It might want the list to be interesting. That’s not random.
6. It will probably look for small things from today like how I hate coding like its 1998, and big things from my childhood, like that speedbump with my name on it, and quirky things from all the time, like how I have too many showers because they help me think.
7. But having three things in a row that all say the same thing would be a better immitation of what truly randomized results might look like.
8. If I said the same thing three times, that might be more credibly random
9. True randomness would include errors like saying the same thing three times
10. My brain won’t do that. Its more likely to associate one thing to another, even if the connection is not obvious to the audience. That’s a kind of order, and order leads to entropy.
11. I have two gut reactions to the technical misuse of the word "random," like when people say "dude, that’s so random!"
12. I have one response that appreciates the casualness of that– that likes the way we repurpose words into slang, and enjoys the resulting merger of creativity and laziness.
13. I have another gut response that feels like a mixture of frustration and loneliness, because I want more people to want to look up what words really mean, and then call me up and talk about how "random" and "unexpected" actually mean quite different things
14. I might pursue a compromise between these two points of view by proposing that "entropy" also be worked into slang, as in "dude, stop forcing the entropy, you’re harshing my mellow."
15. It would not be the first slang I have tried to make "happen." Witness:
16. "He’s bringing the Christmas!"
17. "That is so Broadway, its not even Broadway. It’s like, off-off-off Broadway. It’s so far off Broadway, it’s in New Jersey. He’s totally Hoboke’n you."
18. Fish!
19. Grammar and mathematics are so intimitately related, I passed the "logic" unit of my grade 10 math class with a grade of 89% without studying, while failing the class as a whole with a 52%. I don’t know if you can study logic to get better at it. To me, it just is. Or it isn’t.
20. I spent most of my time in that class drawing in my sketchbook.
21. Now I like to bake things with math, like
22. The Inverse of Pie– it wears its filling on the outside
23. Or Chewy Breakfast Torroids, aka bagels
24. I once solicited a formula to express the infinite deliciousness of macaroni. Irene’s husband, Chad suggested something like: 1/(x * macaroni) > 0 where x is the deliciousness factor. (Did I remember that right Chad? If no, please see #19 for explanation.)
25. I think A Torroid Affair would make a great schlock murder mystery for a community summer theatre group somewhere. Or maybe it should be a short story.