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 My name is danah boyd and I'm a Senior Researcher at Microsoft Research, a Research Assistant Professor in Media, Culture, and Communication at New York University, a Visting Researcher at Harvard Law School, and an Adjunct Associate Professor at the University of New South Wales. I received my PhD from the School of Information at UC-Berkeley. I spend 1/3 of my time in Cambridge, MA, 1/3 in New York, NY, and 1/3 in the air. Buzzwords in my world include: public/private, identity, context, youth culture, social network sites, social media. I use this blog to express random thoughts about whatever I'm thinking.
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I have that shirt! It’s awesome. What’s even more awesome is that only like, 2% of the population “get it.”
Can i assume by “get it” you mean understand the cultural reference? (I assume you don’t mean get the limited edition t-shirt.)
Of course, the depressing part is that while the actual probability of such a combination is ridiculously low the in-my-experience probability is much closer to 1. I saw that shirt and my brain started begging for e/i/o/u for the x or an o for the v+w.
Ah, yes. Addict.
I’ve got the shirt too, it’s one of my favorites. Though technically, I have basically all of the good Threadless shirts.
I <3 Scrabble.
Yes, by “get it” I do mean the cultural reference.
However, I find that in my personal experience this particular letter combination isn’t 1, because I’m just as likely to get all vowels.
Ah! You’re one of those! I think that the world is split between the people who end up with all vowels and the people who end up with all impossible letters. Of course, one way around this is one of my favorite house rules: AEIOU is a word.
My other favorite house rule is iff 3+ of any one letter (usually ‘i’), 1 can be traded during your turn with no penalty.
o, that totally makes a word.
that word is …”screwed.”
Heh, those are some nice rules! My wife will love those. She hates playing with me so maybe this will help motivate her to.