Dark1: Arbitrarium: Ratings
The Dark1 Infinitely Precise Activity Rating System 8/10/98
The purpose of any rating system, as everyone knows, is to provide a basis for measuring the quality of something. This rating system, spanning the real numbers from 0 and 11, measures the perceived quality of any given activity with a completely unreliable, subjective, and unscientific procedure. The rating 'zero' is given the arbitrary description "I'd rather be inflicting pain upon myself", and the rating of 'eleven' is given the description "I could do this every second for the rest of my natural life". In short, the higher the number, the more jollies I derive from the given activity.
Hopefully, you'll be able to get a better idea about who I am from these ratings. If you are the curious sort, and want me to rate an activity of your choice, simply Email me. Of course, I find your inquiry lame, or think it might portray me as a doodle-head, I will default on the request, and not post any rating. Enjoy!
- Reading a good book: [8.6185]
- Reading a good book while at a cool location: [9]
- Watching people get drunk: [1]
- Watching my friends get drunk: [1.45]
- Boating in open water: [9.6]
- Recieving e-mail from a pal: [8.9432]
- Fooling around on the internet: [7]
- Conversing with a good friend in person: [9.9]
- Conversing with a average person: [7.8]
- Eating a tasty meal: [7]
- Assembling a well-made piece of electronic equipment: [7.2]
- Watching a good television show: [6.8]
- Watching a good film: [8.8]
The following have been submitted by a productive friend, Siva, AKA Lawless on 8/12/98:
- Watching girls dye their hair: [3.20002]
- Breathing (suggested by my way cool and ever-insightful friend Vanessa): [11] *read the definition
- Ratings things that people send you [D1]: [7.921] *really--depending upon the person
- Cutting your [D1] toenails: [3] *I like the sound
- Cutting other people's toenails: [3.5] *In all honesty, I've never had the pleasure. I'm sure it's a blast though
- Having other people cut your [D1] toenails: [4] *See above comment.
- Toenails in general: [3] *Really, I don't think 'toenails in general' counts as an activity. My D1IPARS computer nearly caught on fire calculating this one.
- Les Blondisness! : [9] *I caught this before the D1IPARS computer could ignite. Everyone knows that I like Les Blondisness nearly as much as Les Buffisness.
- Switching over to the Dubber when clumsy projectionists bump into the DDP on their way to catching To Fly as it tails out into Everest... or something: [7] *Not suprisingly, I've had this happen to me. The projectionist had to leave the state... This activity scores so high due to the amusement factor, and the fact that it gives me a break from clicking.
Thanks for the D1IPARS fodder, Siva! Keep up the good work.
The following activity was submitted by a clever friend, on 8/30/98:
- so what about reading a good book (about friends getting drunk), while boating in open water: [9.9] *Why not? So long as it's a good book...