Here at Voodoo Logic we’re not just all about the sticking of pins into dolls that look a lot like John Howard [1]. As much fun as that can be, we’re also about celebrating the diverse, the strange, the bizarre, the weird, and the downright unexpected [2].
More than anything, we’re interested in interesting things, and what could more interesting than, say… mathematics?!!
Sure, we know what you’re saying - you’re saying something like, “Wa-hey! I wanna read about mathematics at three-thirty in the afternoon just as I’m about to slide under my table into a boredom-induced coma!” But, we say in return, someone must get excited about this stuff, because that someone posted a link to the social networking site, reddit.com, with a title of:
This is by far the most mind-blowing mathematical function I have ever seen.
We agree. The function is mind-blowing, and even more so once we’d pulled out the rather battered and neglected Voodoo Logic dictionary and looked up the words “mind”, and “blowing” and, just to kill some time, “norks” [3]. Sure, it’s mind-blowing to us because we have no idea what it means [4], but we’re comfortable knowing that it’s apparently mind-blowing to other people for all the right reasons.
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“Mathematics,” Darren Saturday once said, “is like, you know, Astrophysics. Or is it Phystriastics? Whatever. The point is, some people get it, and it’s our job to identify those people and make sure they have names like Clifford and Norbert.”
It wasn’t the most coherent observation Mister Saturday had ever made, but the team here at Voodoo Logic are reasonably confident that if you happen to understand what the mind-blowing formula above is about, then you’re definitely the kind of person we’d like to have around to watch Good Will Hunting with us, to see if you can explain why a mathematics genius would take a job at a university so he can secretly screw with people’s minds by working out impossible problems, but would then get hostile when somebody offers him a lot of money to pretty much do exactly the same thing.
| 1. | No, we’re not surprised you’ve never heard of him. He’s the Prime Minister of Australia. |
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| 2. | Which is why we hired Darren Saturday at such a huge expense, because he’s all of those things and more. |
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| 3. | A term of endearment for breasts. |
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| 4. | The formula… not the norks. |
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