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October 5th, 2009 Jessica Hagy Posted in expectations |


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23 Responses to “Normal is boring.”

  1. tahrey Says:
    October 5th, 2009 at 9:33 am

    Is the crossed-O standing for “zero”, “average”, or a nordic letter?

  2. James Says:
    October 5th, 2009 at 9:53 am

    Well, it is in the ‘weird’ category, so I think it’s probably better left undefined.

    Could also be the null set.

    Or a simplified NASA mission patch.

    Or a typo.

    : )

  3. Carolyn Says:
    October 5th, 2009 at 10:18 am

    I think that it means that everything weird is beautiful, and the null set shows that you can’t have anything just in “Weird”.

    I am weird so I’m all for this one!

  4. NSK Says:
    October 5th, 2009 at 10:20 am

    @tahrey … the sign is the symbol for NULL … i.e. an empty set. This could have a couple of interpretations: (1) there are no categories of “weird” … if its weird, its just weird; (2) if there is nothing that is weird and not beautiful (because A is NULL), then shouldn’t “weird” be inside “beautiful”?

  5. Lisias Says:
    October 5th, 2009 at 10:50 am

    Just my two cents:

    If it’s “weird”, but not beautiful, it’snt weird at all: just odd.

  6. Mitch Says:
    October 5th, 2009 at 11:27 am

    Ha, I LOLed at the null, in a happy way.

  7. JustAdam Says:
    October 5th, 2009 at 12:04 pm

    looks like a greek phi to me which could mean the golden ratio…

    …but the golden ratio is at least as beautiful as is weird so i just proved myself wrong…

    Perhaps it’s a diameter, in particular of the wheels of a pelican’s roller-skate; that would be weird

  8. DomPrez Says:
    October 5th, 2009 at 12:50 pm

    DEEP!…

    no so much funny as trully insightful…
    …or maybe thats just too much of ‘nuit blanche’ rubbing off on me.

  9. Mike Says:
    October 5th, 2009 at 2:04 pm

    Ahhh never pass up an opportunity. My blog, “Billions of Versions of Normal”, has as it’s desciption -
    ——
    There are billions of people and a version of normal to go along with each one of them. No two versions are exactly the same. There will be hundreds of thousands of little things that make up your version of normal. With any luck you can find people that have close to the same idea of what normal is that you do. These are your friends. Anyone else you try to tolerate as best you can. Sometimes that’s not possible. Avoid these people at all costs. They will be the proverbial pain in your ass.
    ——

  10. Jerodast Says:
    October 5th, 2009 at 2:10 pm

    It’s the null set. Anything weird is also beautiful. Also, this is one of my favorite indexeds ever!

  11. PMack Says:
    October 5th, 2009 at 4:19 pm

    I posit that something can be simultaneously weird, beautiful, and superficial. As evidence I present the films of Quentin Tarantino.

  12. meh Says:
    October 5th, 2009 at 6:04 pm

    Given this comic’s reliance on Venn diagrams for jokes, it’s pretty sad that it confuses a subset with the full set

  13. Hyunil Says:
    October 5th, 2009 at 6:06 pm

    I think that for a lot of people everything becomes normal if you see it often enough, no matter how beautiful. Maybe it’s that perceiving things as normal is boring–have some awe for the seemingly mundane, and ya find some beauty.

  14. mavy Says:
    October 5th, 2009 at 6:22 pm

    Hm, I think it only means that the empty set itself is weird. C’mon the set of nothing? Why even speak of a set if there is nothing there, that makes up the set? Not very intuitive. ;)

    (Ah, but I’m well aware of the fact, that the empty set is an important formal concept.)

  15. Windmilling Says:
    October 5th, 2009 at 8:18 pm

    hmmmmm, null/empty set….

    OR anything in the Cthulhu Mythos…

  16. Jaime Says:
    October 5th, 2009 at 11:28 pm

    Ms. Hagy, this is why I love you.

  17. Peter Makholm (pmakholm) 's status on Tuesday, 06-Oct-09 07:31:08 UTC - Identi.ca Says:
    October 6th, 2009 at 3:31 am

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  18. PKM Says:
    October 6th, 2009 at 5:39 am

    (Weird and not beautiful) is the null set?

    Behold: BLOBFISH (http://fishindex.blogspot.com/2009/02/blobfish-psychrolutes-marcidus.html)

    Weird, yes. Beautiful? I’m not so sure. Nothing personal, Blobfish.

  19. ladymercury Says:
    October 7th, 2009 at 4:09 am

    That poor old Blobfish made me smile. Therefore, beautiful.

  20. jellyB Says:
    October 8th, 2009 at 2:48 pm

    I hypothesize that some things, are in fact, weird but not beautiful.
    Some possible candidates for the A set:
    http://www.inhabitots.com/2009/10/01/doing-it-for-the-kids-design-exhibition-placenta-teddy-bear/
    http://www.wildrecipes.com/
    http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/stores/detail/-/toys/B0001WYKCQ/qid=1097251061/sr=2-3/ref=pd_ka_2_3/104-2039082-4768713
    Maybe I’m just shortsighted - but I think that the A set, though admittedly small, may not be null after all!

  21. tahrey Says:
    October 9th, 2009 at 1:28 pm

    well, beauty is in the eye of the blobholder after all

    and thanks for the info ;)

  22. Greg Says:
    November 28th, 2009 at 4:47 am

    Alternate interpretation: Maybe she’s saying that there simply cannot be a subset of weird.

    I.E. if something is weird and part of a set, maybe it’s not so weird after all.

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