the bunlog

The Friday Bun Society has heard that polar bears are having a hard time. Apparently the ice in the area around the North Pole is melting, and the poor bears have to swim too far in the chilly ocean for their food, ending up dead because of hypothermia.

Thus, the Society demands that one of the big, international companies steps responsibly up, and provides the funding for getting each and every one of the bears a rubber boat (thus avoiding the need to dip into the icy water).

The Friday Bun Society hereby declares that it deeply disrespects weblogs and websites that are not sufficiently serious. Often these sites contain nothing more than inside jokes and are only read by a small group of people involved in this despicable activity. What is the point in that?

The Friday Bun Society hereby announces that there is no revolution planned, or if there is, the Society has nothing to do with it. Also, should there be a revolution, there’s no List and you’re not part of it.

Should one have reached a conclusion that there’s going to be a revolution by reading the Society’s previous statements, one would be dead wrong. Dead wrong. One should just go on and continue his life and not believe any foolishness about the revolution.

The Friday Bun Society is proud to present The Way for evaluating the amount of information in a sentence. The Way is called NSS-Analysis, where NSS stands for “No Shit, Sherlock”.

NSS-Analysis is calculated as the ratio of “words enough to give the information” per “words used to give the information”. This means that the optimal result of NSS-Analysis is 1 (there are no useless words in given sentence). Articles are omitted.

An example: assume that “The invidivual member of the social community often received his information via visual, symbolic channels” could be compressed down to “People read”. The result of NSS-Analysis (i.e. NSS-Ratio) would thus be 2 / 12 = 0,17.

If the given sentence has no information content whatsoever, the ratio is 0.

Beware of slides, articles, newspapers or conversations where the typical NSS-Ratio is much closer to zero than one.

The Friday Bun Society hereby declares that it does not condone invalid and just plain annoying uses of the word “meta”.

A good example of frivolous invalid usage is referring to some alternative view of a conceptual model as “meta-model”. Equally maligned is to claim that abstract concepts of such a conceptual model form a “meta-model”. (Reporting professionals and spec writers, we know where you live. No bun for you.)

Now, as far as annoying usage goes, The Friday Bun Society is fully aware that some people might consider that to be a matter of opinion. Those people would be wrong, because The Friday Bun Society is the self-appointed owner of The Ultimate Truth and therefore opinions of others hardly matter. (And because we own The Ultimate Truth, it doesn’t matter that we have appointed ourselves. We are Right. Next, please.)

So let us rewind a bit and try this again:

Now, as far as annoying usage goes, The Friday Bun Society is also very annoyed with people who think they are so clever that they can just give advices on how to use the word “meta”. Sometimes they even fall to self-deprecating humor while trying to desperately come up with some humor when there is none to be found. They write self-referencing posts to their weblogs and have nothing to say apart from clumsy wordplays with their non-native English language. They make the joke so obvious that not even the thickest mind could miss it. They write long, incoherent paragraphs and don’t know when to stop. It’s as if they’ve been sipping Merlot while writing! They don’t realize that while they condemn other people they just declare themselves guilty on the same deeds.

But of all the people inhabiting this globe, the worst are those who try to rise a step above the meta-level, complaining about meta-complaining. It’s one thing to complain about complaining but totally another to complain about someone who is complaining about complaining!

Those people! The nerve! They are definitely on The List when the revolution comes.

The Society hereby announces that we officially want to provide all the (non-material) aid and support to those individuals or organizations, who are forced to either work or not in an environment where other authorized or non-authorized individuals or organizations either perhaps would like to or already may have restricted the use of web domains.

The Friday Bun Society hereby wants to announce that we have lately been very worried about the nature of the Friday Bun Society. There are rumours about some well-hidden signs, which might be indicating that the Society is actually very close to being a carefully planned pyramid scam. Also, a keen observer may well be able to spot marks of cultism within the Society. The FBS wants to make clear that we will follow this issue with great interest.

The Friday Bun Society is happy to announce that we are awfully sorry on behalf of our beloved Founder, Janne, who will no longer eat Buns. Although the end of his personal existence has not quite yet taken place, the Society is sure to lose him, as he is about to cross the border line and enter the realm of hatred, chaos, invasion, and fat; with no guarantee nor hope of ever being able to return. Be brave, our fellow Founder, on your journey.

Last week I had the opportunity to enjoy this delicious tiramisù after an equally good pepper steak meal. I didn’t note the name of the place but it was a Spanish-Argentinian restaurant in the old city (Altstadt) part of Düsseldorf in Germany.

I’m a novice when it comes to i tiramisù, but I think I still recognize a tasty dessert when I eat one. In general, I tend to like bun-like delicacies more than cake-like. Despite this being the latter, my taste buds hailed it as one of the best things they’ve come across for a while. Definitely a new favorite.

I hereby suggest forming a Thursday Tiramisù Society.

The Friday Bun Society hereby announces that all the Statements of the Friday Bun Society are strictly independent, objective, non-commercial, and have no suspicious relations whatsoever to any companies. However, for a suitable fee we can put out a Statement, which is a bit more independent and objective than usual, if an organization or individual willing to sponsor the activities of the Friday Bun Society so desires.