the AKHLog V4

Smessy has good taste in music

The song I linked:

http://www.soundclick.com/player/single_player.cfm?songid=208185&q=hi

Also, theHappyMunich was born upon me finding munich.com available as a domain for a new email address from mail.com. On this account you can see some old spamming I did ~3 years ago (that’s where YoYo dates it). I think it was a “virus” made in VBScript that I transferred to people through a YoYo game so that it was put on your PC and ran, spamming your profile if you were logged in to YoYo with IE (and I used theHappyMunich to test this).

http://sandbox.yoyogames.com/users/theHappyMunich

BEHOLD THE POWER OF BLACK ARMS

“The black arms have risen” and other such funny puns.

Click for full size image, though it’s not much bigger.

IT’S VALENTINES DAY!

The AKHLog Has A Fourth Author Again

Everyone welcome Nate/Doomkaiser/Lunacy, yo. :3

IT’S HEARTS AND HOOVES DAY

I’m glad we don’t care much about things that aren’t part of our personal life …

Because if we did, we’d be a very depressed species.

-AK47 Bitch

REALLY?!

http://sandbox.yoyogames.com/users/Hawk%20Industries

I’VE BEEN FORGOTTEN ALREADY?!

;_;

Ha ha ha.

Why I Hate Riddles

It’s probably not known at all in this community, but I (AKH) happen to hate riddles.

Explaining why I hate riddles requires the introduction of a couple of concepts – divergent thinking and concrete thinking.

Concrete thinking is the kind of thinking our society (more specifically, most parts of schools and businesses) generally values. It solves problems with one answer, and is the kind of thinking involved in math, the sciences and anything else that chases after objectively right/logically correct answers.

Divergent thinking is the kind of thinking involved in creativity: it is the way of thinking that produces different outcomes/possibilities from a starting point, and it doesn’t judge them against a logical specification to determine whether the answer is “right” or not. There is no right or wrong in divergent thinking, but there are thoughts people like and dislike.

Unfortunately, divergent thinking is heavily undervalued by the adults of our society – pre-school age children generally have what we consider a genius level of divergent thinking, and they lose this as they age and attend school (where, of course, concrete thinking is valued and divergent thinking is discouraged). The likely effects of this are worse than just diminishing creativity, but that’s something for another time.

Returning to the point of this short post, the reason I hate riddles is that they’re usually a horrible mess of these two types of thinking – they are a divergent thinking challenge presented, by stupid people, as a concrete thinking challenge, a puzzle with many valid answers but only one accepted one, merely a test of how closely your thoughts match the authors. Not all riddles are like this (or perhaps, presented like this), but the overwhelming majority are.

-AKH