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Okay, so some of you might have seen a briefly-visible post requesting input from you about changing my username on LJ. You see, I want to continue using LJ a lot and with depth and conviction...but I didn't like the fact that my name remained on it in any iteration. So I decided to change to this. I originally wanted "EntropyRising" because it sounds awesome, but there are tons of people who agree with me--it wasn't available. BUT, when I thought about it, I realized that even though it sounds ridiculously cool, it's a dumb name for my LJ: I'm not trying to increase the entropy (aka disorder) in my life; I'm trying to decrease it and constantly make sense of the things in my world. Thus, I realized as quickly as I had decided to change, that I could go after a better name, and so I did...without giving any of you any input...even though I trust you would have made great suggestions.
So, yes, from now on, I am entropyfalling , an expensive decision for me ($26 total, once I go to LJBook.com and re-donate) but one that I hope will help me carry myself forward in my life and my writing.
[[Forgive my nerdiness: I bet at least one person is thinking, "Entropy wha??!" From my vague memory of Physics and a quick refresher on Google, entropy is a measure of the amount of disorder in a system. When the system is extremely disordered, the entropy is high; when the system is neatly organized, the entropy is low. A great way to imagine it would be to think of two bags of marbles, one bag with just red marbles, the other with only blue. If we take those two bags and dump them into a box and shake them up, what do you expect to see? Probably a mixture of red and blue marbles all over in the box, right? You wouldn't expect all the blue ones to go to one side and the reds to another, right? This is because, upon being shaken, the entropy rises, going from the neatly arranged two separate bags of marbles to one big old mix of colored glass spheres. That is, when originally dumped in, the entropy was low, but after shaking, the entropy became high because everything got mixed up. If that doesn't make sense, or I screwed it up, no worries--just recognize that it sounds fairly cool!]]
So, yes, from now on, I am entropyfalling , an expensive decision for me ($26 total, once I go to LJBook.com and re-donate) but one that I hope will help me carry myself forward in my life and my writing.
[[Forgive my nerdiness: I bet at least one person is thinking, "Entropy wha??!" From my vague memory of Physics and a quick refresher on Google, entropy is a measure of the amount of disorder in a system. When the system is extremely disordered, the entropy is high; when the system is neatly organized, the entropy is low. A great way to imagine it would be to think of two bags of marbles, one bag with just red marbles, the other with only blue. If we take those two bags and dump them into a box and shake them up, what do you expect to see? Probably a mixture of red and blue marbles all over in the box, right? You wouldn't expect all the blue ones to go to one side and the reds to another, right? This is because, upon being shaken, the entropy rises, going from the neatly arranged two separate bags of marbles to one big old mix of colored glass spheres. That is, when originally dumped in, the entropy was low, but after shaking, the entropy became high because everything got mixed up. If that doesn't make sense, or I screwed it up, no worries--just recognize that it sounds fairly cool!]]