Here we shall laud the praise-worthy and even the not-so-praise-worthy - with style and wit, as per usual throughout TLB PRIME, and as worthiness calls for it too...! Aye! This is yet another official site member of Luminous (\ô/) Luciano ™'s TLB Prime Network, aye! ;) Enjoy your stay here!
Here is some *bizarre music* courtesy of our friends over at YT - laudable efforts, guys...! But still...
There are so many videos out there to spur on my team to *just do it* - but, perhaps, it is not the proper motivation at all... For these vids have been around for quite some time now: and yet, the team has yet to fulfill its potential and go all the way (at blogging time, they haven't, anyways! Nothing new there: they haven't been so fortunate with Cam Neely leading them in the early 90s - Glen Murray leading them in the early "00s" - or Ray Bourque in the 80s! Not since Bobby Orr in the 70s indeed...)
Motivational compilations, alligning good plays and great hits with just the right music, are nothing new: in fact, even such a thing could not make the team, though a powerhouse as it was, roll all over their most hated rivals on two distinct occasions, some thirty years apart. The compilations rolling out only the positives, editing out any negatives and, therefore, any doubts that there could be on anyone's mind, players or fans alike, have rarely inspired this team or any team to exceed expectations and overachieve...
Such videos are truly laudable efforts though: as they testify of their authors' true faith in their team, their unyielding allegiance to it and their neverending hope to see it reach the pinnacle in its field - asap! They can inspire through sheer epicness - or through humour, in some rare cases...
Such videos can be creative gems too - as they can also be quite amusing, too!
Let's just have a look right now and judge by ourselves, shall we...
The videos are of two other categories as well: made by the fans or made... by the corporation that owns the team! As we can see here:
Just a coincidence, I am sure, that that last guy just happens to bear (pun truly, fully, absolutely intended) an uncanny resemblance to former Bruin and former Oiler Craig MacTavish...
But that is another story...
All laudable indeed - but can they inspire victory, complete victory, one day soon?
This rather disarmingly simplistic equation makes one think, right off the bat, of the cutest beauty contest of all that just awarded a deserving winner: the M.A.M.'s "Most Beautiful Mathematical Equation" contest!
(Such a beauty pageant should have always been, I say...!)
And the lucky winner was... E i/pi +1 = 0 or e^{i \pi} +1 = 0 \
(Okay - to be truthful, tis not the "M.A.M." at all but the "M.A.A" - but you can understand why we'd much rather prefer to go with "MAMs" here; a man can go gaga over mammaries all his life but one who cries "MAaaaaaaa" all the time, well, that's a different problem...! But that is another story entirely... A Mathematical American Monthly magazine does exist - although it is really called the American Mathematical Monthly; A.M.M. thus. See: "M.A.M." remains always the better choice! We may also precise, since we've gotten to this point already, that it was really the M.I. - the Mathematical Intelligencer - that conceived of such a pageantry and voted the above formula as "the most beautiful ever" - way back in 1988. The lucky equation -though not a luminous equation; that is my own creation and mine alone! ;)- is found to be a logical progression of previous algorithms found in the works of such illuminaries as Leonhard Euler and was called "the most remarkable formula in mathematics" by one Richard Feynman, "for its single uses of the notions of addition, multiplication, exponentiation, and equality, and the single uses of the important constants 0, 1, e, i and π".
Me, I am still thinking of the word "intelligencer" here; who are these mathematical minds who think that they can make up such words using what should be anathema to them, eh: letters! The nerve... But I am digressing once more, eh...)
Anyway... All this to say that the inane, insipid (not to mention incomplete - hey, THE THREE "I"S!) non-equation (antiequation?) "=3" reminded me so much of the winning, remarkable and oh-so "beautiful" E i/pi +1 = 0 - as its extreme, diametrically opposed... er... opposite, yeah! Such luminous connections can only be made on the TLB Prime Network - you know it, dudes!
And so - what is that "=3" thing, anyway - you ask?
Well, let us put this way: it will never win approval from the A.M.A. or M.M.A. or M.A.M. or M.A.A. or even M.I. myself and I! It may have gained an endorsement of sorts from the old A.W.A. or, more recently, ECW mind you - but either one does not exist anymore, so forget that! In short, "=3" is something meant for the masses and made by some proud representative(s) of the masses in question - and as such, it will never raise the bar above anything other than basic addition, really! Far from being on the level of our own *luminous connections* (see TLB Prime aka The Luminous Blog for more of those!) and our venerable Luminous Equation, "=3" contents itself to tickle the funny bone of its viewers by showcasing and commenting on three different videos uploaded by third parties (how à propos is that...!) and trying, tant bien que mal, to find something that ties it all up together, somehow...! And oftentimes -frighteningly so- in a very, very crude way (especially those comments he publishes to a dancing cat coolcat tune - ugh!)
Here are, therefore, three (!) examples of that - appropriately enough:
RayWilliamJohnson, KushaNdRosaydotcom or RayWJ - three times a news pimp, we say..!
And, just like the beautiful equation issued by a beautiful mind -we're sure- and that equals, in the end, ZERO; "=3" reflects absolutely nothing, ultimately...
Nothing but fluff - in a reputedly cool package, sure.
Delight in the simple things, my friends, for only they are truly worthy of praise in this world ~ and on thislaudable blog as well! And as far as True Praise goes ~ God Knows ~ onlyGod Is Worthy of it!
Born in the Age of Aquarius, destined to seek out truths in many an art form, trained as a historian and a journalist but truly a prose-lover... Luciano is out to dispel any clichés and reinvent them all both to the tune of a little something called the truth as also to his own image - and being old-fashioned, he does not mind that distinction one infinitesimal tiny bit at all...! "There are two ways to spread the light; be the candle... or the mirror that reflects It." I have chosen to be the latter... okay? ~*~
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