BennyRamone.com

Har aldrig pocheret før, men kastede mig ud i det.. 2 æg, hjemmebagt rugbrød, lidt purløg og naturligvis en bunke bacon.. (Taken with Instagram at Wendelboe’s Place)

staff:

Our new Japanese Tumblr Logo T-shirt is now available through BustedTees! All proceeds will go directly to the International Federation of the Red Cross to support disaster relief efforts by the Japanese Red Cross Society.

Safran is not Benny Ramone (Taken with Instagram at Ol’ grandpa Wendelboe’s house)

Ramones, klorin og en t-shirt (Taken with Instagram at Parfumen)

Update 1: I’d be great if someone with actual mathematical knowledge could if and whythey disagree..!

Update 2: Seems the discussion has gone to Facebook - unfortunately the good parts are in Danish, but you could give it a shot, if you want.. See it here..

Update 3: It would seem my limited knowledge of math has caught up with me.. Apparently, in the case I proposed, I wasn’t using ordinal, but interval data, as the 5 points are arguably positioned with the same spacing (at least that’s what I based my argument on).. So, acknowledging that, my point would be this; why would you ever use ordinal data to measure user satisfaction with a feature of your product? Special thanks to Jacob Packert for teaching me the difference between ordinal and interval! Don’t forget to vote for him, when he runs for President of Planet Earth some day..!

As some of you might know, I’ve gone back to school.. I have yet to learn much there, but it’s nice being at it again, and I’m sure it will pick up soon.. In 8 days of classes I hadn’t exactly been challenged, until yesterday afternoon, when David Kocmick talked to us about surveying clients in order to analyze the customer->product relation. I’d say I know my fair share about surveying - after all, I did spend more than a year at Synovate, where I helped organize a ton of surveys (some qualitative, some quantitative), but he mentioned something I hadn’t ever thought about.

“For ordinal data, you always use the median average - for example, if you’ve asked ‘How satisfied are you with this feature?’ and given them the option of 1 through 5, median is the way to go!” (probably paraphrased)

Now I had never thought about this before - let’s do an example..

How satisfied are you with feature X of our product?

1. Very dissatisfied
2. Dissatisfied
3. No opinion
4. Satisfied
5. Very satisfied

obviously, in this case, if the mean average gives 3.5, you’re going to have a hard time reporting “we’re somewhere in between [No opinion] and [Satisfied]”. So I suggested you could just translate the mean average into a percentage (in this case 70% satisfaction).. I understand why it’s not an optimal solution, but if you’ve set you’re outer options properly (the extreme case would be something like “I could not possibly be less satisfied” and “I could no possibly be more satisfied”) I’d argue it could be translated into percentage. I mean, you’re probably surveying to learn how you’re product could get better and whether you’re moving in the right direction. I’d also argue that your goal will always be to achieve 100% customer satisfaction - so now you know what you’re aiming at, and you’ve got a current point on your graph.. All you have to do now is make regular surveys, to tell if “feature X” is closing in on perfection..

“But why not just use median? Why be a bitch about it?”, you might ask.. Well, I’m not real keen on the whole obfuscating outliers deal.. If you have five respondents answering “1, 1, 5, 5, 5”, the median will give you 5, whereas the the mean average is 3 point something.. Now “5. Very satisfied” is very easy to dwell on, and might make look at improving less crucial features of your product.. But you’ve still got 20% of your client base, who are “Very dissatisfied” with the feature!

My conclusion is there are pros and cons in both cases, but unless you give me something more to take into account, I’ll take “hard to translate” over “forget about those guys” any day..!

Stephen Tobolowsky? No, the name didn’t mean anything to me either, but his face should seem familiar to most.. “That’s that guy from [place name of movie or TV show here]..!” 

Some guy, playing mainly small parts in a ton of movies might not seem like anything worth doing a post on, but trust me - there’s a lot more to him! I just finished listening to monday’s WTF Podcast with Marc Maron, where Tobolowsky was on, and for the first 10 minutes of the show I wondered what the hell he was doing there.. Now, it being WTF, and Marc Maron not having disappointed me yet, I gave them the benefit of the doubt and went on.. By the time Maron wrapped up the interview I wanted more! This show seemed it could have been 10 hours long, and still be interesting all the way through! Tobolowsky had so many fantastic stories, and even with the heavy dialect of his, he’s great at telling them!

As it turns out, I’m not the first to realize what a great story teller he is - on his own podcast, “The Tobolowsky Files” he apparently shares even more of his stories, and from what I can tell “Stephen Tobolowsky’s Birthday Party” is something along those lines too.. I haven’t had a chance to enjoy either yet, but there’s no doubt I will soon.. And so should you..!

P.S. Don’t miss the Henry Rollins and Louis CK episodes of WTF either!

P.P.S. Check out this trailer for his movie..

I was reminded of Jeffrey Silverthorne today, and couldn’t help but wonder why I hadn’t already posted one of his works..
Though his photos from the morgue, are definitely fascinating, I prefer his works on life, nudity and sexuality - keeping in mind that the attached photo was taken in 1971, the courage and spirit of “Rhonda Jewels” and “Chili Con Carne” is inspiring!
Go check out some more of his amazing shots!
I first learned about his works, when Fotografisk Center put a few of them on display in Signal Digital’s old office.. So thx for that..!

Saturday night on the kitchen counter (Taken with instagram at parfumen)

sirmitchell:

Possibly the best/worst tumblr in existence, and now my new favorite. 

Cheese People

Steve Ignorant (Taken with instagram at Loppen)

My friend @marks has been busy making the world a better place, by not letting anyone in Denmark go hungry (You won’t like us when we’re hungry!). He has created this invaluable tool for ordering a traditional Danish meal on any street in the country, and never having to order it the same way twice.

Now, you might have some trouble with pronounciation, if you’re not used to the Danish language, but I’m sure you’ll figure it out, if you’re hungry enough.

Example: “En omgang skinkesøm med lort på ryggen og en flydende Mandela, tak.” translates into something like “A ham nail with shit on it’s back and a liquid Mandela (Danish chocolate drink by the name of Cocio), please.”

Welcome to Denmark. Enjoy your meal!

[Photo: 05G World Wide Adventure Group]

(You might also like: Fancy pre-Twestival dinner)

skyklapper:

Happy 60th birthday, Bill. Have some coffee.

/via Brainpicker.

ronnierocket:

LCD Soundsystem “I Can Change (Stereogamous Remix)”

The Copenhagen Twestival program is here..!

19:00 Doors open

19:30 - 19:35 Welcome

19:35 - 20:00 Morten Lund interviewed by Thomas Madsen-Mygdal

20:00 - 20:45 Schmooze and booze

20:45 - 21:10 Marie Fisker (acoustic performance)

21:10 - 22:00 Cake, Le Gammeltoft and schmoozing

22:00 - 22:45 Lottery

22:45 - 23:45 Le Gammeltoft

Don’t forget to buy your tickets before it’s too late!

Copenhagen Twestival will be held on March 25th, and as usual it’s all about collecting donations for a good cause (and meeting people, drinking beer, eating cake, having a blast, etc.)

If you’d like to help out we could always use cash, prizes for the lottery and good vibrations.. Pay us, join us, tell your friends about us!

Write me at benjamin@signaldigital.com if you feel you’ve got some way to help us out!

http://cphtwestival.com/ + http://twestival.com/

**Update: If you missed the performance last time, you’ve been given another chance!**

*Update: Photo added*

Eriko Makimura and Keiko Gomi played a fantastic concert at Den Collinske Gaard last night! It was a real eye opener for me, and I especially appreciated their rendition of Die Roboter by Kraftwerk..

Eriko is also curating a concert with The Messer Quartet tonight, and I’d definitely advice you to go check it out..

(Photo: Lars Top-Galia, artFREQ.)

Damn, the Beijing-based Gao Zhen and Gao Qiang are amazing..!

theladylikes:

notpants:

Apparently, American Apparel is aware of the issue because they’ve started printing this little message inside their leggings.  You know it’s serious when your dealer tells you you have a problem.

Submitted by: susangraceee

Cool, funny, ugly and a bit gross.. I like it..

(via Peter Sørensen @ Bongorama)

Alright, I know it’s been a while, but the good news is that I’m back with a post that’ll knock your socks off! Jonas told me someone had showed him a young, cool, danish artist, he really liked, and that he had a feeling I might enjoy her work too.. He was right!

Maria Rubinke is a 24-year-old ceramic artist, who’s work is morbid, fun, cool and beautiful..! I have to have to own one of them! She hasn’t got a portfolio online yet, but says it will be soon - looking forward to it!

Keep up the amazing work, Maria!