Offline - Blog Posts
(I recorded an hour + worth of footage with my sis for the last day but non of it even saved btw) Yes, I stayed on longer…I have officially witnessed everything. The beginning. The transformation. The end. I now have real human XP. I put on my original, iconic penguin style that I’ve had for the past 10 years and my first plain igloo. Words cannot describe how very reminiscent and sad I am so I’ll leave it at this; please do not speak to me for the next 10 MORE years.
Waddle On
2005-2017, my first pro MLG game
My name is Fuzzy
Hearing someone say my Twitter and Tumblr username out loud is pretty much a spiritual experience.
Oseman, A. (2018). I was born for this. HarperCollins Children’s Books.
I can't overstate how much this quote means to me. So many years ago I came up with the username Leapfrog for a wiki page. It's based on a method used in numerical analysis and it is used in numerical weather prediction models, which is what I was working on at the time. Not much later, I started my first public social media profile, but Leapfrog was already taken. So I added Fuzzy. It's based on fuzzy logic, so again something I was just learning about. Whereas Boolean logic is based on only two truth values,
Fuzzy logic [...] is a special many-valued logic which aims at providing formal background for the graded approach to vagueness.
Novák, V., Perfilieva, I., & Močkoř, J. (1999). Mathematical Principles of Fuzzy Logic. Springer.
That is how I became FuzzyLeapfrog, or simply Fuzzy.
Both words capture my nature and soul very well. I always try to find a numerical solution, while acknowledging that the world is more complex and vague than that.
So I've been called Fuzzy online for over a decade now, but gradually Fuzzy has also found its way into offline interactions. It's not just about me though. So many people I meet offline are people I met online and we very often address each other with our online names anyway. This has brought me so much joy and probably caused a lot of confusion for people who are unfamiliar with our online names or even the concept of online names.
Anyway, it doesn't matter how often I hear it, having someone acknowledge our online connection by calling my Fuzzy loudly offline is an endless source of inner joy. I am Fuzzy.
hey y'all, I'll be offline for the next few days so if anyone contacts me for anything just know that I'll get back to you as soon as I can <333