[racket] the most functional man in the world

Many thanks to all who replied. I appreciate the clue-in.

I'd consider finding a way to indicate the source; given that I don't have
TV, I had no idea. (Or, if you prefer, it is a meme I haven't encountered
before.) Hence the reason I asked.

Given the lack of context, there was no way for me to know that this was a
parody. The question is: who else who is in your target audience (students
of computer science, CS educators K-16, etc.) will also be unaware, and
will it be good for the PLT brand/book for that confusion to exist?

A search for "the most functional man in the world" does not help
disambiguate the meme. And, watching a bunch of the videos, they are funny
because they are *extremely* over the top. "He dates all the girls in the
CS department" isn't over-the-top, and just came across slightly skeezy.

Anything else I might add at this point would be an attempt at editing,
which is up to you if you want to. You've put your content out there, and
now you know that you have people in your audience who had no idea that
this is supposed to be a parody.

Sincerely,
Matt


On Wed, Dec 19, 2012 at 9:52 PM, Carl Eastlund <cce at ccs.neu.edu> wrote:

> It is a parody of the ads compiled here:
> https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U18VkI0uDxE
>
> Carl Eastlund
>
>
>
> On Wed, Dec 19, 2012 at 8:16 PM, Matt Jadud <matt at jadud.com> wrote:
>
>> Hi Matthias,
>>
>> Just one question: is the goal that we interpret the video ironically?
>>
>> I thought I would ask, so that someone from the team could explain what
>> was intended with this script. My read, after watching it several times,
>> and comparing it to videos about other novice programming environments is
>> that it is grossly sexist, and I would never want to show it to my
>> students. I'm hoping I'm reading it wrong.
>>
>> Many thanks,
>> Matt
>>
>>
>> On Wed, Dec 19, 2012 at 7:20 PM, Matthias Felleisen <matthias at ccs.neu.edu
>> > wrote:
>>
>>>
>>> ROAR has taken another giant step: the book is complete, mostly indexed,
>>> and will be delivered to the NoStarch production department tomorrow.
>>>
>>> In celebration, we have released the next video in our series, on the
>>> most functional man in the world:
>>>
>>>  http://realmofracket.com/videos.html
>>>
>>> Enjoy! -- Matthias
>>>
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