Monday, May 15, 2006

I wanted to write more, but those bastard scientists out there (and you know who you are) who felt that today was the day to write Helpdesk about their precious "space data", sucked up all my time. As it is I feel as though a large Gibbon was sitting on my chest beating me about the face and neck everytime I turn away from my growing mound of inbox questions, technical reviews, and assorted nonsense(tm).

In the meantime the only procrastinating I have done is to write HummaK and tell him how Round Numbers do not necesarily suck. Only the ill-use of them by the foolish. It is a baseball thing and can be summed up in Ricky Henderson's lifetime numbers, 1400+ Stolen Bases, 297 Home Runs. Think about it and you may understand.

But don't think of a Monkey.

Think of Monkey Links!
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3 comments:

Humma Kavula said...

Round numbers do suck, because they encourage brainless people to say "Baseball Player A is Great because he achieved an Arbitrary Round Number, but Baseball Player B is Not Great because he did not achieve that number."

This all started from last night's trivia question: who are the only four members of baseball's 300HR/300SB club? It's interesting because the skills are usually considered diametrically opposed.

Rickey Henderson's name was not mentioned, despite the fact that Rickey was the top power/speed guy of all time, unless that was Bonds, except maybe you don't count Bonds not because of the steroids but because he's more of a power guy who could steal and not to mention he's a Giant and evil booooooooooooooo.

Apparently, my ability to write in complete sentences, or even coherently, has escaped me.

6:22 PM
Humma Kavula said...

And by the way:

Sun Wukong -- the monkey king!

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sun_Wukong

6:25 PM
Humma Kavula said...

And: what's more fun than a barrel of monkeys?

A barrel of monchichis:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Monchichis

Okay, now I'm going home.

6:28 PM

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