Thursday, November 4, 2010

completely pointless personal notes

loyal reader & commenter nameless cynic rebuked me for my issues with capitalization. i note only that i grew up reading don marquis's archy & mehitabel, the love letters typed by the cockroach archy to his unrequited love, the cat mehitabel. as a cockroach jumping from key to key on the typewriter keyboard, archy couldn't hold down the shift key - so all his epistles were entirely lower-case. i've adopted this style from time to time...
... in addition to which, holding down the shift key simply takes too much energy.

joe paterno is approaching his 400th career victory as head football coach at penn state.
this is his 45th season. that's about 8.9 victories/season.
unm's current football head coach, mike locksley, is on track to reach his 400th victory in the year 2676. i won't care. i'll be dead. so will he.
to date he's on track for 0.6 victories/year.
supposing he pulls out one win in the next 4 games, that's 1 victory/year... which means he'll get to 400 career wins in the year... 2408.
['in the long run we are all dead', john maynard keynes]
$750k/year. nice work if you can get it.

"No one ever went broke underestimating the intelligence of the American people."
-H.L. Mencken

1 comment:

  1. Wasn't a rebuke... as such...

    Just a suggestion that, if you followed proper rules of English, you could pass that along to pretty much every Democrat out there...

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