The Weekend, By The Numbers

Lifted from Rude Cactus, here's my weekend broken down into numerical forms.

# of Twitters - 35
Number of followers lost - 4
Number of new followers - 2
Hours spent mowing lawn - less than 1
# of lawns mowed - 2
# of times restarting mower because it choked on the super thick grass - 16
# of times hot tubbing with the boys - 2
# of peanut butter and jelly sandwiches made - 4
Grown up movies watched - 1 (300 on my computer, it was excellent!)
Episodes of Dora or Diego - at least 6
Long ass-kicking mountain bike rides - sadly 0
# of pushups - 136 (week 5 of the program is in the books)
Hours spent editing video - 1.5 (laid on a soundtrack, will publish tomorrow!)
# of loads of laundry "processed" - 5
Hours lost to social engineering masquerading as daylight savings time - 1
# of times it took me to spell masquerading correctly - 2

Number Nerd Day

I just realized that today is 10/9/08 which is kind of cool to a geek like me. Too bad we can't have a clock hit 7:65.43 but that would actually be a little past 8, not 7.

Oh well.

Happy Equilibrium Day

Because I'm a number geek, today makes me smile.

Its the fourth day of the fourth month in the eighth year of the century.

That's 4+4=8 and yes, I'm aware that I'm a total geek because I notice and think these sorts of things are cool.

It Would Help If Our Politicians Knew What Teh Intarnets Were

U.S. loses top spot in global tech study.

Not just the top spot but we are now seventh. Singapore and Denmark, Sweden and Finland and Switzerland and the Netherlands are all beating us at information exploitation and communications tech.

But Thierry Geiger, one of the Forum's economists responsible for the 361-page report, said the U.S. market environment remains the best in the world in terms of how easy it is to set up a business, get loans and have access to market capital.

So that's nice. But.

The index...cited the United States' low rate of mobile telephone usage, a lack of government leadership in information technology and the low quality of math and science education.

The lack of government leadership in info tech is understandable given our politicians shocking "understanding" of what the internet is and what it represents. The low quality of math and science education in the country is also understandable given the faith-based agenda that has dominated almost every aspect of Bush's administration.

Also, I bet Arkansas is bringing down the national average.

Number Game

So I checked the California Lottery site this morning to see if I still needed a job (alas, I do) and, since I had Grady sitting on my lap, I was typing one handed. I screwed up the URL and "accidentally" typed calootery.com instead. Which isn't so far off but didn't provide the winning numbers I wanted to check. But it didn't get me where I needed to go.

And, upon finally reaching the correct site, I found out that we had not matched a single number. Bummer, that means I've gotta keep looking for a job.