The 99% Rule

I'm donning my teflon/asbestos underwear today. On the way to work I ponder the 99% rule.

99% of all people are morons. While this is easily said, and almost as easily recognized and understood, it has some pretty far reaching consequences:

a) 99% of the people that drive on the roads behave like morons (q.e.d)
b) 99% of the people that you work with are also morons (q.e.d)
c) 99% of the people in your family are also morons ( 99% means 9 out of 10 people - so if your family has 10 members - 9 are morons).

Ok, c) might be too much. Statistics allows us to shift around a bit (if I sample a 1000 people, I have room for 10 +/- 1 or 2 genuine intelligent people). But it also means that if you look around (like at your family) and you don't see morons, then somewhere else in the universe, there's a bigger concentration of morons.

And how about time ? is it that 99% of all people are morons 100% of the time - or maybe just 99% ? I don't know about that. On gentle days, and believe me today is one, I'm willing to give people the benefit of the doubt and like to say 99% of all people are morons at some point in time and on other days, it's 99% of all people are morons all the time, except that it is exhausting to be a moron all the time, so they have to take breaks too.

Back to the grind

After a nice weekend in Southern Ohio - it's back to the grind. First thing, that happens, is that a sales guy drops another redballinto my lap. A machine that I don't know, a software version that I don't know. All the software engineers, that know the machine, are on the road. Anyway, nothing I cannot handle, a few phone calls and voila. Except the production engineer does not call me back. <whine>. They always do that. When they are not running it's the end of the world. When they are up and running, they are happy and promptly forget to call anybody back </whine>.

Anyway, the bed and breakfast was a blast (http://www.strattonhouse.com). A beautiful house, beautiful weather - cruisin' in the 'Stang with the top down. Dealing with the wife is another issue. One minute your gathering wife faction points, the next minute ...

Why this

It's time to start yawl - yet another web log.

On the way to work this morning, I started thinking, I need to post some of these thoughts. Get it out of the system. So here goes...

What am I listening too now ? The Empire strikes first - Bad Religion: A good punk rock album. A couple of weeks ago, I went to TechEd 2004 in San Diego. On a two occasions I took a spare day and went up to LA (lots a baggage on that town) - they played 'LA is burning' on the radio stations - great song. I also like 'All there is' and 'God's Love'. This record plays great in my stang on the way to slave labor - ooops work I mean.

I'm also listening to Evanescence - a gift for father's day by my daughter - she's getting my sense of music (my wife - god bless her - doesn't !)