Had a nice message a couple of days back from someone who signed themselves “inu inu” and ended their flattering email with a link to http://feralliving.blogspot.com, which I’m assuming is this bloke’s blog.
Whoever’s responsible for it, there’s some smart and spiffy stuff up there. Including the “Chaos Coefficient Calculator”, which I loved. You enter the number of pets and family members in your household, it calculates your Chaos Coefficient - the amount of nuttyfunstuff in your daily life.
Mine is 729 – counting Sausage, the bairns, Nozzle the World’s Biggest Cat and an approximate tally for the sea monkeys (they count as pets, don’t they?). Seems remarkably low.
However, soon as I add in parents, siblings, sibling offspring, and immediate in-laws, the number jumps to 6.878229928704558e+31.
I was tempted to give the calculator one more run, this time including all of the many aunts, uncles, cousins, second cousins, great aunts, third cousins twice removed's sister’s next-door neighbour’s stick insect’s friend-of-a-friend’s priest’s delivery boy’s uncle’s plumber’s housekeeper's chicken's vet. The full extended Irish family thing. But the bloke who keeps the blog at this site seems like a nice enough chap and probably doesn’t deserve to have his calculator melted.
BTW: when I first read the URL for this blog, I glossed the second “L” in the middle, and heard it in my head as “Fer a living”. I had high hopes before the site loaded that I’d find stories from one who blogs “fer a living”. Now there’s a neat job.
Wish some one would pay me to do that.
David had a mini-bogus contest going on about this kind of URL trap, way back whenever in JOHO.
Whoever’s responsible for it, there’s some smart and spiffy stuff up there. Including the “Chaos Coefficient Calculator”, which I loved. You enter the number of pets and family members in your household, it calculates your Chaos Coefficient - the amount of nuttyfunstuff in your daily life.
Mine is 729 – counting Sausage, the bairns, Nozzle the World’s Biggest Cat and an approximate tally for the sea monkeys (they count as pets, don’t they?). Seems remarkably low.
However, soon as I add in parents, siblings, sibling offspring, and immediate in-laws, the number jumps to 6.878229928704558e+31.
I was tempted to give the calculator one more run, this time including all of the many aunts, uncles, cousins, second cousins, great aunts, third cousins twice removed's sister’s next-door neighbour’s stick insect’s friend-of-a-friend’s priest’s delivery boy’s uncle’s plumber’s housekeeper's chicken's vet. The full extended Irish family thing. But the bloke who keeps the blog at this site seems like a nice enough chap and probably doesn’t deserve to have his calculator melted.
BTW: when I first read the URL for this blog, I glossed the second “L” in the middle, and heard it in my head as “Fer a living”. I had high hopes before the site loaded that I’d find stories from one who blogs “fer a living”. Now there’s a neat job.
Wish some one would pay me to do that.
David had a mini-bogus contest going on about this kind of URL trap, way back whenever in JOHO.
