Pointless Announcements

My Christmas gift shopping is done, and with two exceptions that are currently being shipped, all my Christmas gifts are now wrapped.

Yippee!!

 

Oh my God, I am dying.

DYING!

 

Billy Jack is dead!!






R.I.P. Tom Laughlin

 

I am doing all of my Christmas shopping today. From home! Boy I hope it all gets here in time.

 

This week is going to be sooooooo long. I'm adding 3 days to my 2 holiday days off next week to make a week long vacation. DaddySquirrel and i are going to the coast, probably the "Big City" AND we're going to get BabySquirrel's nursery together. It should be a great week.

Oh yeah, and Jesus's birth is in there somewhere.

 

I would make a terrible soccer player.

 

Meh..me too, but I still like playing. Had to quit at 13 weeks for the baby, but plan on playing again.

The indoor complex where I play has a little soccer camp for kids that are 18 months old. I'll probably sign up BabySquirrel because they work on a lot of fine motor skills with the kids and she'll get to socialize with kids her age. (Not that she won't in Daycare, but it's still nice.) I'll probably wait until she's a wee bit older though.

 

I say get her involved as early as possible. Learning to kick ass early is a valuable 21st century skill. She can take it.

Sitting here watching a football game and a soccer game side by side.

Football is bullshit. I knew this before. It's just been confirmed.

 

She kicks like a beast now, so I'm sure she can handle it.

 

Jesus, what are the odds?

Some dude with the same last name as mine ordered something similar from the same website literally right after I did and I got his order/receipt in my box. I'm going to mail his stuff out to him because I'm Not A Dick, but it's still pretty funny.

 

Whee!

 

Our dog, who has Lyme disease and has been unable to walk for the past two days, is finally able to get up again. Yay for antibiotics!

 

Okay, let's assume his name is Smith.

No, let's not, because someone named Smith would never say "Jesus, what are the odds?" in this kind of situation.

So let's say he has the #2 surname: Johnson.

There are about 2.0 million people named Johnson in the U.S., out of a population of about 317 million.

That means, one out of every 159 people has the same surname as Mr. Plan 9 Johnson.

Now, let's make the entirely unwarranted assumption that people who order from the web site in question are a random sample of the U.S. population. Therefore, one out of every 159 orders would come from someone named Johnson.

Another unwarranted assumption: the site in question is Amazon.com. Probably he would have mentioned it by name if it were Amazon, but I'm going to go with that.

Amazon had revenue of $60 billion last year. Apparently their business is increasing, so let's say this year the total is $70 billion. Let's say ALL of that revenue came from online orders. If the average order is $50 worth of stuff, that means they get 1.4 billion orders per year. That works out to 44 orders per second.

Probably it's higher during business hours, lower at night, but let's assume that this took place in a time of day that was close to that average.

Next, we have to interpret the words "literally right after I did".

Let's say that means, within 10 seconds of Plan 9 Johnson's order.

In 10 seconds, Amazon would get about 440 orders. If one out of every 159 orders comes from a Johnson, you'd expect to see more than two Johnson orders in any 10 second period.

On the other hand, he could have meant an order that came in next after his, that is, before any other non-Johnson orders arrived.

So instead of looking at 440 orders, we're only looking at the very next order after Plan9's. And the chance of that being another Johnson would be, given the assumptions above, about one out of 159.