Estimated number of books in Scott Eric Kaufman's apartment: 15,000
Estimated number of silverfish: 1,421,749
Percentage of William Gass' The Tunnel Kaufman has read: 17.8
Chance 17.8 percent is less calculation than concoction: 5 in 5
Average number of "motivational" speeches Kaufman delivers to himself on any given day: 18
Optimistic projection of how many motivational speeches he will deliver tomorrow: 0
Chance that the previous statement is unadulterated wishful thinking: 1 in 1
Number of days until pitchers and catchers report: 15
Percentage of Acephalous' readership to whom that matters: 0
Percentage of Acephalous' authors to whom that matters: 50
Chance that Kaufman will have his latest dissertation chapter finished by tomorrow: 1 in 1,000,000
Number of times he has said it will be finished by tomorrow: 1,941
Chance that he will wake up feeling dirty tomorrow: 1 in 1,000,000
Numerical representation of how much he doesn't want his advisor to read that: 9,319,218,381,39210
Number of nights per week Kaufman cannot sleep because of "The Fear": 2
Chance that he watches Batman Begins to try and tamp it down: 1 in 1
Percentage of lecture on A.J. Liebling consisting of the placeholder "there's a way in which": 58
Exact number of times Kaufman made eye contact with each of the 72 students in the classroom: 2
Chance that Kaufman thinks the phrase "eye contact" should be amended to "eyes contact": 1 in 4
Number of times a gag can be repeated before succumbing to the law of diminishing returns: 14
You're off by 1-2% on the pitcher and catcher numbers. Of course, if the Braves don't sign a decent closer, I might lose interest pretty quickly.
Posted by: Chuck | Tuesday, 31 January 2006 at 11:16 PM
The Cubs, Tigers, Angels, Dodgers, Phillies, Giants, Mariners, and Rangers all report the 15th . . . and today's not the 1st, as I've been thinking it's been all day.
And without Leo to turn some shmuck into a worthy reliever, I worry, er, "worry" that this may be the year the Braves' streak ends. (I'm a Mets fan, after all.)
Posted by: Scott Eric Kaufman | Wednesday, 01 February 2006 at 10:31 AM
You might want to include the empty gazes and awkward silences from students as a placeholder as well. Seriously, what was wrong with everyone yesterday? You were great, as usual.
Posted by: Zach | Wednesday, 01 February 2006 at 12:25 PM
The best part was the link back to the Gobble-gobble post. Why can't you write more of those?
Posted by: Sour Duck | Friday, 03 February 2006 at 11:45 PM
(That was meant in a jokey way.)
Posted by: Sour Duck | Friday, 03 February 2006 at 11:46 PM
number of times this reader chuckled at your stats: 14
Posted by: academic coach | Saturday, 04 February 2006 at 07:55 PM
I can handle batting .678 or so . . .
Posted by: Scott Eric Kaufman | Saturday, 04 February 2006 at 08:08 PM