« Conferences again | Main | Brains »

Murphy's Law of Copiers

When it is the most inconvenient time possible, the copier will spazz out on you and waste an incredible amount of your time and take years off your life in stress. This should be called the missing fourth law of thermodynamics: all copiers tend towards maximum entropy exactly when it will most annoy you. I'm sure you can appreciate how ground-breaking my new postulate is in thermodynamics due to the inclusion of a time axis. I should have been a theoretician.

Henry has been grappling with the idea of infinity. 'What's the largest number?' he asks. Jenn jumps in with 'there isn't one'. To which Henry brings out his favorite response, 'Why?'. ' Because you can add one to any number, no matter what it is' Jenn sagely volleys back. Then there is the characteristic silence, with wheels churning behind his brown eyes, staring vaguely away, and finally ending with Henry diving back into his syrup-drenched pancakes after having apparently reached some level of internal satisfaction about it and leaving us maddeningly curious about whether he gets it or not. By the way, I'm starting to think Jenn is a closet mathematician.

TrackBack

TrackBack URL for this entry:
http://www.jennanddave.com/cgi-bin/mt/mt-tb.cgi/1081

Post a comment