Wednesday, June 10, 2009

thought experiment

If, as they say, a million monkeys pounding on a million typewriters for millions of years would eventually produce the works of Shakespeare ...

Then how long would it take my cat to produce Hemingway's The Old Man and the Sea by walking back and forth across our laptops as we attempt to work (which apparently one of her favorite sources of entertainment, judging by the frequency she chooses to do it)?

Thoughts like these prevent me from actually being productive and getting my finals done early.

4 comments:

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Cafe Pasadena said...

Your cat wood bee long dead before she got the first sentence right.
For a tough job like that you can't mess around - you need a canine.

Me said...

it's impossible to say. but a million years is probably not enough for the monkeys or the cat. you need infinity to guarantee the result.

Jonathan Gross said...

Nala's favorite sentence so far is zzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzxza. She's really coming along now, maybe she can tutor Sophie!