Post #290832 by ikitnrev on Fri, Mar 9, 2007 9:34 PM

I think Monkeyman and I both experienced very boring days. His happened 3 years ago, mine happened last week.

Back around 1972, I remember when an older brother brought home from technical school an amazing new item. It was an electronic calculator, which featured an electronic LED readout. It did require an adaptor which one plugged into a wall outlet, but it was a handheld, the first one I had ever seen! All the other calculators I had seen up to that point were the desktop models of the type that bankers used, which printed the results onto a spool on paper.

I would borrow this calculator, and go off with a Sears Christmas catalog, and sit and calculate the sum price total of whatever page I was on. I would then flip the page, calculate the totals for those two pages, and then keep on repeating this process. I would do this for perhaps 20-30 pages, before getting bored and going off to do something else. I was at complete peace while doing this - it was a fun, modern, and electronic toy in my mind .... my brother had to remind me to be careful with it, as it probably cost him well over $100.

While doing the above Tiki Central statistics, I felt a bit of nostalgia for the above memory - for that time in my life when all that was required to keep me happy for a short while was a new-fangled electronic calculator.

My next Tiki central project will be to go through every post, and tally the number of times the letter 'e' and the letter 'i' appear. In the English language, the letter 'i' appears 7.0% of the time, while the letter 'o' appears 7.5% of the time. My hypothesis is that those percentages may be flipped, and that the letter 'i' may appear more than 'o' here, simply because of the frequency that the word 'tiki' appears on this forum.

I will do this twice. Once for the group of members who list their 'from city' as an actual state or city location, and once for the group who list a more abstract location (i.e. Treasure Island, or an isolated desert island)

And I will finally repeat the whole entire project once more -- once while completely sober, and again while consuming mai-tais at the rate of one drink per 30 minutes, to see if the numbers come out the same.

This will all require much training though, and I think I will start with fine-tuning the mai-tai consumption rate. One I have reached the proper level of precision there (estimated date: March 10, 2027 ..... or 3 months before that), then I will count starting the 'o's and the 'i's, but only if I can get an 'O' and a 'K' from you all.

'V''e''r''n'