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How obsessive am I?

A few minutes after strolling into the happiest cube on Earth this morning, two people in a cube adjacent to me began a conversation about a completely unremarkable topic.  What was absolutely amazing was the continual interruption of one of them by the other with an overpowering stream of "Uh-huh", "OK", "Yeah" and "Right".  The machine gun like, interruptor blast from this guy was relentless.  So what else was there for me to do while draining my morning cup a joe, scanning Domino server logs (yeech) and being forced to listen to this???  Start doing a little of my own logging, of course.  According to my stats, he managed to spit out

49 utterances of "Right"
85 utterances of "Uh-huh"
24 utterances of "Yeah"
24 utterances of "OK!"

Which, averaged out over the 10 minute collection period, breaks down to

4.9 Rights per/minute
8.5 Uh-huhs per/minute
2.4 Yeahs per/minute
2.4 OKs per/minute

and that adds up to 18.2 interruptions per/minute.  Almost 1 interruption every 3 seconds. 

That's almost as impressive as the guy at my last job who used to chew each bite of his Grape-Nuts cereal 15 to 20 times before swallowing. 

Yes, I am completely insane.

Neat iTunes feature

If you work in an office, use iTunes regularly and haven't noticed that you can access the libraries of other iTunes users, check it out.  Very cool feature.  You have to be on the same subnet to share files and no, Apple won't let you swap files with someone via iTunes, but it's pretty cool.  As long as your co-workers taste in music doesn't suck.  Me, I've been enjoying my neighbor's Boards of Canada album that I'm too cheap to go buy.

BTW - if you're into listening to political podcasts, I recommend Left, Right and Center.  It's a great roundtable discussion amongst some of my fav. pundits.

http://www.kcrw.org/podcast/

Hmm...

http://www.radcompany.net/Storys/NewsStorys/Limozeenz/Limozeenz.html