The Best Laid Plans of Mice and Men

Or in this case, of coconuts and men. And of Mustangs and busses.

A must read summary of Aaron at Freewill’s Thursday.

I won’t tell you what it’s about, but here is a snippet:

We had no tools of any significance, particularly not the tool of choice for this sort of work, the machete. While Jim thoughtfully tapped the coconut on his desk, I observed that we looked like a bunch of chimps trying to do algebra, and that we needed a 2001: A Space Odyssey style monolith.

“Why, so we can drop it on the coconut?”

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