Nobody Can Eat Fifty Eggs.

If you've ever needed to know exactly how many eggs my brother John collects from his hens in any given week -- wonder no more!

John's Hen Monitoring web site gives you a graphical display of the weekly egg output.

The man is rich in eggs.

It's reminiscent of...

...trixie update which keeps you up to date with exact figures on the sleep, diaper and bottle habits of one very over-analysed infant.

And that in turn is similar to MoodStats.com, produced by the Cuban Council, which provides realtime information on the mood of any geek who wishes to contribute.

I'm not exactly excited about a future in which us (and all our pets) will be permanently hooked into one giant battery-hen style fattening-farm, with all of our vital readings being broadcast for consumption by faceless web services, feeding the industrial-military-corporate-complex. but you can't stop progress.

In order to take part in this analytical orgy i present:

Number of Times Ziggy (the kitten) attempted to eat my breakfast in the last three days despite my insistent cries of 'oi! get down!'^*

Date		# attempts
29 July		(2)
28 July		(0)	(kitten was excellent)
27 July		(9)

_{* Don't rely upon these figures in order to make financial decisions. Consult an independent financial adviser first.}

Uh, thanks.

'mike' on Thu, 29 Jul 2004 01:54:09 GMT, sez:

An interesting chart, but it looks like it's likely to give you results that give you undue cause for optimism (July 28) or despair (July 27). I think you need to use a moving average and plot a Ziggy trend line.

'secretGeek' on Thu, 29 Jul 2004 02:49:33 GMT, sez:

yes Mike, a ZTL based on a moving average may give better results for users of all Ziggy data. Very keen observation. But unfortunately all ideas have to be approved by Ziggy. And the Z is not easy to please.

I should point out that John doesn't personally collect all the eggs (no human could manage such a staggering feat on their own), but shares the responsibilities with his entire household. (i.e., both he and Al)

cheers
leon

'Mike Gunderloy' on Thu, 29 Jul 2004 14:15:00 GMT, sez:

I'm simply crushed that you didn't include http://www.larkfarm.com/eggs.asp

'secretGeek' on Thu, 29 Jul 2004 20:38:05 GMT, sez:

wow! your egg page is almost identical to john's. or vice-versa. that is uncanny.

i'm certain that it's just a case of parallel evolution, not plagiarism. but really that makes it more interesting.

i should've guessed that the larkfarmer would have just such a page. But don't you need a column for # Lark Eggs? and # Rooster Eggs?

'B' on Thu, 29 Jul 2004 22:38:54 GMT, sez:

Please, please, please don't tell me that you named your kitten after the illustrious leader of a certain Aussie telco :-)

'sg' on Thu, 29 Jul 2004 22:56:52 GMT, sez:

no B -- quite the opposite!

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