I like the tv show Scrubs. It is silly but clever. Who knew that being a new doctor is a hospital was so funny.
The janitor doesn't like our hero, a young physician. The janitor is older than J.D. and doesn't like that the young greenhorn is admired and increasingly competent. J.D. gets picked on by the janitor and his less competent assistant. J.D. challenges them: "I have 30 cents in two coins and one of them is not a nickel." After a couple of days the janitorial team announces they have solved the problem. The janitorial assistant announces with pride they have been to the "liberry". Head janitor corrects him: "libRary". They have found a misprinted dime now worth 29 cents and they added a usual penny.
J.D. informs them they haven't found the solution. OK, smart guy, what is the solution? Thirty cents = a quarter and a nickel. But one of the coins is not a nickel. True but the other one is.
Today, Bill Kirby went to the library for the first time in a year. What a pleasure! I went straight to the new non-fiction and looked at every book. I borrowed "Volume Control", about noise around us today and "Everyday Bias" about exactly that.
