TTC Car and Platform Dec 9, 2004

I read in Wired recently an amateur mathematical analysis of Murphy's Law correlating the importance of doing something at a particular moment against the chance it will go wrong.

Case in point: when you're rushing to get somewhere on time with the TTC, what's the chance that the car will get stopped at a station for 10 minutes and you'll be stuck standing there. Or better yet, stuck there and so bored that you take a picture of the open door track. As above.

It's a fairly terrible photo but it served to bolster my cynical view for the day. :)