Efficiency issues

I have this problem where I try to do many things as effiently as possible. Just watch me fill an icecube tray, I promise you I do it better than you. Anyways.

My bike lock is pissing me off because I can't fuggin unlock it as effiently as I'd like. Its a 4 digit combination lock numbered 0 to 9. My problem is I spin them so they are at random numbers when I lock it. When I get back to my bike to leave, I have to turn the dials to the correct number (no shit eh?) my problem I know it would be faster to turn it one way and not the other. Say I have to go to the number 6 and the dial is at say.. 3, easy, turn it to 4 than 5 than 6. Turn it the other way and you have to go through 2, than 1, then 0, 9, 8, 7, finally down to 6; jesus that took forever uhng. Now here is the crux of the issue; the slight fraction of a second it takes me to think which way is the quckest way to get to the correct number, is essentially the same as the time it would take to get around to the number even if I took the long way. How annoying is that.

Now, seeing John Mayer on television at all is a bad thing. I realize that people buy his records, they do well, but he just strikes me as an artist for people who thinks Dave Matthews rocks a little bit too hard.

How many eight year olds could you take down?

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The specifics:

- You are in an enclosed area, roughly the size of a basketball court. There are no foreign objects.

- You are not allowed to touch a wall.

- When you are knocked unconscious, you lose. When they are all knocked unconscious, they lose. Once a kid is knocked unconscious, that kid is "out."

- I (or someone else intent on seeing to it you fail) get to choose the kids from a pool that is twice the size of your magic number. The pool will be 50/50 in terms of gender and will have no discernable abnormalities in terms of demographics, other than they are all healthy Americans.

- The kids receive one day of training from hand-to-hand combat experts who will train them specifically to team up to take down one adult. You will receive one hour of "counter-tactics" training.

- There is no protective padding for any combatant other than a standard-issue cup.

- The kids are motivated enough to not get scared, regardless of the bloodshed. Even the very last one will give it his/her best to take you down.

So how many do you think you could take?

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Condoleezza Rice is, I think, the ugliest meanest nastest most all around unplesant looking humans alive. Just thought I should get that off my chest.