Don’t worry, this isn’t about politics. I just noticed that someone has too much time on his hands and thought I’d point it out. Follow me here:

Yesterday, at 9:57 AM Tuesday, Jonah Goldberg proposed the Krugman Cat Altitude Index, based on a comment minutes earlier that the cynical Times columnist Paul Krugman probably kicked his cat across the room at news that the economy was doing better. The Index would be a complex mathematical formula that would take various economic indicators and figure out how high Krugman must have kicked his cat upon hearing of them.

That was yesterday morning, mind you.

Today, at 11:30 AM, the prototype Krugman’s Cat Altitude Index is already here! Look at this thing!

So let me get this straight: in 24 hours, this programmer, Jeremy Yoder (who supposedly has a real job), figured out how the index would work, programmed it, found photographic artwork of a cat in numerous positions, found a photograph of a guy reading a paper and modified it, found alternating photos of the background, dug up a screeching cat sound effect, overlaid another layer of a computerized graph, constructed the page showcasing it and has it posted?

How? How can I find people like this to do fun stuff for me based on off-hand comments on my weblog? And how can I get a “real job” like Yoder’s?