So in many ways the laser was born on that park bench, which is why, especially after the whale picture surfaced, I couldn't help but wonder: What if Dr. Townes, instead of taking that timeout, had taken a phone call, or checked his email, or sent a text, or played Angry Birds?
"I told Stuckey on the way out of the timeout that I knew they were to do that — I know his tendencies," Wade said.
The difference, of course, was that this timeout destroyed millions of jobs and wasted trillions of dollars.
Except for a couple of works that offered timeouts from the intensity, like Eric Moe's ruminative "When Branched Thoughts Murmur in the Wind," tenderly played by Marc Ponthus, the pieces performed were steely, piercingly atonal, dauntingly complex and mega-difficult.
This has not been the most aesthetically pleasing season in college basketball, with the curse of the No. 1 ranking, a dearth of offense and a plague of timeouts that delay the end of games.
Recently, researches on the performance of TCP reveal that spurious timeouts due to the increase in unexpected delay can considerably degrade the performance of TCP.
But out of the timeout, Kidd took another jumper that bounced off the rim.
Coming out of the timeout, the Celtics ran a play that ended with Kendrick Perkins scoring on an easy layup.
The players were apparently unaware of the timeout, although Brady said after the game that he heard the whistle.
Our results also suggest that analytical models of the TCP throughput should certainly benefit from the incorporation of the timeout loss rate.
