NUMB3R5?

There are lots of numbers that we deal with. It sucks, but it's true what your teachers back in elementary school said about the math that you were learning back then... You actually do use some of it. Nothing really past elementary school though. (Just as an aside, so far, not couting these, there were 44 words in that previous paragraph... In college, i was known to be able to rattle off around 2000 word essays in 2 hours, or if in a pinch, once in a half hour, or 30 minutes).

As an illustration of what i'm talking about.... consider this:
We live in a 24/7, 365 world where we need our 8 glasses of water with our 0 calories, and our 20 minutes a day, just 3 times a week in 4 easy payments of 19.99 world. My pin number is linked to my account number which can be accessed through my social security number or my driver's license number or sometimes even my atm card number. If none of those numbers are available, i can always sign up for a new account number using the aforementioned numbers.

Why do i know that there are 5,280 feet in 1 mile? Why is it that there are 3 feet in a yard, but i don't know how many yards there are in a mile without pulling out a calculator? (1760 btw...). Then we get into conversions between different measuring systems. There are 2.54 centimeters in an inch, and 3.785411784 liters in a gallon.

I used to memorize phone numbers, but i don't anymore, because that's what my cell phone is for. But in the place of where i once memorized phone numbers, i can now tell you which number corresponds to which letter when sending a text message or saving someone's name into the phone.

I graduated in 1999, the end of the last millenium (sort of), and now it is 6/14/2006, and depending on when you read this, there are at least 3 more numbers associated with the actual time. (made you look) I have 12 buddies out of 132 that are online right now on my buddy list (why doesn't anyone use this thing anymore?).

I'm drinking a can of coke that has 140 calories out of my daily requirement of 2,000, or 6,000 if you're... uh, athletic... yeah... (fat).

My computer has 128 megs of ram (it's really old), and 80,000,000 bytes of hard drive space. It's plugged into a wall plug that offers up around 120v of power, and depending on how high i turn the dial, the speakers pump out an x number of decibels (haha, didn't think i'd break out the algebra huh?).

Season 2 of lost just ended with around 24 episodes shown and going on hiatus for 4 months. Until then, i can spend the summer season watching 14 new episodes of monk while i try to make $1,000,000.00 bucks (one of those two things isn't going to happen, and i never miss an episode of monk).

So, until next time, try to contemplate the number of calories you're intaking on a daily basis and what that means if you multiply it by 365. Make sure you get 100% of all the daily vitamins needed, and try not to intake 5000% of the fat that's needed like most people tend to do (myself included). Drive safely to work in your 30mpg car that you bought for $28,995.99 and think about how the gas prices are soon going to top $4.




Mitch Hedber's QotD:

I can't tell you what hotel I'm staying at, but there are two trees involved. They said, "Let's call this 'something tree'," so they had a meeting. It was quite short. "How about 'Tree.'" "No." "'DoubleTree'?" "Hell YEAH! Meeting adjourned!" "I had my heart set on 'QuadrupleTree.' We were almost there!"

I met the girl that works at the DoubleTree front desk. She gave me her phone number; it's Zero. I tried to call her from here; some other woman answered. I said, "You sound older."