Posts Tagged “nerd stuff”
For the math nerds / baseball fans: http://www.brynashley.com/statistcally-how-hard-is-it-to-get-4-home-runs-in-a-game-or-pitch-a-perfect-game
For the past month I’ve been doing a little experiment. Each day I would do a set of push-ups until I couldn’t do any more. Push-ups to failure, I called it. On day 1, I only could muster up a mere 27 push ups. By day 30, I was up to 72, a 267% improvement! [...]
The other day I was curious how much we spend on food. We’ve been fortunate enough to never have a strict grocery “budget” per se; I mean we’re not eating caviar, but we’re not eating ramen either. And I’m like pretty awesome when it comes to maximizing my Safeway Club Card savings. I looked at [...]
An object at rest will stay at rest, and an object in motion will stay in motion, until acted on by some external force. It applies to people and businesses just the same. The things we do, and the things we don’t we do, start to fall into a predictable pattern. And we do things [...]
Last week I hit 30,000 emails in my gmail inbox. I’m adding messages and attachments faster than Google is increasing the storage limit — I’m up to 43% of capacity, compared to 31% in August of 2010. Eventually I’ll have to do some cleanup. Is email volume accelerating? Nerd stuff.
