May 02, 2008
New unit of measurement: The Bible?
The Bible turns out to be a handy unit of measurement, particularly when you're trying to help folks some grasp large storage media or data transfer rates.
It doesn't matter whether you believe in what's in it, of course, it's just that most folks have seen one. I'd wager that most folks have a reasonable concept of its size, even if only in heft or "thud factor".
I used it as an example way back when as I tried to convey some concepts to my parents. This disk? It could hold X bibles! And this connection here, we can send the entire Bible in Y seconds! Wow!
A random copy of The Bible, text only, from project Gutenberg (http://www.gutenberg.org) "weighs in" at roughly 5 megabytes.
With that as a unit of measure:
My phone now has enough memory for about 200 Bibles.
The USB thumb drive on my keychain? Over 6,000 Bibles. (6 KiloBibles?)
And the new hard disk I just installed?
186,000+ Bibles. Almost two tenths of a MegaBible.
Now doesn't that just sound way more impressive?
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May 01, 2008
Seattle Native Test
OK, this is a test for everyone who claims to be a Seattle native/local.
What is this:
It'll should bring a fond smile to true natives.
I'll update this post with the answer in a few days.
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