Amazing Fun With Numbers

Last night over a couple of beers, Joe, Pat, and I roughly estimated our lifetime beer consumption.

We started with the estimate that our careers begain roughly at the age of 19. Next we surmized that we have averaged 1, 16 ounce beer a day since then. Plug the numbers and vio-la... 41 kegs.

16 * 365 = 5,840 * 7 years = 40,880 lifetime onces /64 onces in a gallon = 638.75 lifetime gallons /15.5 gallons in a keg = 41.20 Lifetime kegs. Part of me is proud, part of me thinks it maybe time to start shopping for a new liver. Either way just some good ole fashioned fun with numbers.

After that, I'm not even going to try to estimate the amount of fast-food I've put-down. Because I really don't want to know.

"There's nothing more exciting than science. You get all the fun of sitting still, being quiet, writing down numbers, paying attention. Science has it all."
Seymour Skinner, The Simpsons