Ty census:
  • Naperville = 627 people
  • Chicago = 1,000-something people
  • USA = 1.2 million
It was math time tonight when we got started. I was going to show Ty how to figger how much $1 trillion dollars is for each person in the US. I quickly got a notion that Ty's 9 year-old guess-timates of the size of the world were a little off. He he.

The real census:
  • Naperville = ~150K
  • Chicago = ~ 3M
  • USA = ~300M
So, for the record, (Ty and I didn't get this far with all our census shenaigans) $1 trillion dollars is more than $3,000 for each man, woman and child in the country. A family of 4 is tossing $12,000 into the campfire. A trillion is a million million. I was thinking of penning a letter to President Obama asking for a paltry 1 millionth of the "stimulus" package.

Some other cool stats for you. The US census guys have their own guess-timates:
One birth every..................................   8 seconds
One death every..................................  12 seconds
One international migrant (net) every............  36 seconds
Net gain of one person every.....................  14 seconds
These are from: www.census.gov/population/www/popclockus.html
They also have a people-o-meter with the "current" population of the US running, based on the stats above.

QOTD
"There are a billion people in China.
That means even if you're one in a million...
There are a thousand other guys out there, just like you."
- ???
I heart "Free the Bee" by Melt Banana. Ty too.
I saw Melt Banana in NYNY with Tommy back in the day.
Here's the wigged-out lead (girlie) singer and the Sars-mask-wearing guitarist.



free the bee... yow, bill

PS - Stay tuned... I'm 2/3 of the way through "The Road"... about as fucked up a book as I can recall reading.
PPS - And as the glossy, paperback book cover says, "Now a major motion picture"... www.imdb.com/title/tt0898367/. What the... Viggo Mortenson and Charlize Theron... talk about fucked up. Why didn't they just throw Kate Winslett in there. That inspires a QOTD.

QOTD2
"He'd sell cancer if they paid him."
- Moz
Amen, Mozy.

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