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Archives for February 2010

Prepare to be bored…

February 4, 2010 by Lloyd 21 Comments

I was noticing something the other day whilst reading a book. I said to myself, “There are a lot of pages in this book.” I’ve been reading for while now, and I know about how big books are. So when I looked at this seemingly normal book and noticed that I was on page 500, I knew that something was up.

I went down to the basement and pulled several other similar sized books off the shelf (and one bigger and one smaller) and started to compare them. I almost immediately noticed that they all had pages. Then I noticed that one of them probably belongs to Brad and that I’ve had it since maybe high school.

One of these is REALLY over due.

Looking at those books, you’d probably imagine that the five in the middle are roughly the same size. Except now, with two paragraphs of build-up you’d probably imagine anything at all but. Well, here’s the data…

Book Year Cost Pages Words ¢ / kWords in 2009 dollars
tEotW 1990 $6.99 814 320,000 2.2 3.1
E 2006 $7.99 638 265,000 3.0 3.2
tRotK 1986 $3.95 543 182,000 2.2 4.3
M 1984 $3.50 358 142,000 2.5 5.1
BA 1983 $2.95 327 121,000 2.4 5.3
Mot5M 1980 $2.25 373 131,000 1.7 4.5
BtH 1948 $0.75 158 78,000 1.0 8.6

 

So, what’s the point? There are probably lots of points you could make from that mess. Some of them might even be true. My point? I had no idea that you could make a page half as wide as another page. I mean, pages are already pretty thin. Do they just split them down the middle?

For years I’ve been watching the price of books go up. I started buying books my freshman year in high school, and my memory was that they typically cost between $1.95 and $2.25 each. Lately they cost more like $6.99 and up. It was starting to get my goat until I did the calculations for that last column. Adjusting for inflation, I’m actually paying quite a bit less per word. It sort of makes you feel sorry for authors.

Filed Under: Lloyd Tagged With: books, math

Creepy ice fangs

February 4, 2010 by Lauren 8 Comments

We haven’t had much snow lately (though it’s supposed to start up again tonight), and we’ve actually had a bit of sun the past few days, so the snow piles have had a chance to melt and re-freeze. It’s both beautiful and creepy.

Can you guess where this picture was taken?

I wish I had taken better pictures – the difference between the knobby ice crystals and the smooth icicles is pretty cool.

Filed Under: Lauren

66% complete……

February 2, 2010 by Lauren 6 Comments

Behold! Wolverine-like Lloyd!

Lloyd made a survey for the middle schoolers to fill out that gave them four choices for his hair, and four for his beard. The hair part I’ll still keep secret, but of Abraham Lincoln, Wolverine, Fu Manchu, or goatee – they chose Wolverine. He decided to ease into the look with the Abraham beard, but now he’s fully committed. (He can’t get his hair cut because he always comes home after Bob the Barber closes.)

Y’know, if someone had told me as a young girl that part of marriage would be to look up images of an X-Men hero on my laptop in the bathroom while my husband shaves off part of his beard and then make a slashed-up tie for him to wear, I never would have believed them.

Note the green pens.  I actually made a prototype retractor, but it was too bulky.

Best. Marriage. Ever.

Filed Under: Lloyd, Prototype

Baberaham Lincoln

February 2, 2010 by Lauren 13 Comments

The middle schoolers voted last Friday on Lloyd’s haircut/beardcut, and while I can’t reveal the final incarnation, he is in the first stage of transmogrification.

Clue: I’m trying to work out a green-pens-shooting-out-of-his-hands prototype.

Hey, this is post 1212. That’s got to mean something, right?

Filed Under: Lloyd

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