Joho the Blog
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May 26, 2005
And I expect something nice from y'all then. This piece of superfluity comes via TimeAndDate.com . (Thanks to Marcia Blake for the link.)Posted
by D. Weinberger at May 26, 2005 09:03 AM
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A billion seconds ago, it was 1959.
A billion minutes ago, Jesus was alive.
A billion hours ago, our ancestors were living in the Stone Age.
A billion dollars ago was only 8 hours and 20 minutes, at the rate Washington spends it.
Posted by: w | May 30, 2005 03:43 PM
Uh, do the math:
1000000000/60/60/24/365.25=31.68
A billion seconds ago (as of May 2005), therefore, was late in 1972.
If you don't bother to do that minimal fact-checking, how can you trust the accuracy of the rest of this piece? How about _thinking_ instead of cutting and pasting?
Posted by: Jim | September 25, 2005 01:16 AM
Jim, given my mathematical inabilities, my doing the math would not constitute fact checking. You doing the math does constitute fact cecking. Thank you.
Note to readers: Joho has never gotten a fact right.
Posted by: David Weinberger | September 25, 2005 09:23 AM
Am a billion seconds old
Posted by: Griffonia | March 6, 2007 12:50 PM