Archive for the ‘Food & Diet’ Category
Friday, May 9th, 2008
A Quick Announcement: Last Friday's "Your Weight In..." calculator has been updated to calculate the value of your weight in Spam, foie gras, and Snausages. This is in addition to your weight in gold, crude oil, lard, pretzels, pennies, and Hummers.
And Now Back To Our Regularly Scheduled Programming... ...
Posted in Content, Food & Diet, Weight/Mass | 3 Comments »
Monday, May 5th, 2008
On Friday, I created a calculator where you could find out how much you're worth if you're worth your weight in gold, pretzels, crude oil, etc.
It occurred to me that some people might be a little embarrassed to put in their real weight. A bit silly since it's not ...
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Wednesday, April 30th, 2008
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We all know the tongue twister: "Peter Piper picked a peck of pickled peppers. How many pickled peppers did Peter Piper pick?" But not a lot of people know the answer, which is: "it depends."
A peck is not a count, like a dozen. ...
Posted in Food & Diet, Volume | 1 Comment »
Friday, April 25th, 2008
In my previous post, I discussed the British Thermal Unit (BTU) and how it converted into horsepower. The thing I didn't mention is that a BTU is very similar to a food calorie. A BTU is the energy needed to raise one pound of water by one ...
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Monday, April 14th, 2008
This weekend I pulled out my trusty kitchen scale, a half-cup measure, placed the measure on the scale, zeroed it out, and began spooning in Jello Brand Chocolate Pudding from pudding cups I got in the refrigerated aisle. I wanted to determine the pudding's weight by volume, because I'd ...
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Tuesday, April 8th, 2008
Welcome to Rough Equivalents. This is where my twisted brain comes up with odd factoids like how long it would take to drive to the moon in rush hour traffic, creating strange correlations and using odd measurements. It's fun with math, but plain enough that you don't have ...
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