What Is Rough Equivalents?

Many moons ago, upset about a policy change at CafePress, I wrote a blog post about how many hours of labor it might cost across their pool of shopkeepers. I came up with 25,000 hours.

To make this figure more accessible, I came up with a list of things 25,000 hours was roughly equal to. A few favorites....

• 25,000 hours is how long it takes to cook half-a-million three-minute eggs... in a row.
• 25,000 hours is 180 million split seconds.
• 25,000 hours at two maximum strength Tylenols every 4 hours for pain is a 3 month old baby made entirely of Tylenol.
• 25,000 hours is how long it takes to go to the moon and back... in rush hour traffic (19.2 m.p.h.)... both ways.

A while back, slogging through traffic, that last one returned to me. It had been fun coming up with that list and I'd been looking for a new project.

I figured that there wasn't going to be a whole lot of competition in the silly mathematics niche, and I decided to commit to three posts a week so I could keep it light enough to remain fun and still have time to work a day job so I could afford to buy my kid Speed Racer pajamas.

It's fun, it entertains me, and I hope it will entertain you.

Thanks for reading,

Greg Bulmash