That's only about 2.5 miles shorter than the Nordschleife.

Ani DeFranco - Promiscuity

"I mean how you gonna know What you need What you like Till you been around the block A few times on that bike"

bearmtnmartin wrote: GRM never fails to entertain. I have friend in high school who liked to wear a t shirt with a picture of a buck toothed rodent wearing a miners hard hat and lamp, and the caption was....official beaver inspector. No teacher ever looked close enough to actually figure it out and tell him not to wear it. I am just throwimg that out there because I have nothing to add to the original post.

and to think i had to change my shirt in high school because it had a picture of a bull with the caption 'bull shirt'

RX Reven' wrote: I once calculated that all of the turds I’ll lay in my life placed end-to-end will likely come to ~3.78 miles.

if this isn't a word problem in some 6th grade math book then the public school system has let us down more then we already knew.

I'm amazed this hasn't been locked, yet.

Way to keep it from going off the rails.

This bastard is so far off the rails, they can't find it to kill it.

Brett_Murphy wrote: I'm amazed this hasn't been locked, yet. Way to keep it from going off the rails.

I'm going to take this as genuine. Thanks!

BeerBaron and I have springboarded off into E-mails, and are likewise having an pen and honest discussion.

Politics and religion doesn't have to be a scary place to be. We have proven it again!

edizzle89 wrote:

RX Reven' wrote: I once calculated that all of the turds I’ll lay in my life placed end-to-end will likely come to ~3.78 miles.

if this isn't a word problem in some 6th grade math book then the public school system has let us down more then we already knew.

Tech companies like Google, etc. are notorious for asking interview questions like this to see if you can use general knowledge to produce an answer you wouldn’t likely know.

“How many slices of pizza are eaten in the world per day”

Hmmm…7.5 billion people…25% are pizza eaters (7.5 X 0.25 = 1.8) X once per week (1.8 X 0.15 = 0.25) X 2.5 slices per sitting (0.625)…I’m going to say about 625 million.

“You’re hired”

RX Reven' wrote: Tech companies like Google, etc. are notorious for asking interview questions like this to see if you can use general knowledge to produce an answer you wouldn’t likely know. “How many slices of pizza are eaten in the world per day” Hmmm…7.5 billion people…25% are pizza eaters (7.5 X 0.25 = 1.8) X once per week (1.8 X 0.15 = 0.25) X 2.5 slices per sitting (0.625)…I’m going to say about 625 million. “You’re hired”

I used to think these were devilishy hard general knowledge questions because I didn't understand that you were allowed to pull numbers out of your ass to solve them.

The correct answer to "how many piano tuners are in Chicago," if you don't work for an Illinois piano tuner's industry group or something and aren't allowed access to any outside information to find an answer, is "I have no goddamn idea."

GameboyRMH wrote:

RX Reven' wrote: Tech companies like Google, etc. are notorious for asking interview questions like this to see if you can use general knowledge to produce an answer you wouldn’t likely know. “How many slices of pizza are eaten in the world per day” Hmmm…7.5 billion people…25% are pizza eaters (7.5 X 0.25 = 1.8) X once per week (1.8 X 0.15 = 0.25) X 2.5 slices per sitting (0.625)…I’m going to say about 625 million. “You’re hired”

I used to think these were devilishy hard general knowledge questions because I didn't understand that you were allowed to pull numbers out of your ass to solve them. The correct answer to "how many piano tuners are in Chicago," if you don't work for an Illinois piano tuner's industry group or something and aren't allowed access to any outside information to find an answer, is "I have no goddamn idea."

No cheating…

Illinois has a fairly large population relative to other states (say twice the average) so (330 / 50) X 2 = 13.2 million.

About 25% of American’s live in major cities and since Chicago is the 400 Lb. gorilla, I’ll give it 18% (13.2 X 0.18 = 2.38).

If the average household has 4 people and assuming 10% of households in Chicago have a piano and a quarter of those piano’s are kept in tune, we have (2.38 X 0.25 X 0.10 X 0.25) = 1.5 million.

If they get tuned once every other year (no idea, I just play the radio) and piano tuners average four jobs per work day, we’ve got ((750,000 / (200 X 4)) or a little under 1,000.

Say ~950

In reply to RX Reven':

I was gonna guess six.

RX Reven' wrote:

GameboyRMH wrote:

RX Reven' wrote: Tech companies like Google, etc. are notorious for asking interview questions like this to see if you can use general knowledge to produce an answer you wouldn’t likely know. “How many slices of pizza are eaten in the world per day” Hmmm…7.5 billion people…25% are pizza eaters (7.5 X 0.25 = 1.8) X once per week (1.8 X 0.15 = 0.25) X 2.5 slices per sitting (0.625)…I’m going to say about 625 million. “You’re hired”

I used to think these were devilishy hard general knowledge questions because I didn't understand that you were allowed to pull numbers out of your ass to solve them. The correct answer to "how many piano tuners are in Chicago," if you don't work for an Illinois piano tuner's industry group or something and aren't allowed access to any outside information to find an answer, is "I have no goddamn idea."

No cheating… Illinois has a fairly large population relative to other states (say twice the average) so (330 / 50) X 2 = 13.2 million. About 25% of American’s live in major cities and since Chicago is the 400 Lb. gorilla, I’ll give it 18% (13.2 X 0.18 = 2.38). If the average household has 4 people and assuming 10% of households in Chicago have a piano and a quarter of those piano’s are kept in tune, we have (2.38 X 0.25 X 0.10 X 0.25) = 1.5 million. If they get tuned once every other year (no idea, I just play the radio) and piano tuners average four jobs per work day, we’ve got ((750,000 / (200 X 4)) or a little under 1,000. Say ~950

Ah, but there is one serious flaw in your logic - you forgot Illinois is home to REO Speedwagon...

edizzle89 wrote: and to think i had to change my shirt in high school because it had a picture of a bull with the caption 'bull shirt'

I was on Stage Crew in high school. Since "Stage Crew" didn't fit across the back of my letter jacket, I had "S.Crew" done instead.