Thursday, August 25, 2005

AND WHAT'S THE SI UNIT FOR MEASURING IN "LOVE" ANYWAY? Random thoughts spurred by listening to "Seasons of Love" on the iPod on the way in to work this morning:
  • What about leap years? There are 527,040 minutes in those. Do we just write off the added 1,440 minutes?
  • While the song correctly proclaims that there are 525,600 minutes in a year, it subsequently proclaims that a year contains only 525,000 "moments so dear." Are "moments so dear" marginally longer than minutes? Or is not every minute a "moment so dear?"
  • If you're going to measure in "midnights" or "sunsets," isn't it, barring a change in the laws of physics, just going to be the same as measuring in days?
  • A year allegedly includes "525,000 journeys to plan." That seems a little excessive.

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