I've Been Thinking About This…

• Approximate (very gross!) number of atoms in the human DNA –

10,000,000,000.

• Approximate number of atoms in all DNA molecules in a human being –

1,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000

• Approximate number of atoms in all DNA molecules in all human beings –

6,700,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000

• Exact number of Beings who know about every atom –

1.

• Level of difficulty God has in managing all this –

0.

• Level of difficulty God has in managing me –

Really, really high.

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It can be so difficult when you move into a new neighborhood. How do you find just the right small group? It can be a real challenge…[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eurATNkJBvQ[/youtube]
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I think it’s time to ‘fess up. I’m a member of the RRGBNQP. Hey, we’re friends. We do stuff together. We’re like that. Then I photograph or video the mayhem – see the clip thingy below – and sometimes make comments. This time I was experimenting with a product called Visual Communicator – a superb product whose price unfortunately skyrocketed when Adobe bought the company that wrote it.

[flv]http://www.gwilt.org/RRGBNQP/RRGBNQPlarge.flv[/flv]

But good times with good friends are precious and deserve to be remembered.

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Amazingly, from 1950 until 2000, no fewer than 11 members of my family were graduated from high school! Looking at their yearbook photographs, one can’t but be struck at the changes that stay the same (mouseover for the graduating year):

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I was on Amazon today and saw the advertisement for the T-Mobile Sidekick, and was impressed by the accuracy of the weight information – to 14 decimal places!

Now that’s accurate! A tolerance of less that the weight of a human cell (which weighs in at around 10^-13 ounces).

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