things math is useful for
Aug. 9th, 2006 03:19 pmFrom the department of random observations:
1. The other day, I calculated how much time I spend walking. It comes to a minimum of 40 minutes per day, with the average (mode, not mean or median) hovering around 1 hour and 15 minutes. And at least 20 of those minutes are uphill... and in Ithaca, uphill is serious business. :-)
I suck at deliberate exercise. This is my way of tricking myself into healthy behavior.
(It also saves money, but we will not speak of such crass things. *grin*)
2. About a week ago, when it hit 101 Fahrenheit in Ithaca, for some reason I wanted to figure out what that equalled in Celsius. I then discovered I'd forgotten the conversion, and had to reinvent it from scratch, while walking home. Heat is not conducive to mental calculations -- I figured out how to convert Celsius to Fahrenheit, but it took me another ten minutes to reverse the calculation. And then I kept forgetting whether I had 5 or 9 as my denominator while attempting long division in my head.
*headdesk*
(101 F = 38.3333 C, for the curious.)
1. The other day, I calculated how much time I spend walking. It comes to a minimum of 40 minutes per day, with the average (mode, not mean or median) hovering around 1 hour and 15 minutes. And at least 20 of those minutes are uphill... and in Ithaca, uphill is serious business. :-)
I suck at deliberate exercise. This is my way of tricking myself into healthy behavior.
(It also saves money, but we will not speak of such crass things. *grin*)
2. About a week ago, when it hit 101 Fahrenheit in Ithaca, for some reason I wanted to figure out what that equalled in Celsius. I then discovered I'd forgotten the conversion, and had to reinvent it from scratch, while walking home. Heat is not conducive to mental calculations -- I figured out how to convert Celsius to Fahrenheit, but it took me another ten minutes to reverse the calculation. And then I kept forgetting whether I had 5 or 9 as my denominator while attempting long division in my head.
*headdesk*
(101 F = 38.3333 C, for the curious.)