Gossamer Forum: General: Chit Chat: 10000

Aug 3, 2004, 12:41 AM

Andy

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Aug 3, 2004, 12:41 AM

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10000 - Had to post something =)

Wow... I've posted 10,000 posts (10,001 including this one Tongue

) over the last 3-4 years.

Sorry, just didn't realise it was getting that high... so I'm a little suprised Crazy

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Aug 3, 2004, 7:21 AM

Watts

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Aug 3, 2004, 7:21 AM

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885 myself... seems like I'll never make it to "vet" status. Frown

Oh well, maybe one day I'll be able to wear long pants.

Tongue

Aug 3, 2004, 7:22 AM

Andy

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Aug 3, 2004, 7:22 AM

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LOL. Took me 2 years to get to 1,000 posts.. the other 9,000 just kinda happened in the last 2 years... Tongue

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Aug 3, 2004, 8:51 AM

minesite

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Aug 3, 2004, 8:51 AM

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If you spent a 1/2 hour per post on average it's about 208 days. ?

How may characters on the keyboard. ?

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minesite

Aug 3, 2004, 9:15 AM

Andy

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Aug 3, 2004, 9:15 AM

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I'm a pretty quick typer ;) The last post I just did (about 1,000 words), took about 3 minutes Tongue

Maybe I could get Alex to do a word count, on all the posts I've ever made... wonder how many millions of words I've typed over the years...LOL (if Alex reads this, I'm only joking.. no need to run the check =)).

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Aug 4, 2004, 3:45 AM

Gypsypup

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Aug 4, 2004, 3:45 AM

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now the subject started - sounds like a great idea....

Alex?

Aug 4, 2004, 10:00 AM

fuzzy logic

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Aug 4, 2004, 10:00 AM

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1000 words in three minutes? hm... so you type 333 words per minute? yeah right! very few people type that fast, especially on QWERTY keyboards. Tongue

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Aug 4, 2004, 10:05 AM

Andy

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Aug 4, 2004, 10:05 AM

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Mmm ...ok, maye not quite 333 a minute =)

I just tested myself; and in 30 seconds, I typed 56 words (averaging about 5 charchters). Not bad if I do say so myself Smile

Even my mum sometimes asks me if I'm actually typing, or just hitting the keyboard :p

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Aug 5, 2004, 9:49 AM

Alex

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Aug 5, 2004, 9:49 AM

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Well, I hate to shatter your image, but your average is a lot less:

Code:
mysql> select sum(length(post_message)), avg(length(post_message)) 
    -> from gforum_Post 
    -> where post_username = 'Andy'; 
+---------------------------+---------------------------+ 
| sum(length(post_message)) | avg(length(post_message)) | 
+---------------------------+---------------------------+ 
|                   3140972 |                  316.7580 | 
+---------------------------+---------------------------+ 
1 row in set (0.08 sec) 

mysql>

So you are averaging 316 characters (not words) per post, with a total of 3.1 million characters posted. If we say an average of 4 chars per word, thats about 775k words. =)

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Aug 5, 2004, 9:55 AM

Andy

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Aug 5, 2004, 9:55 AM

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Well, I hate to shatter your image, but your average is a lot less:

heheh... I wasn't actually expecting you to do this =) Still, its nothing to be upset about :p

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So you are averaging 316 characters (not words) per post, with a total of 3.1 million characters posted. If we say an average of 4 chars per word, thats about 775k words. =)

Wow... no wonder I get through keyboards like they are going out of fashion Crazy

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Aug 5, 2004, 4:56 PM

minesite

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Aug 5, 2004, 4:56 PM

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Alex

How many cups of coffee has he had while posting those 3.1 million characters ?

mysql> select sum(cups(white_coffee)), avg(cups(white_coffee))

-> from andy_kitchen

-> where drinker_username = 'Andy';

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minesite

Aug 6, 2004, 1:15 AM

Andy

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Aug 6, 2004, 1:15 AM

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Quote:

How many cups of coffee has he had while posting those 3.1 million characters ?

LOL!

Shame I don't drink coffee (I'm a typical English Tea drinker Tongue

).

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