News You Can Bruise for 2008 May 9

(6) Fri May 09 2008 19:51 Request Weblog #1: Bureau of Statistics: Ben Heaton requested: "I'd like to see a weblog entry based around counting types of objects in the room with you." Here it is.

• Books: 299 (for a loose definition of "book")
• Books written by me: 2
• Greatest number of books by a single author: 6
• Visible maps: 5
• Rutabagas: 0
• Legible copies of the word "rutabaga": At least 4 (counting that one), probably less than 10.
• Rupees: 2825.5
• Printouts of things I'm supposed to have read and commented on by tomorrow: 3
• Light bulbs: 4
• Guitar strings: 47
• 3D representations of animals: 13 (not counting Ganesha or Jabba the Hutt, but counting the frogs Jabba the Hutt eats).
• RAM: 1.9 gigabytes
• Subway cards/tickets: 8 (4 cities)
• Pieces of dirty laundry: 71
• Disposable plates: 17