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Day 282 (84) – A Picture’s Worth a Thousand Words

Well I would love to update you with all of the posts from the cruise today, but alas I cannot.  I don’t want to short change the posts, and want to make sure I have ample time to include appropriate pictures as I recount the various events.  Unfortunately the first day back to work is often a doozie (how is that spelled?), and I didn’t get home until 8:15pm.  Throw in eating dinner and working out, and it pretty much sucks up the whole day.

I did, however, spend about an hour uploading all my pictures.  You can find them on Facebook here and here (there’s only 6 pictures in the second album).

I’ll fill in all the posts tomorrow, I swear…  Till then, consider this:

They say “a picture is worth a thousand words,” but how did they decide that?  Is that the number of words that can fill a picture, or is that how many words it would require to describe what you could see in the picture (and if that’s the case, does that cliche hold true for blind people)?

The biggest Harry Potter book (the 5th one – Order of the Pheonix) contains 257,045 words (that’s according to an online source, I would have no clue considering I’ve never read any of them).  257,045 could be summarized by 258 pictures (257,045/1,000 = 257.045).  Now, assuming that it takes the average human 10 seconds for a picture to register in their mind (and this I am just completely making up), then the biggest Harry Potter book should only be a 43 minute movie (2580/60 = 43).   BUT, Harry Potter and the Order of the Pheonix the movie was 138 minutes long.  Mathematical proof that you wasted at least 95 minutes (138-43 = 95) watching more Harry Potter than you needed to (though I would venture to say you wasted 138 minutes more than you needed to).