- Approximately 353,000 people were born.
- Approximately 158,000 people died
- Grant figured out how to rate movies on Netflix
- 75-383 species of plants or animals became extinct.
- Approximately 1.2 billion pounds of potatoes were consumed
Okay, so I rated a bunch of movies yesterday because I finally reached the end of my giant Netflix queue of all movies that people recommended to me as "YOU HAVEN'T SEEN HAROLD AND KUMAR GO TO WHITE CASTLE YET!?" I needed a recommendation, and Netflix promised to feed my ratings into a giant magical machine which would digest this information with math acid and deposit fresh steaming piles of suggested cinema at my feet. I imagine that the hordes of Netflix elves crank endlessly on recommendation machines that look sort of like this:
But with 50% less pasta.
Anyways, so I rate a bunch of movies, but I am just not that impressed with Netflix's initial suggestions for things I might like. I mean, I'm sure the Justice League animated television series is awesome and all, but I guess I was hoping for something more. So I decide to check out the "friends" section and command the Netflix elves to go crank on a different machine:
In order to find other Netflix members with similar tastes in movies.
Well, it turns out my top match (79% similar!) is someone, well, how about you just look at their profile:
*SIGH*. At least Easily_Entertained demonstrates consistency by literally rating every movies she's ever seen as 5-stars. Well, I suppose I will update my queue to include some of her recommendations, such as Dragonslayer, Spongebob Squarepants: Sea Stories, and Look Who's Talking Too.
*SIGH*
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SIDE NOTE: From WikiAnswers.com, which I now recommend should never be used for anything, especially building things like cars or space shuttles, or giant robots with saws for arms but who are only programmed for good:
Q. How many babies are born in the world daily?Hmm, that is unexpected but very interesting! But what about just in the US?
A. "approximately 4 babies"
Q. How many people are born in the US every day???!???
A. "well, i would say that there are about 1 million people born each day in the US."
POSSIBLE REASONS FOR ENORMOUS DISCREPANCY:
- fundamental difference in definition of "baby" vs "person"
- improper metric or unit conversion
- The US is 250,000 times bigger than the world in which it is contained, possibly by projecting the bulk of its size into some other dimension, like Awesome-Dimension, or Frito-Dimension.
- INTERNET!
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