Wednesday, November 26, 2008

$700,000,000,000!


So while I was driving to Little Rock tonight from Fayetteville for Thanksgiving I got thinking. I was thinking "How long will it take our government to print the $700 billion dollars for the bailout?"

After a few well placed clicks of the mouse at my parent's house I think I may have the answer.

According to the "Innerwebs" the United State of America can print 37 million notes a day and the present denominations of our currency in production are $1, $2, $5, $10, $20, $50 and $100.

So assuming we print the bills seven days a week with no breaks for holidays and weekends...

If we print the "700 billion" in One Dollar bills it would take us 18,919* days or about 52 years.

If we print the "700 billion" in Two Dollar bills it would take us 9,459* days or about 26 years.

If we print the "700 billion" in Five Dollar bills it would take us 3,784* days or about 10 years.

If we print the "700 billion" in Ten Dollar bills it would take us 1,892* days or about 5 years.

If we print the "700 billion" in Twenty Dollar bills it would take us 946* days or about 3 years.

If we print the "700 billion" in Fifty Dollar bills it would take us 378* days or about 1 year.

If we print the "700 billion" in One Hundred Dollar bills it would take us 189* days or about six months.

I vote for the "Benjamins"

*All figures are rounded to the nearest whole number.

Saturday, November 22, 2008

Stark Vegas!


Back from Stark Vegas Baby! A beautiful day for photography, a bad day to be a Razorback. It was another "nail biter" and you can read about it here if you want.
I did learn some things on my trip.

Their mascot is named Bully


Big foot is a fan (like we didn't know he was from Mississippi)



And they like to do push-ups because it means they are scoring points


Of course there was a football game and Arkansas lost 28-31.
Nathan Dick was quarterback and I guess a win was not in the cards today. This loss also means Arkansas will not be bowl eligible this year.




Enjoy!

Tuesday, November 04, 2008

FANtastic!


I went to my second Razorback football game as a fan in 12 years on Saturday. We played Tulsa so my friend Jeff, who is at TU Law School, came over for the game and Lee, who is a Canadian, also went. It was Lee's first ever "American" football game and I think he liked it.

Arkansas won 30-23, sorry Jeff.