My Brain...

I have this odd, curious, tendency to figure things out that most people would never notice.

For example: How many cars are on the 405 in the Sepulveda pass at rush hour? I'm talking the heaviest time of the day when things are moving the slowest? At any moment, in bumper to bumper traffic, there is an average of 4400 cars in the 5 miles of the pass. And that's just the heaviest direction for traffic at that time of day. Mornings it's south bound, and evenings are north bound. Throw in a an accident and rubbernecking, and it is probably more.

Another example: I have had, as a ballpark figure again, 1.76 billion heart beats in my life time. To figure this out take the average heart beats per minute and mulitply it by 525600. (That's the number of minutes in a year, and a song from Rent.) Then multiply that number by the number of years lived. This will give you and average. The heart rate goes down when you are asleep, and goes up when excercising. This is an average. It's not exact, but interesting. What an amazing thing the heart is. It makes me wonder about human endurance.

How many heart beats do you get?