The sublime form of the Web is when complete nerds geek out in minute detail over their obsession in a manner specifically designed to let any random surfer-by understand and geek out over it as well.
For example, this guide on how to convert units of measurement:
Stan Brown, How to Convert Units of Measurement
Or this study guide for getting one's amateur radio license:
Dan Romanchik: No-Nonsense Technician Class License Study Guide
Or this truly obsessive categorization of that pervasive yet elusive species of hydrocarbon-based parasite, the bread tab:
Holotypic Occlupanid Research Group
The Web does not exist in any higher form. It cannot. This is the pinnacle of human expression, creativity, and joy. We have created nothing greater. We cannot. Nothing humans harder than humans inviting others into a shared deep dive of utter nerdery.
I love this Web so much.
While reading above study guide, I noted that alternating current cycles 60 times in one second (60 Hz).
Applying the information available in the guide on converting units of measurement, we learn that 60 cycles/second x 60 seconds/minute = 3600 cycles per minute.
Applying then one of the most enduring lessons of Broadway, we discover that 3600 cycles/minute x 525,600 minutes/year = 1,892,160,000 cycles per year.
If you made $1 every time the AC in your walls cycled, for one year, you would make $60 per second. At year's end you would have $1.892 billion dollars (plus a bit). You would still have less money than roughly 2,500 of the world's billionaires.
Elon Musk's net worth is currently estimated around $850 billion. You'd have to make a dollar every time your AC cycled for just over 449 YEARS to be "worth" that much. Humans haven't even HAD alternating current for that long.
It takes 8.27 hours, or more than one standard workday, to make $60 (gross) at the US federal minimum wage of $7.25 per hour. This is what we're told "labor" costs. What are billionaires doing? Not laboring, it seems.
In related news, I just found a deer tick on my jeans.
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