I was bored here in my student teaching seminar, and I was very curious looking at the gmail storage calculator. It increases at an unbelievably slow rate, out to the 6th or 7th decimal place. I wanted to figure out just how much it is really increasing.

I did a simple experiment. I measured how long it took for the counter to increase .0001 megabytes, which was 26 seconds. I then found the number of seconds required for 1 megabyte: 260,000. Translated into hours, that is 72.2 hours. Into days that is almost 3 exactly. That’s right, storage is increasing at the startling rate of 1 mb per 3 days. That seems super wimpy. I then found the percent increase over an entire year and it came out to a 5% increase, which is a little more respectable sounding.

I’m a nerdy math teacher now, so I do dorky math problems for fun! Any problems with my experiment Denise? I’m making the assumption that the rate of increase is perfectly constant, which it may not be. The number of subscribers also must factor into Google’s equation at some point. I do think it’s interesting that it comes out to a 5% per year increase…sounds like a company policy. Maybe that boils down to Joe Blow installing a new terabyte blah blah blah server every month. I’ll let Angelo tackle that one.

On Thursday night I started talking to my brother about how dumb blogger is, so we decided to share some hosting fees. Now I’ve got a fresh install of wordpress running, and so far so good. I’ve been able to transfer all my posts and comments from my blogspot site pretty easily. Now I just need to work a bit on some plugins and sprucing up the graphics a bit.

On Friday I took off for Palm Springs for my first math conference. Imagine a thousand math nerds from around southern California all covening to talk about math. I saw lots of good math tools and ideas, and even picked myself up a stamp and cool puzzle game. I also saw Ryan and my old 8th grade math teacher.

On Saturday night after I got home from Palm Springs we headed off to Stacie’s 10-year reunion. Now I know reunions get mixed feelings from people, so I was curious to see what it would be like. Honestly, it was kind of sad. There were only 140 people total, including alumni’s significant others. Out of 700 or so people in a graduating class, that’s all? I think the reason it was lame was because hardly anyone was there, not simply because it was a reunion. It’s no fun when people you actually enjoyed talking to in High School just don’t come. So my opinion on reunions is they can be fun, but that depends on who comes.

Now it’s Sunday and we have to get ready for the rest of the week. Have to be ready to teach, have stuff to eat, and try to make church tonight. Happy Birthday to my sister today!