rsexson points out:
>Has anyone, other than me, noticed that the amount of money you
intended to
>spend on rebuilding your LBC is about two plus times, the amount you
told
>your wife it would be?
About seven or eight years ago, I commented to my wife about some
project I wanted to undertake on one of the LBCs. I quoted a dollar
figure.
She looked up in the air over my head, I could see her thinking hard
about something, and then looked back at me and said "Okay."
"What were you doing?" I asked her.
"I was just calculating what it would probably really cost," she said.
"I've noticed that whatever you tell me something's going to cost, if I
pretend I'm converting from Celsius to Fahrenheit -- double it and add
thirty -- I'm pretty close to the final amount."
"Is that thirty percent, or thirty of whatever the next-largest
increment of dollars is?"
"Whichever is larger," she said, with a completely straight face.
--Scott Fisher
Sunnyvale, CA
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