Three completely random thoughts
Feb. 15th, 2006 09:02 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
eveglassWhat do chocolate, web design, and movies have to do with each other? Well, nothing, except they're the topics of the next three random thoughts.
1. According to the ABC News Money Minute podcast, Americans eat an average for 12 lbs of chocolate, per person, per year. Let's break that down. That's about a 1/2 oz. chocolate (14 g) per day. The Swiss beat the Americans with over 20 lbs per person, per year, or 7/8 oz (25 g) per day.
But how much is that really? Juding by Hershey's website, that about 1/3 of a Hershey chocolate bar, on average, per day. For the Swiss, it's over a half-bar. Every day. On the other hand, you can probably get twice the daily average from having one slice of really good chocolate cake, and who can have just slice?
2. It occured to me yesterday that the web has only existed in a state people would recognize today for about 13 years. I started my web page in 1996, exactly ten years ago. Back then, there were no programs to design pages for you, you needed to code everything by hand. Which I did, and still do, and take great pride in. It looks like crap for today's high standards, but back then it was actually pretty impressive.
All this to say that the profession of "web designer" is less than ten years old, and yet it is one of the more respected professions out there. The same is true of many other web-based professions. How did this happen? ... I don't know. But it's impressive nonetheless.
3. What were the greatest top-ten sci-fi movies that were never made? I knew you'd ask. Follow the little blue link:
http://www.pointlesswasteoftime.com/film/scifi.html?whatisthematrix
Okay, that was just to get your morning off right, or perhaps just to get it out of my head. I must now eat, shower, and pack. Perhaps I should do some schoolwork as well. Have a great day, everyone! Chocolate may be involved!
1. According to the ABC News Money Minute podcast, Americans eat an average for 12 lbs of chocolate, per person, per year. Let's break that down. That's about a 1/2 oz. chocolate (14 g) per day. The Swiss beat the Americans with over 20 lbs per person, per year, or 7/8 oz (25 g) per day.
But how much is that really? Juding by Hershey's website, that about 1/3 of a Hershey chocolate bar, on average, per day. For the Swiss, it's over a half-bar. Every day. On the other hand, you can probably get twice the daily average from having one slice of really good chocolate cake, and who can have just slice?
2. It occured to me yesterday that the web has only existed in a state people would recognize today for about 13 years. I started my web page in 1996, exactly ten years ago. Back then, there were no programs to design pages for you, you needed to code everything by hand. Which I did, and still do, and take great pride in. It looks like crap for today's high standards, but back then it was actually pretty impressive.
All this to say that the profession of "web designer" is less than ten years old, and yet it is one of the more respected professions out there. The same is true of many other web-based professions. How did this happen? ... I don't know. But it's impressive nonetheless.
3. What were the greatest top-ten sci-fi movies that were never made? I knew you'd ask. Follow the little blue link:
http://www.pointlesswasteoftime.com/film/scifi.html?whatisthematrix
Okay, that was just to get your morning off right, or perhaps just to get it out of my head. I must now eat, shower, and pack. Perhaps I should do some schoolwork as well. Have a great day, everyone! Chocolate may be involved!
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Date: 2006-02-15 10:21 pm (UTC)All this to say that the profession of "web designer" is less than ten years old, and yet it is one of the more respected professions out there.
I have to challenge that statement... At least in any company I've worked in, "web designer" in fact tends to get no respect at all. To give an analogy, "web designer" tends to be to "computer professional" as "orderly" is to "medical professional"...
I suppose that's what happens when technical professionals versed in what is a mathematical/engineering discipline get invaded by people whose only qualification tends to be "I know how to use a program that does all the work for me."
Cu,
Andrew
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Date: 2006-02-16 01:04 am (UTC)All this was not the case 10-15 years ago, because almost no businesses HAD webpages, the web being nearly non-existant.