Eventually, the throng is shooed away, and I find myself in a (probably) once-in-a-lifetime position: alone in a room with Arnold Schwarzenegger.
But since then computers have calculated more digits of pi than could ever even be recited in a lifetime, let alone memorised, and now pi memorisation is only for the truly dedicated.
An NBC promotional spot highlighting the Olympic swimmer Natalie Coughlin starts this way: "A lifetime spent alone under water".
The story of Dennis Kucinich could be packaged much the same way, though perhaps more succinctly: "A lifetime spent alone".
With 54 countries, around 2,000 languages, and a population of over 1.2 billion, this region and its culture is impossible to discover in a lifetime – let alone one holiday.
The proliferating number of blogs, user-generated content services and online news sources has created a dense information jungle that no human could machete his or her way through in a lifetime, let alone in an afternoon of surreptitious procrastination at work.
While the average user will probably not touch the outer limits of this storage space in a lifetime, this alone is probably enough to draw dedicated photographers to the service and, more important, bring lapsed users back to the Yahoo fold.
In my lifetime alone, there has been Pudge Fisk in '75, Reggie-Reggie-Reggie in '77, Denkinger in '85, Buckner/Mookie in '86 and Puckett in '91.
He describes how his tiny settlement, nestled in a tree-lined hollow amid the bare and windy hills of Iraqi Kurdistan, has been razed four times in his lifetime alone.
During her husband's lifetime alone, she had at least three lovers; if her hints are to be believed, none of her three children, not even the heir apparent Paul, was fathered by her husband.
His books sold in huge numbers -- tens of millions of copies during his lifetime alone, with "Of Human Bondage," "Cakes and Ale" (1930), "The Moon and Sixpence" and "The Razor's Edge" (1944) perennial best sellers -- and he drove a hard bargain with publishers.
