I've never calculated it out, but he's responsible for a significant percent of our business".
He told me he calculated it out: around $10. Sam Apple and I were sitting in a hushed and crowded cafe, amid the soft glow of open laptops.
"When you calculate it out, you can justify concrete in a heartbeat," he said, in between using a crowbar to repair a conveyor belt and running a bulldozer to make more space for work trucks by the tracks' edge.
The analogy is given--and if you calculate it out, it turns out to be about right--it would be like trying to detect a firefly around one of those Hollywood searchlights pointing straight at you.
More of his trademark self-deprecation followed when he observed that he had done more than 6,000 shows, then joked that noted physicist Stephen Hawking had calculated "It works out to about eight minutes of laughter".
As soon as I got half a second to think about it and try and calculate it, I went out and found a female keys player, female backing singers, a female guitar tech, something that you don't find.
The Congrove Computer Rankings also calculated it as the most difficult out of the 120 Division I FBS teams in its rankings.
If, along the way, every species had speciated into two descendants every 4 million years, this would give a number of species equal to 2400 which is so big that my desktop calculator refuses to calculate it, but which I make out to be something near 10, which is a number vastly superior to the number of atoms on earth (ca. 10).
We calculated it once, and it came out to about three years.
"When you calculate that out, it's nearly 20 years more of mortgage payments," says Wendell Cox, founder of Demographia, a St. Louis-based research firm.
