Awhile back I posted some statistics on the number of plays I’ve seen/read in the past couple of years. This got me thinking about the number of movies I watch, and although I haven’t been keeping as close a tab on my movie watching, I do have at least one interesting number I can pull from my Netflix account. I have spent considerable time on Netflix assigning ratings to movies I’ve seen, and in return Netflix recommends movies it thinks I will want to see.
This number isn’t complete, but I’d say it is a good ballpark figure to use for the number of movies I’ve seen in my lifetime (at least the ones that have made it to DVD). Based on my Netflix ratings, I know I have seen a minimum of 1372 movies (for easier math we’ll round up to an even 1400). If we assume an average running time of 2 hours, this means I have spent a minimum of 2800 hours (or more than 116 entire days) of my life watching movies.
I thought I’d reveal what a theater-nut I am with some statistics. I started keeping track of every play I saw or read since I started my graduate program in 2003. Since then:
I have read 71 short plays and 68 full-length plays (this doesn’t include the many unpublished scripts I’ve read as a volunteer)
I have seen 61 plays, staged readings, or monologues
I have seen 9 Broadway shows (3 in NYC)
If I did my math right, that’s 209 theatrical experiences in more or less 3 years. That’s an average of 1 every five or six days. Admittedly, the short plays really help boost the statistics, though, but still, it’s not too shabby, if I do say so myself…
New blog game (passed along by Lu): Take a recent paragraph from your blog and have either Google Translator or Babel Fish Translator translate it into a foreign language and back to English. This is my previous post (Spam, Spam, Etc.) sent through a few iterations:
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| You Are An ISFJ |
| The Nurturer
You have a strong need to belong, and you are very loyal.
A good listener, you excel at helping others in practical ways.
In your spare time, you enjoy engaging your senses through art, cooking, and music.
You find it easy to be devoted to one person, who you do special things for.
You would make a good interior designer, chef, or child psychologist. |
What’s Your Personality Type?
Which apparently puts me in the same category as both Queen Mary I (“Bloody Mary”) and comedian Jerry Seinfeld. Who knew?
Apparently, other than a few Wisconsinisms (where my dad grew up), I speak a pretty run-of-the-mill brand of American English. I wonder if working in South Carolina will affect my dialect any?
| Your Linguistic Profile:: |
| 65% General American English |
| 15% Upper Midwestern |
| 5% Dixie |
| 5% Midwestern |
| 5% Yankee |
What Kind of American English Do You Speak?
