OAQ - Occasionally-Asked Questions

Who the heck are you?

I'm Steve, a sports official in Pennsylvania about to take a job supervising a poker room in Colorado. Nothing special. (Unless you happen to ask my loved ones.)

One in seven billion? Isn't that a bit elitist?

Perhaps, but also pretty much true. I am one person, and there are about 7,000,000,000 of us in the world. QED.

You call yourself .000000015% of humanity. Wouldn't 1 in 7 billion be .0000000142857...%?

As of the time I did the calculation (Aug. 16, '09), the U.S. Census Bureau estimated the world population at 6,778,084,167. That makes the seven billion figure accurate to one significant digit, and the percentage accurate to two (actual: .0000000147534314...%). I will be diminished to .000000014% when the population hits 6,896,551,725 (early 2011), at which point I will probably update that. So there.

Your blog will be outdated when we hit 7.5 billion around 2019. What do you have to say about that?

If it's successful enough that I have to think about that, I will be pleasantly astonished.