Shocked! Shocked, I say! from morningwalk, a weblog by George Girton

Shocked! Shocked, I say! . . . . . sep 29 2003 — amwalk79.dat

One billion drinks per day. That's the figure Coca Cola is so proud of, as we learned from their fascinating website yesterday. But what is a drink? By defining a drink as 8 ounces, they can pat themselves on the back for one heck of a big business. Today on the morning walk with the dog, I took a snapshot of the 'Double Big Gulp,' which by entering "1.9 liters in cups" into the Google's new math-aware search box, you can determine is 8 drinks.

If Coca Cola used an average size drink, they'd give a better picture of the number of purchases people make to get those 8 billion ounces of fizzy water.

On the way back from hearing a beautiful and moving Bach Cantata last night at the season-opening concert of the Los Angeles Chamber Orchestra (LACO), we stopped at the bookstore and leafed through Napoleon's Buttons, 17 molecules that changed the world [buy at amazon] . It looked great, but there's no shortage of unfinished reading around the house. Napoleon's buttons (made of tin which fell apart in the hard Russian winter -- what if they hadn't?) will have to wait.

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