Wednesday, February 28, 2007

On being the right size


Apparently Toblet is now about twelve ounces. One and a half packs of butter. If he or she hits a fairly standard eight pounds at birth, that's a staggering ten-fold increase in weight in the next 20 weeks. (In new money, 360g becomes 3.6kg)


I weigh 200lb (91kg); the comparative growth rate would be reaching slightly less than a ton (910kg) in twenty weeks, adding an average of 90lb (41kg) a week. The world's heaviest person, Jon Brower Minnoch, weighed in at a feeble 1,400lb (635kg).


Pic of Jon Brower Minnoch from http://www.dimensionsmagazine.com/dimtext/kjn/people/heaviest.htm There's something on the web for everyone, I guess.

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