We're watching Real Genius, which is a movie that involves nerds, lasers and practical jokes (I know, awesome, right?!). We come to the end, where they make the laser pop the popcorn and fill the bad guy's house.
If you haven't seen the movie, here is the clip.
Anyways.... Mr. Zimny comments that it would probably cost a lot to fill that house with popcorn. And being who we are, we were off, calculators flying, to figure out what it would cost to fill said house.
We first made some assumptions, the house is roughly 2000 sqft, with 9 ft ceilings, and all estimations were based on yellow corn and not the white stuff. (Mr. Zimny only allows the yellow in our house because it pops up bigger).
Using the volume of the newly named Captain Cornditioner (previously named the Whirley Pop), the volume of corn per bag and current prices at our grocery store, we have calculated that it would cost approximately $12222.58 to fill such a house with popcorn. Considering significant figures ('cause we do in this house), we'll call it 13 grand. Lesson learned: if you already have a coordinate quided super laser, it'll only cost you 13K more to pull off this prank. Um.... anyone have 13K I can borrow? I've got everything else I need, and a target.
Some might say that watching a movie is a sedentary activity, but in our house it can bring you to this:
Yes, that is totally us weighing how much popcorn it takes to fill Captain Cornditioner.
Yes, of course we have a gram/lb scale in our kitchen. What nerdy family doesn't?!
Yes, we measure our popcorn in a cup we got while drinking at a luau in Hawaii like 5 years ago. Like that's the weird part or something.
And YES! I did tare the cup before adding the corn. Jeez.
2 comments:
Nerds!!!!!
Hahaha
This totally reminds me of my days in college where we had this thing called the "Pitt Fact line" where you could call and get answers to everything. Of course we would get really loaded, call and ask questions similar to the "how much would it cost to fill our house with popcorn?" and then people like you and Brian would sit there and figure it out. I almost peed my pants when I read this post..
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