This guy is counting aloud to one milllion.

Post by **Dale** » Sun Aug 05, 2007 11:26 am

Harper lives here in Birmingham. He's counting to a million for charity. Check out the live video feed.

www.millioncount.com

Post by **Dale** » Sun Aug 05, 2007 11:43 am

I just sent him an email during his lunch break:

"This is art is what this is. 276, 281 is my favorite so far!"

And he read it on feed.

Post by **Dale** » Sun Aug 05, 2007 11:52 am

Hmmm. I'm thinking I might do a little Chiff & Fipple drive for this guy. I think I might have a prize that might be suitable. Let's see... (opening the vault)...

chas · Post by **chas** » Sun Aug 05, 2007 12:12 pm

It's weird -- I saw this and thought, "well, at one number per second, that's 3600 per hour. Shouldn't take too long to get to a million.

278 hours --23 days counting 12 hours per day. Give him two per second, and it's still 12 days. You gotta REALLY want to reach a million to do something like this.

I think his next feat ought to be reciting pi to a million decimal places.

Post by **Dale** » Sun Aug 05, 2007 12:24 pm

chas wrote:It's weird -- I saw this and thought, "well, at one number per second, that's 3600 per hour. Shouldn't take too long to get to a million.

278 hours --23 days counting 12 hours per day. Give him two per second, and it's still 12 days. You gotta REALLY want to reach a million to do something like this.

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Oh, no, no. He counts 16 hrs/day. He's doing about 16,000 counts per day. He's already in 47 days and he's at 576,500.

Two per second is way off. Try saying, "three hundred seventy seven thousand six hundred seventy nine, three hundred seventy thousand six hundred eighty" in one second.

FJohnSharp · Post by **FJohnSharp** » Sun Aug 05, 2007 1:05 pm

I can't hear him. Is he talking really quietly? or is he on a break?

pipersgrip · Post by **pipersgrip** » Sun Aug 05, 2007 1:24 pm

that is truly amazing, i really never though about counting to a million would take so long, but to think of it, it really does. i have a lot of respect for this man.

Wanderer · Post by **Wanderer** » Sun Aug 05, 2007 1:24 pm

i can hear him..he's at 577130

If loses his place, does he have to start over?

pipersgrip · Post by **pipersgrip** » Sun Aug 05, 2007 1:25 pm

he probably counts in his dreams, what a horrible sleep he would have too. that is so hard.

Post by **Nanohedron** » Sun Aug 05, 2007 2:48 pm

I wanna see him do it in binary.

Denny · Post by **Denny** » Sun Aug 05, 2007 3:35 pm

bad Nano...

mutepointe · Post by **mutepointe** » Sun Aug 05, 2007 5:00 pm

what a good curse that would be. "i curse you to count to one million in binary." maybe guru can figure it out in some language that would scare the beejeezus outta people or make them think you offered them niceties.

Post by **Dale** » Sun Aug 05, 2007 5:52 pm

Sometimes when he is on break and not counting he turns off the audio so he can have a conversation with his girlfriend. Or whoever.

This is weirdly fascinating.

Denny · Post by **Denny** » Sun Aug 05, 2007 6:01 pm

in a memorizing all of the verses to 99 bottles of beer on the wall kinda way?

Post by **Dale** » Sun Aug 05, 2007 6:13 pm

Denny wrote:in a memorizing all of the verses to 99 bottles of beer on the wall kinda way?

I guess. I mean, don't you think you'd be going crazy about now? I keep thinking he's going to start crying or screaming. Or maybe his girlfriend will.