There is a petition on Facebook to define the number prefix for 1027 as “Hella.” Yeah, that’s a big number: a one followed by 27 zeros, or 1,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000. Coincidentally, the universe is estimated to be 0.88 hella-meters across. That’s hella big, almost… ;-)
To explore how big that really is, take a look at the Scale of the Universe (click “play” below the ad that appears).
Update. Okay, that wasn’t very clear. The number 1027 already has a name; it’s octillion. Hella would be the number prefix for an octillion units, like kilo is the prefix for a thousand units. In other works, an octillion meters would be 1 hella-meters. I edited the post to clarify.
I make many decisions with a toss of a coin. The trick is knowing when it’s appropriate. When I couldn’t tell which choice was better, I used to think it was a “hard decision.” Now, I recognize that maybe both options are equally good. The decision becomes so easy a coin can make it — so I let it.
I just discovered another “flippin’ case”:
When faced with two choices, simply toss a coin. It works not because it settles the question for you, but because in that brief moment when the coin is in the air,
Do you use the Internet to “travel”? What are your favorite resources?
Update (2/15/2010). Here are a couple more resources I should have mentioned:
Twitter — Chances are, there’s someone on Twitter tweeting about the location you’re interested in. Tweeting about the location likely will result in your being followed by that someone. For example, I tweeted about Yosemite and was soon followed by @THEYosemiteBlog. Doing a people search for Yosemite resulted in a lot more hits.
Blogs — Finding blogs about a certain topic is easy. Google’s Blog Search or Technorati are great resources to find blogs.
I haven’t posted much political stuff here recently, but I’ll make an exception for this because I don’t believe it’s particularly partisan (unlike the W version making the rounds).
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There is a petition on Facebook to define the number prefix for 1027 as “Hella.” Yeah, that’s a big number: a one followed by 27 zeros, or 1,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000. Coincidentally, the universe is estimated to be 0.88 hella-meters across. That’s hella big, almost… ;-)
I'm Brent Logan and I've been here since 2004, writing about family, food, and fun. You can contact me at 
