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It happened again.... 1000 weeks

One day when I was in college, I felt the urge to calculate how old I was in weeks and that week just happened to be 1000 weeks old.   Today. It happened again. I felt the urge to see how many weeks old I am and it comes out ~2000 weeks old: http://jalu.ch/coding/days/en?year=1979&month=3&day=11&adjust=-1 Your Age in Days Find out your age in days, weeks or months Birth date: 1979-03-11 (Mar 11) Today's date: 2017-07-08 (Jul 8) You are 13999 days old. Which is 1999 weeks and 6 days. That's 38 years and 119 days, including 10 leap days, or 38 years, 17 weeks and 0 days. In other words, that's 459.9 months. Therefore, you are 38.326 years old.

Best Electric Skateboard 2017 - (May 2017)

I saw one of these going uphill in San Fran recently, and realized this was the future of urban commutes.  Before seeing this skateboard,  I was following the evolution of ebikes but here's why I think e-skateboards could dominate: 1. Bikes are horrible at rush-hour on the metro.  Skateboards are much easier to pop out of the way. 2. Using e-skateboard while wearing a skirt is probably easier than using an e-bike in a skirt. 3. If I'm too tired or too long distance, bringing a skateboard on my Lyft is far easier than my e-bike. Hopefully these features exist on the e-skateboards: Regenerative braking.  I'd love for the board to cap the downhill speed at 20 mph and use gravity to recharge the battery.   Spectra seems to have the features I expect like controlling direction and speed with shifting weight. Boosted I think is the one that keeps the motor right in the wheel .... awesome clean design and likely the most efficient.   Good job innovators!  -Darian