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Cokewatch – Another year gone
January 1st, 2007 at 21:56
As long time blog readers might know, for the past 691 days I’ve been logging the amount of Coke that I drink. Why? The dentist told me that I drink too much, so I started keeping a note of the number of “servings” of Coke I have every day. By ‘Coke’, I mean all cola drinks… Coke’s just become a genericized trademark.
What is a serving? I count a serving as “one glass” or “one can” or whatever, as I’d look ridiculous carrying around a measuring cylinder to do this any more accurately.
See the full log: here.
One New Years Day last year I took this a step further and started logging the different brands of Cola that I’ve been drinking. Why? So I can make this incredible diagram:
So the Coca-Cola company are winning by a massive margin… I wonder how many Columbian trade unionists I’ve inadvertently killed by drinking so much of their produce? I’m thinking of buying shares in BAE and financing some civil wars and dictatorships, so that drinking Coca-Cola will be slightly more ethical by my standards.
So anyway, in the last year I’ve had 1275 cokes. If we assume each Coke to be 330ml- a conservative estimate, as I often go for 550ml bottles or, er, pints: that’s about 420.75 litres.
Looking at the totals since I first started logging Coke, back on 9th February 2005, I’ve drank 2140 Cokes. That’s an average of 3.09 a day. Things get really interesting (!) when you look at this stuff graphically. Look at the Cokes per Day average (CPD) over time. Try as I might to give up Coke, it seems that I’m stuck at about 3cpd, as things are sort of levelling off again after a massive increase since leaving school.
The sliding average is perhaps more useful- its the average number of cokes over the last three days, and the graph shows how that average changes over time. Its showing a gradual increase to 3 a day.
I’m sure there’s some sort of conclusions I can draw from this. There must be some purpose, and some reason why I’m keeping track of this sort of thing. Any ideas, anyone?
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