If you have any love for Northern California

February 5th, 2010 · 9:42 pm  →  Blog

You will become a member of this Facebook petition to “Establish ‘Hella-’ as the SI Prefix for 10^27“.

Why?

  1. “Hella” is something that is quintessential Northern California (or as we call it, Norcal), and how could you not love a place which brings you Silicon Valley and San Francisco?
  2. How awesome would it be to someday say that you have a “one hella-byte hard drive” or to say that the universe is “two hella-light years”?
  3. I want to someday make a search engine just simply called “Hella” — sure its not quite the 10^100 that a “googol” is, but that’s because my search engine only gets you 27% (on a logarithmic scale) of the way there

As a consultant, I’d normally turn these brilliant thoughts into a slide, but you’ll just have to trust that this is awesome