an actual email that I wrote today OR maybe I have too much time on my hands

Here are a collection of links that I ran across when I was trying to figure out how many cans of pudding one would really need to fill a bathtub with a person already in it. (Yes, I see now what you mean about the internet being like The Force.) I know it would be a waste of food, I know it would be a gawdawful mess, I know that I very probably would never do it but I cannot help but be curious about it if only in a hypothetical sense. And now that I have realized there is indeed an answer to the question, I feel moderately compelled to figure out the formula.


http://www.newton.dep.anl.gov/askasci/eng99/eng99093.htm
this made me fear that I'd need to learn the density of pudding to get to the answer

http://wiki.answers.com/Q/How_much_water_does_a_bath_use
this gave me a good idea to calculate the volume needed specific to my bathtub

http://www.thebathtub.net/the_bathtub/2007/09/e-bathing-snack.html
this was a blog entry about food

http://situs-inversus.livejournal.com/20691.html
this really got to the heart of the matter but made me doubt its veracity as there was at least one seemingly inaccurate assumption and the lack of accounting for displacement made me think these people were not approaching the topic seriously



The solution that I've settled on: Draw a bath for myself but fill it by measured buckets to see how many gallons I would need. I'll have to call Rodhe's to get the volume of each can (I can only remember the weight). That'll be a fun call.

The bummer: I can't really do this until I get the tub faucet fixed. I stopped at Raby's today but Dave wasn't there man. The Non-Dave listened to my tale, was confused, stated the obvious and finally put the faucet and the spare piece in a paper bag with my mobile phone number. Sounds like some sort of voodoo to me.