Techie Christmas Jokes 2k9 Edition

“An Engineer’s View of Santa Claus

“No known species of reindeer can fly. BUT there are 300,000
species of living organisms yet to be classified, and while most of
these are insects and germs, this does not COMPLETELY rule out
flying reindeer which only Santa has ever seen.

“There are 2 billion children (persons under 18) in the world.
BUT since Santa doesn’t (appear) to handle the Muslim, Hindu,
Jewish and Buddhist children, that reduces the workload to 15% of
the total – 378 million according to Population Reference Bureau.
At an average (census) rate of 3.5 children per household, that’s
91.8 million homes. One presumes there’s at least one good child in
each.

“Santa has 31 hours of Christmas to work with, thanks to the
different time zones and the rotation of the earth, assuming he
travels east to west (which seems logical). This works out to 822.6
visits per second.

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