Disproportion...

I always thought that my hands and feet were of disproportionate size to my body... now I have science on my side to prove it.

Reading through an article recently ("Body-Based Units of Measurement: Size matters in more ways than one") I was pleased/ shocked to discover my disproportions! A cubit is supposed to be the length in between your elbow joint tot he tip of your middle finger, which for the average male is about 18 inches. Mine is a good 2 inches longer than that- an addition of 11%!!! For any bible readers, a lot of measurements (ie Noah's bible) will be in cubits, especially older versions.

I have always enjoyed being an anatomy geek (for example, my favourite muscle in the body is the Tibialis Anterior) and have always love small things about the make up of the human body, for example, your hand span (distance from your thumb tip to pinky tip when your hand is fully stretched) is the same length as your inner forearm. Your feet should also be the same length as this.

So, to my horror/ joy, my feet are another inch bigger than my hands, meaning that they are about 16% bigger than the average size for my height!!! So technically, this means that I should be about 6"7 and probably a superstar of the NBA.

Still, if that happened I probably wouldn't have met my wife to be (in 44 days!).

I've also greatly enjoyed finding out new and exciting ways to use Microsoft Excel (apart from the obvious ass-kicking formula's!). If you hold down "Alt" and press "Enter" then it allows to to go down a line within that cell, thus making it much better for presentation purposes.

This is a crazy world in which we live.