One Thousand/ Tausend/ Mille/ 一千

So i've finally reached it, the magical 1000 views (or 1 kiloview). So as i sit here drinking my celebratory can of red thunder, i thought i'd throw out some facts about 1000, so of course i've hit the internet and found some "interesting" facts (to be honest it's quite hard to find any facts by googling and frankly i'm not going any further than that, so this is your lot).

For starters if you don't know what 1000 is then here is wikipedia's (basically the oxford english dictionary) definition: "1000 or 1,000 (one thousand) is the natural number following 999 and preceding 1001." So that's that cleared up then, in case you want to know what 999, then feel free to click the link, but all it says it that it's the natural number that follows 998 and precedes 1000, and this keeps on going for a while so if you're really unsure what a number is don't ever use Wikipedia to find out what they are. 


In other numerical forms it takes on many different forms, here are just a view: Roman - M ; Greek - ,α ; Tamil - ௲ ; Binary - 1111101000. Anyway i won't bore you with all the different forms for there is a lot, but as i've stated before there real isn't that many facts about 1000 which i can find, so this is all you're going to get. I mean the only other things wikipedia lists are as follows, just in case you're interested: a millenium is one thousand year; Moby has a song called "I feel it/Thousand"; A grand is slang for £1000, in the USA dimes are $1000 in gambling; and finally and prehaps the most interesting thing i've found is a art project by a swiss artist called one thousand paintings.


http://www.onethousandpaintings.com/blog/ is the website in case you're interesting in buying a piece, but essentially it's just a canvas with a number painted on it, but frankly that is art nowadays. I''m not complaining, just in case you're thinking that, i mean the guy is a genius and a rich one at that since he's selling each painting above $1000 on average, which in case you're not good at maths is over $1 million. That is truly a genius idea, and also proof that art is little more than marketing and has nothing to do with actual skill, but hey-ho i'm not going to start an argument on this celebratory post.


Anyway as you may know i care little for art and much prefer the medium of automobiles, and after a quick search on ebay, if i had a £1 for every view on my blog then i could be the proud owner of a Mercedes E430 Elegance or a BMW 520i SE or a Jaguar Sovereign. So maybe i should start charging, although i highly doubt any of you would view it then, and frankly there is a greater problem, that of the dreaded insurance which for the latter car would cost £5000 a year, which would mean i would have to get a lot more views.


So there you are, this is the end of my magical mystery tour of one thousand. I hope you've enjoyed yourself, if not then at least you've added an extra view to my count, and i'll see you all next time when i've reached my next target of 10000 views which going at this rate will be in approximately 18 months time, which should hopefully mean i can get some proper facts together for that one.