Hotness Conversion Chart

[chrismaverick]

Comments

[jameel]

Outstanding.

[chrismaverick]

glad you approve

[anonymous]

This is good. mh was used for the millihelen anyway. Although the millihelen is on some level a more objective unit of measurement, in that you can test for a ship launch.

[firimari]

Yeah, minihelen is a much longer tested geek unit of hotness measurement. The logarithmic scale does make for a better yardstick.

[firimari]

Especially since the wealth needed to launch a ship (these being Greek times, something on the order of a trireme) is no longer in the realm of states. Paris Hilton could probably use her wealth to launch quite a few yachts, but she's still a skank.

[chrismaverick]

exactly, the flickr post has some rollover notes on it that get specifically into the paris hilton phenomenon.

[tmaher]

Shakira is 110 dH, you mean.

[chrismaverick]

oops. that was a typo. Thanks. Did you actually check the math or did you notice just from the description.

[tmaher]

It sounded off by the description, which prompted me to check the math. Intuitively, if Bob is twice as hot as Alice, Bob should measure 10dH higher than her.

[chrismaverick]

yep. I had just accidentally transposed the numbers when I was typing.

[maneman]

Thank you. That was incredibly insightful and possessed of intense calculation.

[chrismaverick]

thanks.

[maneman]

I forgot to leave this in my earlier comment, but would you mind if I share your flickr picture with some other feminine beauty mathematicians? I feel like this post could push the classification of feminine beauty well into the next century.

[chrismaverick]

By all means, please, link them there or here. I'd really like other's insight.