Joachim Breitner

Birthday greetings communication behaviour

Published 2017-03-28 in sections English.

Randall Munroe recently mapped how he communicated with his social circle. As I got older recently, I had an opportunity to create a similar statistics that shows how people close to me chose to fulfil their social obligations (given the current geographic circumstances):

Communication variants

(Diagram created with the xkcd-font and using these two stackoverflow answers.)

In related news: Heating 3½ US cups of water to a boil takes 7 minutes and 40 seconds on one particular gas stove, but only 3 minutes and 50 seconds with an electric kettle, despite the 110V-induced limitation to 1.5kW.

(Diagram updated on March 30, as the actual mail is slower than the other channels.)

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