The other day I wondered how many words I’ve written for Irreal. All my posts exist as org files in my ~/org/blog directory so a reasonable estimation can be had by
cd ~/org/blog
cat *.org | wc -w
1040421
Over a million words! Irreal is almost 13 years old so this is not too surprising but to me it seems astounding. If I’d thought about it back when I was in high school, I probably wouldn’t have estimated that my total lifetime output would exceed 100,000 words.
Let’s see how many posts that is:
ls -1 *.org | wc -l
I’ve written 4308 posts so the average post is 241 words long. That means that a few words written everyday for 13 years adds up to a lot. I’m going to go take a nap.