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Ok, so I ran across a Yelp review by a miriam b person.  If you don't know, Yelp is a hipster Bay Area review site.  Anyway, she trashed on a place but was the only review so I thought I'd check if she was reviewing things mostly positively or negatively to see how to take the review.

What I found was 1162 reviews with review dates starting from 2/14/2006 and ending 9/15/2007.  If you're doing the math, that's about 19 months or an estimated 575 days.  That comes out at about 2 reviews per day of a new and unique business.  Over 700 reviews a year.

This seems insane to me on so many levels.

That's got to be a lot of time writing reviews.

That's got to be a really huge amount of time gracing various and sundry businesses with her presence.  I mean how many hours a day is she spending shopping, traveling to new businesses and spending her time there?

Remember these are unique businesses, not simply business visits a day.  Two visits to businesses a day isn't hard (a meal, a coffee).  The unique aspect makes it hard.  If you said to yourself "I'll shop at two new places today"  how long until you started feeling annoyed because you'd have to go out of your way or shop at places you weren't so interested in or weren't located conveniently for your life?  For me, after maybe a couple hundred businesses, I'd have to start really trying to visit new places (or just take up shopping as one of my more major life activities for it to happen naturally).

People laugh about oddities like the Star Trek Dentist's office from Trekkies, the bear proof suit man, or their uncle who is inventing a perpetual motion machine.  Perhaps miriam_b helps demonstrate that the potential is there for even those who (I'm presuming) aren't obviously cracked to have a fully fulfilled, odd and eccentric life.