Wednesday, July 23

two things i've always wondered...

1. How do TV companies know that "2.5 million people tuned in to the premiere of ____, and the following week, 1.7 million watched _____." How do they count who watched what? Is there like tracking devices on every TV in America??

2. When you pay at restaurants, how do they take the tip AFTER they've taken your credit card? Is your number stored in the machine or something? If it is, aren't you risking identity theft or something?

If anyone knows the answer...please comment and enlighten me.

4 comments:

Anonymous said...

dearest heather, i totally used to know the answer to number 1. i rember mr. hart explaining it to us in 7th grade pre algebra, i dont remember why neccessarily. but i have forgot the answer. #2 i share the same curiousity. i rmeber when you asked your mom though. if you find out the answer, please contact me, for i want to know just asbadly. anyway, im signing out.
-lylas

Anonymous said...

dearest heather, i totally used to know the answer to number 1. i rember mr. hart explaining it to us in 7th grade pre algebra, i dont remember why neccessarily. but i have forgot the answer. #2 i share the same curiousity. i rmeber when you asked your mom though. if you find out the answer, please contact me, for i want to know just asbadly. anyway, im signing out.
-lylas

David said...

Hey, on number one, they like do some crazy math with the amount of products purchased
Like the products in the commercials on the program
By the way you dont know me but your mom told my mom to tell me to look at your blog so in a way i'm like your stalker
accept not at all

David said...

oh and my mom is one of the ladys from that reunion thing
Linda? if you know at all who that is
and it only took me two comments to say all this