Nearly every time Adrienne and I go to the movies, we watch our movie in an otherwise completely empty theater. It’s really amazing. I’ve been trying to figure out how much money the theater loses on us two watching movies. It has to be a non-trivial amount.

I was just glancing at this Gillette Mach 3 “M3 Power” box of razor refills. It contains the following text on the back, and overflowing on the bottom tab:

U.S. Patent Nos./ N^os de brevets américains:

4,586,255; 4,624,051; 4,720,918; 4,807,401; 4,916,817; 5,063,667; 5,113,585; 5,191,712; 5,295,305; 5,303,539; 5,399,204; 5,701,788; 5,761,814; 5,794,354; 5,800,627; 5,813,293; 5,906,834; 5,918,369; 5,956,848; 5,956,851; 5,998,431; 6,009,624; 6,029,354; 6,035,537; 6,041,926; 6,044,542; 6,046,764; 6,052,903; 6,185,822; 6,192,586; 6,212,777; 6,216,349; 6,295,734; 6,442,839; 6,502,318; 6,594,904; D397,290; D398,522; D398,523; D401,014; D422,380; D424,745; D447,283

No less than 43 patents about a shaver and shaving blade. Absolutely amazing. (It took a long time to type all those!)