durations

time is in short supply for me these days, and it seems i don't even get enough time to sleep. the post below has an audio clip that was whittled down to five minutes of umms and ahhs, and then trimmed again to delete a minute of silence that was in there. it got me thinking about what i could have done in the five minutes of time that he wasted. it takes five minutes : - to castrate a cat - to cook baked alsaska - to kill the microorganisms responsible for botulism in canned pears, by exposing them to temperatures of 115 degrees C. - for a marble factory to turn out 1000 glass marbles - for the human eye to adapt to red light - to die from a single 60 mg dose of nicotine - for intravenous novocaine to take effect i going to ask for him to return my five minutes.