Random Thoughts Part 5: Time to Split Again

[collinsmark]

I overheard a story from a guy a couple stools down from me (the guy wasn't talking to me, but rather the couple sitting next to me). He related a psychedelic experience after getting pretty messed up. As his story goes, he woke up and continued eating a sandwich that he had with him in a park by himself. He recounted seeing ants all over his sandwich and ants all over his face and chest. Attributing the anomaly to hallucinogenics, he blew it off and took another bite of his sandwich.

As it turned out apparently, it wasn't a hallucination at all. He had passed out (alcohol induced) next to a tree. Ants had taken over the situation. Honest to god ants. They invaded his mayonnaise covered chest, sandwich and face. He realized this only after eating a mouthful of ant sandwich.

 

[Astronuc]

It's a tough time for corporate CEOs.

Median pay for the CEOs of nearly 300 large publicly traded companies slipped 3.8% to $10.8 million last year from $11.2 million in 2014, a Wall Street Journal analysis of compensation data from MyLogIQ found. Half of those CEOs saw total pay either decline or rise by less than 1%—also the worst showing for S&P 500 chiefs since the 2008 crisis.

https://finance.yahoo.com/news/ceo-pay-shrank-most-since-003300877.html#

 

[Kevin McHugh]

It's a tough time for corporate CEOs.

https://finance.yahoo.com/news/ceo-pay-shrank-most-since-003300877.html#

Those poor souls. My heart bleeds for them (not). I've often ventured you could eliminate every CEO position in the country, and it would not make one bit of difference to the bottom line, market share, or share price. With the exception of a few, they are merely figure heads.

 

[Psinter]

I overheard a story from a guy a couple stools down from me (the guy wasn't talking to me, but rather the couple sitting next to me). He related a psychedelic experience after getting pretty messed up. As his story goes, he woke up and continued eating a sandwich that he had with him in a park by himself. He recounted seeing ants all over his sandwich and ants all over his face and chest. Attributing the anomaly to hallucinogenics, he blew it off and took another bite of his sandwich.

As it turned out apparently, it wasn't a hallucination at all. He had passed out (alcohol induced) next to a tree. Ants had taken over the situation. Honest to god ants. They invaded his mayonnaise covered chest, sandwich and face. He realized this only after eating a mouthful of ant sandwich.

I giggled a little with this story.

If I had so many ants over me I would have gotten very antsy...... http://www.anothersadtrombone.com/

Maybe now I can enter the Hall of Lame with that one.

 

[WWGD]

I overheard a story from a guy a couple stools down from me (the guy wasn't talking to me, but rather the couple sitting next to me). He related a psychedelic experience after getting pretty messed up. As his story goes, he woke up and continued eating a sandwich that he had with him in a park by himself. He recounted seeing ants all over his sandwich and ants all over his face and chest. Attributing the anomaly to hallucinogenics, he blew it off and took another bite of his sandwich.

As it turned out apparently, it wasn't a hallucination at all. He had passed out (alcohol induced) next to a tree. Ants had taken over the situation. Honest to god ants. They invaded his mayonnaise covered chest, sandwich and face. He realized this only after eating a mouthful of ant sandwich.

Something similar, smaller scale just happened to me before I read your post. I was eating my cereal. I had left the cereal bowl in the sink and I had sprayed some air freshener. I just tasted some of the residuals of the air freshener in my cereal. Maybe I will have a fresher digestive system.

 

[WWGD]

It's a tough time for corporate CEOs.

https://finance.yahoo.com/news/ceo-pay-shrank-most-since-003300877.html#

But I would bet they get to keep their golden parachutes.

 

[JorisL]

But I would bet they get to keep their golden parachutes.

How big should a literal instance of such a object be to be a functional parachute?

 

[Pepper Mint]

But I would bet they get to keep their golden parachutes.

I don't think they need any of such agreements since most of them receive at least $10m per year (10% of which I wish I were given is so much enough for my retirement )

 

[WWGD]

I don't think they need any of such agreements since most of them receive at least $10m per year (10% of which I wish I were given is so much enough for my retirement )

Many neither need it nor deserve it but will likely get it.

 

[WWGD]

How big should a literal instance of such a object be to be a functional parachute?

This is just an expression meaning they will get very nice financial compensation if they are fired. I doubt an actual functional parachute could be made of gold :).

 

[JorisL]

This is just an expression meaning they will get very nice financial compensation if they are fired. I doubt an actual functional parachute could be made of gold :).

I know the expression, it exists in Dutch as well, wonder if it exists in french...
Although the original expression talks of a golden handshake.

*Googling intensifies*
Turns out it does.

 

[WWGD]

I know the expression, it exists in Dutch as well, wonder if it exists in french...
Although the original expression talks of a golden handshake.

*Googling intensifies*
Turns out it does.

The expression in French has a certain, as the French would say, " I don't know what" :).

 

[JorisL]

The expression in French has a certain, as the French would say, " I don't know what" :).

@Greg Bernhardt can you make a way to embed a rimshot in a post?
http://instantrimshot.com/classic/?sound=rimshot

 

[Ibix]

In the Lord Tedric stories the King always wears golden armour. This gets him killed in many parallel universes (since gold armour is an obvious target, heavy and not very strong) except, in one universe, Tedric persuades him to wear gold leaf on steel.

Kevlar threads in a gold leaf matrix might make a parachute canopy. No idea where to start the maths on checking that...

 

[Jonathan Scott]

I wonder how visible the Dragon spacecraft is while it's catching up with the ISS? I expect it's a minute or two behind it in the same orbit. The shuttle used to be visible but that was much larger. I'll go outside and look now, as the ISS is due to pass over here in a couple of minutes.

 

[Jonathan Scott]

I expect it's a minute or two behind it in the same orbit.

... actually, about 80 seconds behind it, based on counting from when ISS passed a particular star until the Dragon passed it (as I can't see my watch in the dark). It's clearly visible, but obviously much less bright than ISS or the shuttle.

 

[zoobyshoe]

He realized this only after eating a mouthful of ant sandwich.

"A mouthful of ant sandwich," should be adopted as an idiom. I'm not sure what it might be used to mean though. The instances where people realize suspected hallucinations are actually real events are few and far between.

 

[WWGD]

"A mouthful of ant sandwich," should be adopted as an idiom. I'm not sure what it might be used to mean though. The instances where people realize suspected hallucinations are actually real events are few and far between.

Ditto many times over for the supernatural.

 

[Ibix]

"A mouthful of ant sandwich," should be adopted as an idiom. I'm not sure what it might be used to mean though. The instances where people realize suspected hallucinations are actually real events are few and far between.

Hallucinations no, but I've had a few instances in my life where my analysis of a situation was way off base and the difference between analysis and reality was rather shocking. I wired a diode into a circuit the wrong way round once so, instead of shorting the back EMF from a relay's solenoid, it shorted the solenoid. I thought there was something wrong with the input signal that was trying to switch the relay and was investigating this hypothesis. The feeling of dawning realisation accompanying the sequence of thoughts (1) what's that burning smell? (2) why is that diode glowing? (3) why is the stripe at the wrong end of its package? (4) understanding! (5) unplug unplug unplug could be well described by "a mouthful of ant sandwich".

 

[WWGD]

Hallucinations no, but I've had a few instances in my life where my analysis of a situation was way off base and the difference between analysis and reality was rather shocking. I wired a diode into a circuit the wrong way round once so, instead of shorting the back EMF from a relay's solenoid, it shorted the solenoid. I thought there was something wrong with the input signal that was trying to switch the relay and was investigating this hypothesis. The feeling of dawning realisation accompanying the sequence of thoughts (1) what's that burning smell? (2) why is that diode glowing? (3) why is the stripe at the wrong end of its package? (4) understanding! (5) unplug unplug unplug could be well described by "a mouthful of ant sandwich".

We've all had our ant sandwiches.

 

[zoobyshoe]

Hallucinations no, but I've had a few instances in my life where my analysis of a situation was way off base and the difference between analysis and reality was rather shocking. I wired a diode into a circuit the wrong way round once so, instead of shorting the back EMF from a relay's solenoid, it shorted the solenoid. I thought there was something wrong with the input signal that was trying to switch the relay and was investigating this hypothesis. The feeling of dawning realisation accompanying the sequence of thoughts (1) what's that burning smell? (2) why is that diode glowing? (3) why is the stripe at the wrong end of its package? (4) understanding! (5) unplug unplug unplug could be well described by "a mouthful of ant sandwich".

There you go! So you could say: "I put the diode in the wrong way, but I only realized this after eating a mouthful of ant sandwich."

 

[WWGD]

Maybe I should not have tried it. I was subbing in teaching an Intro Stats class last week and we were doing exercises on bar charts, stem-and-leaf displays, etc.
I was supposed to do three graphs on Sex (M/F), Zip code of residence and Age. I purposefully skipped the first and just did the last two. Then I stated we were done. A girl in the class asks, shouting: " How about sex"? I replied: " Maybe after class, but I can't give you any extra points (towards her grade)"
They laughed, but I guess I could have gotten in trouble..

 

[JorisL]

Risky business indeed, better hope she passes or it might come back to hide failure.

 

[Psinter]

They laughed, but I guess I could have gotten in trouble..

When you have people who hate you just because, they would use that against you even if they are deeply convinced that you were just joking. Here's just a small piece of what they could do (or not) if there is someone out there who has something against you: They could, with very little effort, blow it to ridiculous proportions to make you look like the latest wicked criminal in the avenue. They could/would, through the use of fear (like in the news), drive people around you to deliberately compare you to real dangerous criminals, your image damaged as they would talk dramatizing and difamating things about you behind your back and so on... They would engage the state and other set of authorities, wasting the state money, to investigate what the actual stuff happened while the state avert their eyes from real dangerous criminals who are completely hidden signing contracts like in the Panama Papers. It's society.

Then you will realize what smiles want to actually harm you. And then again there are those like in the tiny sombrero party who are wholeheartedly offended (or so they swear):

Spoiler: Trying to make a joke in...

 

[collinsmark]

'Watching Columbo again. I can watch Columbo all day long.

Oh, the days where a woman can throw her drink onto a man's face without the threat of her being charged with assault.*

I had a drink thrown in my face once, I'm pretty sure. I don't remember the details, except it was an ex girlfriend. It was awesome. (Edit: She was awesome. I mean no disrespect in this post.)

*[Throwing a drink in somebody's face is technically assault, legally speaking. 'Certanly not acceptable these days, but back in the '70s things were a bit different.]

[Edit: Peter Falk is awesome, RIP.]

 

[Psinter]

I had a drink thrown in my face once, I'm pretty sure. I don't remember the details, except it was an ex girlfriend. It was awesome. (Edit: She was awesome. I mean no disrespect in this post.)

Did it hit you or did you avoided it like a ninja?

 

[collinsmark]

Did it hit you or did you avoided it like a ninja?

It was several years ago, but yes, as I remember, the drink ended up all over my face.

 

[Psinter]

It was several years ago, but yes, as I remember, the drink ended up all over my face.

I hope it wasn't a hot drink.

 

[collinsmark]

I hope it wasn't a hot drink.

No, it was fine. (Was it just beer?) It all worked out friendly in the end, whatever the case.

 

[Psinter]

No, it was fine. (Was it just beer?) It all worked out friendly in the end, whatever the case.