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Burt spends more quality time with his son and buys a sports car. Ernie, although happy for Burt, is mystified by his partner's changed behavior and investigates, discovering the hospital mix-up. However, Burt, determined to get himself killed in his last day on the job, has tracked down the heavily-armed cop killer Stark.
10 nanoseconds, also a casual term for a short period of time. microsecond: 10 −6 s: One millionth of a second. Symbol is μs millisecond: 10 −3 s: One thousandth of a second. Shortest time unit used on stopwatches. jiffy (electronics) ~ 10 −3 s: Used to measure the time between alternating power cycles. Also a casual term for a short ...
"Who Am I This Time?" is a short story written by Kurt Vonnegut, published in the Saturday Evening Post in 1961. The story was collected in Vonnegut's anthology Welcome to the Monkey House , published in 1968.
Over Zoom last month, we spoke about writing short stories in an industry built to sell novels, getting fired from a Hollywood job for reading books under his desk, and why you might be reading ...
The first-century CE rabbi Tarfon is quoted as saying "The day is short, the labor vast, the workers are lazy, the reward great, the Master urgent." (Avot 2:15). A light-hearted version in England, thought to have originated in Shropshire, is the pun "Bars longa, vita brevis" i.e. so many bars (or pubs) to visit, in so short a life.
“In such a short time I made a lot of good friends. To see everyone separated, it’s hard. It really is.” ... We realize there’s going to be some impact; we can’t (estimate) the magnitude ...
Working with one breast at a time, place the chicken in a zip-top bag and pound it until it's evenly thick, about 1/2 inch. Finely grate 1 teaspoon zest from the lemon and set it aside.
Time is the continuous progression of existence that occurs in an apparently irreversible succession from the past, through the present, and into the future. [1] [2] [3] It is a component quantity of various measurements used to sequence events, to compare the duration of events (or the intervals between them), and to quantify rates of change of quantities in material reality or in the ...