{"id":2791,"date":"2008-11-28T14:06:59","date_gmt":"2008-11-28T19:06:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/neanderpundit.com\/?p=2791"},"modified":"2008-11-28T16:22:15","modified_gmt":"2008-11-28T21:22:15","slug":"just-gonna-leave-you-with-a-smidgen-of-this","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/neanderpundit.com\/?p=2791","title":{"rendered":"Just gonna leave you with a smidgen of this."},"content":{"rendered":"

Tam wrote here <\/a>about Tolerance Stack<\/a>, and uses one of her favorite words<\/a> to describe how much material she needs to take off the end of her new guide rod so it will fit in her Para. <\/p>\n

Which got me wondering: <\/p>\n

How many thousandths in an inch? .
\nThis is actually a question I posed to a young (but know-it-all) apprentice we had back in the day. He had this response: “I bet there’s a bunch”<\/p>\n

He turned red with incandescent rage when we laughed at him. “Like you know!” he yelled, and stormed from the roon. <\/p>\n

Actually, what it got me thinking was, what are the rates of exchange for the different imaginary units? I don’t think there is one, or if there is, I certainly couldn’t find it. <\/p>\n

So never being one to see a target move without trying to nail it down, I figured I’d set some of these things to rights here. <\/p>\n

So: <\/p>\n

As far as I can determine, <\/p>\n

1000 zillion = 1 bazillion. (Not to be confused with Basilian, the Order of St Basil)
\n1000 Bazillion = 1 Gazillion
\n1000 Gazillion = 1 jillion
\n1000 jillion = 1 Bajillion
\n1000 Bajillion = 1 Kajillion
\n1000 Kajillion = 1 Kabillion
\n1000 Kabillion = 1 Umptillion
\n1000 Umptillion = 1 Squillion
\n1000 Squillion = 1 googillion
\n1000 Googillion = 1 Hojillion. <\/p>\n

Part of the problem we encounter is the mixture of metric an imperial units. For instance: A Hojillionth of an inch is actually .073 skosh, (or, as the Japanese say, Sukoshi<\/a>) (You thought I made that shit up, didnt’ you?) There are three cubic shosh in a Smidge, and One Smidge of pure Unobtaium has a mass of 1 tad. <\/p>\n

Clear?<\/p>\n

Now let’s look at units of time: <\/p>\n

The Photosecond is the amount of time it takes a small boy to reach his bed after turning off the lights. A Photosecond is defined as the distance from the light switch to the bed divided by the speed of light * .9875. <\/p>\n

The ohnosecond is the amount of time it takes to realize that your mom is cleaning out your bedroom and will soon discover your stash of (illicit substances, porn, personal electrical appliances, etc) <\/p>\n

The Hellnosecond is the amount of time that elapses between me hearing \u00e2\u20ac\u0153I\u00e2\u20ac\u2122m Kelly with Senator Obama\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s Campaign\u00e2\u20ac\u009d and me hanging up. <\/p>\n

Add yours in comments. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Tam wrote here about Tolerance Stack, and uses one of her favorite words to describe how much material she needs to take off the end of her new guide rod so it will fit in her Para. Which got me wondering: How many thousandths in an inch? . This is actually a question I posed […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2791","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/neanderpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2791"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/neanderpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/neanderpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/neanderpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/neanderpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2791"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/neanderpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2791\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/neanderpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2791"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/neanderpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2791"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/neanderpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2791"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}