Dry Ice in the Toilet

What happens when you put dry ice into an airplane toilet at 33,000 feet? One unfortunate pilot found out, and the story is priceless.

He turns and looks at the toilet. But it has, for all practical purposes, disappeared, and where it once rested he now finds what he will later describe only as a vision. In place of the commode roars a fluorescent blue waterfall, a huge, heaving cascade of toilet fluid thrust waist-high into the air and splashing into all four corners of the lavatory. Pouring from the top of this volcano, like smoke out of a factory chimney, is a rapidly spreading pall of what looks like steam. He closes his eyes tight for a second, then reopens them. He does this not for the benefit of unwitnessed theatrics, or even to create an embellishing detail for eventual use in a story. He does so because, for the first time in his life, he truly does not believe what has cast itself before him.

Drop everything and go read the rest of this Ask the Pilot story. [Mirabilis.ca]

12:23:29 PM  #  Speak Up []    

Work With a Clean Desk

"Out of sight, out of mind." The reverse of that is true too. When it's in sight, it's in mind and we cannot help but be distracted.

Studies have shown that a person working with a messy desk will spend, on average, one and a half hours per day either being distracted by things in their view or looking for things. That's seven and a half hours per week.

Keep the clutter before you at a minimum and you will have a more accurate focus on what you need to do to increase your daily productivity.

8:35:51 AM  #  Speak Up []    

God's Last Chance
As a professional atheist, I abhorred the religious. They were people whose faces froze in disapproving grimaces, who worried about their reputation for neatness and niceness, who never said, "C'mon in and have a cup of coffee and a cigarette." The religious were stiff and contrived and self-conscious. They seemed to be waiting for you to notice how good they were. [read more]
8:29:42 AM  #  Speak Up []    

Quote
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe. "One ought, every day at least, to hear a little song, read a good poem, see a fine picture, and if it were possible, to speak a few reasonable words." [Motivational Quotes of the Day]
7:03:37 AM  #  Speak Up []   - See Also:  Quotations   

WOTD
encumbrance: Dictionary.com Word of the Day. encumbrance [Dictionary.com Word of the Day]
7:02:34 AM  #  Speak Up []   - See Also:  WOTD