Comments on: My Time Traveling CR-V http://anaedream.com/2009/08/31/my-time-traveling-cr-v/ The Blatherings of Kathryn Nerys Baker Fri, 12 Mar 2010 17:41:00 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 hourly 1 By: WendyB_09 http://anaedream.com/2009/08/31/my-time-traveling-cr-v/comment-page-1/#comment-3038 WendyB_09 Tue, 01 Sep 2009 03:51:23 +0000 http://anaedream.com/?p=1678#comment-3038 Kate, if setting a clock a few minutes ahead as a motivation tool is crazy, then I've been a member of the club for a very long time. Set my alarm clock that way, so when I'm beating the snooze button to death and glance at the time after a couple hits, I freak out and leap out of bed. ONLY to discover the vanity clock has normal time on it. But by then I'm out of bed, which was the object of the exercise! Kate, if setting a clock a few minutes ahead as a motivation tool is crazy, then I’ve been a member of the club for a very long time.

Set my alarm clock that way, so when I’m beating the snooze button to death and glance at the time after a couple hits, I freak out and leap out of bed. ONLY to discover the vanity clock has normal time on it. But by then I’m out of bed, which was the object of the exercise!

]]> By: Eric http://anaedream.com/2009/08/31/my-time-traveling-cr-v/comment-page-1/#comment-3037 Eric Mon, 31 Aug 2009 15:55:34 +0000 http://anaedream.com/?p=1678#comment-3037 Ah, but how do you know that your XM Radio isn't slowly travelling into the <i>past</i>, clinging on to precious expired minutes in an attempt to retain the comforts of a just-played classic, to revel in a just-heard DJ's joke, clinging to the moment when a newly-released tune was sparkly and surprising and not tired and overplayed? In the CPU at the center of the radio, time is measured in MHz, millions of processor cycles per second--and so nostalgia for misspent youth and regret for missed opportunities is measured in minutes, hundreds of thousands, millions of thousands of cycles ago in the barely-remembered machine-past. When you changed the station trillions of millions of ones-and-zeros ago, what was the next song going to be? Your radio will never know, still it's curious. Ah, but how do you know that your XM Radio isn’t slowly travelling into the past, clinging on to precious expired minutes in an attempt to retain the comforts of a just-played classic, to revel in a just-heard DJ’s joke, clinging to the moment when a newly-released tune was sparkly and surprising and not tired and overplayed? In the CPU at the center of the radio, time is measured in MHz, millions of processor cycles per second–and so nostalgia for misspent youth and regret for missed opportunities is measured in minutes, hundreds of thousands, millions of thousands of cycles ago in the barely-remembered machine-past. When you changed the station trillions of millions of ones-and-zeros ago, what was the next song going to be? Your radio will never know, still it’s curious.

]]> By: durmiun/jason http://anaedream.com/2009/08/31/my-time-traveling-cr-v/comment-page-1/#comment-3031 durmiun/jason Mon, 31 Aug 2009 14:41:15 +0000 http://anaedream.com/?p=1678#comment-3031 heh, whomever timed the mechanism for your clock was a little drunk, perhaps? :-P Think about it another way, though: your car, obviously being in possession of a personality, must be very anxious. while it's managed to give you a new extra ten minute lease on life, things in it's frame of reference must seem a bit odd. Seeing as how it's minutes only have 599 1/10s of a second in them, as opposed to the normal 600, it must be in just a slight rush, permanently, trying to feel like it has to go just that little extra bit faster or else it'll let you down. Poor CR-V. heh, whomever timed the mechanism for your clock was a little drunk, perhaps? :-P

Think about it another way, though: your car, obviously being in possession of a personality, must be very anxious. while it’s managed to give you a new extra ten minute lease on life, things in it’s frame of reference must seem a bit odd. Seeing as how it’s minutes only have 599 1/10s of a second in them, as opposed to the normal 600, it must be in just a slight rush, permanently, trying to feel like it has to go just that little extra bit faster or else it’ll let you down.

Poor CR-V.

]]> By: Nathan http://anaedream.com/2009/08/31/my-time-traveling-cr-v/comment-page-1/#comment-3030 Nathan Mon, 31 Aug 2009 14:19:52 +0000 http://anaedream.com/?p=1678#comment-3030 You could claim that it's just a somewhat pokey DeLorian! Have you noticed it trying to flap it's wings? You could claim that it’s just a somewhat pokey DeLorian! Have you noticed it trying to flap it’s wings?

]]> By: octopusgrabbus http://anaedream.com/2009/08/31/my-time-traveling-cr-v/comment-page-1/#comment-3029 octopusgrabbus Mon, 31 Aug 2009 11:23:12 +0000 http://anaedream.com/?p=1678#comment-3029 Thank you. This explains Mrs. H's Toyota clock. Thank you. This explains Mrs. H’s Toyota clock.

]]> By: Vince http://anaedream.com/2009/08/31/my-time-traveling-cr-v/comment-page-1/#comment-3028 Vince Mon, 31 Aug 2009 04:11:29 +0000 http://anaedream.com/?p=1678#comment-3028 <em>Yes, I know this post will make me look like I’ve finally lost the last screw holding in my brain.</em> Heh. I <em>know</em> I've lost mine, so welcome to the club. Dues are nonexistent and the newsletter is intermittent, but we're a fun bunch. Yes, I know this post will make me look like I’ve finally lost the last screw holding in my brain.

Heh. I know I’ve lost mine, so welcome to the club. Dues are nonexistent and the newsletter is intermittent, but we’re a fun bunch.

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