Category Archives: Time

The Disintegration of the Persistence of Memory

The more you look at this painting, the more mind-blowing it becomes. Continue reading

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Cars and Time Management (And Not How They Are Related)

This article is overdue by over one and a half months. In December 2010, I was writing a post each day on a topic chosen by another person. There were two topics that I didn’t get to: cars and time management, … Continue reading

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Back in Austin

It seems like forever ago that I posted my Off to Ithaca/Farewell to Austin. So much has happened in one semester of college that my high school existence feels like a lifetime past. Why has time been so far stretched? … Continue reading

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Does More Time Mean More Productivity?

Six days have passed since I quit playing WoW (for an average of 7.65 hours a day for 20 days). But in these last few days, I feel that I haven’t been any more productive than while playing WoW. You’d … Continue reading

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Time Quotes

    A few thought-provoking quotations relating to time: Ah! the clock is always slow; it is later than you think. Robert W. Service (1874-1958) Alcohol, hashish, prussic acid, strychnine are weak dilutions. The surest poison is time. Ralph Waldo … Continue reading

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Hofstadter’s Law

Hofstadter’s Law: It always takes longer than you expect, even when you take into account Hofstadter’s Law. (And it has right now a Wikipedia page that directly links to itself. Even the “Recursion” page does not do this.) Hofstadter’s Law … Continue reading

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Is Time an Illusion?

[The physics and philosophy article "Is Time an Illusion?" by Craig Callender appears in the June 2010 edition of Scientific American (pp. 58-65). Online article here.]     Does Time exist, or is Time an illusion? Craig Callender assures us … Continue reading

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