Thursday, October 27, 2005

Falling back:

I once had a brief understanding of cosmologist Stephen Hawking's A Brief History of Time, but the revelation had a half-life of about 30 seconds. Based on my minute residual understanding, this weekend's time adjustment will be the equivalent of taking an instantaneous leap backwards of approximately 658,800,000 miles. If you used the approved Superman method of turning back time, it would involve flying counterclockwise around the equator 26,352 times (with seven additional cicumnavigations for each second you dawdled.) To guage the environmental impact of such a hasty junket, look at the seam on my $6 Chinese globe. No doubt the science of time has advanced while I have been poring over lighter reading. But however you get it done, enjoy the extra hour of sleep.

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