Topic: Road Rage
Yesterday I got home from an errand or two, and one of the road work trucks was parked in my driveway. I ended up parking on the street.
Granted, a cop there said he'd have them move it. But I decided that I'd be cooperative, because the sooner they finish, the happier I'll be. He assured me that they'd only be a couple of weeks more.
Which means, if Tech Time applies, it will be five weeks.* With any luck, Rain-Wario will have found something more interesting by then, that has nothing at all to do with me.
*Tech Time (or, more properly, "Technician Time") exists in an alternate universe, infringing upon our own only at locations where some form of technical work is being performed. The time in the alternate reality slows drastically at these points of juxtaposition, but this change has a simple conversion coefficient; simply multiply the technician's estimated time by two of the units used to measure it, and then add one unit. So in the case of the street work, two weeks equals (2* 2 weeks)+1 week = 5 weeks. Had he said "it'll only be fourteen days" the result would have been (2*14 days) + 1 day = 29 days. The actual length, therefore, depends on the unit used to measure, indicating that time is easily warped by perception, proving further that Einstein didn't know the half of it.
Posted by roguespidor
at 8:13 AM EDT
Updated: Wednesday, 4 May 2005 8:15 AM EDT
