When we think of the present, we think of what is happening at the current moment in time. Therein lies the problem. Our perception of time is directly related to two things: the speed at which our brains process information and the speed of light. I guess the speed of sound could factor in there as well. Case in point: The speed of light is estimated to be 186,000 miles per second. I always thought it was 126,000 but did a few Google searches; scientists must have recalculated it since my middle school days. At any rate 186,000 miles per second equals 982,080,000 feet per second. Last I checked 982,080,000 feet per second is pretty damn fast. So fast, in fact, that our brains don’t even work fast enough to process it. To make a … Read entire article »

I’ve been following a blog by one Amanda Christine Williams from East Tennessee since July. It’s only been a couple of months, but she only started the blog in June of this year. As you can plainly see by the title, it’s a photo blog. And there are photos a-plenty. … Read entire article »

It appears my life long obsession with clocks has recently taken on a new direction.As I mentioned in a previous post, my obsession borders on the insane. I’m like Mel Gibson’s character in Conspiracy Theory. In the movie, he has an uncontrollable urge to buy a copy of The Catcher in the Rye whenever he sees it and as a result had amassed an extensive collection of them. In fact, I think I remember him saying that he had never actually read it. I could be wrong though, it’s been eleven years since I saw its release in 1997.My Catcher in the Rye is clocks.Clocks call out to me. I don’t go around buying one of every clock I see, mind you. I can (thankfully) walk through a clock section … Read entire article »