Living with the Machine

Computer Time Warp

Look, has anyone noticed how drastically time spent on your computer shrinks compared to normal time?

What has prompted this, and not for the first time, is that I've carbonised my dinner again. I dont know, with normal time I cook, it takes half and hour or so and it's done, with pc-time I cook, I spend 10 mins on the computer, I go back and the dinners burnt.

I boil the kettle to make some tea, with normal time - the kettle takes ages, again, ten minutes on the pc, I go back to find the kettle's boiled and the water's gone cold and I have to start over. There is definately something affecting time in a wierd way. Comp time seems to warp so that one hour ends up being two. I miss appointments, sometimes by a whole day! Coffee you've just made turns cold when you go to drink it. I arrange to meet friends for a drink and when I check the clock after a bit of work on the comp - it's past closing time!

This is getting out of hand. I believe there are machine-demons from hyper-space fooling with the very fabric of the space-time continuum! And it seems to happen everytime I engage with the comp.

Oh well, maybe I'm over-worked, anyway, it's Friday and time for a few bevvies down the pub.

Damn! Done it again, missed last orders!

posted by Steve King @ 10:08 AM