false starts, true beginnings
"The year is 2015; we don't quite know what year it is. The notion that 2020 will show up five years from now seems absurd, that '10 years ago' refers to '2005' hardly less so." Nick Sweeney (from whom I got my Gmail invite in 2004, IIRC) reflects on something that's been on my own mind as of late. I was in Forbidden Planet yesterday and saw a magazine on the shelves celebrating 20 years since the premiere of Star Trek: Voyager and I was like '20 years? What?' Because it only feels like a decade if even that. But maybe it's just that as we get older, our sense of time is compressing. #link