Ponderings in a corner of the universe

Time... A funny thing

Its 23:27 as I start this post. About 2 hrs ago an advert for 'Twister' (the movie) was on... I recalled a conversation I had about 1 month ago about how the movie was about 10 years old. My reaction at the time... "No way, it can't be that long ago... can it?" Well its 2004 and that was 1996... I had some kind of crazy notion that it was 5 years ago or so. Not the best part of a decade... even with all that CGI. Well computer graphics in movies isn't exactly new any more. 5 years ago? Magnolia. I tried watching it back in 2000... possibly 2001, and with current inability to recognise time I'm not really sure which one it is. I think I did manage to see it about 2 years ago but it just stuck in my mind as I perused www.imdb.com for Twister and some how, for some reason came across Magnolia... actor connection, Dusty in Twister.

Its 2004, September... 6 days shy of October. In 1977, October... 30 days in, I was born. In 1996, October, I started at The University of Kent at Canterbury. In 1066, the Magna Carta was signed. This particular event, unlike the others, has little to do with my personal story. It was 938 years ago.

So my point... suprisingly I have one. Time seems to fly for a certain period. Then it seems to expand out exponentially. Think about the 1990's, pretty recent huh. Pretty crazy what's happened in the past 10-15 years hey? The 1980's... funny time hey. Big hair and all. Dunno about you but when I start looking at it It starts to kind of warp out... then again I was born in '77. So, well my reference kind of stops.

If you were born in 1940 is the curve of recent memory extended, drawn out, or do everyone have a standard (ok, give it a margin of error) drop off?

Got me thinking :-)

posted by Matthew Woodget @ 11:27 PM