Mailbag – Nonlinear Time Edition
Minion ScottO writes:
Dear Good Lord Doctor,
While your screenshot shows Friday’s date on your Sequester Fairy post, my magical iDevice indicates a different phenomenon:
As you can see, it appeared on my device on Friday–at the equally magical time of 11:11!
I made a wish that there would be more spending cuts than just a tiny part of the projected growth, but somehow I don’t think even the Sequester Fairy can pull that off.
In minionship, ScottO
Hah! Right. Well you see while simple folk see time as a linear phenomenon, it’s really like a big ball of wibbly wobbly timey wimey stuff.
The folks at Apple realize that, and in the latest iOS update there is a reverse tachyon high pass filter that converts the post to local time from posting time if sent from the future. GorT’s old man developed it for Apple three years from now.
Given that it was submitted on 3/1/13, while GorT was blasting Rush’s 2112 album, you should have received it at 10:01, so the software is probably still buggy. The time equivalent of Apple’s maps app. GorT will get the memo to his old man.
Now regarding your comments regarding a decrease in the increase in growth, Dr. J. posted on this earlier, so he’s disappointed that it took two pictures of the same buxom fairy to get you to write in when Veronique deRugy’s graphs and tables should have been more than sufficient.
Nevertheless, we welcome any and every opportunity to respond to a letter.
Best,
Dr. J