There was a web comic a few years ago called Hyperbole and a Half.  It was a semi-autobiographical series done painstakingly in MS Paint by a very funny and odd woman. 

It was also my first exposure to the word hyperbole – which is basically a fancy way of extreme exaggeration. 

With my…well, let’s just tell it like it is…obsession with time, it makes sense that I would make liberal use of those in my conversations.  I’ve decided to quantify those measures below:

  • Epoch = years ago, but feels like thousands of years
  • Nanosecond = a few minute’s span of time
  • 20 minutes = a wildly variable span of time – weeks to years – that feels like it was over before it started
  • 100 years = another wildly variable span of time – hours to days  – that feels like forever.
  • The rest of my natural life = any project without a clear deadline, but will take longer than I want to think about.

This blog, for example, feels somewhere between 20 minutes and the rest of my natural life.