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.