What is this crazy magic?

It seems I’ve caught up.
I saw the future.
I learned exactly nothing from this excercise. Not sure why the illuminati* wanted to pick on me. But, dang, I’m glad it’s over!!
I felt discombobulated all day.

(*or who ever it was):eek:

Dammit, I was on a roll, and you had to bring reality back!
I bought stock at $5, was planning to sell it an hour later at $8.
THEN you brought the right time back!
Dammit, you owe me $3!

I’ve felt that way since 1964; you get used to it. :wink:

It looks like it might just be those server time-out errors hitting you, making your posts get held up in limbo for an hour before appearing on the board.

I’m a full time-zone or two in the other direction. I’ve been noticing that posts that I make here are showing up on this board a full hour before I post them!

This is quite convenient, it turns out. Instead of having to type all the posts that I make (this one itself, for example), I simply note posts made by me that show up an hour before I make them. Then I just copy the whole post to the clipboard or to a temporary file, then wait an hour, then open a new post or Reply box and copy the text into that rather than having to type it all, and submit it.

Sometimes I decide I don’t like the post and I wish to change it. But I know I MUST resist such urges, as all attempts to alter the past are doomed to fail in one way or another, usually disastrously. (See: Any sci-fi time travel show, particularly on Star Trek or Twilight Zone. Or worse still, that old Time Tunnel series.) If I change a post that’s already appeared before I post it, I imagine the whole universe would bifurcate with a separate instance of me going into each one, and one of those universes would be alien beyond recognition. I hate when that happens.

God, me too. Just sucks my soul out!

Oh by-the-way – Did you happen to note if you were logged in or out when you saw your posts with wrong time-stamps?

Assuming you’ve set your time-zone correctly, posts will be shown with the correct time-stamp (for your location).

If you are not logged in, then the board doesn’t know who you are and thus doesn’t know where you are. In that case, it appears that posts are simply shown with the time stamp of the board’s home time zone.

Which is Central Time, the same as Arkansas.

What sorcery is this?

Aaaaccckkkk!
Too many variables.

Why is my life so hard? I live a simple country life. I don’t bother people on purpose.
Why is karma such a bitch?

carnie- I’ll pay the $3, maybe on Tues.:slight_smile:

I never log out. Ain’t found that feature yet.

Holy AOL, Batman!

Yeah, yeah, all the girls say that.

Wait, didn’t Wimpy promise to pay Popeye back next Tuesday?

I’ll gladly pay you on Tuesday. I promise not to buy a plate of burgers. (:))

Fun fact: Thailand is 17 hours ahead of Hawaii. And traveling time from Bangkok to Honolulu including time on the ground changing planes in Japan or Taiwan is routinely about 17 hours. So you land in Hawaii after all that traveling at about the same time and day (you cross the international date line) as when you left. Or maybe about 20 minutes later, making it a 20-minute trip.

Are you reelin’ in the years
Stowin’ away the time
Are you gatherin’ up the tears
Have you had enough of mine?

It reminds me of when I flew to Boise once for business (I live in the Seattle area) on a little puddle jumper plane. The flight back home took less than an hour, so my arrival time was earlier than my departure time.

Imagine if I flew home just after midnight, I could have arrived the previous day.

Maybe:
“If I could have time in a bottle”

Being in a time warp was tiring. I slept REALLY late.
I feel like I missed something.

I missed making some money, dammit.

Carni- the check is in the mail. :relaxed:

I shall eagerly await it on Tuesday.