timespiration - a different look at time - cyriel kortleven

timespirationa different look at time

“Life is what happens to you when you’re busy making other

plans.”

John Lennon

The human clock is a site which shows a photograph of the current time - with the photo changing every minute of the day (1.440 pictures a day). Craig Giffen started this site in 2001 and now people from all over the world send pictures with the time on to this site & hope to get on the site.

"You will always wake up in the future."

Unknown author

The Long Now Foundation was established in 01996 (*) and has the

mission to stimulate people to think in a longer terms. They hope to counterpoint

to today's mindset 'faster/cheaper' to a more 'slower/better' thinking. The Long

Now Foundation organizes seminars, conferences, ... to promote this vision.

A very cool projects is a clock on a mountain top in eastern Nevada. The

clock will tick once a year, bongs once a century and the cuckoo comes out every

millennium.(*1) the extra digit in the date is already added to solve the deca-

millennium bug in 8000 years)

"To achieve great things, two things are needed:

a plan, and not quite enough time." 

Leonard Bernstein

Long imprisonment - In Spain, a postman was accused of a very

long imprisonment. Apparently, the law is in Spain that postmen

can get an imprisonment of 9 years for not delivering a piece of

mail. Because this guy hadn't delivered more than 40.000 postal

items, the prosecutor claimed 384.912 years of imprisonment.

"The only reason for time is so that everything doesn't happen

at once."

Albert Einstein

Lifeline instead of deadline - Don’t you get already stress from the word

itself - deadline - even without thinking of the real pressure that

comes to mind when you think about deadlines. It gives the

impression that the activity or project that you're doing will be

dead if you don't finish it on time. Why don't we call it a lifeline?

+ It sounds better and more positive+ The activity or project can come

alive if you finish it within the clocktime

+ If you don't reach the lifeline, give the activity or activity another life

"There are two kinds of people, those who finish what they start

and so on."

Robert Byrne

Proxima centauri - We already know that our universe is quite big ... euh very big. The closest star to the earth (except for our sun) is called proxima centauri and is at a distance of 4 light years. Quite far if you know that a light year is traveling a year with the speed of light (300.000 km/second). So that means that the distance is around 37.000.000.000.000 km.

Our Sun is only traveling 8 light minutes from earth.

"I've been on a calendar, but I have never been on time."

Marilyn Monroe

"It's not enough to be busy, so are the ants. The question is, what

are we busy about?"

Henry David Thoreau

Whoops, some clockdays are missing - In 1582 had pope Gregorius XIII - a well-known calendar reformer - a problem. He discovered that the Julian calendar (named after Julius Caesar) was not very accurate and he wanted to readjust the calendar. But he had a shortage of a few days so he solved this problem by abolishing the days between Thursday 4 October 1582 and Friday 15 October 1582. The days in between don't exist and form a black hole in our history. From then on, he cancelled the leap years at the end of a century. The calendar is from that moment also called the gregorian calendar.

"The bad news is time flies. The good news is you're the pilot."

Michael Altshule

Bombing thwarted by daylight saving time - In September 1999, the West Bank was on Daylight Saving Time while Israel had just switched back to standard time. West Bank terrorists prepared time bombs and smuggled

them to their Israeli counterparts, who misunderstood the time on the bombs. As the bombs were being planted, they exploded - one hour too early – killing

three terrorists instead of the intended victims - two busloads of people.

"Creativity is the residue of wasted time.”

Albert Einstein

"Time is more valuable than money. You can get more money, but you cannot get more time."

Jim Rohn

Too late - In Denmark, a librarian was very happy when a woman returned a book that was already lend out 61 years. The woman had discovered the book at the attic of her deceased parents and there was still an address of the library on it.

The normal penalty would be 5.310 euro for returning a book that late but the librarian was very happy that they got the old book back and the woman didn't had to pay the penalty ;-)

The message from the librarian was 'It is never too late to return a book'.

"The best time to plant a tree is twenty  years ago,

the second best time is today."

Unknown author

This is a book about Time. It's not a book about time-management.

It's not a book about the clock. It's a book about Time and the different perspectives on this topic.

Author: Cyriel Kortleven (translated his name would be Cyril Shortlife)

www.timespiration.com