Speed Progamming
February 10th 2005
So I was doing my comp-sci homework this evening, and I had to fit the whole problem set into 4 hours. Well, 3 and a half to be precise. That would usually be fine, except that the last problem was to be written in Python. The problem was that I didn’t know python at the time. Well it turns out that I learned enough in two hours to write a rather complex little text parsing program.
Which brings me to my point: it didn’t feel like two hours, it felt like five. Time seemed to slow down immensely when I was writing the code, I don’t know why. Has anyone ever been so entranced in something that this sort of thing happened? Maybe it was just that I was in a hurry, or that my brain was working overtime with the syntactical subtleties of python, but it felt weird; I kept looking at the clock and it kept saying 10:30-something and I actually wondered if it could be wrong.
Yeah, it’s probably just that my brain is so powerful that it warps space-time when I think.
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I honestly have the opposite problem. When I’m working hours can pass in what seems like minutes. I wish I could slow down time.