manipulating time and space

Actually, there's probably not much guilt in this one...

A day or two ago one colleague remarked that the clock on the wall above our manager's desk was slightly squint and spent the next five minutes tilting her head to and fro and complaining. It was only a degree or so out and looked half-right as there was still some of the 12 at the very top of the face's curve but the numerals looked a little odd and it provided a couple of minutes' distraction. This morning TFP attempted to worsen or invert the error of alignment before the former complainant arrived though I don't think she noticed. Maybe one day it could be secretly tilted a little bit one way or the other each time she left her seat...

On a vaguely similar subject: if you've ever glanced at a watch or clock and been certain that the hand or display hung on one particular second a little too long before moving... apparently this is your brain just playing fill-in-the-gaps as it usually does to make you think your visual field is chock-full of detail and colour when you're really just scanning little bits all the time, adding them together and interpolating. Likewise-ish when you glance at the second hand your brain will back-fill the period spent moving your gaze from one point to another with the sight on which it comes to rest. If you look just after it's ticked the additional catch-up time can make the second drag on just ever so slightly too long.