5/31/2002 09:11:00 AM [ link ]
I was a little disoriented this morning when I woke up. I was certain that my alarm clock was sending me some sort of message, and that by turning it off, I was going to miss the second half of the transmission. It seemed at the time as if I had already received and understood the first half of it, and I was angry at myself for cutting it off before the end.
It was only after lying in bed for ten minutes with only one eye open that I recalled an important fact: Alarm clocks do not transmit messages.
