Delayed reaction
Some of you are no doubt familiar with this phenomenon: you read something, record a noncommittal “Huh,” and move on — and minutes or hours or days later, it finally dawns on you what was said.
Roberta X dealt me one of those t’other day:
This reminds me — the Hofstadter’s Law T-shirts are still running way behind schedule. Really thought we’d planned for that.
I guffawed, and then I cursed myself for my blindness — and then, of course, I recursed.
John Salmon »
11 January 2012 · 3:56 pm
That post took longer to read than I expected.