So… I was playing around with this here WP platform.
I haven’t kept a wordpress blog in a while and I kinda got back my taste for it, after posting the first two posts in the TankUp dev journal.
And as I love the tags concept as a tool, I decided I’ll use a 3-tag system as a time marker – ‘flashback’, ‘this just in’ and ‘flash forward’. The meaning of those is, I think, easily discernible – flashbacks are about what I have already done with the project (in time those will dwindle out), ‘this just in’ will follow my latest progress and ‘flash forward’ will be about things I need to get on with in the future.
The ‘problem’ is with the ‘this just in’s – this did not ‘just in’, unless I immediately post here, after I have uploaded my latest changes in the GitHub repo. So why use ‘just’. Obviously because it sounds cool.
But I figured a way of describing the timing of events so that I can use justify the ‘just’. Here is how it goes:
You have two timelines (A and B), conforming to the following conditions:
– both are discrete
– events in the two discrete timelines do not have duration
– both are co-dependent on a third timeline, which is continuous (C, also ‘control timeline’)
Result: At any point in the third timeline, the two latest events in the discrete timelines are considered simultaneous
In this case timeline A is the timelog of the GitHub submissions in the TankUp repo; timeline B is the sequence of ‘this just in’ posts here about the TankUp project.
The latest event in timeline A is, as defined in this system, simultaneous with the latest event in timeline B, regardless of the time interval that separates their projections on the control timeline (C)
Cool, eh!