Les,<br><br><div class="gmail_quote"><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;"><br>
In a startling discovery made earlier today by musician and self-described ChucKist &quot;Kassen&quot;, it was revealed that negative time actually exists. </blockquote><div><br><br>I don&#39;t think it does.. but you can have negative durations and LiSa may end up with a negative duration indicating her .playPos(), which was what I was investigating. There isn&#39;t the slightest problem with negative durations. You can add them, you can subtract them, you just can&#39;t advance now by them but they may be useful in other contexts, for example to indicate a timing offset that may be in either direction. Shuffle might be expressed as such a offset.<br>
<br>&quot;Five hours ago we met&quot; and &quot;The movie will start in three minutes&quot; are both fine sentences yet they refer to durations (as offsets to &quot;now&quot;) in different directions, so I&#39;d say we are fine with negative durations in natural language as well; &quot;She was five minutes late&quot; may be a even more clear example, with &quot;late&quot; expressing the sign.<br>
<br>Sorry to be so factual at your (great) humorous post but I&#39;m really tired right now, that would also explain why I haven&#39;t yet gotten back to you on your personal mails. Rest asured I&#39;ll be doing something with that material.<br>
<br>Regular silliness will resume tomorrow.<br><br>Yours,<br>Kas.<br><br>P.S: aren&#39;t bees and dragonfly&#39;s bugs that can fly backwards?<br></div></div><br>