bedroom singularities

I sent out what I hoped would be a humorous message this morning when I knew I was going to be late to work:

I didn’t roll over and notice the time until just now. (alarms have more “accidental turnoffs” in direct proportion to their complexity. Ours is moving daily toward the singularity.)

Then a co-worker (Dave) responded with this:

OK, I’m not Stephen Hawking or anything, but if your alarm clock is becoming a singularity, then I think your problem waking up late might have to do with the time dilation as you approach the event horizon. As you stumble over to the alarm clock to hit snooze, you appear slower and more redshifted to the outside observer, and to their eyes it takes you an infinite amount of time to actually touch the alarm clock (although for you it’s mere moments), to say nothing about the tidal forces exerted on your index finger! This is why I’m never in on time, my alarm clock’s Schwarzschild radius encompasses my entire room!

-Dave

I thought that was really funny, and responded with more attempted mid-morning wit;

Wow… what a coincidence that your alarm clock is a singularity as the term relates to physics, and mine is a singularity as it relates to artificial intelligence!!! (http://www.singinst.org/what-singularity.html)

I guess our alarm clocks are singularly unique. HA!

Who said geeks can’t be funny?