My watch has decided that the steady flow of time, second following second following second ad infinitum is something that it no longer wants to represent. My second hand is now stumbling around the clock like a drunken reveler. The amazing thing is, somehow this timepiece of mine still manages to keep the correct time, down to the second.

The second hand now moves four seconds every four seconds. You can watch it as it makes a pit stop on the 28 marker, pauses, and jumps to the 32 mark. It has been a good refresher on my multiplication tables—thank god it's not jumping every 7 seconds.

But how is it keeping the right time? Has my watched switched over to its backup gears, that some brilliant Swiss timeworker put in there in case of emergency? Maybe he was bored with the idea of the second, bored with the length of the second and rigged delicate innards of my timepiece an alternate way to slice time.

I was considering a trip to the watchmaker, but now I think that this change is something I can live with. Who really needs seconds anymore? For accuracy, everything is measured in smaller units and when ever in your live has something actually taken just one second? But with four seconds, now that's a unit that you can do something with.

After the jump, things you can do in four seconds.