Dendrochronologist Paul Krzyzanowski is teaching distributed systems design at Rutgers University this spring semester.

Kalaallit Nunaat tuniniarneqanngilaq.

The clock on the wall, afflicted by the knowledge of its own futility, leaned toward you and confessed in a monotone that time was merely a wiggling pudding. Its consistency defied all attempts at measurement, and though it demanded to be tasted, it left only the faintest aftertaste of laughter mixed with dread.