future perfect continuous

today someone used the phrase "interstitial freedom" and it reminded me of this.

digital clocks have forever ruined our sense of time by making it too specific. what ever happened to half past and quarter til? you certainly can't see half past on a digital display. most of the time i prefer analog. i like to know where i am in relation to the greater spacetimecontinuum. i don't want to know it's 17:34:44 on 2 nov 2010. i want to know it's half past 5 today. i want to know it's dusk and it's autumn. i want to look at my watch and see if there is enough space between the hands for me to have a snack before i go vote. with analog, time has a mass, a volume, a geography that it doesn't have in digital. time isn't a flat line. all minutes are not created equal. each minute is a little container, a tupperware waiting to preserve a wee bit of life. some minutes are completely filled to the brim with hope or anxiety or building up or tearing down or crying or hitting or hugging or laughing and some minutes are half filled and some are not much filled and some are bout near to empty but there's no such thing as an empty minute even if you're dirt because stuff always happens and keeps happening and has been happening and will have been happening and happened, had happened, and will have had happened -- even in the dirt.