More of a pun than a rebus...if this were Wheel of Fortune, it would be "Before and After"

Hint on this one: I had to edit the post because I had originally drawn it with two humps, but one hump is more appropriate. Also, I've been told that even though it works spelling-wise, saying it out loud required mispronunciation of two words. But I had always pronounced those words in a different way, so it's not an unnatural pronunciation.

Hint for this one...you can completely ignore the actual time on the clock, and you can mostly ignore the square root sign...it's only there because I'm anal and wanted to make the rebus represent closer to what I mean.

Miguel Rebus #1

This rebus is functional...hopefully more inspired coming soon, but it's rough to start up doing these again from scratch.

A badly needed blog

Welcome to The Realm of the Rebus! I'm not sure what this will end up being, but for now, for me, it'll be a fun place to dump my steaming mounds of visual puns onto a place where maybe some day people will pore over them like Fermat's Last Theorem. I'll definitely be making maddening notes in the margin like "there is a simple solution to this one!"
Some ideas for rules/things we could do, besides posting rebuses:
1. NO shouting the answers in comments.
2. Weekly rebus contest, to be judged by Miguel and me. We would use a perfectly fair and consistent democratic system to decide the winner. [With two of us, you can tell this will be perfect democracy - you either get two votes, or you lose.]
3. Audience judges the fairness/humor/artistry/nerdiness of each rebus we post.
4. Rebus philosophy. What makes an unfair rebus? What is allowed in a rebus? What is the difference, if any, between a rebus and Pictionary? What is the proper pluralization of "rebus"?
5. On a similar note, maybe we could come up with a standardized rebus language the way others have for charades.

From a former, less computerized life

Not the highest-quality art, but wanted to get this one up there.