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- 08 March 2012
Today
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06 March 2012
Made a minute ago with Miniatures time-lapse app.
Labels: Introduction to Time Travel, iPoddery, Lake
08 September 2011
The Mysteries of Times Past
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28 August 2011
Last video from my newly-dead camera...
Labels: Introduction to Time Travel, Lake, yootoob
09 July 2011
THERE's reopening is imminent. They've moved to the cloud.
I was idly wondering if Kaneva is still extant, so I surfed over. It is, I remembered my data and logged in to their website, and discovered my account goes back to 2006 ==:O In the beginning it seemed to be an urban youth VW set in a mall. It looks very different now (in screenshots); I might go in just to see what's changed - like time travel :-D
Labels: Cloud, Introduction to Time Travel, there.com
12 June 2011
Vaughan Bell posted this poem on Mind Hacks:
Forgetfulness
by Billy CollinsThe name of the author is the first to go
followed obediently by the title, the plot,
the heartbreaking conclusion, the entire novel
which suddenly becomes one you have never read,
never even heard of,as if, one by one, the memories you used to harbor
decided to retire to the southern hemisphere of the brain,
to a little fishing village where there are no phones.Long ago you kissed the names of the nine Muses goodbye
and watched the quadratic equation pack its bag,
and even now as you memorize the order of the planets,something else is slipping away, a state flower perhaps,
the address of an uncle, the capital of Paraguay.Whatever it is you are struggling to remember
it is not poised on the tip of your tongue,
not even lurking in some obscure corner of your spleen.It has floated away down a dark mythological river
whose name begins with an L as far as you can recall,
well on your own way to oblivion where you will join those
who have even forgotten how to swim and how to ride a bicycle.No wonder you rise in the middle of the night
to look up the date of a famous battle in a book on war.
No wonder the moon in the window seems to have drifted
out of a love poem that you used to know by heart.
Labels: Introduction to Time Travel
15 May 2011
Journey to the Past
Labels: Introduction to Time Travel
13 May 2011
Performance Artist
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25 April 2011
1994
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21 April 2011
A virtual world with quests and time travel, Next Island is part of Entropia.
Seems obvious after the fact that time travel would be a good idea.
So far I:
- Tried to tp there using my Entropia acct but it demanded 40,000ped ==:O
- Thought beginners couldn't be killed; got killed
- Fell off a waterfall
- Stumbled into a house
- Accidentally found a more advanced quest and accepted it
- Gathered some sort of plant (????)
- Now I'm sort of lost heh
- Their movement controls are supposed to be like Old Skool Entropia (click and go) but Entropia doesn't use that (they use both MB = better) so it doesn't work and they don't have the new system apparently
- As everything is, it's harder if you have one hand
- It reminds me of There (jungles/monkeys/ruins) crossed with Blue Mars (Cryengine, fashion), and its palette is rather unmodulated
- Ready-built houses must be for rent
Labels: Entropia, Introduction to Time Travel
09 April 2011
At this link: Images of Los Angeles in 1959 from the time capsule opened in 2009.Labels: Introduction to Time Travel
22 March 2011
Labels: ewetoob, Introduction to Time Travel
01 March 2011
Tick Tock
Labels: Introduction to Time Travel, yootoob
20 February 2011
Lost Wallet Found, Returned
After 40 Years
The story is in the New York Times.
Labels: Introduction to Time Travel
16 February 2011
Dunno why...
Memory is a funny thing. Things will pop up out of nowhere giving no clue as to why they've floated into sight rather than staying beneath the limen with the rest of memory's jetsom. The past four or five days I've had a shadowy memory float nearly into view, but I hadn't looked at it until just now. That happens now and then, of course; I reckon it's the same for everyone, and that perhaps a word spoken, a scent, a misheard song (or the taste of a madelaine) is the trigger for not just deep memories of childhood or other meaningful things, but more often snippets of information about events we never were part of to begin with. This time began with a vague thought: the punk rocker girl raped and murdered in Seattle... I was lying on my bed just now and wondered what her name was.... had a rare letter in it, Z perhaps... Names burst up with accompanying feelings of "close," "similar." After a couple of minutes it appeared in my mind: Mia Zapata.
Memory is a funny thing. The progression of time is another odd one. I looked up Mia - she died in 1993. Not terribly long ago, but there's a gulf between her world and the one now that seems wide but is less qualitative than about the current highly gadgeted accessorisation. We lean on our gadgets so heavily that were the power grid to go out millions would barely function - I think, anyway. I wonder if any modern eighteen year period would NOT have developments making its end look completely different from its start. Be that as it may it's as though Mia, a young woman whose future was taken from her, lost years that seem to've held the twisting of time from a contiguous grouping of years (libraries, isolation, first-hand experiences) to a new and unrelated group of years (constant contact, second-hand experiences, digital media): a break with the past, a new paradigm, obsolescence of prior beliefs and technology. Surely *that* doesn't happen every eighteen years.
Just now another woman's name popped up: Kitty Genovese.
Labels: About time, Cogitation, Introduction to Time Travel
08 November 2010
Time comes in waves, too.
Labels: Introduction to Time Travel, yootoob
03 November 2010
I stuck the camera outside this morning but when I brtought it in there seemed to be nothing on it so I just recharged it and later stuck it outside again - not trying for the same spot at all, but when I brought it in the second time vid 1 showed up, and in nearly the same location. Boring yet magical, time lapse is about all I'm good for these days.
Labels: Introduction to Time Travel, Lake, yootoob
10 October 2010
I forgot to pay attention this morning at 10:10 on 10.10.10.
Labels: Introduction to Time Travel
06 October 2010
Names
My mother always received heat for giving me a male version of my name, which she did knowing full-well what it was but liking the way the "a" looked as she like round, squatty designs ((I like angular ones, myself). I'd get things addressed to "female version" from family, which I don't remember caring about one way or another. I just mention this because otherwise someone will say, "But your name..." and I want to cut them off at the pass :-D
I was just thinking, "Why are there certain names for males and certain for females?" I mean, why does that concept exist at all? Some (nick)names are sexless, like Chris, Pat, Alex - others sound the same, such as Joe/Jo or Billy/Billie, so it isn't necessarily so. It perhaps came about because of the attributes the parents wanted the babe to develop - mighty warrior versus fragrant blossom, I suppose. So names are like time machines that go back to society's first attempts to form us into something they want but that we have no clue about, and point to a general belief in magic.
We weren't allowed to have nicknames as my mother deemed it undignified. She hated her name, Joan ("Bah - just the female version of John."*) and Mummy Barbara hated her name - I didn't like mine but became used to it.
* John's my fave name, actually; I have a brother of that name but we've never met (I'm sure he doesn't even know/care that I exist).
Labels: Introduction to Time Travel