tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1178284085080580526.post8630797415431231295..comments2024-02-12T23:25:09.583-08:00Comments on Overweening Generalist: Keeping Up-To-Date on Time Travelmichaelhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13526042582094867513noreply@blogger.comBlogger4125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1178284085080580526.post-63569702799515595852019-11-06T13:56:24.597-08:002019-11-06T13:56:24.597-08:00This blog made me think of the beginning of "...This blog made me think of the beginning of "The Four Quartets". I tend to go back in time.Eric Wagnerhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04312033917401203598noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1178284085080580526.post-21466622877768885342013-01-02T05:02:20.852-08:002013-01-02T05:02:20.852-08:00Time travel is my biggest fantasy ever! I day drea...Time travel is my biggest fantasy ever! I day dream about it ALMOST EVERY DAY (not kidding). yes it is healthy, and that hypothetical bitch can get screwed!Carlnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1178284085080580526.post-36211235966534229832011-07-30T00:03:41.153-07:002011-07-30T00:03:41.153-07:00I had to look up Firefly. I had no idea that exist...I had to look up Firefly. I had no idea that existed! Yes, the "problem" of time travel gets to be funny pretty quickly. I can imagine going back to just hang around Leonardo and see how he operated, but as soon as I suddenly appeared in a public square in Florence, all kinds of people would flip out at the weirdo in the odd clothes. I wonder what the Medicis would think of my Converse High Tops? <br /><br />I guess I'd want to go in the appropriate garb, but then there's a language problem. Even if I were a modern Greek - which I am not - I couldn't have understood Socrates anyway. <br /><br />So I guess we may as well go all the way when we fantasize about time travel: you can speak the language, you have the correct clothes, and you have a stash of antibiotics in your toga or whatever...?<br /><br />Oh the hell with it: you know the recent research on cloaking devices? (The comedian John Hodgeman said 'big deal,' he already has one: it's called a "cloak.") Well, we somehow perfect those and we get to go back or forward in time and be INVISIBLE too, when we want. The possibilities- not to mention the responsibilities - are immense! So...enjoy!<br /><br />Thanks for checking in, White Picket Dense.michaelhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13526042582094867513noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1178284085080580526.post-6881135160129359122011-07-29T21:37:59.029-07:002011-07-29T21:37:59.029-07:00Hey,
often I want to go back, but as a chick, I t...Hey,<br /><br />often I want to go back, but as a chick, I think it would be madness to go to a time when I had no rights, so I get scared and say...sigh...Victorian times of when inventors could invent and not have their inventions bought up by an industry that wants to homogenize, I can't go to you so I will try to go to the future, but not a dystopian future of more homogenizing, but an awesomer future where we go back to the notion of everybody can be an inventor and whatnot. So, to answer your question, future, but maybe a back to to the past future where the new tech and the old something coexist, like in Firefly.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com