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9
January 2004
Quote
of the day
I'm going to shag
Elijah Wood dressed as a hobbit. Well, not really, but I want to.
- Another great Cantinera
moment
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The Prophecies of John Titor
I hadn't heard about
this long-running web phenomenon
until today:
on November 02,
2000, a person calling themselves Timetravel_0, and later John Titor,
started posting on a public forum that he was a time traveler from the
year 2036.
One of the first
things he did was post pictures of his time machine and its operations
manual. As the weeks went by, more and more people began questioning
him about why he was here, the physics of time travel and his thoughts
about our time. He also posted on other forums including the old Art
Bell site. In his posts John Titor entertained, angered, frightened
and even belittled those who engaged him in conversation.
On March 24, 2001,
John Titor told us he would be leaving our time and returning to 2036.
After that, he was never heard from again. Speculation and investigation
about who John Titor was and why he was online continues to this day.
Needless to say, thousands
of people fell for this idiocy. Maciej
Ceglowski was not one of them.
Titor arrived in
Florida in a 2036 model Corvette (later sold off) outfitted with a 500
pound military-grade time travel device that he photographed and posted
online, complete with manual. The reason for his visit was utilitarian
- he had been sent back to the 1970's to fetch a model IBM 5100 computer,
"because Unix has problems in 2038", and the 5100 had an undocumented
feature that made it highly desirable to programmers working on the
Unix bug. Apparently the Army of 2036 knew enough to build a time machine,
but wasn't able to fix a word-size error in a legacy operating system.
That bit actually
made the whole story sound plausible to me.
Heh.
Thanks to my mate
Steve in L.A. for the link.
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I thought there was chocolate inside
Steve in L.A. also
sent me this:
Friends
wrap man's entire apartment in aluminum foil
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More
of that completely non-existent anti-semitism
Remember, they're
not anti-semites, they're just logical independent thinkers.
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