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Jenn Tue Jul 15 11:43:00 2003
What about that convention?

Hey! Where's my synopsis of the convention I couldn't afford to go to?

How can I live vicariously, if you two don't cooperate with me, Emmy and Mousey?!?!

Get cracking now! This is more important than school or work or whatever other silly little things you're doing!

Michael Tue Jul 15 11:54:54 2003
Re: What about that convention?

> Get cracking now! This is more important than school or work or whatever
> other silly little things you're doing!

This must be the time-traveler's convention, right? (Technically, you'd only ever need one.)

Emsworth Tue Jul 15 15:34:49 2003
Re: What about that convention?

> This must be the time-traveler's convention, right? (Technically, you'd
> only ever need one.)

Michael is right. Convention starts on Thursday (preview night on Wednesday), so we haven't even gone yet.

Debating whether to try to take photos of the Klingon Lifestyle panel, or Hugh Jackman, and edit it so that the wolverines appear to be mauling them. (Jackman might be more appropriate, but I love the idea of the wolvies startling the Klingons. Bespectacled Klingon: "Now, the Klingon Mating ritual is best performed in the traditional manner, but if hot coals and phasers aren't available, punch bowls and nylons will do.

Young Klingon: That's write, Dave/Cth'Thnang. And if you really want to make a Romulan mad, grunt at *his* wife while putting your elbows on his fiber glass table and... Hey, who brough the large Tribbles to thisAUGHAMYFACERUNFORYOURLIVESJAHAAOOOOWWWWWWWWWWWWAUGGGGH!)

mouse Tue Jul 15 16:29:36 2003
Re: What about that convention?

there's a klingon lifestyle panel?

i think i'm just going to have to run frantically from room to room for the entire day.....

Jenn Tue Jul 15 17:17:20 2003
It's not last weekend?

Shoot. Shows how well I pay attention to the boards.

*ahem*

*hides under a rock that turns out to be a wolverine*

Ack! OWWWWW!!!!!!

gopher Tue Jul 15 17:26:27 2003
Re: It's not last weekend?

> Shoot. Shows how well I pay attention to the boards.

Well, it is last weekend in the future. Or several weekends from now in the past. Or made out of candy in Wonkaland. I think that the time travellers convention is a great idea. Who's up for starting one?

Michael Tue Jul 15 18:18:18 2003
Re: It's not last weekend?

> Who's up for starting one?

You mean, starting "it".

I don't think time travel is possible, because I told my wife today, "If you invent time travel in the future, you can come through that door right now and hand yourself your finished dissertation." And she didn't. Darn. It worked for Bill and Ted (one of the most inspired lines ever in a movie. I loved that flick.)

gopher Tue Jul 15 18:34:47 2003
Re: It's not last weekend?

> You mean, starting "it".

Not necessarily. Just as there is more than one comic convention, there could be competing time traveller conventions, and we could all stand around and talk about how that other time travller convention sucks.

> It worked for Bill and Ted (one of the most inspired lines
> ever in a movie. I loved that flick.)

I think that the best possible ending for the Matrix trilogy would be for Keanu Reeves to wake up in bed as Ted, sit up, and say, "Whoa..."

Chris Tue Jul 15 20:36:30 2003
Re: It's not last weekend?

> Not necessarily. Just as there is more than one comic convention, there
> could be competing time traveller conventions, and we could all stand
> around and talk about how that other time travller convention sucks.

Or how it sucked, or will suck, or will have sucked, or shall be going to suck, or in extreme cases, will be was a suck that could will have sucked in the future.

mouse Thu Jul 17 16:41:59 2003
Re: It's not last weekend?

> Or how it sucked, or will suck, or will have sucked, or shall be going to
> suck, or in extreme cases, will be was a suck that could will have sucked
> in the future.

ummm... i think you meant "willob haben versuckted coulda", for the future-future alternative prespeculative tense - unless you meant to use the f-f speculative, in case you would add 'willa' - but i have to check the book...

Chris Fri Jul 18 01:38:52 2003
Re: It's not last weekend?

> ummm... i think you meant "willob haben versuckted coulda", for
> the future-future alternative prespeculative tense - unless you meant to
> use the f-f speculative, in case you would add 'willa' - but i have to
> check the book...

Actually, I was using temporal grammar as according to Red Dwarf, not Douglas Adams. I didn't feel like messing with weird fake German.

mouse Fri Jul 18 18:07:13 2003
Re: It's not last weekend?

> Actually, I was using temporal grammar as according to Red Dwarf, not
> Douglas Adams. I didn't feel like messing with weird fake German.

actually, i was just making it up (although admittedly influenced by adams) (but my memory isn't good enough to remember exactly what he said).

see, this is _another_ advantage to time travel - more and better linguistic confusion!

spinclad Wed Jul 16 00:13:28 2003
Re: It's not last weekend?

> Not necessarily. Just as there is more than one comic convention, there
> could be competing time traveller conventions, and we could all stand
> around and talk about how that other time travller convention sucks.

I'm fairly sure the overlap between Classical and Quantum Aspect-Oriented Temporal Mechanics (CQAOTM) and Inside Tips in Multi-Level Marketing -- Getting Out Before the Crash (MakeMoneyFast!!!1) would be essentially negligible.

mouse Thu Jul 17 16:33:37 2003
Re: It's not last weekend?

> I think that the best possible ending for the Matrix trilogy would be for
> Keanu Reeves to wake up in bed as Ted, sit up, and say,
> "Whoa..."

*snort*

...sure would confuse all those people with whole philosophies based on the matrix.

gopher Thu Jul 17 23:51:29 2003
Re: It's not last weekend?

> ...sure would confuse all those people with whole philosophies based on
> the matrix.

You mean the Gnostics?

mouse Thu Jul 17 16:38:29 2003
Re: It's not last weekend?

> Who's up for starting one?

i'm in! i think the whole area of time travel research is sadly neglected in this country. when i think of all the useful things i could do with it...well, it brings me almost to tears.

and alternate realities - we need to work on travel to those, too. i mean _good_ alternate realities - not just the one the boss lives in.






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