2-HeadedGiraffe: Time Tourism

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I've been wondering about a little problem with time travel that occurred to me. Assuming reliable, safe, relatively inexpensive time travel technology is developed in some point in the future, there would be several logical uses. Specifically, I imagine historians, scientists, and tourists would flock to the most popular historical dates. The problem with this is that suddenly you would have an influx of people from all future periods converging on these dates. If the human race survives long enough, key dates would become flooded and overpopulated with people from the future. That's because, for example, July 4th 1776 is the same date no matter when you're visiting it from. If the technology becomes affordable enough and survives long enough, a virtually infinate number of people would attempt to visit the same time periods. Sooner or later, there would just be too many people trying to cram themselves into important places at key periods.

My solution - probably inspired by Milliways from The Restaraunt at the End of the Universe - would be sort of an observation station placed to observe major historical events but existing in their own, separate time stream.

I hope I typed that all out in a way that makes sense. I seem to always get people misunderstanding what I mean on Vent.

Mood: Not bad.
TV: A show about killer whales.
Etc.: The Sword in the Stone.

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2-HeadedGiraffe: Therefore fruit...is a rock.

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I just learned from a program on TV that the Catholic Church officially considers the capybara (the world's largest rodent) to be a fish. Is it any wonder I'm an Atheist?

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2-HeadedGiraffe: Random Stuff

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I found the following written on a piece of notebook paper dating (if I recall) from my senior year of highschool:

"Beware the fury of a patient man." - John Dryden

"The belief in a supernatural source of evil is not necessary; men alone are quite capable of every wickedness." - Josoph Conrad

"Knowledge can be communicated but not wisdom." - Herman Hesse

"The stupid neither forgive nor forget; the naive forgive and forget; the wise forgive but do not forget." - Thomas Szasz

"The deeper the sorrow the less tongue it hath." - The Talmud

"The earth laughs in flower." - Ralph Waldo Emerson

"In society there are two primary roles: the ones who get walked on and the ones who do the walking. Fortunately for the government they usually do tha walking." - Thomas Hobbes

"The signifcant problems we face cannot be solved at the same level of thinking we were at when we created them." - Albert Einstein

"A government that is big enough to give you all you want is big enough to take it away." - Barry Goldwater

"Some praise at morning what they blame at night, but always think the last opinion right." - Alexander Pope

"An invasion of armies can be ressted, but not an idea whose time has come." - Victor Hugo

"There are books of which the backs and covers are the best parts." - Charles Dickens

"It's possible to own too much. A man whith one watch knows what time it is; a man with two watches is never quite sure." - Lee Segall

"The graveyards are full of indispensible men." - Charles De Gaulle

"Half our life is spent trying to find something to do with the time we have rushed through life trying to save." - Will Rogers

"Too bad all the people who know how to run the country are busy driving tasis and cutting hair." - George Burns

Mood: Fine
Music: None
Etc.: Look behind you.

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2-HeadedGiraffe: The Death Penalty, The English System, and Soccer

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What makes this country odd?

The Death Penalty, from what I hear, is only used in the United States of America (as far as quote unquote developed countries are concerned). That may or may not be true. If anyone knows of another fairly modernized, well-off country that uses it, feel free to correct me. I just remember hearing that tidbit somewhere.

The English System, which they do not use in England (though I believe it retains the name of its place of origin), is the awkward, clunky, irregular American answer to the Metric System used by most of the world.

Soccer, which is referred to pretty much everywhere else as football, is a game in which you primarily use your feet, where as the game Americans call football mostly uses the hands (with the exceptions of kickoffs and field goals, and probably a thing or two I'm forgetting). There is only one country I know of where "football" involves so little foot action.

What's my point here? Some things almost seem like they're done in America just for the sake of being different, even when they don't make as much sense.

(this post is not meant to be taken too seriously, though I would be interested in any major factual errors.)

The Death Penalty:: Texas Justice
The English System:: That confusing thing they don
Soccer:: Football

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2-HeadedGiraffe: What? Who told you that?

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I was explaining to someone I work with the other day the history of my life and how one of the greatest loses I've ever known has lead to everything I currently have in my life. It's odd to think about sometimes, but everything you have is the product of every single thing that's happened to you. Some events just throw you completely off the path you may otherwise have followed. This probably seems pretty obvious, but to me, it's interesting to take basically anything and trace it back to one of these crucial events, most of which all can be traced back to one key event in my life. The odd thing was that the person to whom I was talking did not seem to be able to trace things back like that, at least not to one event like that. I wonder whether other people can?

Mood: Pretty good, overall
Music: Videos on VH1 - Bon Jovi "Who Says You Can't Go Home?"
Etc.: My keys, sitting on top of my wallet on my table.

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