No Confirmed Time Travelers

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So it looks like there were no confirmed time travelers at the time-traveler convention yesterday.

The question that really blows your mind is – does that mean we should still be advertising? I’m sure the answer is yes, but the difficult part to conceptualize is what the benefit would be to us (individuals living now) since we have already passed that time and no one showed.

The only authority we can really turn to on a subject like this is Doc Brown.

Technologies about to collide

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So, by now everyone has seen Google Maps and by and large find it very impressive. You might even have seen the housing finder that someone built by integrating google maps and craigslist, or that someone developed a mechanism for integrating Flickr with google maps and called it Geobloggers. Cooler still is the fact that Amazon is working on a yellow pages such that you can see pictures of the businesses, and in fact walk down streets and see what’s nearby.

This is all pretty cool stuff. What I’d really like to see is someone integrate this mapping/photographic stuff in such a way that it also reflects time. For example – lets fast forward a few years when we all have cameras in our phones, and those cameras are actually decent (multi-megapixel) quality. When we take a picture, not only is the time captured with it (very common these days) but also the GPS co-ordinates (less common these days). You now have an image that looks good, and it is tagged with where on earth it was taken and when. Now you zap this phone off to an online service… like a Mobog of the future.

What might we end up with? How cool would it be to be able to browse your city or town and see what was going on at a given instant in time? How about big events like concerts? See the band from multiple angles. See yourself in others’ pictures. Maybe even big world events… like 9/11. We could have thousands of pictures of something like that from numerous angles at various instances in time. Then zoom out and slide over and see what was happening in Los Angeles at that same point in time.

I think something like that would be pretty damn cool. I also don’t think we’re that far away from seeing it.

Time Traveler Convention

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This whole idea is pretty hilarious (and awesome). Schedule a time traveler convention, publicize it well, and hope people from the future show up.

Can’t the time travelers just hear about it from the attendees, and travel back in time to attend?

Yes, they can! In fact, we think this will happen, and the small number of adventurous time travelers who do attend will go back to their “home times” and tell all their friends to come, causing the convention to become a Woodstock-like event that defines humanity forever.

Unfortunately, we of the present (2005) don’t have time travel, and so we only have one chance at observing the convention. If the time travelers don’t leave us their secrets, we won’t be able to go back in time and see our convention in all its glory unless it is publicized in advance.

Related to the Norton Show…

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Check out this post at wackbag.com. It was from a girl who went to the same show we did. In the second picture, down in the lower-left hand corner, you can see my green sleeve next to a Heiniken bottle. Anyhow, today during the radio show they were talking about these pictures a lot – making fun of the smelly girlfriend and the guy picking his nose, etc. That guy was sitting right across from us. Callahan made fun of him at one point, I believe.

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Li'l Jimmy and Me

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Me and Li'l Jimmy

Here’s a picture of me and Jim Norton. I look like an ass (as always) and he’s looking at a different camera. But, what the hell. I’m just happy I was able to get a picture with the funniest guy I’ve ever heard. I also picked up a copy of his new album, which he signed for me.

The guy was hilarious. I definitely recommend picking up his new CD if you’re into utterly offensive comedy.



Great e-mail from Audible

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I’ve bought a few audio books from Audible.com over the years. They provide a pretty neat service. I’m still trying to figure out this e-mail they sent me though. The subject line is:

Get 2 Free Audiobooks for $.99

I think $.99 is a little overpriced for free audiobooks, but that’s just me.