Re: [OT] Time Travellers' Convention
From: Kenneth Downs <knode.wants.this_at_see.sigblock>
Date: Sat, 07 May 2005 16:38:59 -0400
Message-Id: <2nlvk2-689.ln1_at_pluto.downsfam.net>
>> A student at MIT is hosting the worlds ONLY time travellers' convention
>> Saturday.
>>
>> Naturally there only needs to be one, because of course if you like it
>> you can just go back.
>>
>> They are somewhat afraid of parking issues, because there is only one
>> convention, if people like it, they'll tell their friends, and so on and
>> on, and things will get hairy fast. This suggests that the more
>> civic-minded time travellers who have attended the convention already
>> many times may have had the courtesy to come back last week and give them
>> an idea of what they'd need, but since none have done so, there is some
>> suggestion that the convention has already flopped.
>>
>> If you are thinking of showing up and claiming to be a time traveller,
>> the organizers warn they do have some ways to detect fraudulant time
>> travellers, though they are being tight-lipped about it.
>>
>> In the event that the event is snubbed by the world's time travellers,
>> also have music and games and some talks by Physicists on time travel.
>>
>> We now return you to your regularly scheduled database theory.
>> --
>> Kenneth Downs
>> Secure Data Software, Inc.
>> (Ken)nneth_at_(Sec)ure(Dat)a(.com)
Date: Sat, 07 May 2005 16:38:59 -0400
Message-Id: <2nlvk2-689.ln1_at_pluto.downsfam.net>
David Cressey wrote:
> Those who do not learn from history are condemned to repeat it. > > This was already done in the 1960s, at MIT. > > If you missed it, go back. >
Hmmm, you think maybe this is the same convention, brought forward?
> > "Kenneth Downs" <knode.wants.this_at_see.sigblock> wrote in message > news:ieakk2-9a2.ln1_at_pluto.downsfam.net...
>> A student at MIT is hosting the worlds ONLY time travellers' convention
> this
>> Saturday.
>>
>> Naturally there only needs to be one, because of course if you like it
>> you can just go back.
>>
>> They are somewhat afraid of parking issues, because there is only one
>> convention, if people like it, they'll tell their friends, and so on and
> so
>> on, and things will get hairy fast. This suggests that the more
>> civic-minded time travellers who have attended the convention already
>> many times may have had the courtesy to come back last week and give them
>> an idea of what they'd need, but since none have done so, there is some
>> suggestion that the convention has already flopped.
>>
>> If you are thinking of showing up and claiming to be a time traveller,
>> the organizers warn they do have some ways to detect fraudulant time
>> travellers, though they are being tight-lipped about it.
>>
>> In the event that the event is snubbed by the world's time travellers,
> they
>> also have music and games and some talks by Physicists on time travel.
>>
>> We now return you to your regularly scheduled database theory.
>> --
>> Kenneth Downs
>> Secure Data Software, Inc.
>> (Ken)nneth_at_(Sec)ure(Dat)a(.com)
-- Kenneth Downs Secure Data Software, Inc. (Ken)nneth_at_(Sec)ure(Dat)a(.com)Received on Sat May 07 2005 - 22:38:59 CEST