Comments on: The selfish time traveler http://www.scholarsandrogues.com/2007/11/28/the-selfish-time-traveler/ Think. It ain't illegal yet... Thu, 09 Feb 2012 21:48:39 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: bonafide http://www.scholarsandrogues.com/2007/11/28/the-selfish-time-traveler/comment-page-1/#comment-9077 bonafide Thu, 29 Nov 2007 18:44:42 +0000 http://www.scholarsandrogues.com/2007/11/28/the-selfish-time-traveler/#comment-9077 Well, having seen all your comments, I have only one place that I'd like to go to and from for a while, the great library at Constantinople prior to its being burned to the ground by the followers of the prophet, and where I'd gradually substitute a whole pile of worthless papyrus from the tombs of the pharaohs dealing with accounts paid and owed, for the priceless and now existent only in reference of the great scholars of the ancient world. Let teh kitty's know the truth... Well, having seen all your comments, I have only one place that I’d like to go to and from for a while, the great library at Constantinople prior to its being burned to the ground by the followers of the prophet, and where I’d gradually substitute a whole pile of worthless papyrus from the tombs of the pharaohs dealing with accounts paid and owed, for the priceless and now existent only in reference of the great scholars of the ancient world.

Let teh kitty’s know the truth…

]]> By: JS O'Brien http://www.scholarsandrogues.com/2007/11/28/the-selfish-time-traveler/comment-page-1/#comment-9071 JS O'Brien Thu, 29 Nov 2007 17:11:18 +0000 http://www.scholarsandrogues.com/2007/11/28/the-selfish-time-traveler/#comment-9071 Ah. The Gospel according to Chris Rock. Always useful (and usually entertaining). Ah. The Gospel according to Chris Rock. Always useful (and usually entertaining).

]]> By: Brian Angliss http://www.scholarsandrogues.com/2007/11/28/the-selfish-time-traveler/comment-page-1/#comment-9066 Brian Angliss Thu, 29 Nov 2007 16:10:28 +0000 http://www.scholarsandrogues.com/2007/11/28/the-selfish-time-traveler/#comment-9066 But Rufus, the 13th Apostle, already told us why we don't have those lost years. They dealt with Jesus' brothers and sisters. But Rufus, the 13th Apostle, already told us why we don’t have those lost years. They dealt with Jesus’ brothers and sisters.

]]> By: JS O'Brien http://www.scholarsandrogues.com/2007/11/28/the-selfish-time-traveler/comment-page-1/#comment-9061 JS O'Brien Thu, 29 Nov 2007 15:27:01 +0000 http://www.scholarsandrogues.com/2007/11/28/the-selfish-time-traveler/#comment-9061 Oh gosh. Where to start. I have so many selfish desires. For instance, I'd like to be smuggled into Theodora's bedroom. I understand THAT was an amazing experience. On the other hand, I'm also insatiably curious about history's mysteries, so I guess I would decide to go back and follow Jesus of Nazareth through the lost years. I mean, where the HECK did this man go,and what was he exposed to during those years that caused him to take a war God like YHWH and turn him into a god of love and gentleness with philosophy bordering on Buddhist???? THAT I would like to see. Oh gosh. Where to start. I have so many selfish desires. For instance, I’d like to be smuggled into Theodora’s bedroom. I understand THAT was an amazing experience. On the other hand, I’m also insatiably curious about history’s mysteries, so I guess I would decide to go back and follow Jesus of Nazareth through the lost years.

I mean, where the HECK did this man go,and what was he exposed to during those years that caused him to take a war God like YHWH and turn him into a god of love and gentleness with philosophy bordering on Buddhist????

THAT I would like to see.

]]> By: Dr. Slammy http://www.scholarsandrogues.com/2007/11/28/the-selfish-time-traveler/comment-page-1/#comment-8999 Dr. Slammy Wed, 28 Nov 2007 21:51:36 +0000 http://www.scholarsandrogues.com/2007/11/28/the-selfish-time-traveler/#comment-8999 You have a magic wand, but not a gun. You have a magic wand, but not a gun.

]]> By: admin http://www.scholarsandrogues.com/2007/11/28/the-selfish-time-traveler/comment-page-1/#comment-8998 admin Wed, 28 Nov 2007 21:50:37 +0000 http://www.scholarsandrogues.com/2007/11/28/the-selfish-time-traveler/#comment-8998 I'd go back to the meeting at Microsoft where they decided that the W3C standard box model was deficient and that Internet Explorer would use an "improved" (ie non-standard) model instead, causing me, and our readers, no end of trouble.... - Sysadmin I’d go back to the meeting at Microsoft where they decided that the W3C standard box model was deficient and that Internet Explorer would use an “improved” (ie non-standard) model instead, causing me, and our readers, no end of trouble….

- Sysadmin

]]> By: Rho http://www.scholarsandrogues.com/2007/11/28/the-selfish-time-traveler/comment-page-1/#comment-8996 Rho Wed, 28 Nov 2007 21:40:05 +0000 http://www.scholarsandrogues.com/2007/11/28/the-selfish-time-traveler/#comment-8996 I meant Microshaft I meant Microshaft

]]> By: Rho http://www.scholarsandrogues.com/2007/11/28/the-selfish-time-traveler/comment-page-1/#comment-8995 Rho Wed, 28 Nov 2007 21:32:35 +0000 http://www.scholarsandrogues.com/2007/11/28/the-selfish-time-traveler/#comment-8995 IE7 is Micrshaft's best virus to date barely squeaking out Vista in the competition to destroy peoples computers IE7 is Micrshaft’s best virus to date barely squeaking out Vista in the competition to destroy peoples computers

]]> By: Dr. Slammy http://www.scholarsandrogues.com/2007/11/28/the-selfish-time-traveler/comment-page-1/#comment-8994 Dr. Slammy Wed, 28 Nov 2007 21:12:49 +0000 http://www.scholarsandrogues.com/2007/11/28/the-selfish-time-traveler/#comment-8994 Sweet jeebus, I just looked at it in IE7, and it's fucking stuff up left and right. Gods, I hate Microsoft. In any case, that x is referring to what I cannot imagine. There's nothing there, so it's inserting something strange on its own. Sweet jeebus, I just looked at it in IE7, and it’s fucking stuff up left and right. Gods, I hate Microsoft.

In any case, that x is referring to what I cannot imagine. There’s nothing there, so it’s inserting something strange on its own.

]]> By: Dr. Slammy http://www.scholarsandrogues.com/2007/11/28/the-selfish-time-traveler/comment-page-1/#comment-8993 Dr. Slammy Wed, 28 Nov 2007 21:10:34 +0000 http://www.scholarsandrogues.com/2007/11/28/the-selfish-time-traveler/#comment-8993 This could be some kind of bizarre IE "feature." You don't have anything like Adblock installed, do you? This could be some kind of bizarre IE “feature.” You don’t have anything like Adblock installed, do you?

]]> By: elaine http://www.scholarsandrogues.com/2007/11/28/the-selfish-time-traveler/comment-page-1/#comment-8992 elaine Wed, 28 Nov 2007 21:08:59 +0000 http://www.scholarsandrogues.com/2007/11/28/the-selfish-time-traveler/#comment-8992 You have confirmed that there is only 1 video for this post but when looking at the post there is another square (dented) with a red x in the top left hand corner. This 'ghost' appears above the video that you can click and play. In most of your Saturday video roundup posts (for a number of weeks now) this same square shows up multiple times. I cannot view the videos you post but can read the comments. You have confirmed that there is only 1 video for this post but when looking at the post there is another square (dented) with a red x in the top left hand corner. This ‘ghost’ appears above the video that you can click and play.

In most of your Saturday video roundup posts (for a number of weeks now) this same square shows up multiple times. I cannot view the videos you post but can read the comments.

]]> By: elaine http://www.scholarsandrogues.com/2007/11/28/the-selfish-time-traveler/comment-page-1/#comment-8991 elaine Wed, 28 Nov 2007 21:04:33 +0000 http://www.scholarsandrogues.com/2007/11/28/the-selfish-time-traveler/#comment-8991 ;) ...but the pronuciation would probably make it sound Germanic. ;)

…but the pronuciation would probably make it sound Germanic.

]]> By: jeff http://www.scholarsandrogues.com/2007/11/28/the-selfish-time-traveler/comment-page-1/#comment-8989 jeff Wed, 28 Nov 2007 20:53:16 +0000 http://www.scholarsandrogues.com/2007/11/28/the-selfish-time-traveler/#comment-8989 I'd like to revisit the first time my lovely wife and I talked for four hours one fall Sunday afternoon outside the student union. That was the day I fell in love with her. I was a conservative Republican, and she was a real bona fide card carrying member of The American Communist Party...hell, she was a friend of Gus Hall if any of you remember him. Politics meant nothing that day, or any other day to me. Jeff I’d like to revisit the first time my lovely wife and I talked for four hours one fall Sunday afternoon outside the student union. That was the day I fell in love with her. I was a conservative Republican, and she was a real bona fide card carrying member of The American Communist Party…hell, she was a friend of Gus Hall if any of you remember him. Politics meant nothing that day, or any other day to me.

Jeff

]]> By: Brian Angliss http://www.scholarsandrogues.com/2007/11/28/the-selfish-time-traveler/comment-page-1/#comment-8988 Brian Angliss Wed, 28 Nov 2007 20:47:22 +0000 http://www.scholarsandrogues.com/2007/11/28/the-selfish-time-traveler/#comment-8988 "stike" - what, you mean that's not a weird British spelling of "stick"? ;) (Two countries separated by a common language, and all that... ) “stike” – what, you mean that’s not a weird British spelling of “stick”? ;)

(Two countries separated by a common language, and all that… )

]]> By: elaine http://www.scholarsandrogues.com/2007/11/28/the-selfish-time-traveler/comment-page-1/#comment-8986 elaine Wed, 28 Nov 2007 20:13:53 +0000 http://www.scholarsandrogues.com/2007/11/28/the-selfish-time-traveler/#comment-8986 ...stick that should read. …stick that should read.

]]> By: elaine http://www.scholarsandrogues.com/2007/11/28/the-selfish-time-traveler/comment-page-1/#comment-8985 elaine Wed, 28 Nov 2007 20:13:19 +0000 http://www.scholarsandrogues.com/2007/11/28/the-selfish-time-traveler/#comment-8985 "Hell…I could go on forever." Very true. So I will just stike with the one choice. :) “Hell…I could go on forever.”

Very true. So I will just stike with the one choice. :)

]]> By: Michael "Ubertramp" Pecaut http://www.scholarsandrogues.com/2007/11/28/the-selfish-time-traveler/comment-page-1/#comment-8978 Michael "Ubertramp" Pecaut Wed, 28 Nov 2007 18:33:05 +0000 http://www.scholarsandrogues.com/2007/11/28/the-selfish-time-traveler/#comment-8978 My brother was having the same problems with the vid links. But I was able to see everything I sent him. Weirdness. Anyway, we've played this game before. And in the past, I've said I'd like to be there for the Moon landing, or relive a very specific week in my undergrad years. This time I'll pick some other times. Patton heading into Palermo or the Battle of the Bulge Cook arriving in Hawaii the first time Whenever it was the first "human" first became self-aware Kitty Hawk, December 17, 1903 With Peter Jackson filming the Lord of the Rings movies Or Francis Coppola with Apocalypse Now Or Ridley Scott with Blade Runner Or with Tolkien, Conrad, or Dick while they were writing While they were building the latest incarnation of Stonehenge Or the Great Pyramids Or the Great Wall of China Hell...I could go on forever. :) My brother was having the same problems with the vid links. But I was able to see everything I sent him. Weirdness.

Anyway, we’ve played this game before. And in the past, I’ve said I’d like to be there for the Moon landing, or relive a very specific week in my undergrad years. This time I’ll pick some other times.

Patton heading into Palermo or the Battle of the Bulge
Cook arriving in Hawaii the first time
Whenever it was the first “human” first became self-aware
Kitty Hawk, December 17, 1903
With Peter Jackson filming the Lord of the Rings movies
Or Francis Coppola with Apocalypse Now
Or Ridley Scott with Blade Runner
Or with Tolkien, Conrad, or Dick while they were writing
While they were building the latest incarnation of Stonehenge
Or the Great Pyramids
Or the Great Wall of China

Hell…I could go on forever. :)

]]> By: Dr. Slammy http://www.scholarsandrogues.com/2007/11/28/the-selfish-time-traveler/comment-page-1/#comment-8977 Dr. Slammy Wed, 28 Nov 2007 18:10:15 +0000 http://www.scholarsandrogues.com/2007/11/28/the-selfish-time-traveler/#comment-8977 Okay, some confusion. In this post there is only the one video, the live "Sunday Bloody Sunday." I thought Elaine was saying that a vid in a previous post wasn't showing for her. Okay, some confusion. In this post there is only the one video, the live “Sunday Bloody Sunday.” I thought Elaine was saying that a vid in a previous post wasn’t showing for her.

]]> By: Meryddian http://www.scholarsandrogues.com/2007/11/28/the-selfish-time-traveler/comment-page-1/#comment-8969 Meryddian Wed, 28 Nov 2007 17:28:44 +0000 http://www.scholarsandrogues.com/2007/11/28/the-selfish-time-traveler/#comment-8969 I would do any of the following: - Meet Elizabeth I (and/or Shakespeare); Leonardo da Vinci; Monet; or Marco Polo - Visit (and photograph) the 1893 Chicago World's Fair - See the launch of the Titanic - Experience the Vatican (as we know it) being built (and maybe meet Michelangelo?). After reading Pillars of the Earth, I'd love to see a cathedral work site before modern building capability. - Seeing America before Europeans showed up, especially areas like San Francisco or NYC or Boston that are complete concrete cities today I would do any of the following:

- Meet Elizabeth I (and/or Shakespeare); Leonardo da Vinci; Monet; or Marco Polo
- Visit (and photograph) the 1893 Chicago World’s Fair
- See the launch of the Titanic
- Experience the Vatican (as we know it) being built (and maybe meet Michelangelo?). After reading Pillars of the Earth, I’d love to see a cathedral work site before modern building capability.
- Seeing America before Europeans showed up, especially areas like San Francisco or NYC or Boston that are complete concrete cities today

]]> By: elaine http://www.scholarsandrogues.com/2007/11/28/the-selfish-time-traveler/comment-page-1/#comment-8968 elaine Wed, 28 Nov 2007 17:16:03 +0000 http://www.scholarsandrogues.com/2007/11/28/the-selfish-time-traveler/#comment-8968 If there is a square with an x red in top left it usually means that the thumbnail link for that icon is invalid. So either the thumbnail does not exist or the address that the thumbnail is pointing to is incorrect. I believe that is what is wrong... If there is a square with an x red in top left it usually means that the thumbnail link for that icon is invalid. So either the thumbnail does not exist or the address that the thumbnail is pointing to is incorrect. I believe that is what is wrong…

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