The Return of Captain Future!!!
1 I hope you were able to Time Travel yesterday. I re-read my instructions. People may have launched early and gotten lost.
2 I was deadlining with the instructions, so I have since redone them. It works a lot better now. I apologize if I caused anyone to stay in the past.
3 Fun concept. Got LOTS of hits. Unfortunately, when I got to work I double-checked and saw some minor flaws in the instructions.
4 Ah, it's all in fun.
5 I worked on it last night and it seems more clear now. You could try it out by coming back to this item <item 5>, scrolling over and up to the "This is the One" post, and re-reading. The return trip should get you back here. But get a helmet.
6 The inception happened the other night. I went back to check on some older posts and saw that the entire second half of one of them had turned ashen, as though it had survived a nuclear explosion. I couldn't leave it that way, so I got out a repair kit and cleaned it all up. I then goofed on how I was literally repairing something that had already happened, that I was taking a screwdriver and a sacred cloth, and fixing the past. Too many old TCM science fiction movies?
8 I travelled against convention.
9 What a fun concept. Imagine: if we could go back into the past and change things, what things would we change? Given the changes of the past fifty years, can we ask that question without considering futuristic possibilities? Do English teachers ponder too much? Is a bear Catholic? Does the Pope shit in the woods?
10 <finger snapping, head bobbing> That's deep, bra.
11 Change-of-Century Reminder: The use of the word bra is the 21st century morph of the antiquated bro.
12 It's a brave new world, bra.
13 Travelled.
14 Awesome.
15 19th Century spelling, and used exclusively by H.G. Wells, who took it into the 20th Century.
16 Anybody lookin'?
17 Okay dude look. It wasn't exclusively. No time to explain, but it just wasn't.
18 Moving On, Part One: I downloaded this thing called Irfan View yesterday. I used it a few years ago when I was doing assignments for some online class I was taking.
19 I had a bit of trouble trying to create the back-and-forth effects of the Time Travel and thought I might be able to do a magic trick with this system.
20 It didn't work, or at least I didn't have time to learn all the new stuff they've thrown into it.
21 It worried me a bit because of potential bugs and pop-ups.
22 I gambled. People who know me know I'm not a gambler, but I've had the program on my desktop for a few years, so I trusted it.
23
25 That's creepy. I'm sorry bra. But that's creepy.
26 You know how sometimes you have a few windows open, and something stops buffering and it surprises you?
27 That happened except nothing else was open.
28 Any ideas?
29 I had a GREAT idea: mute button.
30 What was REALLY weird was I was previewing some special features on my DVD of JFK when it happened.
31 Odd.
32 And then I couldn't control re-starting it.
33 <insert Twilight Zone music>
34 Welcome to the 21st Century.
35 Computers.
36 Scary critters and getting scarier.
37 Moving On, Part Two: Same day.
38 Last night I shut down my computer. I got tired of it being weird.
39 I walked out front, went to the garage and brought out some Christmas lights. I added some to the design in front. I replaced burnt-out bulbs, and felt the cold on my clothes.
40 It felt nice. I fixed the drawer on the oven.
41 I popped on the teevee. In an act of what could only be construed as divine intervention, Meet John Doe was on. Great film, one of the best. Directed by Frank Capra of It's a Wonderful Life fame. It provided a perfect backdrop to doing anything other than working on the computer.
42 While that old film flickered in the living room, I lit up the house with Christmas lights and enjoyed distancing myself from the monstrosity.
43 The computer.
44 Felt nice.
45 Does anybody remember life before computers?
46 It was a pretty swell place.
47 It still is. You just have to poke around.
48 Gottago.
49 See you again.
50 Peace.
~H~
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