The team behind Ye Olde Time Travel blog is off to Comic-con! We will be back Tuesday, July 26 to regale you with tales of our adventures in the exotic locale of San Diego! In fact, future versions of us have already arrived back home and said that the trip was delightful. Tweet This Post
Monthly Archives: July 2011
When (and when not) to visit yourself in the past
Something you need to be really, really careful about doing is visiting yourself in the past. As tempting as it may be to travel to your childhood and warn your 5 year old self that the ‘lemonade flavored’ yellow snow your older brother is offering you does not, in fact, taste like lemonade or to […]
Some thoughts on OSX Lion
Preamble
The transition from a Windows machine to my first MacBook was a little bit awkward. Like most people who aren’t so-called “power users,” I always paid more attention to the software than I did to the operating system. Because of this, maybe I never really “knew” Windows. I spent plenty of time poking around the registry and whatnot, but it was always about “clean-up” and such. I spent more time disabling pieces of the operating system to improve overall system performance than I did learning how to use these things I just assumed I didn’t need. I ca… Read more..
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Watching the Web – Last Man(s) On Earth
Chances are you have seen a disaster movie or two. You know, the movies where a super volcano, twister or nuclear standoff brings about the end of the world. In these movies, some “everyday Joe” manages to survive. Well, if the Mayan calendar theories are to be believed, the end of the world is around the corner and you do not want to be the “last man standing.”
Kaduche (Charan Prabhakar) and Wynn (Brady Bluhm) are two friends who have seen every disaster movie, at least twice. They are going alpha male and sharing all they have learned with anyone who wil… Read more..
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San Diego Comic Con 2011 Recap!
San Diego Comic Con 2011 is officially over and the town is now a vast wasteland comparatively. It seems like each year I go to SDCC it’s better than the last, and this time was no exception. I started the con off Wednesday night by co-hosting a party with Clare Kramer (GeekNation.com), sponsored by the […]
Survival Checklist for Bizarre, Parallel Timelines!
Things to bring with you to a bizarre, parallel timeline: A photo album of you with your friends and family. If you encounter parallel versions of your friends and family, they may come from vastly different backgrounds than your natural acquaintances, so it’d be hard to prove that you know them through sheer knowledge […]