Time manipulation is built into our very languages. Look at how
we freely create fictional alternative Universes ALL of the
time: "If only I had done such-and-such... then I wouldn't be in
the mess I'm in today". Fictional Alternative Universe. We do it
all of the time. Most people find it rather depressing. I just
find people who are DOING the stuff I _would've_ been doing if I
had followed other paths, and I cheer them on as "alternate
me's" that work for me. They're doing my job for me, frees me
up. === One significant alt.universe me was gong to go into
Theoretical Physics. [this is from high school]. Set it up as
the major I wanted. In the end, never finished college, the
professor I wanted for theoretical physics was away for a year,
and I ended up doing child cognitive psych/development classes
and programming mostly instead. In any case, had I *gone* down
that road, I'd likely be something like a Brian Greene today.
So, he's working for me, pursing that direction. He's doing a
fine job, although i disagree with me on several points tongue
emoticon == I dabbled with numerology a little bit, but once you
get into Chinese Remainder Theorem a little or start playing
with the bases, things get all wacky. I accidentally made an
Ulam Spiral in Excel once. Never heard of the guy but I found a
pattern and was like, OH I FOUND SOMETHING!... only to discover
a dude figured it out while doodling in math class in the 60s
and became famous for it. Oh well - glad I didn't go into math.
== Mike Jittlov. Cult classic. He made a short in 79. Spent
years getting the funding. Made a movie about a guy making a
movie on a shoe string budget. Cult nerd classic. FINALLY
released in 1988, 9 years later.
[1]
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3ldOTw60Ozg I saw it in 1991
at a friend's house. == He hides special effects every few
seconds in the whole film. Every special effect you see (and a
lot of them are VERY subtle) he drew on the frames with his bare
hands.
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