Back to the Future
MIT is holding a first (and last) annual Time Travellers' Convention on May 7th. It's the first and last all at the same time because, according to the logic that allows you to think a Time Travellers' Convention is a good idea, you would only need one such convention, as it would be accessible to "people" from all eras/dimensions in which time travel is possible.
From the organiser's Web site:
Write the details down on a piece of acid-free paper, and slip them into obscure books in academic libraries! Carve them into a clay tablet! If you write for a newspaper, insert a few details about the convention! Tell your friends, so that word of the convention will be preserved in our oral history! A note: Time travel is a hard problem, and it may not be invented until long after MIT has faded into oblivion. Thus, we ask that you include the latitude/longitude information when you publicize the convention.
You can also make an absolute commitment to publicize the convention afterwards. In that case, bring a time capsule or whatever it may be to the party, and then bury it afterwards.
The co-ordinates are as follows: May 7, 2005, 10:00pm EDT (08 May 2005 02:00:00 UTC)
East Campus Courtyard, MIT
42:21:36.025°N, 71:05:16.332°W
(42.360007,-071.087870 in decimal degrees)
Wanderers of the future, consider my part done. And if you wanted to drop by my office five minutes from now to say thanks, that wouldn't go amiss either. ;-)
Comments
The hors d'oeuvres sucked. You'd think for such a big event they'd have sprung for more than cocktail weenies on toothpicks.
Posted by: Heather (from the future) at May 2, 2005 08:47 PM
Did I mention it was pretty lonely too? I even went back (to see if someone had taken my comment to heart and decided on different hors d'ouvres). No one was there.
Posted by: heather at May 5, 2005 03:06 PM
I wonder what would happen to the people who went if they decide to cancel it.
Posted by: Saedigh at May 5, 2005 09:40 PM