Thursday Thirteen #21

August 2nd, 2007 12:03 am



My Thirteen Things this week is for Lori who wanted to know how I change the date. Here are (somewhat more than) thirteen ways to travel in time Mark Caldwell might have used and possibly the real one too…

  1. A Police Box (Doctor Who)
  2. A Wardrobe (The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe, C.S. Lewis)
  3. A direct strike from a Nuclear warhead (Farnham’s Freehold, Robert A Heinlein)
  4. A DeLorean (Back to the Future)
  5. Visiting with fairies (Mythology)
  6. Thinking hard (Heroes)
  7. A Quantum Accelerator (Quantum Leap)
  8. Cryogenics (The Door into Summer, Robert A Heinlein)
  9. Being a Miser (A Christmas Carol, Dickens)
  10. A Lame Demon (Paris avant les homes, Pierre Boitard)
  11. A Time Machine (The Time Machine, H.G. Wells)
  12. Just about any method you can think of covered above and a few that aren’t including travelling very fast and stepping through a portal (Star Trek)
  13. Dreaming
  14. Reading a good book
  15. Setting your clocks to the wrong time
  16. Living in an earlier time zone
  17. Using the button at the bottom of the blogger panel to change the time or date

If you could travel in time when would you go to?

Links to other Thursday Thirteens!

1. Gabrielle
2. YellowRose
3. SusieJ
4. nancy
5. Sue
6. The Gal Herself
7. Robin
8. Tink
9. damozel & crux
10. JennieBoo
11. Candy Minx
12. pussreboots
13. Suprina
14. Journeywoman
15. Lori
16. Susan Helene Gottfried
17. Crimson Wife		 18. Janet
19. burntofferings
20. MamaLee
21. Cordia Amant
22. Lazy Daisy
23. Shannon
24. Wacky Mommy
25. Emmyrose
26. Ann Bernard
27. JHS
28. katherine.
29. Julie
30. Erin Gordon
31. Tina K
32. Sparky Duck
33. qtpies7
34. PRACTiCAL CHiCK		 35. Shari
36. Robyn Mills
37. Donica Covey
38. Joely
39. Cindi
40. cajunvegan
41. MissMeliss
42. Dawn
43. Nicole Austin
44. Alasandra
45. Starrlight
46. Bob
47. Christine d’Abo
48. Mandi

Get the Thursday Thirteen code here!

The purpose of the meme is to get to know everyone who participates a little bit better every Thursday. Visiting fellow Thirteeners is encouraged! If you participate, leave the link to your Thirteen in others comments. It’s easy, and fun! Be sure to update your Thirteen with links that are left for you, as well! I will link to everyone who participates and leaves a link to their 13 things. Trackbacks, pings, comment links accepted!

45 Responses to “Thursday Thirteen #21”

  1. On the day I was born :) Happy T13!

    2. Gabrielle on August 1st, 2007 at 10:18 pm

  2. My 13 isn’t up yet, but to answer your question, I think I’d like to travel in the Blue Box, like Dr. Who does. That seems quite fun, or the Wardrobe would be nice, not so bumpy! lol

    Fun list!! Happy Thursday!

    3. YellowRose on August 1st, 2007 at 10:19 pm

  3. Yes — a good trick to know how to do!!

    4. SusieJ on August 1st, 2007 at 10:24 pm

  4. I go meet Jamie from the Outlander series using stone similar to Stonehenge.

    I am so there when the transporter becomes available for sale.

    5. Nancy on August 1st, 2007 at 10:27 pm

  5. I use the DeLorean method .. ;)

    6. Sue on August 1st, 2007 at 10:30 pm

  6. What a great idea! I think I’d like to travel just about 90 days into the future. I’d know if exercise and salad helped me lose weight, and other great life mysteries I’m currently wrestling with.

    7. The Gal Herself on August 1st, 2007 at 10:31 pm

  7. That’s fantastic! The wardrobe and the Delorean have always been two of my favorites.

    Happy TT.

    8. Robin on August 1st, 2007 at 10:38 pm

  8. I’d love to visit the middle ages, ancient Egypt… so many places and times!
    My #51 teaches you about the provinces of The Netherlands!

    9. Tink on August 1st, 2007 at 10:40 pm

  9. You know, time travel doesn’t appeal to me at all….it’s dangerous stuff judging by Dr. Who and some of the others. But if I had to go, I’d like to use #1 (the tardis)

    10. Damozel on August 1st, 2007 at 10:54 pm

  10. Ha great list…I only leanred how to change the time on my blog posts like, last week. You did a great instruction diagram and everything nice work.

    My TT list is ehtw orst record cover albums…

    Hope you get a chance to drop by!

    Have a great weekend!

    http://gnosticminx.blogspot.com/2007/08/worst-album-covers.html

    11. Candy Minx on August 1st, 2007 at 11:13 pm

  11. What a freakin’ awesome post!

    I especially love how you entered the corresponding shows/books with each time traveling device.

    SWEET!

    Thanks for sharing.

    Happy TT!

    12. JennieBoo on August 1st, 2007 at 11:14 pm

  12. LOL. I’ll leave the “timey wimey” stuff to the experts. Happy TT.

    13. pussreboots on August 1st, 2007 at 11:38 pm

  13. I did my second thursday thirteen going BACK into time…
    My top one would be to the pyramids.

    14. Suprina on August 1st, 2007 at 11:59 pm

  14. I think I’d go forward to find out how they eventually cure diabetes.

    15. Journeywoman on August 2nd, 2007 at 1:47 am

  15. Thanks for the info…Im going to try it right now and see if Im not too blonde to figure it out:) Happy TT!!

    16. Lori on August 2nd, 2007 at 1:48 am

  16. Heeheehee…it worked!! Thank you and if I had to travel in time…Id go back to the 50′s…it looked like a fun time to live in:)

    17. Lori on August 2nd, 2007 at 1:54 am

  17. LOVE it, Mark! what a great bit of humor you added in there.

    18. Susan Helene Gottfried on August 2nd, 2007 at 2:00 am

  18. I love your TT! Reminds me of how my DH would answer the same question, LOL!

    19. Crimson Wife on August 2nd, 2007 at 2:13 am

  19. Love 13 & 14. I’d go to 1985,

    20. Janet on August 2nd, 2007 at 2:22 am

  20. Great way to ‘pass time’…

    Ours is up as well, if you want to stop by…

    http://burntofferings.blogspot.com/

    21. 'B' on August 2nd, 2007 at 2:43 am

  21. I’ll go with the transporter, too! Happy TT!

    22. MamaLee on August 2nd, 2007 at 2:49 am

  22. I’ve always wanted to cross the international date line and go a day ahead or behind. Rather boring compared to yours, I know, but something fun, nonetheless.

    23. Cordia Amant on August 2nd, 2007 at 3:10 am

  23. Love the idea and love your ideas and the shows you took them from. I especially enjoyed the last 4 ideas. Very clever. I daydream all the time.

    24. Lazy Daisy on August 2nd, 2007 at 3:21 am

  24. I love the Lion Witch and the Wardrobe, that would be a cool thing to do. I would probably want to travel back to high school, I had so much fun! :)

    25. Shannon on August 2nd, 2007 at 3:25 am

  25. *That* is a cool list.

    26. Wacky Mommy on August 2nd, 2007 at 3:50 am

  26. Where would I go if I could travel in time? What an awesome question and why don’t have an answer handy. I’m gonna have to think about this…wow, I suck!!

    27. Ann Bernard on August 2nd, 2007 at 5:19 am

  27. Very clever!

    28. Janie Hickok Siess, Esq. on August 2nd, 2007 at 5:35 am

  28. I’m liking 12 and 14…

    29. katherine. on August 2nd, 2007 at 6:26 am

  29. Great list! It’s always tomorrow here. :)

    30. Julie on August 2nd, 2007 at 6:33 am

  30. Kewl!

    31. Erin Gordon on August 2nd, 2007 at 8:08 am

  31. Wonderful, beautiful list. My method of choice isn’t listed – Tesseract, from A Wrinkle in Time.

    32. Tina K on August 2nd, 2007 at 8:21 am

  32. I was going to be concerned if the DeLorean did not get mentioned.

    I would probably go back to just before the start of college and see if I could change some decisions ive made.

    33. Sparky Duck on August 2nd, 2007 at 2:38 pm

  33. great list! I haven’t read/seen some of those, but the DeLorean is a great one!

    34. Qtpies7 on August 2nd, 2007 at 2:40 pm

  34. I would go back to sleep.

    35. - PRACTiCAL CHiCK on August 2nd, 2007 at 3:30 pm

  35. Ah, a bit of a smart ass. I love it! Congrats on your recent short story’s acceptance!

    36. Joely Sue Burkhart on August 2nd, 2007 at 9:50 pm

  36. How about a little train ride Ah LA Back to The Future 3?
    Great List

    Cindi

    37. Happy Mama to Three on August 2nd, 2007 at 9:51 pm

  37. Thanks for stopping by and commenting on my TT!

    38. cajunvegan on August 2nd, 2007 at 9:54 pm

  38. I love your lists – this one was great fun. (You forgot self hypnosis after purging your immediate area of reminders of the current time/date, a la “Somewhere in Time”)

    As for me, I’d like to visit Paris in the 1920′s, but only if I knew I could get “home.”

    39. MissMeliss on August 2nd, 2007 at 10:21 pm

  39. Cool list! I would like to go back to colonial America – just for a couple of hours. I really prefer modern conveniences.

    40. KarenW on August 2nd, 2007 at 11:06 pm

  40. Good list. I am with wordpress and have been frustrated at posting on Wednesday, then doing my TT and posting after midnight only to have Wednesday’s date on it, and it looks like I have no Thursday post. I will see what we have for that purpose. I prefer most of your methods however.

    41. dawn on August 2nd, 2007 at 11:16 pm

  41. I think I’d go in a zap of electricity like in Terminator, although with the annoying part of leaving your clothes behind. LOL!

    Happy TT!

    42. Nicole Austin on August 2nd, 2007 at 11:16 pm

  42. Thanks for visiting my TT.

    A DeLorean would be my first choice for time travel or just running to the store for that matter. I think they are cute.

    But a good book is a priceless way to travel through time. And you don’t have to worry about getting eaten by a dinosaur, one of your parents having a crush on you, getting caught in a war zone or any of those pesky little problems with real time travel.

    43. Alasandra on August 2nd, 2007 at 11:23 pm

  43. What an inspired list!

    44. Starrlight on August 3rd, 2007 at 12:01 am

  44. Man I love Doctor Who. I’d be in that TARDIS so fast you wouldn’t see me move!

    45. Christine d'Abo on August 3rd, 2007 at 1:19 am

  45. What a creative post for TT!! Too cute, I love the last one ;-)

    46. Mandi on August 3rd, 2007 at 6:25 am

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