Bits, bobs, and little pieces.

Is it bad that I took one look at Belle and went "...I want to RP as her. Find me a character-sheet?" This does not help my recent desire to get back into gaming!

AngelVixen :-)

Speaking of zombies, my mom found this ( http://comics.com/over_the_hedge/2010-04-22/ ) and thought of you. Um... sorry?

I'm excited about Toy Story 3

*sulks over Seanan's getting-of-Vixyness*

On a random note, all this discussion of time-travel makes me want to go back and reread Lord Kalvan of Otherwhen. Of course, that involves finding the book...

#4 - love it! :D

You know, gloating works so much better with a link. That way the uninitiated can envy you as well, instead of wondering why you're so excited about a file converter (according to Google).

Also, Ariel/Aquagirl rules.

Yes to #1

I'll be laughing for a while at #5

We expect Great Music from you having a Vixy. ;)
Have fun you two.

Now THAT is a Disney Heroine lineup. *APPLAUDS*

Does it look to you like the artist deliberately tried to put each heroine in a superhero costume that looks like what they were doing in the comics of the same era as the movie?

9) No, I do not get a Vixy. This is proof that the world is progressing as it should.

See, here's my problem with paradox: I don't believe in it.

Assume for a moment that you've got a time travel method that is logically consistent and that multi-thread string theory is correct. Backwards travel is to be assumed possible, even into your own timeline. Forward travel is to be considered possible, even into your own timeline.

So, here's the problem: paradox is impossible if you can return to your own timeline.

Your timeline exists. Your existence is proof of it. Nothing happened in the past of that linear path through time that prevented your existence or even happened any differently than you know from history. If it had, by definition, this would not be your timeline. It would be a different timeline. If you travel negatively along the time axis, do something that alters history, and travel forward a positive amount equal to your original negative travel and find that your action is remembered where in your original timeline it wasn't remembered... you are not in your original timeline. You have traveled down a branching line. Indeed, if your sudden presence in time, appearing from the local perspective as out of nowhere with no causality, is not something that was always the case, you either could not have traveled into your own timeline OR nothing you do will be remembered or matters. Your original line exists untouched, and the negative transit along what you thought was the time axis was along a branched axis. (I like how Robert Heinlein handled this, considering three possible time-related axes as opposed to a singular linear timeline. Time travel is messy to consider and has been done so poorly by so many authors, I am hesitant to give it a fair shake when I see it used as a plot device, but Heinlein's was internally consistent.)

I theorize that travel in your own timeline is only possible three ways: 1) you know you went back as your presence is remembered, so you were always there and nothing you do will vary as it has already happened, thus no paradox possibility; 2) your presence was unremarkable and went unremembered, so even if you do go back, nothing you do matters and thus no paradox possibility; or 3) you can only go back and perform events of which you yourself were unaware and will remain unaware of when you return. The last is conditional on the idea that subjective observation determines the nature of reality; observation collapses the waveform of potentiality into observed and thus temporally fixed reality. In traveling back, you are unaware of anyone having done this ever before you. You transit negatively on the time axis and perform actions; the rippling consequences are in fact not ripples at all, merely the events that had always happened. You fear paradox because you don't know the outcome, and return to your own start point to find nothing has changed. Why not? Two possibilities: either ripples in time are affected by a type of inertia that makes them fade against the larger reality and thus become pointless over a long enough scale, or there were no ripples because what you did had always been the case, a fact of which you were simply unaware.

(blink) Sorry. It's... a sticking point for my geek nature.

Time paradoxes lead to much entertaining adventure, not to mention wonderfully confused alternate timelines and much universal upheaval.

I love the Disney heroines too. And I though Mulan was awesome enough...

#1) this is why I decided not to play the time travel thought experiment, to avoid paradox

By the way, you haven't mentioned the tiara recently. I just found out this week that Mary Robinette Kowal, who reads the 'Toby audiobooks has worn the tiara.

2) Hooray for finding a used, signed copy of Freaks! I quite like Annette Curtis Klause.
(Also, hooray for Unshelved. As a gal who works in a library, yes, it really is like that.)

4) I actually have a girlfriend down in Australia who ha set up a group of cosplayers to do the superheroine-princesses for a con.

You know, that time paradox thing always works out so well for The Doctor....

I keep forgetting to tell you that I received my signed copy of Rosemary and Rue and it'll have a place of honor on my bookshelves. Thank you!

I am not sure I would not paradox to save my parents. But I am pretty sure I wouldn't want to make major changes too far back unless I had a viewer that would show me the results. The risks of playing God and maybe making things worse are too high.

I suspect humanity should never be trusted with a time travel machine. A past-viewer might be safe...maybe.