Tag: Time Travel

  • Back to the Future Part IV

    For fun I started writing the screenplay for the fourth installment of the Back to the Future series:

    Doc Brown’s kids are now 18 and 22. We see them acting like typical teenagers, hanging out in their cabin on the train, listening to their iPods and watching their iPads when the girl gets up to grab a snack. The kitchen area is lined with invented ways to make toast or cook hot dogs. Jules grabs a bottle of juice and steps outside nonchalantly. That’s when the camera shows where and when they are.

    Doc Brown, their father, is studying dinosaurs in a dense jungle. “Dad, how long are we going to be here?” Jules exclaims.

    Doc inches closer to the dinosaur and the camera switches to Verne, who is turning up the gain on his amp, which is connected to his 1974 Les Paul. He begins to play his guitar softly and the baby dinosaur who was asleep opens its eyes. Doc Brown inches closer.

    Jules goes in to talk to her mom, who is reading. Vernes music can still be heard in the background. Jules sighs so her mom asks Jules if she feels she missed out on having a normal life in one place.

    Just then the baby dinosaur sees Doc and at the same time the dinosaur squeels, Verne feedbacks his guitar and the song gets heavier and faster. Drum overlay also kicks in and now we see the mother of the baby dinosaur, a full grown T-Rex. Doc begins to run back to the train saying, “I’m getting to old for this!” He radios to his wife, “Prepare to move. I’m on my way.”

    The beat of the T-Rex’s feet match the beat of the bass drum playing along with Verne’s music. His mom moves into the pilots chair and sees the T-Rex approaching with Doc running in front. Jules sits down in the co-pilot seat, looks at her mother, then out the window and screams, “Dad!”

    They start up the train and float it into position just as Doc approaches the door and as Verne’s music reaches a crescendo. Doc jumps in and they all take off into the future, but not before the T-Rex takes a bite at the rear of the train.

    Update:

    So apparently Jules and Verne are both boys so the beginning will need to be a little different. Instead of having a girl and a boy, one son will be more interested in science and the other in girls. We’ll make Verne the geek and Jules the chaser.

    So now that we have these actors who are playing Doc’s sons, the one most like him, Verne, will play a young Doc Brown who in 1940  attended school with Strickland. His brother, Jules will be traveling back to visit them in the future. This is how he will get there.

    The dinosaur damages the train when they are taking off. Docs wife had set an emergency course for 2015, which is their safety year. They know they will be able to find parts during that time. While the train is getting worked on, Jules goes for a walk while Verne stays back to help his dad. That’s when he spots the Delorean. His dad had just had the upgrades made on it. He can’t resist getting in so he sits down…fill in reason to take car here…Jules arrives in 1940 in the Delorean.

  • Free Second Chapter of a Time Travel Romance, Time Tempest

    This is the second chapter of my first book, which is a story about time travel and growing up into the future called Time Tempest.

    It’s currently available on Amazon for the Kindle, but you can also read the first chapter here.

    Charlie raced into his high school and down the hall. He still had time as the bell had not yet rang, but just as he was about to duck into his classroom, he heard the low, booming voice of the vice principal, “Chuck,” followed by the dull, piercing sound of the school bell ringing as the two of them stared at each other in middle ‘C’. Charlie hated to be called ‘Chuck’, but Burt was fond of creating knick-names for all of the students he disliked. It was his way of making inside-jokes with himself where each name has a double-meaning. In Charlie’s case, Burt liked his clever way of calling him a ‘tool’ and it gave him great joy anytime he was able to catch him doing something wrong.
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  • Free First Chapter of a Time Travel Romance, Time Tempest

    This is the first chapter of my first book, which is a story about time travel and growing up into the future called Time Tempest.

    It’s currently available on Amazon for the Kindle.

    Here’s an excerpt from the story:

    “Charlie jumped out of the front seat and into the back. Almost before he grabbed the old, yellow photograph with white edges, he noticed something peculiar about the contents of the photograph. It was a picture of him, wearing the same green shirt with white sleeves and a ketchup stain at the bottom. Charlie’s mind started racing. “Who took this picture?” Charlie started backing away from the car, still holding onto the picture. “Who are the other people in this photograph? When did this happen?” Charlie, almost in a panic, ran towards the door. He shoved the picture in his book bag and ran to school, suddenly unsure of what was going to happen next.” (more…)

  • Unix 2038 Date Problem

    There is a Unix date problem!

    What?!

    In case you weren’t aware of the Unix 2038 problem, on Unix, 2038 will roll over to 1970 as things are currently set up. As Unix vendors move to support 64 bits, this problem will disappear.

    Why?

    UNIX stores time as seconds since January 1, 1970 (the 32 bit representation overflows in early 2038).

    When?

    Most 32bit Unix implementations will fail at 3:14:08 AM (GMT) on January 19, 2038.

    Oh!

    There’s that weirdness surrounding the leap-year-day in 2000. Fun stuff.

    hee hee.

    Oliver O. Fross

    Last Updated:06/19/2003 18:48:54

    Time Travelers

    John Titor, a time traveler from the future that visited us in the past, references the 2038 Unix date problem as his reason for traveling.