After receiving the Dimensional Warp Generator and teleportation dropoff emails, I was intrigued enough to check out the alleged delivery point on Monday, July 28, 2003. The location was only ten minutes from work and I figured, why not? At worst, no one would show up and I’d sit there alone for ten minutes. At best, I’d get a good laugh and snap some fun photos! Little did I know that there would be some characters there who were taking the whole thing so seriously!
Update (08/29/2003): Wired reported on the Dimensional Warp Generator and linked to me. Turns out that the time traveler’s family is concerned about him…
I rolled onto Cummings Ave. around 2:58 PM and found an older Toyota parked at the end of the street occupied by two men in sport coats. Both of them were on mobile phones and there was an open notebook computer stuffed between the dashboard and the windshield. The minute I turned onto the street and made eye contact, they left. As I continued down Cummings Ave. and turned onto Village St. I saw a flash of white out of the corner of my eye. There was a random guy hiding in the woods, also on a mobile phone, just across the street from the intersection of Cummings Ave. and Village St. When he saw me he turned around and scurried off into the woods out of sight.
I turned around and parked on Cummings Ave., facing Village St. and Winn St. From there I could see the alleged drop point where the Dimensional Warp Generator was supposed to magically appear at 3:00 PM. In my rear view, I saw and Audi of some sort parked about a block behind me and a random domestic parked behind it. A minute ticked by, and a rather burly man wearing white gloves emerged at the end of Cummings Ave., wandered around aimlessly for a while, then disappeared again out of sight. Just before 3:00 PM, I caught a glimpse of the guy in the woods and he instantly disappeared again.
A minivan then rolled up Cummings Ave. from the end of the street and, as it appeared, the domestic fled. The minivan parked next to the Audi, and a heated conversation ensued. I couldn’t hear anything but the guy in the minivan got out, there were waving hands and, eventually, the Audi left. I can only assume there was an argument going on because there was lots of rather aggressive waving and pointing.
Shortly thereafter, the guy in the minivan rolled up beside me, drove by very slowly, gave me a stare, then parked at an angle blocking me in. He just sat there for a few minutes, staring intently at the alleged drop point. After 3:00 PM came and went, he rolled forward about twenty feet, got out, and started rooting around in the yards around the intersection. Eventually, after not finding the Dimensional Warp Generator, he went up to the house across the street from the drop point and rang the doorbell.
I just sat there in complete amazement that there was any activity at all at the street corner. How could anyone be taking the pickup seriously? When the minivan driver made eye contact with me again I decided that it was definitely time to leave. Although nothing magically appeared at the intersection, I was kind of hoping that someone would toss a random box out of a moving car or something. At least I got some fun photos!
I really was tempted to make contact with the minivan driver but opted not to. Who knows what strange temporal rift I would have been sucked into…
On a side note, what makes this incident so freaky is that my friend James decided to check out the intersection as well! He arrived at 2:45 PM, got bored, and left around 2:55 PM because no one was there and the street was completely deserted! He snapped a single photo and left. Weird…
Revised 07/29/2003 09:44 PM
That’s cool! What a strange thing the internet is, to actually convince people to do things like this
w00t too, since you’re the first ever trackbacker on my blog! Ta!
Ha…yeah…I showed up to take pics just to see who else would show up.
The intrigue deepens…
Perhaps his next request will be for a copy of The Catcher In The Rye, also known as the Intel Quanternium Uncertainty generator.
Tricky bastard… He threw his net far and wide. I was able to buy the last Dimensional Warp Generator my local Wal-Mart had on the shelf. The nice thing was, Oven-Mitt (from Arby’s commercial fame) was there chatting with the Wal-Mart smiley, Smiley saw me checking out the Dimensional Warp Generator (the last one being an open box), and he stopped by and said “Step back, sir. Price drop is immenent.” To my amazement, he dropped the price right there from $484,397.99 to $9.97! What a BARGAIN – especially since I knew someone in such dire need!
Now my only problem was to get it from Lat/Long 38.65934 -75.59428 to 42.4845467 -71.1576157…
This is by far the strangest email I’ve ever received. I’m going to rent the X-files.
I think all the suspicious people are just like you, looking to see anything happens.
Well well, now a looky here, I caught myself a UFO, your gonna start turn’n Green Real Fast…..or the National Inquires not gonna buy my Story!!!! (Yes,yes I know…it’s an excerpt from Need for Speed 1, but who gives a Hoot).
I….like the most of You,(here it comes) also got this most Remarkable Email from the “Time Traveler”. If it were True, why would someone who comes from the Future use such a primative way of Communication finding Parts for His “Dimensional Warp Generator”? I know it says in the Email that this would be the only way for Him to Communicate, but still it’s quite astounding that People from the Future with such an “Advanced Technology” need to send Emails to Hundreds of People to get new Parts for His DWG. One thing did Trouble me, 512GB SRAM?? Not the Size of the Memory….but “SRAM”?? I really don’t believe the in the Future they would still use SRAM!! OH YEAH….Great Pics!! Haven’t been they yet, maybe I’ll go they one day, especially wenn this Guy tries to get His DWG again.
OH…and the Online-Shop is the Best, I would have Bought one of those DWG’s but they are a bit Expensive though, maybe at Christmas after my Chef gives me the Promised Gratification of 100.000-Dollars, but only maybe. Well enough of this, I’d better get back in my Space-Time-Suite and Travel to the Year 2246 or my Space-Time Traveling Pass will get Expired!!
OH…wait a minute, how much is 100.000-Dollars in Galactic-Credits??
P.S: Naaa…I just think this Guy is Nuts, but mostly harmless, and should be Observed from Time to Time.
Please do not assist this person. I am from about 200 years further into the future than he is (That’s about how long his DWG has been obsolete)and have been hunting him acoss most of human history. Now that he’s trapped in your era, he must be subdued by whatever means necessary. He knows I am after him, so it’s very important that he be stopped before he can kill my great-great-great-great-great Grandf
How phony. There’s no way you could open a dimensional time portal without at *least* 400TB f RAM, which is probably going to be the minumum to run Windows in about 2 years anyway.
Eka Beka Bee
To Mad Dog….He He…that was Cool !!!!
Oh, I want to believe, I really do.
I’m from the UK and we have a saying for kooky things, “only in America”
This kind of proves the point.
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Thanks for sharing.
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Has anyone actually tried to email our time traveler at info@federalfundingprogram.com? Kind of an odd domain to be receiving messages, no?
Although I haven’t, there is a complete account of money and product changing hands between the time traveler and an alleged technology developer: http://www.lindqvist.com/index.php?newID=1142
I don’t see what the big problem is here. Everybody knows that amazon.galaxy sells this stuff (or at least will start trading in about 40 years). In the meantime, there is a limited catalogue of stuff available that’s considered safe for use by races for whom this science is in its infancy (ie the people of earth – at this present time) to help them get a foothold on the basic technology.
If anyone wants a current catalogue, mail me at icdcomponents@hotmail.com and i’ll forward you the catalogue by return.
This communication is to inform your dimension that the entity known to you as Bob White has been returned to his proper place and time. As all of us 5th dimensional space know, time travel as you know it does not exist as we have constant awareness of all points in time and can experience them just by shift our awareness. Just as you experience a three dimensional world by moving along the 3rd dimension of your space, we experience time by moving along the 4th dimension of our 5th dimensional space.
Mr White made the error of tuning in to the 3rd dimension and losing conscious awareness of the 5th dimension and thus lost the ability to move freely along fourth dimensional space. In other words, he manifested in the lower dimensions and got stuck in the same hellthat all of you are trying to extricate yourselves from. The hell of the limits of the physical world, unable to excape, using denial, fantasy, drugs, alcohol, extreme sports, war, terrorism, and sex in a desperate attempt to transend the box you live in.
Mr White has been rescued and his soul sent off to Rigel for remedial training.
Best wishes in your ongoing pursuits of the sacred and profane. A hint to the wise, the higher dimension is somewhere around the intersection/overlap where the dualities of your dimension curve around and meet. IYKWIM
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Dude, somebody’s going to run the plates on that minivan, RIGHT?? Looking forward to a followup post.
As amusing as it would be, I’m not quite intrigued enough by the whole scenario to spend the cash to pull his plates at the DMV. Teehee.
Just think… how many of those other folks thought YOU were an alien or time-traveler? Or at least kind of hoping you were… they were waiting for you to shoot rays out of your hands or something.
wired linked to you
http://www.wired.com/news/culture/0,1284,60141-2,00.html
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Oh my freaking h4ll… roflmao! Not just at the spammer himself, but at all these hilarous comments!
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As humans at this point in your evolution you are unable to understand such concepts could be true. I have run through various time lines in my current physical form and it’s incredibly fascinating. You will come to understand.
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Dear Entity-that-calls-yourself-Arachon,
Do I know you? Are the person who hit a snag in the space-time-dimensional continuum and accidently manifested your physical body directly overlapping my coordinates last Friday Night at Club Dada?
I immediately projected myself a few days into the future to make room for you so as to avoid another one of those nasty shared space Chimeric snafus (I hate it when I dont know what my third hand is doing)
I did, however , somehow get away with an extra pair of underwear that I think may belong to you.
It is a pair of BVD light grey boxer-briefs size medium with the inial “A” embroidered in the waistband and a rather substantial skidmark on the crotch.
Please post an address and timeline and I will try to return the shorts via express
What a bonehead. Every 3rd grade student knows that you can’t open a temporal rift at the bottom of a gravity well. (duh! Remember the Redmond disaster of 2017?!?! Hello!!!) Since the SS1/Spacedev tourism group doesn’t start commercial space flights for another 8 years, I’d recommend going the cryogenic route. I hear that Sears has a special on a side-by-side Frigidaire that should do the trick. Make sure that you have battery backup though to avoid that nasty east coast grid failure that happens this year. Also, I’d recommend a few boxes of baking soda to cut down on the smell.
the Frigidaire model has a noisy motor which can get irritating after a few years of cryo
and the freezer compartment is not large enough to house your entire body
but it does hold the head nicely. And it has good icemaker
So I give it 3 stars
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Heh – I’ve got a pretty good collection of “weird devices” – Lifters, HV generators, ion drives, etc. Currently working on making ball lightning in the laboratory.
Email me for details. (Yes this is a genuine address)
-A
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Puny humans! Your inferior intellect cannot comprenhend our technology!
Hey man, im intrested in the guy that took the photos…Thats a bad ass subaru, do you race that thing in scca rally or what..just curious caus i have a sti that i race too..oh well reply to todrkpark@aol.com
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