It’s fun - just put whatever you want into the 2001 Time Capsule. Eventually, the thread will die and vanish, but then at the end of 2001 we can exhume it to see what we stashed!
Ideal stuff for the Time Capsule? Some ideas:
your 3 main goals or ambitions for the year ahead
relatively serious hopes or predictions for social or cultural trends ahead
stuff you’d like to see happen
snippets, items and belongings you think it will be cool/interesting to dig up 365 days from now
I’ll start…
Goals & ambitions. Get my new web business up and running. Date Lucy Liu. Snippets There’s a new class action lawsuit against the cell phone companies, so the harmful-or-not debate will get a fresh airing. I think it will fail, but the phones might get safety features up the wazoo added by paranoid manufacturers. Predictions The SAG strike will come and go and we won’t notice much. Here in the UK, general election and win for Blair with 107 seat majority. Items My car. Useless heap of junk. About time it was buried for good.
Get out of debt-or at least make a serious dent in the amount of debt I have.
Finally stop smoking, at some point this year. This will, of course, help with the accomplishment of #1
Decide that yes I do live here in this apartment, and will until May 2002 at least, so I can decorate it and get some art on the walls.
relatively serious hopes or predictions for social or cultural trends ahead
I hope the Left Behind thing dies out completely. I mean, it would not bother me at all to see that series die a quick death.
I’m kind of tired of seeing men in the ‘business casual’ look. It would be nice to see businesses going back to suits, at least Monday through Thursday.
stuff you’d like to see happen
I’ll get back to you on this one, eh?
snippets, items and belongings you think it will be cool/interesting to dig up 365 days from now
A picture of me now, since there are some changes I intend to make to my appearance in the next year-just a couple of decisions left on them.
*Take a yoga class
*Send away more poems for publication (ha ha ha - but at least I will try)
*Get myself a G. D. job
hopes or predictions
*For my friends: more enlightenment and self-awareness
For society in general: selfishness and NIMBY will prevail as the popularity of the LB series rises and people in the West get wealthier and more embittered, or poorer and more embittered
stuff you’d like to see happen
*A Madonna world tour
snippets, items and belongings
*My little brother’s Poo-chi and the Harpy that hatched me - oh wait, can those things stay buried?
Actually get through your AP Spanish Lit class, don’t need to pass it, just don’t kill the teacher. Rejoice in a free period the following year
Show Russ and Rachel how much they mean to me
relatively serious hopes or predictions for social or cultural trends ahead
Hope the class of '04 isn’t as horribly slutty
stuff you’d like to see happen
Have a good relationship with Daniel, romantic or not, but at least get everything squared away.
snippets, items and belongings you think it will be cool/interesting to dig up 365 days from now
Lucifer Bob Nothorian II, I love you baby but maybe in a year I’ll be willing to see you again. (note:at rachel’s house)
Send in some of my short stories to be published in magazines.
Start thinking, seriously, of a full-time job out of high school.
Like was mentioned earlier, graduate high school as the class of 2001.
Learn to keep my bitter sounding cynisism quiet around people who can’t take a joke.
Predictions
Stanley Kubrick’s 2001 will be grounded into the ground all year.
At school they will play the “2001” theme song over the intercom on the last day of school for Seniors (they played “1999” on the last day of school for Seniors in the Class of 1999).
This year will be a better year for movies. I’m not sure for TV.
**Like to see happen **
Not sure…I’ll have to get back on this one, too.
Items
Cassette tapes (kids 2020–What’s a cassette tape?)
A record/record player, because they are becoming obsolete at an alarming rate.
Goals
Move to England - only possible if I dont fluke this grade…
Sending some of my pictures to a greetingcard company…
Sending my online diary to a publisher…
Lose 2 kilos that I gained in year 2 kilo.
Likely to Happen
Some more of my friens will start taking Prozac
Items to add into the mix
… my “Sound of 2000” tape,
those strange armbands that I wear sometimes… and…
Mini Me… my bong (Wonder if I am still a pothead next year)…
Goals:
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[li]Save more money towards goals (PC upgrades, etc.)[/li][li]Finally get the LAN running.[/li][li]Learn a new language. (A human language besides English or, more likely, a programming language besides Basic and the rudiments of C++.)[/li][/ul] Serious Hopes and Predictions for Coming Year:
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[li]Well, technology will advance, but not quite as fast as we predict now. Analog will still hold 90% of American TV markets, GPS will not be standard in cars, etc.[/li][li]Bandwidth will not improve that much. I just can’t see the average American rushing out to buy broadband Internet access quite yet. Give it until the end of the deacade.[/li][li]Radios made in the 1910s will still work to pick up most AM stations, radios made more recently will still work to pick up most FM stations. Europe is already ahead of us as far as digital broadcasting goes. Check Scientific American’s archives at http://www.sciam.com for an article on the topic.[/li][/ul] Stuff I’d Like to See Happen:
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[li]All this goddamned talk about ‘the millenium’ and ‘Y2K’ will die.[/li][li]The crappy Left Behind series will die with above.[/li][li]TV shows and movies look to be moving away from ‘Real World’ plots (note the death of both Blair Witch and ‘Survivor’). Good riddance.[/li][li]People will stop suing tobacco companies (fat chance, but I can hope).[/li][/ul] Snippets, Items, and Belongings:
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[li]Something inspired by the Florida Recounts.[/li][li]A ‘butterfly ballot’.[/li][li]Something inspired by Elian Gonzales. Will we remember the little brat 365 from now? Probably, but the media won’t.[/li][li]Something filled with ‘Y2K bug’ paranoia. Hell, 20 years from now that will have the appeal of Cold War bomb shelter anti-Roosian kitsch. It ought to be worth something by way of laugh value one year from now. This site, an extreme radical Paranoid Christian site, will be gold, I’m sure. It’s already pretty funny. http://www.cuttingedge.org/news/n1254.cfm[/li][/ul]
