It seems one of the most venerable of whack-a-doodle internet sites, the beloved Time Cube, is no more. How will us educated stupid folks learn all about the four corner days now!??!
In a 2010 Twitter tweet Gene Ray said:
All of his web sites went offline and registrations expired in July and August, including Time Cube.
He’s probably dead.
And Time wins yet another round.
That’s a shame. He was crazy. But it was a special kind of crazy; one well suited to the then-new medium of homebrew websites.
After Obama was elected, he posted some racist screed about how the eagle has a white head leading a dark body, not a dark head leading a white body. It sort of lost its quirky lustre for me after that.
Surely somebody must have it archived somewhere. Will the Wayback Machine have it?
Fear not. It has been archived.
Well, the world has lost its self-proclaimed doctor of “Cubic” and “Wisest Human”. Who now will defend the theory of the “16 corner cube with 4-simultaneous 24-hour Days within a Single Rotation of the Earth”?
Oh, he was into racist, homophobic, and anti-semetic jeremiads for many years prior to 2008. But it was really his screeds against educators making children “dumb-stupid” that kept me coming back, notwitstanding the ever-changing ramblings of his “Cubic” natural philosophy.
Goodbye, Dr. Ray, you most Cubic of Superior Intelligences. I hope you’ve advanced to a more complex polyhedrial-shaped spatio-temporality so that you can instruct the inhabitants of the 8 simultaneous days of the Time Dodecahedron.
Stranger
Calling the Time Cube guy racist or homophobic is like calling a nuclear explosion drafty. He lambasts both the religious and academic, because they don’t teach Cubic Science/Divinity. A pair of anything is actually canceled out because they are opposites. Can’t you see that?
How can you assign a label to someone who thinks thus?
Good news, everyone! Time Cube is back!
Gene shuffled his mortal coil, and the site briefly lapsed before his spirit possessed the body of Terrence Howard, who renewed the DNS account.
Phew! Crisis averted!
How many people have actually read the entire Time Cube site, or any substantial part of it?
It’d be pretty amazing if somehow TimeCube became sort of a www Stonehenge, something kept alive and unchanged across the generations for reasons powerful but not really understood.
Take that ordinary Time: Gene Ray and Cubic Time pokes you one in the eye.
And I’VE READ ONLY A SMALL FRACTION OF IT.
A lot. But they were very drunk, and don’t remember much if it. The really scary part is when you are drunk enough it all starts making sense.
I would think it’d take something a little stronger to start making sense. Like weed. Or schizophrenia.
It was a joke.
Nothing will ever make Time Cube make sense, because it’s batshit crazy shit
(Mine was a joke, too)
I’m waking up this year old thread to say that it’s gone again. (Actually the thread is only a year when time is measured by the educated stupid).
I didn’t even realize that it had been gone and came back. But it now appears that it is gone, probably for good. My browser returns a “server not found” error for timecube.com
Weirdly, both Godaddy and ICANN show it as being registered to Gene Ray.