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Get Ready to Leap: Leap Second Saturday

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 Time Travellers worldwide prepare for Leap Second, on June 30th. Look before you leap!

Atomic clocks like this add leap second on Saturday

Survivors are probably already aware how Earth’s atomic clocks create a time gap of about 2 milliseconds every day. And that time tinkering scientists store up these milliseconds until they have an entire second to put back in the time continuum, creating an ideal time travel opportunity for any trained time tripper with an atomic device.

Tomorrow this will happen at 7:59:59 (EDT), or one second to midnight Universal Standard Time.

So what exactly do you need to leap on this timely opportunity? A simple can of Chernobly or a shiny Delorian?

The exact requirements remain a closely guarded secret, but true rumors today describe this: if you are IN THE AIR ie: leaping, at the EXACT moment the second is added, then you can land WHEN you want.

Easy right? In this case, all you ready need is an atomic clock monitor and a good pair of shoes. Just jump high enough and time it right and you’ll come down when you want.

But how do you control when exactly? That’s the real trick. What separates the true time travelers from the rest of us. And what if you live in a place that used to be the bottom of a lake or an ocean? Times can be tough!

There are other dangers. In 2008, the last leap second, there were reports of would-be leapers injured on so-called “time travel trampolines.” Sure trampolines extend your air time which helps ensure a big jump, but what happens when you land BEFORE the trampoline was invented? Not to mention if you get stuck in the springs? Broken legs, that’s what.

And then how do you leap back? A lot of survivors forget about this. Without an atomic clock handy, how will you ever get back to tomorrow?

Even with your own atomic wrist-watch, it could still be a year and a half before the next leap second. Do you really want to spend a whole year and a half fighting dinosaurs? Laugh if you want, but it has happened on these pages before.

So please remember to look before you leap. And please leave any tips you hear for the rest of us.

What’s New in Monstrometer 2.2?

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What’s new in Monstrometer 2.2? If you say it out loud you will discover that that I am a poet and I didn’t even know it.

The BIG change is that Graham and I fixed the way that the Survival Videos play. They were generally not working the way that you would want them to thanks to a change in the OS and we tried for months to fix it but now we finally figured it out. So if you never have before please take a look at the videos. There are lots of ways to get there including taping on the spot where it says Zombie Month right on the first page.

The logic to determine your Monster diagnosis has also been fine-tuned, increasing the Monstrometer’s overall accuracy by nearly 0.87%. Now I know that may not seem like much but it is a lot when you are dealing with something as accurate as the Monstrometer.

And while we have not added any new results to the database we have added a number of new questions to help diagnose your supernatural state.

For those who didn’t notice it was there before there is a “More” tab that contains all kinds of goodies like a monsters page with quick links to all of the Monstrometer Monster Report pages, the videos and more! (Hence the name)

The update has been uploaded to the App Store for approval and should be available for you to download soon. Probably in less than a week. Graham and I are already working on the next update which should be a little bit bigger. Maybe even including a new result.

Keep on keeping on.

Seth

P.S. Screenshots coming soon!

Cole’s Notes Reveal Time Transit System

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Time Traveling Teacher Eloi Cole's Notes

March 16, Hadron Collider, Switzerland – Almost one year to the day after a mysterious tweedy time traveller breached security at the Large Hadron Collider in Switzerland, scientists there unveil the plan for mass time-transit.

Physicists Tom Weiler and Chui Man Ho today confirmed their plan to turn the Hadron Collider into the world’s biggest, mass transit time machine by colliding protons to create particles called Higgs singlets with the ability to jump into an extra, fifth dimension where they can move either forward or backward in time and reappear in the future or past. Would this turn the Large Hadron Collider into a mass underground time transit subway, 17 miles long? If so, when will it be open? And what will be the fare?

“I’m not sure,” says Weiler. “We’re still in the planning stages.” (SEE PLAN ABOVE.)

About that plan…

Can it be a coincidence this announcement comes almost one year after a mysterious time traveller named Eloi Cole breached security at the LHC, stating to police his intention was to STOP the discovery of time travel? Dismissed as an April Fool’s prankster, Eloi Cole was remanded to a local psychiatric center, where he promptly disappeared.

Weiler declined to comment but according to an unnamed janitorial source at the collider, this is no surprise.

“Think about it. ‘Eloi Cole?’ Tell me he wasn’t from Cole’s Notes in the future? No scientist will admit using these handy abridged references but I can tell you from experience nine out of ten of them do it.” the janitor stated.

“Besides who can name even one instance when traveling back in time to prevent something occurring failed to actually cause that thing to occur?”

He also adds that he is looking forward to the ability to send all litterbugs back in time again and again until they learn to use the garbage receptacles.

Darksides (plural) of the Moon!

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Hail Survivors,

I just got up. I was up very, very late monitoring the eclipse, the solstice and the effect that the conjunction of these two very important events was having on the space time continuum in general and the supernatural world specifically. I’m happy to report that most of us appear to have survived.

(Although there have been some disturbing reports of a “werepyre” phenomenon related to the eclipse here http://sethonsurvival.com/?p=605&cpage=30#comment-17154.)

(And even more disturbing, a dire shortage of sandwiches here: http://sethonsurvival.com/?p=605&cpage=30#comment-17168)

But at any rate, I hope that you all got a chance to watch the solstice lunar eclipse but in case you didn’t see it – or if like me your photos didn’t do it justice – the here is a good time lapse video of it. If you DID miss it it is only another 84 years until the next one in 2094, providing the world survives 2012 that is. Now 84 years is a long time to human but I suspect that there are a few vamps here that watched this one that saw the last one 1638.

Anyways enough blabbing, here’s the video.

Keep on keeping on.

Seth

SOS Monstrometer version 2.0 – What’s New!

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Hail Survivors!

It’s now here! The Monstrometer version 2.0 update! I said it was going to be big-ish and it is-ish. So biggish in fact that it needed a whole new number!

New in Monstrometer version 2.0:

  • Added “Interrogate Self” and “Interrogate Other” option. Now the program knows if you are scanning yourself or someone else… well as long as you don’t lie to it.
  • Stats tracking!!! All your scans are saved and you can view the list of the statistics from your self scans and other scans in either list mode or as a pie chart. This will help you keep track of what other creatures you are encountering and also your own evolving situation and potential hybridization.
  • New Monsters gallery helps you keep track of what monsters you have scanned with the Monstrometer and provides direct links to the individual monster pages on the website. Unlock new monsters by scanning them.
  • Facebook Integration updated so that now your Facebook post will reflect if you were scanning yourself or someone else.
  • You can now choose the depth of interrogation. From 10 questions all the way up to 25 questions. More questions gives a more accurate result and obviously takes longer as well. 10 Questions is fast but sacrifices some accuracy for that speed.
  • Vastly improved interrogation logic for much more accurate results.
  • 17 New interrogation questions added for improved accuracy.

There are no new monsters added this time but we think you will find that these changes really make the Monstrometer a lot better.

The Monstrometer 2.0 is now in the app store: http://itunes.com/apps/monstrometer. If you already have an earlier version you can update it for free just by visiting the App Store icon on you iPod Touch, iPhone or iPad or through iTunes on your computer. If you don’t have it yet you can still get it for free by just visiting the App Store.

System Requirements: The app still works with iOS 3.1 but has been tested all the way up to 4.1. It works great on iPhone, iPod Touch or iPad.

Special thanks to Jmich and P5t5r and many of the other users on the site and reviewers on the iTunes Store. We have taken your feedback and suggestions and made the Monstrometer even better. Also thanks to the -admittedly small – Beta test group! You know who you are! (and I know what you are!)

This is just a step in the long promised big set of updates to the Monstrometer and the website. We hope it keeps you keeping on! We think it was worth the wait but we are still sorry that it was such a long one. Graham and I are already busy planning for the next update but I can’t promise that it will be quite this big. Also still on the lookout for any of those deal-making demons who can help me make my next episodes… so if you know one or you ARE one… well, Graham has baby powder!

Thanks for keeping on with me!

Seth

SOS Monstrometer version 1.4 – What’s New!

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Hail Survivors!

It’s here! The Monstrometer version 1.4 update! Just in time for Halloween.

If you voted in the pool or are back from the future so you probably know some of the news: Time Travellers are now in the Monstrometer.

The BIG news is that the Monstrometer now works with Facebook. That’s right you can now post the results of your scans right onto your Facebook page.

The Monstrometer 1.4 is now on the app store: http://itunes.com/apps/monstrometer. If you already have an earlier version you can update it for free just by visiting the App Store icon on you iPod Touch, iPhone or iPad. If you don’t have it yet you can still get it for free.

New in Monstrometer version 1.4:

Facebook Integration – Now you can post the results of your scans to your Facebook! Connecting to Facebook obviously requires that your device be connected to the Internet.
New result added – Time TravellerVideos – New Icon!

The app still works with iOS 3.1 but has been tested all the way up to 4.1. It works great on iPhone, iPod Touch or iPad.

You can post your results just like Survivor Sam below:

Sasquatch Sam Screen Shot

The Facebook integration is just the first step in the long promised big set of updates to the Monstrometer and the website. The next one you are gonna LOVE! We’re already working on it but it was time to start detecting Time Travellers!

Thanks for keeping on keeping on!

Seth