time lapse

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt2669336

time lapse is a ripoff of basically every time travel movie that has that twist where one of the characters has a jump on everybody else.  time lapse's main claim to fame is bad acting and chemistry.

this is as good a time as any to talk about how i have been thinking a lot lately about what i would do with time travel.  nothing good, let me tell you.  the real question is, can you exploit it effectively?  if you are doing stock market or race tracks, then you have to be very careful not to win too much because nobody will believe that it was luck.  luck is improbable enough that it effectively never happens.  if you are dealing with criminal types, then please be aware that they do not have degrees in statistics and will probably beat your ass for winning too much, regardless of the probability.  and if you are dealing with the SEC...then please be aware that some of them *do* have degrees in statistics and will probably beat your ass for winning too much.

the key factor is about what you can take with you.  a lot of time travel movies essentially only allow you to take knowledge--which can be formidable, if you invest it correctly--but it requires a certain amount of preparation to yield the kind of advantage that you are probably dreaming about.  for example, do you think you could do better than, say, 10x your money by travelling back in time to just before the great recession?  10x is a great return, but remember that you are going to have to get some money to 10x in the first place.  for a sizeable amount of dosh, you probably have to team up with somebody to do it, and you are not going to be able to talk to past-self, unless, of course, you remember future-self approaching you at some point in the past.  that means bringing somebody else in on the deal, and just consider for a moment all the ways that is going to go wrong.  maybe you decide that instead, you are going to "invent" penicillin or the polio vaccine or something like that.  nice idea, but do you have any idea how to make penicillin or the polio vaccine?  how about atom bombs?  guns?  soap?  maybe you are thinking you will go to liverpool and "discover" the beatles.  who are you going to discover them to, what with your vast network or non-existent music industry connections?  anyway, the point is not that you cannot profit, just that your profit is somewhat risky and not exactly astronomical. for most people.  not me.  i am completely ready for time travel.

time lapse gets two 24 hour photos, mostly because i like time travel.