I was the one who dented your car three years ago....

October 23, 2006 9:24 PM

The ultimate in passive communication. A time capsule doesn't say I love you like a time-delayed email.
posted by whimsicalnymph (13 comments total)

See also Mail To The Future.
posted by RichardP at 9:36 PM on October 23, 2006

Currently, Time Cave accepts messages to be sent as far away as December 31, 2010.

Only four years into the future? Meh. Reminds me of that South Park where they find an iceman who was frozen only three years ago.
posted by brain_drain at 9:37 PM on October 23, 2006

Arrgh... Mail To The Future.
posted by RichardP at 9:37 PM on October 23, 2006

Funny. I was going to create a site like this about 5 years ago and never did because I couldn't determine the business model to make it worth my while.

Anyway, if I need this, I have servers and my own 'at' and 'cron' jobs.
posted by Kickstart70 at 9:50 PM on October 23, 2006

I should probably use this to tell her I was sorry.
posted by squidfartz at 9:55 PM on October 23, 2006

Can these be canceled? If not, this would be a one way to force yourself to do something you otherwise never get around to. Get drunk and write a horrible future "fuck you" to the boss at a job you hate but can't make yourself quit, or to the bf/gf you must dump or you'll go crazy. Or send an "I love you" message to someone you can't get up the nerve to make a move on. Like pulling the pin on the life grenade.
posted by pracowity at 7:06 AM on October 24, 2006 [1 favorite]

With a much longer window, this could be useful/interesting.

John: "I'm finally gonna tell my wife about the affair"
Rick: "What? Dude, don't tell. You NEVER tell."
John: "You didn't let me finish. I'm going to tell her... 30 years from now! That way I get to confess now, clear my guilt, and then worry about it later"

30 years later, at rest home

Linda:"John, who's the hell is Carol?"

On preview: pracowity: "Like pulling the pin on the life grenade.". What a great turn of phrase. Consider it stolen.
posted by Ynoxas at 7:12 AM on October 24, 2006

Like pulling the pin on the life grenade.
posted by pracowity at 10:06 AM EST on October 24
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Dude. Thanks for giving Adam Sandler the premise for another insufferable in flight movie.

(But it is a great idea).
posted by Skygazer at 7:19 AM on October 24, 2006

See also: Rapture Letters.
posted by barjo at 8:01 AM on October 24, 2006

barjo: So the rapture letters will go out after the rapture... or after the guy that runs that small web site dies or loses interest.

I wish I could just slap this guy right in the face.
posted by Ynoxas at 8:11 AM on October 24, 2006

43things.com already pretty much does this, right? At least, for up to a year.
posted by talldean at 8:30 AM on October 24, 2006

I knew I'd first heard of FutureMe.org through metafilter. Kind of surprised it hasn't been brought up yet. Now if I can only remember where I'd seen this...
posted by war wrath of wraith at 8:48 AM on October 24, 2006

man crontab

Reformatting crontab(1), please wait...

NAME TimeCave - a new service for spatial time dimensional warpage.

SEE ALO TimeCube.
posted by stbalbach at 11:27 AM on October 24, 2006