I'd go back to the day I discovered the Internet and tell myself not to get too attached to anyone I meet online. :lol:

I would go back in time and shoot myself in the leg. Then I'd have a fucked up story to tell people.

I'd go back to about 1984 and take the $10,000 I had saved up for university and go give that money to a couple of young geeks who had just started a small company called Microsoft.

Take a look someday at a 20 year stock graph of that company...it will make you wince. Wow.

The money thing is obvious.

There are a few personal relationships I'd give myself advice on. God damn, I was an idiot (and still am, probably!)

I think I'd go back to 2 days ago and tell myself to get my ass to bed so I wouldn't end up feeling too damn groggy (and with sore eyes from the 36 hours of contacts in) and miss out on my sister's fiance's Punk Band's CD Release Party at a rockin' bar. ;)

Honestly... I think I would spend it there. Even if I went back in time... I'd shrug it off soon enough, so I'd have to go back... what? within a week of whatever i was trying to prevent?

Of course if I prevented it, then I wouldn't have gone back in time to prevent it. So do I get to go back in time again? or did I waste my venture preventing something that never ever happened? ;) Welcome to my mind. ;)

[edit]Oh, here's something I would like to do. Go back about 4 years ago and since i gotta talk to myself... I'd tell myself to get my uncle to the doctor for a coloscopy... so he wouldn't be so weak from the chemo now and wondering how much time is left. :( My mom just spent three weeks up there with him (her brother). I may only have a week left to see him... he lives 9 hours away. [/edit]

Things to do if I had a time machine...

Go back in time and buy up many vintage motorcycles and cars.

Fix up a bunch of P100 computers and 486's and go back and sell them for cheap...yet I would make a killing off of them.

Keep in good contact with a friend before I lost where she was :(

I would go back to 1984 and stop myself having my first ciggie . .

i can only think of two things.

firstly, i would have let my younger self know about the conservatory where i should've gone after high school instead of wasting a year (and a year's worth of still unpaid loans) at university.

secondly, i would have intercepted myself from going out to that gas station and finding the purse of my future ex that did absolutely nothing but bring me pain, misery, communicable disease, and lost chances with others.

I'm not sure I'd tell myself anything. Wouldn't it change where I'm at right now in life?

Spouses ... children ... friends .... all the people currently in your life might not be there if you had taken a different path in life, right?

I would go back in time to 1995 and tell myself what i've learned over the course of 9 years. Tell me to stay away from computer and TV, they will waste away your life.

Go to the year 2002 and tell me not to take any science courses, go right into psycology and linguistics. Save myself12 Goddamn grand.

Go 3 months back into the past and bring winning lottery numbers, sports teams, awesome stock market winners with me. Make millions to live rest of life comfortably. (also, bring back a few grand for myself for when I was younger.)

I think that if I had a time machine and tried to improve myself, it would be a little selfish of me. Instead, this is what I would do...

2001 - Get up very early, take the 30 min drive to portland, find a baseball bat, and beat the shit out of those two middle-eastern guys headed for Boston. Then call up the FBI and tell them about the other hihjackers in New York and Washington. in the case they wouldn't believe me, I would call in bomb threats to both airports. Sure, I'd go to jail, but at least I would end up saving a lot of people.

It would be wierd though, because no one would ever know what was going to happen. And would never know that the crazy guy who called in bomb threats just saved thier lives.

I just think that if i was somehow given this once in a lifetime oppertunity, thats what I would do.
Sure, I could try to stop Hitler, or end ww2, or any other war for that matter, but I chose 9-11 because I could probally stop all of it myself.

Not sure at what point in time I would start, but would love to be able to tell myself not to always take what appears to be the easier path. Often the harder path in the beginning turns out to be far easier in the long run.

I would go back to before my ex-fiance went travelling and tell myself to be a prick and stop her from going.

Age 15......
"Keep going to hockey practice, you lazy slug."
"No, a fascination with fire is not healthy."
"Find a new peer group ASAP."
"Don't go into her house, her parents aren't home."

Too late...damn

Going back to 1990: When your buddy says "There's this thing called the internet, we should get involved, I think there's some money in it" DO NOT BLOW HIM OFF!!!! REGISTER AS MANY SEX RELATED DOMAINS AS YOU CAN THINK OF!!

Going back to 1986: Those girls, yeah, the ones that will show up naked in your bed after a party... THEY WANT TO FUCK YOU!! DON'T BE A DIPSHIT!