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I spent my future building a star

We worked as a team. A huge team of scientists and builders like me. No one had built a star before. We were going to be the first. How many angels can dance on the…
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How Green was my Cubicle

I read somewhere, or heard from someone, that study carrols were invented in monasteries. A study carrol (did I spell it wrong?) is a one-person table that is walled on all sides except the one…
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Hordes of Photoshop Jockeys

Hordes of Photoshop Jockeys (2000) This one is kind of an in-joke. Back when I used to post my images on Usenet on alt.binaries.pictures.fractals (which were either — pick one — the good old days…
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The marriage of Sputnik

The first Radio Satelite. 1957, or around then. Whatever happened to Sputnik? No longer a celebrity, and not too shiny anymore, he slides through space, without destination or purpose. His simple senseless beeping, once the…
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