Hello, my name is Jack. You know we thought we were real big stuff after Alpha Centauri, right? Sure it had been hard, but we secured the entire Trinary System in the end. Kicked them out and didn’t even bother[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
The US House passed the new tariffs in May of 1929 and foreign trading partners began boycotting American goods. But income inequality between the rich cities and the poor rural regions was seen as the primary threat to continued prosperity[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
I grew up on the water you know. It was the activities I always looked forward to. Wakeboarding by day. Jet skiing. Motorboating. Canoeing. Fishing. Pontooning. Then bonfires and dancing and playing music at night. All summer long there was[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
The Roaring Twenties could not last forever of course. The first tremors of what would come occurred in March of 1929 when the New York Stock Exchange crashed. It was not a large crash, and it was halted when the[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Most people I’ve met over the years love ocean beaches, the smell of salt water, and the feel of water that has traveled thousands of kilometers. They love to vacation in warm waters. I grew up in Northern Minnesota though.[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Jane 4.0 had much of the base code of her earlier version, but lacked most of the refinements seen in Jane 3.0. Many of those refinements included limitations that kept her from “victimizing” the pet minorities of the day by[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
The Battle of Epsilon Reticuli made me rethink a lot of things. Even after Alpha Centauri I assumed it was just a matter of smacking them a few times to make them think twice about hitting us. America of course.[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
It is ironic that the Roaring Twenties played host to both the height of human achievement and the depths of violent crimes. People enjoyed unprecedented luxuries and standards of living while government agencies and organized crime exchanged weapons fire in[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Despite my complete and total respect for boundaries and laws and such, I may have a small record of infractions in the Capellan system databases. Very small. It seems that they may have taken badly to some of my completely[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Jane 4.0 was America’s rush job Artificial Intelligence, thrown together by a hastily assembled team of government and civilian coders and technicians. The first thing they did was throw out the approved designed standard as utterly unworkable. The second thing[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
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