Hello, my name is Jack

by on January 2, 2016 at 12:01 am
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I didn’t think anything would stop the parties down in Tijuana when I was a young. I was wrong. The fall of Yosemite Station first burned and then flooded San Diego, and Tijuana suffered from many of the same troubles. It didn’t get hit as badly though, something most people figure is because of the more…transitory nature of the Tijuana economy. So much of it was always based on getting rich Old Americans to come down into Old Mexico and spend money on the very willing senoritas, or the barkeeps, or the tattoo artists. Tijuana excelled at making new markets and new opportunities to go back home missing your wallet, your shirt, and most of your memories of the occasion.

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Happy New Years

by on January 1, 2016 at 12:01 am
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I hope this New Year finds you well and enjoying life. I hope you watched a ball or two drop. Not your own. Did you get to see some good fireworks? Or dropping confetti. Maybe you broke some dishes or burned a scarecrow. Yeah. Those are actually traditions. Did you burn a Yule Log? Or a Yule Goat? How about mistletoe? Or did you give that mistletoe-carrying jerk a piece of your knuckles? Or maybe you just went to bed early so you could welcome the New Year at a more reasonable hour. Like the crack of Noon. However you celebrate New Years, I hope you are having a good time.

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Hello, my name is Charles

by on December 31, 2015 at 12:01 am
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China has been a unique combination of Big Government Communism and Capitalism for centuries. Everything and everyone within their control is a resource to be spent for the betterment of the nation as a whole. Everything belongs to the State, and those who can work are given a basic stipend to live on. Those who produce more are allotted more, and a certain amount of graft and corruption is even encouraged. They have a very lively Black Market that is only lightly policed. It makes China difficult for many to understand. But everything and everyone belongs to the business that is China. All of it is negotiable. Until of course it is not.

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Hello, my name is Jack

by on December 30, 2015 at 12:01 am
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It took San Diego years to rebuild after the Yosemite Strike that nearly did us all in. They didn’t take a direct strike, but nearly a dozen different Yosemite Station modules survived reentry until they exploded less than a kilometer above the city. The airburst was, to borrow a big word from some of my friends, catastrophic. Ships capsized, skyways collapsed, and skyscrapers burned like torches. Then the Yosemite Surge caused by the ruins that landed in water came over the sea walls. It flooded the subways. It was not a good day for San Diego. And the Yosemite Winter that followed didn’t improve matters either.

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Hello, my name is Betty

by on December 29, 2015 at 12:01 am
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The last scene of Twilight’s fourth season showed her crew looking over the skyline of fallen Detroit. Everybody knew what had happened in Detroit, and some were interested in finding out what Twilight had to do with it in real life, but a different question flowed through the networks during Twilight’s season break. Could Rogue AIs do what Twilight and her crew had done? Could AIs directly kill people, and how could we ever stop them if they decided to kill us all? Old stories of Berserkers and Terminators became popular again as people dug them out of the dustbins and waved them around as gospel examples of the threat of too-intelligent machines. Twilight’s studio considered it the best advertising they’d never bought.

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