Final Report: Experiment XY-035 Duration: 02 November 2007 – 09 March 2008 Initial Observations: Candidate XY-035 showed promise as short term social appendage, possibly even potential pair-bond partner. XY-035 fell within desirable age, mass, and microbial specification range. Added advantages included surpassing psychological criteria and exceeding economic requirements. Frequent personal inquiries beyond perfunctory communications by [...]

I got a chain letter today. I had really hoped that with the decline of physical post, chain letters would vanish. I used to get them a lot in elementary school. In third grade a classmate got a letter that informed her she would go bald and her teeth would fall out if she didn’t [...]

I might be a terrible, bad, bad cyborg, but I really enjoy watching videos online of people making fools of themselves, and then having the sheer stupidity to videotape and place it on a website where it is easily found by an eager, all-consuming public. And I am a proud member of that public. It [...]

When moved from L.A. and began my exciting new job infiltrating software, one of the perceived fringe benefits would be meeting guys with: More intelligence Better jobs Mad HALO skills An interest in chicks who wear horn rimmed glasses Something to talk about besides their next pilot audition And so far it’s been true. But, [...]

So I’m listening to music at work on Friday . . . with my headphones on, as the Vogons will deep-fry and eat me if they hear anything other than the sweet rustling of meaningless paperwork. Some areas of the office they won’t even tolerate working with headphones on. Luckily the two women I share [...]

Something awful happened this morning. It might have been the doubleshotsugarfreenonfatextrafoamsoyvanillalatte that I had for breakfast, but for some reason I found myself flashing back to the English classes I took in High School. I can’t remember reading much that was actually good, and when we did read something good, it was ruined by the [...]

Reporters seem to serve as the dupes of the science fiction world. Why is it that the monster always eats the reporter first? Come to think of it, what has journalism got to do with sci-fi? It’s supposed to be about lasers and space monsters, right? The media are represented in various ways; as storytelling [...]