Decisions “Why Jacob? And when? How are you aware of the alternate reality if I reset it wrong? Only I should be affected by this.” “It wasn’t the game reset. Remember, when you set up the last game you had time to kill. You called me and we went to see Einstein’s lecture at University of Chicago. I reset things when we got back. Well, you were resetting them and I changed things to gets us… away from there.” “Ok, so why? Why would you do that? And more importantly,…read more
Revelations Upon returning to Earth Devan decides to walk to Stubb’s from the intergalactic travel hub, rather than using hyper-space, giving him a chance to consider his options. After discussing evolution with the Olaraf, Kekarklarah, Devan isn’t sure about resetting the game. His confidence in the meaning of reality is shaky. The Olaraf could have been an illusion, or could have been misleading him. Then again, Devan thinks to himself, does it really matter? What Frank said about engineered humans strikes a chord with Devan. We have no control…read more
Travels Devan goes straight back to Stubb’s to visit Allyson after his class. He is really attracted to Allyson, to her sarcasm and sense of humor. As he enters the café he sees Allyson and Jacob talking. “Hey Jacob, I’m glad you’re here.” “Yeah, Allyson and I were just talking about… you. You know, your love for basket weaving.” Jacob and Allyson laugh. “Ok, ok. I said I was sorry. But whatever. Hey, Allyson mentioned something about visiting other inhabitable planets, even in other solar systems. Are you guys…read more
Conversations Devan enters Stubb’s to get coffee. He’s used to being surprised so the different dates do not really worry him. He tells himself it’s just a vacation and once the reset occurs everything will go back to normal. A dismal, useless normal, but normal none the less. He gets coffee and sits for a while. While the dates don’t worry him they intrigue him. He thinks to himself. Yes of course. Each region of space-time does have a proper history but there is no reason why the history…read more
Lessons Devan has been obsessing over the term Royal Commonwealth of America. It went over his head the first time he heard it and he has ignored it ever since. It is intriguing but irrelevant compared to other issues. This new reality seems like a nice place, happy and peaceful. The people are productive and successful. In a sense they seem like a super race. In his current state of mind Devan is not so much in the mood to explore as he is to learn, to study the…read more
Policies Jacob and Devan continue their conversation in a lighter mood as they make their way to the neuro surgery center for Devan’s conductivity scan. “Devan, there is a bubble, a sort of structure that will take us to what people call the outdoors. If it makes you feel better we can walk to the clinic. Talk on the way.” “Sure that sounds good.” “So, Jacob. Remind me, what subject in philosophy did I do my thesis in?” “The ethics of epistemology.” “So, they have bull-shitters in your reality.”…read more
Histories I know what caused the problem but finding it will be like finding a single needle in an infinite number of almost identical hay stacks. People never learned how to use memory properly. You know, those kind who make copy after copy of the same file for editing, or move a whole bunch of files using copy and paste rather than cut and paste. Ugh! But wait, did you ever know someone who insisted on backing up their data on the same drive. Thinking about that always cheers…read more
Beginnings I was finishing up for the day, resetting everything from a long day of gaming. Everything seemed fine and the process went without a hitch. So why does my coffee taste like tea? Seems like a minor thing to you, I know, but it’s very perplexing and a sign that something went terribly wrong in the process. Something that could alter reality forever. It wasn’t stale coffee, or bad coffee, or even flavored coffee, thank god they outlawed that shit back in 2543. No, you see tea has…read more
