Author Archives: David Crampton

Weekly Word Count

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Spax is up! From the site…

“Haven’t you ever wondered what it would be like to have a spastic artificial intelligence develop in a lab and then roam the ‘net? What would happen if he learned the English language, manners, and the nuances of personality by parsing forums and newsgroups, all at once?Wouldn’t it be cool if he could master concepts like sarcasm, but speaking in the first person was too complicated for him to handle?Everyone, meet Spax. He is the King of Wales.”

I hope that you enjoy it. :)

Horoscope

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TAURUS (April 20-May 20): “There are very few human beings who receive the truth, complete and staggering, by instant illumination,” wrote Anaïs Nin. “Most of them acquire it fragment by fragment, on a small scale, by successive developments, cellularly, like a laborious mosaic.” I share Nin’s perspective, Taurus; I know from experience how maddeningly slow the truth-gathering process can be. But I’m pleased to inform you that you’re in a phase when missing puzzle pieces will become available at a faster rate than usual. Be alert for the subtle onslaught.

Statements.

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Beaner’s Michigan Cherries coffee is absolutely delicious.

I am too used to people whose troubles are unsolved because they do not try to solve them. Sometimes, it doesn’t work, no matter how hard you’ve tried.

I do not exist for your entertainment.

I am a respected person.

I love stories, and I love writing them. , I’m gonna need your help with one, if you don’t mind.

I am afraid of my government.

I watched V for Vendetta again last night and this morning. This puts quite the spin on fearing my government.

I do not own a Guy Fawkes mask.

I have not yet gotten a response on the thing that I was supposed to get a response to yesterday.

I have plans. Whether or not they are good plans will be seen.

I am determined to be happy again.

Horoscope

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TAURUS (April 20-May 20): I’m drinking a toast to my grade-school teachers, five of whom were stern spinsters in their 50s and 60s. I may not have esteemed them when we were together those seven hours a day, 180 days a year; I may have been alternately bored and alienated by their nagging me to learn. But from my current vantage point, I’m ripe with gratitude: pleased with my ability to wield the English language and do the arithmetic my business requires and hold in my imagination a clear vision of the planet’s geography. Those maestros taught me well, and I’m in awe of their tireless efforts. Now I suggest you do something similar to what I just did, Taurus. Feel a flood of thanks for the helpers and teachers from your past (even the inadvertent ones) whom you have never appreciated sufficiently.

Weekly Word Count Plus

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It’s been a while since a Weekly Word Count, and I apologize.

I’ve just submitted a piece about Spax to for final editing and posting to the free fiction section of my site. I’ll let you all know when that goes up. I also have a vampire story that should be going up sometime next week. I’ve gotten some more words down on The Glass Crown, but that is slow going, as always.

There’s a lot of life going on right now. Also, some Myst. :) I have taken some of your suggestions to heart (particularly the sci-fi) in some new works, and I’m thinking of tackling a dimensional rift and a steampunk Aztec empire. Two different stories, though. Heh.

As always, input is welcome. I’m thinking of starting a discussion in the Google Group about one or two of the free bits that I’ve got up. Hop on over there if you’re interested… I won’t be sad if you beat me to the punch.

Also, from :
Job posting for a Public Services Head position

What now?

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I’ve wrapped up the calibration marker missions. So, what now?

This is a shot in D’ni Rezeero, heading back to the emitter from the spot where you get your marker missions. The bottom circle with the dot in the center looks just like the calibration markers. It’s blinking here, and so not fully lit. The top one isn’t lit at all, but it looks like it will be once the graph is full. To me, it doesn’t look like the graph has gone up since the calibration missions began, but it’s hard to be sure. Also, there are two more doors there, marked with the Great Zero symbol instead of the KI symbol. Those doors still won’t open.

My KI now gives me my position inside of the Cavern, in the same three-part coordinate system that the markers reported when they were collected. But, I was wrong in my guess that the Nexus links would give their link locations after the calibration. They still show up as three sets of zeros. I knew that the machine had been calibrated already, but I think I still expected a bit more when I completed this. I wonder what uses the coordinate system will have. Like they said in the Cavern Today podcast, there’s nothing in the Cavern or in the Ages that doesn’t end up having a use.

So, now I have a choice. Yeesha said to follow the Path of the Shell next, but I’ve done all that I can for that, until the DRC releases more. There are two other Paths that the DRC have released, both with Bahro caves and Bahro stones. I can’t imagine that the DRC want us following these paths, but Yeesha said to look for the shell, not the spiral from the group Path, nor the mark from the Pod Ages. In the mean time, I could try to see if the Relayers are still around, and maybe hook up with them. I’ve also heard that there’s something related to the Bahro in the scarred Age, Minkata.