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Archive for November, 2008

Happy Thanksgiving to all Sentients!

I’ve been absent from here for awhile this month. Getting ready for finals and taking some time off for Thanksgiving. Today I feasted with family and friends on brined turkey, sausage stuffing and sweet potatoes. And all of us were non-virtual! That alone is an amazing feat.  And as an even more unique treat, we [...]


Virtual stim bars should be banned…

So, my friends and I decided last night to go to a virtual stim bar in one of the more seedy vNets. I don’t even know why we wanted to go down there. Classes were long today, always are on Tuesday’s, so we wanted to blow off a little steam. As usual, Edgar, the professor [...]


Mars – A history part 1

Now that the elections are over, and my vacation time is all but used up frolicking with friends in bubble ships and taking excursions to New Luna,  I can get back to the main purpose of this site, History. I am a historian after all and nothing fascinates me more than wealth of human history in [...]


Alfons Wins!

Well, he did it. The first AI is now the president of the Eastern United States of America. I’m not that much into politics and don’t want to post too long about this, but he did it, and the next four years will be very interesting.
The two biggest issues he’ll face is the newly renewed [...]