Leo woke up not to the sound of his alarm clock, but to a loud knocking at his door. It was 4 AM, well before his 5:30 AM alarm. He put on his robe and went to the door to find a policeman. “Are you Mr. Hickman?”, the cop asked. “Uh… no – Hickman lives …
#70 Routine
Jenny walked out of the elevator toward her office, with Winston beside her. He seemed to lag a bit behind, and didn’t respond to her continuing conversation about tasks at hand. “You ok?”, she asked as she peered behind herself. “Yea… just noticed that they put down a new rug in front of the elevator”, …
#44 The Inbetween Land
“Where am I?”, the man called out. The foggy grey space he appeared in did not answer. The cool feel of mist, alternating to light rain, swirled around him. He couldn’t figure out how he got here. The last thing he remembered, he was sitting at his desk at work. After checking his list of items …
#33 Eeek!
“Eeek!”, the author exclaimed. “What is it?”, was said in reply. “I didn’t write my story for today yet”, was all she heard as he flew to his computer. “Now what can I write about…”, he said, as visions of sugar plums and dynamite, cannons and catnip, dragons and bagpipes, and all other forms of …
#27 Monday
It’s Monday again, the work week does start Once more we wish it Friday, with all of our heart But perhaps if we try To revise our view We’ll see it isn’t that hard, to make it through. [SSDay]
Encryption – It’s Not Just For The Paranoid
Recently I purchased a few external hard drives for backup purposes, and the first thing I did with them was to encrypt them using TrueCrypt. When I mention this to people, I generally get a sorta weird look. Sort of a “If you aren’t doing anything illegal [which I’m not, if you care], why do you …
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#26 Flash
It had been 6 months since the day when Mark found the list in an old hoodie he was putting on for the first time that September. It wasn’t too remarkable – just a list of chores for the day, 11 months ago. call insurance agent buy eggs call Kelsey’s school drop off Jo’s car print …
#25 Road Warrior
He settled into the seat with the drink. “That kinda tastes like chocolate milk”, she said as she glanced over at him. He nodded in reply, and she went back to her papers. He opened up the lid of the laptop and connected the wireless. A few dozen new emails poured into his inbox just …
#23 Does Dinosaurs Wear Socks?
She sat there quietly, lost in her work. The keyboard clicked away as she wrote another email, the icons growing smaller and smaller on the screen, the more work she did. Pages of text, documents scattered about, and an overflowing table of material. She was working in the library, and seldom noticed even the slight …
#22 Jim the Bunny Learns to Knit
Jim hopped through the forest with a giant grin on his face. He’d just grabbed a bunch of files from Jabberpaw, and had covered his internet tracks by paying off Sylvester the snake. Now he just needed to get home and load up his found files. On the way, he tripped, since he wasn’t the …