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New Site
This is the new site. It’s going to take a while to get set up. I’m giving myself until 2026 to replace my EC2 server with this (hopefully) totally static yet interactive blog/site/portal
Test Blog Entry
Programming
Philosophy
Science-Fiction/Fantasy
The Door To Nowhere
Debian Newbury is an oddball flight instructor from a small town in rural Virginia. Samuel Featherstone is an outstanding student finishing his post-grad work in cyber security and Large-Language Models. Together they fight their way through secrets that their family, job, and society have kept from them to touch the reality behind the world we experience.
Fans of Greg Egan, Clive Barker, and M. Night Shymalan will love this mind-bending adventure! Buy The Door To Nowhere
First Light
The worst part of Tuesday wasn’t writhing in pain, having flames shoot from her head, voiding her bowels and dying in screaming agony in front of a crowd of cheering onlookers. No, the worst part of Tuesday for Beverly Castler was finding out that the afterlife began in Newark, New Jersey. What a dump…
For Lem, his day ended in being abducted by drug runners in a magic truck full of corncobs and cocaine. It didn’t seem right to Lemuel Rickenbacker that it started with desperately wanting to boil the children in hot oil, but it did. Perhaps that was the punishment. There was also the matter of why anyone would want 24,000 pounds of chicken beaks and an assortment of items including a pile of rusty tricycles and three pairs of brand-new Canadian Sauna Pants…
And so begins an epic tale of life, death, faith, doubt, good, evil, serial kills, sauna pants, corncobs, meaning and redemption in a world both part of our everyday lives and far beyond them. Buy First Light
My Imaginary Team
One of the more fun things I’m doing is creating a virtual problem-solving team to help clarify problems and solve them easier.
I’ll update as we go along, but since it involves LLMs, I feel like I must include some sort of fancy diagram.
