Daemon

Daemon: n [from the mythological meaning, later rationalized as the acronym 'Disk and Execution MONitor'] A program that is not invoked explicitly, but lies dormant waiting for some condition(s) to occur. The idea is that the perpetrator of the condition need not be aware that a daemon is lurking.

Simula na ng non-existence buhay ko dito. Sprawl exile hanggang dumating ang pera next week. Didn't do much yesterday. Web-browsed for about an hour, downloading a DS9 episode guide, some cyberpunk material (although focused on gaming instead of critical research this time). Hindi ko pa nasusubukan ang usenet server ng Hongo. Siguro sa weekend or next week, since manguubos ng oras ito dahil online reading ang kelangang gawin. After that, I read some old file downloads na hindi ko pa nababasa na nakalimutan kong nasa isang floppy disk ko.

After dinner, humiram ako ng dalawang tapes sa Video Alpha down the road, Kaze no Na wa Amnesia (The Wind Called Amnesia), an interesting post-apocalyptic SF anime, at Virtuosity. Both were okay. Not perfect, but enjoyable. Tapos kaunti uling TV, MIDI, and then I went back to writing "Constellations." I realized I wasn't getting much headway with the story, since I still had no idea how to end it, so I took a solitary walk around the Yamada-Minami Senri area. Nakaisip ako ng several possible thematic conclusions so I bought a bottle of iced tea from a convenience store, and headed back. Tinawagan ko si Tricia, at dinscuss namin kung paano ififit ang schedule namin during double-homecoming, and then got back to work.

Sinimulan ko na rin pala basahin ang Snow Crash ni Neal Stephenson - isang second generation cyberpunk novel na mas-humurous ang approach, almost parodying certain aspects of the first generation writers.

Ano ba yung nakasulat doon? Baka puwede kong ibigay ang reading para masulat niyo sa kanji word. Puwede ko rin actually gawin dito, kaso wala akong MS Word or Kanji Word eh. Baka puwede mong pa-edit kay Agham at maaayos niya naman iyon.

Anong nagagawa nito? MIDI player lang ba ito, o yung synthesizer na sinasabi nila ay mayroong weak software wavetable bulit-in? Baka mag-download ako nito kung ganoon, kasi ang lotal nung tunog ng OPL2/3 eh. Yung Virtual Sound Canvass naman, kung i-full power ko, sumasabog ang windows, kung I light-load mode ko naman, 7 channels maximum kaya't lotal pa rin. Tapos warat yung crack. Hindi daw original version ng vsc55.dll yung nakikita niya kaya ayaw magpa-crack.

Ba't nga ba naging first priority si Alagao doon sa MS-06R2 na iyan? Hindi naman kaniya at sa palagay ko wala naman talaga siyang hilig sa mobile suit na iyon. Dahil lang ginamit niya nung GT IV? Ba't bumiling 1/60 na Gundam Mk.II si Alagao? Maganda kasi ang form?

Mamaya, or bukas, i-foformat ko ang mga team selection at isesend ang mga files ng MS ng lahat, para makapag-isip-isip na ang mga tao ng coaching penalty nila.

Agham, ang natal data ko ay September 21, 1978 (1:30pm). Pakigawa naman ako ng info na ginawa mo dati. Para sa mga ibang gusto gumawa ng cheap astrology, ang ibang circumstances of birth ko ay of the four Posadas boys, ako lang daw ang iba ang doctor, at chemically induced ang birth ko dahil kahit fully incumbated na daw ako, hindi pa nag-eexhibit si Nanay ng labor pains. Also, ako lang daw ang walang spinal anestesia for delivery. Ewan ko kung ano ang ma-dederive diyan.

This is the first installment of some bits and pieces I will write regarding The Hub's construction. Yung mga society aspects saka na lang, mga focused pieces on things about the city, people, etc. muna. Not all of this will be original ideas. Most ng mga ideas ko kasi napupunta sa fiction at medyo mahirap pang i-implement for gaming kaya eto muna. Eto nakaw muna sa Internet from a Shadowrun gamer called Blackjack, modified by myself.

Seedier than seedy, even the ageing jukebox appears drunk as it slurs out oldies at half speed. Lee, a human mutated by faulty bioware implants, is smashed most of the time, never bothering to clean the place up resulting in a good half foot layer of beer cans, napkins, and vomit covering the floor. Lee serves two kinds of drinks: Beer (one brand, known simply as "beer") and whiskey (one kind, known simply as "whiskey"). All drinks are served in large mugs....including the whiskey.

It is impossible to spend more than five minutes in Neurotics without acquiring the unnerving feeling that everybody believes you want to kill them. In turn you tend to feel a bit threatened over the possibility that they may be thinking the same thing about you. Granted, the general decor of the nightclub doesn't help: It is an array of flashing lights and large trideo screens depicting unprovoked acts of violence. Even the bartenders and waitresses are nervous, frequently spilling and dropping drinks for no apparent reason. Needless to say certain katol freaks who thrive on this type of chaos make this their favorite hang out. It is rumored that illegal emotive rock plays in Neurotics.

Overhang is an International Space Theme Bar. The most disturbing thing about Bad Vibes is that you almost never hear anybody talking. The music is rather subdued and sitarish like, nobody really dances that much, and you rarely see any outward hostilities. Everybody communicates either through signals or by sliding pieces of paper to one another. The whole surface of the bar is made of mirrors such that it is disorienting to move around. It's part of the space theme that sound is not transported.

Located right next to a mental asylum, "Stupids" acquired it's incredibly politically incorrect name by hiring people too mentally deficient to operate alone in society, but too well to go into the institution. The result has been the acquisition of diligent, yet rather inept, workers who can usually get your order from the bar to your table, but only after fifteen tries to get the order correct. The bar is run by Eerk Fleck, a Japanese looking guy, who is mentally perfectly normal unless you take into account his preoccupation with plastic explosives.

Pagan
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"Pathological-techno-fetishist-with-social-deficit"
E-mail: pagan@college-of-chaos.net
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