859:Last Moments of Freedom

The car skidded to a stop by the curb, and out jumped two hooded men. From the third floor apartment Gerald pulled back the window and peered anxiously down. They were on to him. He might as well give himself up now, or things would be even more difficult. He looked up at the blue…

857: Aim for Stars

Aim for the stars. They said. And it sounded like a good idea. I took my lever action 30-30 Winchester out into the backyard, pointed it up at the sky and squeezed the trigger. I knew it would take a long time for my bullet to hit the stars, so I went inside and had…

856: Paperclip Mafia

“Paperclip for you! Paperclip for you! Paperclip for you! Paperclip for you! Everyone gets a paperclip! Five dollars for a paperclip!” “Why would I pay five dollars for a paperclip, when you’re giving them away to everyone else?” “It doesn’t matter how much they’re paying, for you it is five dollars!” “Ah, but it does…

854: Welcome to Government Time

The ignorant masses of antiquity lived at the mercy of the sun and the moon. For them, time was an organic fact of life which grew out of the surrounding world. These backwards and ignorant savages could hardly comprehend the sophistication with which we view time in our modern day. For an organic time left…

853: A Man of Science

The growth of science often comes in rapid bursts, which follow years, decades, sometimes centuries, of malaise and inertness. So it was that When Jacob Muttermutt came on the scene the pace of scientific discovery had ground to an almost complete halt. Jacob, of course, changed all of that, and this was was only natural.…

850: The Coffee Test

The world is compromised of two kinds of people: those who can take decisive action, and those who cannot. So thought Reginald Person, hiring manager at Merlin and Epicac. In order to sort out the wheat from the chaff Reginald devised a series of tests by which he could discern the individuals capable of taking…