826: Career Robot

Franny began her career as a robot with great anticipation. The movies had taught her that world domination was in store. What a letdown that she was stuck making fake twitter posts. Photo by Alex Knight on Pexels.com

762: What Is A Dongle?

Your Questions Answered; Day 2 What is a dongle, and how did it it’s name. –Benjamin I once lived on coffee and rice for several months. Rice is ok, but after you’ve been eating it for a few weeks the flavor gets a little hard to take. So I mixed in cayenne pepper until it…

564: A Fate Better Than Life

Carla settled into the chair, with a satisfied smile on her face. In a few moments the machine which hovered slightly to her right would prick her arm with a tiny needle. When the anesthesia had worked its magic wires would be attached to her brain, and all of the knowledge she had acquired over…

423: Christmas Ham

Glory to God in the highest, and on earth peace, good will toward men. Luke 2:14 The Interplanetary Algorithm For Continuous Alignment of Functional Systems had been operating continuously for 9,537 years, but for some reason it had never encountered this particular line of code before. What was the meaning of it? Why had it…

415: The Strikeout

“Strike one!” Most baseball players are used to getting strikes, but not Miltemore Broden. Miltemore had never gotten a single strike. Not in his entire 23 year career. It didn’t take long for the pitchers to catch on, and Miltemore was walked constantly. Every couple of years some cocky pitcher would try throwing him a…

410: How To Be A Modern Day Luddite

Harold L. Munsen has an idea. Social media is helping him share that idea with the world. Harold believes that automatized workplaces are poised to destroy millions upon millions of jobs in the very near future. Harold is the social media director for the United Luddites of America, a group aimed at bringing together a…

209: Eat Your Vegetables!

We fight, we die, for a simple thing. Only that a man can stand up. -Esther Forbes “Eat your vegetables!” Sam’s parents used to tell him. Most people don’t call tree roots vegetables, but that’s what Sam’s parents called them. Sam didn’t like eating his vegetables. He was what some might call a problem child.…