Stephen's Secure Blog #390
These stories about Stephen began was when he was 10 years old, and
moving to a new part of the country to attend a special school for
gifted students, in the 1950's. This was from a time before computers
would fit on a desk, and when people communicated with friends in other
countries by actual letters sent through the postal service. He wrote
225 of them to a friend. He stopped writing to his penpal, but found he
still wanted to record his life, in case he lost his memory again, and
wrote 30 entries in his first logbook. Then he wrote to an artificial
intelligence called Geenee, in the master computer in his school for
gifted students, which he started attending in 2016. Now it's after
2018, and he's continuing to save his memories in a secure blog.
All characters are fictitious, even if some of them might have names
that belong to some actual people, or act like people we know.
The stories may not be posted in chronological order.
Stephen is 20 in this story, in Winter of year 10 of his special school.
Stephen's Secure Blog #390 "New Things"
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I was nominated for my score for the action film. I won the Oscar.
Chad went to the ceremony, and accepted the award for me, saying I was
staying home with my very pregnant wife. And he said, "And I don't have
to mention how embarrassed he would be here." That earned him some
chuckles. He said "If he is ever up for another award, I'll threaten
him with even more embarrassment if he doesn't show." Some laughter.
Later I told him, that wasn't much of a motivation. He said "We'll see
about that."
Some Cardinals retired. Paolo became one. The Pope made some new
rulings. The most controversial was the acceptance of contraceptives,
specifically condoms, and not just for protection from AIDS, but not
the pill. I was asked to comment on that. I said "Women have cycles.
It's not the best thing to do for good health to interfere with that.
ALL medications come with risks. If you don't want to get pregnant, pay
attention to your cycles, and know when you are fertile, and abstain
from sex during that time, or use a good condom. And er, a man you
love. I mean that. Sex without love is bad for your spirit. I strongly
advise you to have sex ONLY as an expression of true love." That was
very well received. Loved, actually.
The director and I did some more work on the Nagindra project. He
liked it a lot, and said, "We can do all three movies at once, and
release them one a year. That way I can work on other projects after
they're done. I want to do the Attin series." I said "I think we might
not have time for that. Er, why are you looking at me like that?" He
said "So that's actually, real, too." I said "Haven't we been over this
before, with my not telling you that everything from that publisher is
mine, and not fiction?" He said "That too, but about your expected
lifespan." I said "I can't lie." He said "Unfortunately." I said "The
original deal was that I could stay until my son reached twelve. I've
asked for two more years, but I haven't had an answer for that yet.
There is a job waiting for me there, and some impatience was
expressed." He said "Pay well?" I said "Actually, no. That's not bad,
because I don't get that now. What good is money, or any material
thing, in a place where there is no matter? Doing a good job that's
very rewarding, and love, is all I want and need. Is it really all that
different for any mature person?" He said "I suppose not. I suppose you
already have the files for Attin." I said "You're too good of a
supposer." He said "Unusual complement."
I said "My speciality. I also have the files for the people who left
the Earth after the disaster. I'll make those movies myself, because
they will extend to the present day, and that isn't ended yet. I know
they won't be as good as you would make them, but they will be more of
actual histories, and not dramatic installments, and in one, the ending
is bad for them. Those in the first ships to leave, eventually became
the Van." He said "I see. Tough story, that one." I said "If you really
want to do Attin, well, I can write more of that life if you want.
Should the books be published before the movie, or during it?" He said
"I'd have to see them, first." I said "Alright, here they are." He said
"You already had them?" I said, "No, I just wrote them a second ago.
You are the first to read them. Even before Chad, if you hurry." He
said with a grin, "Then get out of here, so I can do that!" I grinned
back, and we hugged with love. Just before I ported away, he said,
"Oscar for Masada! Bet on it!" I gave him a thumb's up.
Chad said wow a lot. I had a lot of new books to give him in memory
cards and crystals. Some included active scans of physiology and
anatomy of extinct animals, and current ones, and humans. About one of
them on physics, he said, "This one is way over my head." I looked at
his hair, and he poked me, and we laughed. I said "I want to see who's
head it might NOT be over." He looked thoughtful, and said,
"Interesting. Got any more like that?" He saw my expression, and felt
my emotion. He said "You can tell me." I said "Yes, I've got some on
chemistry and medicine, but I didn't want to, well, you know." He said,
with moist eyes, "I know. I want this. Do it." I said "I have a kind of
confession to make. You know I'm not a real reincarnation. That's not
just a technicality. I am mostly a true continuation of the first
Stephen. All the other lives are just other people to me. It took a
little while to overcome the two years this body had, but that's the
way it is. The integration was very much in favor of the first, and I
knew it would happen that way." He said "We knew, even if we didn't
want to. I know what you're trying to say. You won't be disloyal to me,
your best friend. But, consider the other side. You knew me like nobody
else ever could, not even Wanda, and loved all of me. I never could
forget the night you stayed up to comfort me, like no other boy would
have, could have even thought of. That was a really scary movie! You
were my first and best love, and the most true friend anybody could
ever have. You still are. I can't let you hold yourself back because of
me. I won't feel less if you do something like that, only more proud to
have you as a friend. Have you often, actually." We poked each other,
and laughed. I gave him the other books, and he had a lot more wows.
Then he went really wild, when I gave him some things to patent for
our IP devision. He said "A whole new digital storage technology! And
it's compatible with our level of advancement! That's some
achievement!" I said "I have to admit, it wasn't all that easy. Did you
miss the new battery and fuel cell tech?" He said "Can't I celebrate
"When the new batteries go into production, we'll have cars with a
thousand kay range between half hour charges, and that can be extended
with small fuel cells. That way we can still have service stations,
even though they won't be selling that much gasoline." He said "And
with your imbedded oriented fiber tech, we'll have safer and lighter
cars. You're a regular Tom Swift!" I said "Shhhhh, you're dating
yourself." He said, trying to look sexually alluring, "Right. I'd
rather date YOU." We hugged and kissed, while laughing.
He said "After we get the patents through, I want to announce it, and
what they all mean together." I said "I'd rather not, but if you can do
it. And this IS work, and at my age! Slave driver!" I said "But I don't
have a license for that kind of vehicle." He laughed, we hugged and
kissed some more, and then he went off to work. Rod called me, and
said, "I just saw Chad. He almost burned his butt with the fire you lit
under him." I laughed, and said, "Did you really have to make me
picture that?" He laughed. He said "This is really going to
revolutionize a lot of things, but in a good way. Oh, and that physics
book. I could just barely understand most of it. I'd love to see what
big fish you can hook with that!" I said "Me too, which is why I'm
doing it."
He said "Tell me something. How long have you been holding these
things?" I said "So you figured it out?" He said "I might know more
than the others what you can really do with these kinds of things. This
is easy for you, compared to your language research." I said "Some of
that is so old, it's from my previous incarnation." He said "I
suspected that, because this is original, and not alien. Taken
together, it's revolutionary, but singly, it's actually evolutionary,
and that's what's really amazing to me." I said "You know I intended
that." He said "Yes, and I hope the world appreciates it, but it
won't." I said "Right. Half a glass will never be enough. It will just
have to be, when they would drown with a full glass." He said "That
Mormon was right. Yes, what you do goes all over. You're our favorite
I had a meeting with Rhamcha. He said "Mormonism! A very strange
religion!" He noted my grin, and said, "Yes, I have to admit that
Tibetan Buddhism, with the influence of the Bon, is strange even to
other Buddhists. I know what you intend. I agree. We shouldn't miss
this opportunity to educate them." I said "I knew you would see that.
But that's not what you are really involved in. Testing you, are they?"
He laughed, and said, "That they are! I just go all mystical with
strange stories, until they see their own problems in them before they
become too impatient. They they go away confused, and then find they
are solving their own problems." I said "I really like that a lot." He
looked embarrassed, and honored. I said "But Sikkim." He said "Yes, a
problem. I have a request. The weapons in the Temples and Monasteries.
I officially request that you remove them." I said "Do you want to
announce it first, or after, or just let them assume?" He said "First.
This way. I will say to them with your assistance, in all their places
at the same time, that I am asking you to do it, which you then do,
before they have time to remove and hide the weapons." I said "Includes
knives over 25cm?" He said "Yes." I said "When?" He said "Now is good,
or any time of your choosing." I said "Got a list of the establishments
you want er, cleaned?" He passed a paper to me. I said "Hookup ready.
Raise your hand when you want to start speaking, and lower it when you
are finished." He nodded, and raised his hand. His message was short
and sweet. The second after he lowered his hand, I removed all the
weapons.
I said "They had grenades and mortars, and not just firearms." He
said "Eli showed me. Disgraceful!" I said "Yes. They should spend their
money on better things. Here is a list of what I removed, and with
pictures of the worst items in place." He said "Good! Thank you." I
said "As I told your predecessor, the next level is removal of their
buildings." He said "He told me. I hope we don't have to do that, but
we MUST keep the Tradition, all Traditions, peaceful." I said "Yes.
Nothing associated with Tibet should be aggressive, because the world
knows where you get some of your support. We don't want them all to
need to wear rubber underwear." He grinned, and said, "But we can think
of it, occasionally." I said "Well, if it doesn't become a habit." We
hugged each other with love, still grinning.
I had a meeting with Yale, Nat Geo, Peabody, and Sharon. I said
"Kon-Tiki. Plausible?" They all said it was. I said "I don't know how
you'll take this, but I have to say it. There was a whole raft of
them." There were loud groans, with some indication of violent
thoughts. I looked like I was ready to duck, and they chuckled. I said
"Here are some pictures of actual ones." The professor said, "Much
bigger than I expected." Nat Geo said, "Better made, too." Sharon said
"Looks as if they were not just exploring, but intending to colonize."
I said "Right. For them, it was do or die. Survival of the fittest.
They weren't, where they were. I can offer the whole story of that, and
more, as a series of movies. Some of them follow one family. Same for
reed boats from Africa. Next item. Folsom. Unshaven pachyderms. Dire
wolves. Sabertooth cats. Sharp spears. Big show. Can't miss. Want it in
video? I should have brought some bibs." Laughter. I said "I can
provide stills and videos, and the languages, too. I can do static
displays and sculptures. I can provide models of the things they made.
And some new sites to dig. All this is too much for just one of you.
How do you want to proceed? Pistols at dawn, or a hundred meter dash,
or rock, paper, scissors? Poison, maybe?" Chuckles.
Nat Geo said "We have our own TV channels. We'll broadcast
practically anything you give us. With your scores, too. Emmys are
NICE." We laughed. Yale said "We want the sites, but Nat Geo can record
it and sponsor if they want. We share artifacts and data with
Smithsonian." Peabody said "Yes." Sharon said "We get displays and your
books first." I said "I want you all to cooperate with each other. No
secrets. Together, you can do this for the country and the world,
better than any of you apart. And better, is almost good enough. Do we
agree? I can always go to the Discovery channel. Ha!" Chuckles. They
did agree, and meant it. I said "Here's the package as it stands. When
it gets tired, it might lie down. One for each of you. Dupes if you
need them. If you have questions, try them on each other, first. Then
me. A lot more, and older, soon. Don't want you to work TOO hard." They
thanked me a lot, and I hugged them.
Rose said "You've been doing a lot." I said "And not enough. Nobody
can handle all I could give them, in the time I expect to have left. My
problem is I'm not sure I can trust them to do well with things after
I'm gone, and can't oversee them." Hawk said "I figured that. I suspect
you've got all you want from south of the border, but are holding
back." I said "Yes. One reason is I don't know yet how much they should
have. It might depend on what I reveal of alien things before I go."
They nodded. Chad said "Really going to take them to Allguard?" I said
"If they don't ruin it with too many requirements. I might show them
how I recruited Harditch, and then have her there in person, with Mem
and Hahchet, if they agree." Rose said, "I really want to see CNN's
expressions when you hug them." I said "Me too! But more, when I ask
Don to hug them." Hawk said "Wow!" Rose said "Absolutely!" Hawk said
"Why not have Splidnt there?" I said "When has he ever hugged me,
without having a boner?" Chad laughed really hard. We poked him, which
made him laugh harder.
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