what??!
Mood:  incredulous
Topic: ridiculousness
what do you mean model nine looks good, rex? how would you have seen it?? anyhow, thanks, i guess . . . its been in development for the recent part of my life, and ill never stop till number nine is done.

im happy to say that i had no more strange freaks walking through my yard . . . ive got to say, im a bit apprehensive about going out at night now, and i suppose i can understand how you felt when you saw that guy sitting in your compute chair. models one through eight have been reassuring me that it was nothing to worry about; they were merely protecting me because they had picked up on my emotions at the time. they say that my intruder was merely an electromagnetic disturbance . . . HA! yea, that what they used to say about UFOs didnt they? like i said, im a rational kind of guy, real scientific and calculated. but I SAW THAT. im not arrogant enough to deny my own eyes.

anyway, what sort of thing are you trying to organize by going around the country? im curious to hear what youve got in store for us ;)

and as for micky michaels, that autistic boy, yes, ive heard of him. he is quite miraculous, ive heard. i havent seen any of the videos, but ive heard about him restoring life to dead animals and things like that, or changing the weather, etc. but i mean who knows, it could all be coincedence. nothing like this gets into the news without someone powerful allowing it . . . what would be the motive for that?

anyhow, im off to bed . . . until next time!

strange days indeed!
Mood:  incredulous
Topic: !!!!!
well, rex, i was traveling to rosenthals house yesterday because i havent heard from him after he helped me with my needs on model nine. hes just sort of dropped off the face of the earth(sort of like yourself, i might add), and im beginning to wonder whats happened. what happened earlier in the night/day was especially strange, buddy . . .

see, im not crazy, alright? you know im a very open-minded man, but i also like to try and explain what i can. well, anyway, when i went to rosenthals house, i found no sign of him. cool, nothing wrong. then i go to wyles-crowley, but i don't see anything there either.

as im being whisked away in my autocar, down the long, tree-lined road which leads out of wyles-crowley, i notice a man leaving wyles-crowley in an autocar directly behind me. i tried to see the man without being too obvious that i was staring, and i couldnt really make him out clear. he was just dark. a short bit later his car pulled off onto a side road and i felt much better after that. just a bit paranoid, maybe, fine.

well, when i get home, im walking up the driveway, and i shit you not, but theres just this guy walking really calmly across my backyard, not even acknowledging my presence, which was blatant!!! you see, my motion lights turn on as i enter my driveway, sort of as a safety measure, so they were already lit when i walked back and saw this fucking weirdo just walking straight across the lawn, real blase, real cool, never turning to look at me . . . but i couldnt stop looking at him, buddy, you know, i dont know, he just wasnt right . . .

well then the inevitable-but-forgettable happened: my motion lights went out since i had been standing there frozen with my jaw open for so long. when the lights went out, i cursed my bad memory as the back yard was plunged back into darkness. it was nearly silent, except for the black silhouette which i could CLEARLY see walking across the lawn. i didnt want to move though, since i somehow started to think that maybe he just didnt know i was there(duh)!!

so finally, the genius thought pops into my mind, which shouldve have happened immediately, but like i said, i was a bit stunned. i have a very good, custom-built biochip, as you know, and i can remotely access my home computer and thus the security system, and with some ease. but i had something else in mind.

within seconds, models one through eight had come out the back door and had lined up next to me, in a sort of defensive position really. this had distracted me a bit, and when i turned back toward the man, i didnt see him anymore, which is strange since my backyard is rather wide and a bit deep. all of a sudden my androids sort of crowd around me, facing outwards, as if to protect me. because of the unexpectedness of this, i ducked down and kind of cowered a bit, i guess.

my hair was practically jumping out of my skin at this point(but it was mere seconds), and just when i calmed down and 'got logical', i see this terrible fucking face fly at me, kind of laughing and sticking its tongue out. it went THROUGH my androids, then just sort of receded or disappeared. then my androids all pivoted on one foot and turned around so that they were now all facing me. even THAT freaked me out, so i sort of yelled "SAY SOMETHING FOR FUCKS SAKE! YOU SAW THAT DID YOU NOT?"

they apologized for acting too robotically and cool, and then i came inside and talked about this with them for a long time. they said that they were certain it was not a physical being; that was obvious to me, i suppose, but still hard to grasp. perhaps youre not the only one seeing strange things, huh, rex? im going to sleep now that its day time again. shouldve been in bed long ago, i practically wrote a frickin book just now.

anyway, this isnt cool, rex. if you can pull any strings, buddy, tell someone in a different realm to leave me alone with that shit. ;) if i see that fellow in my dreams, im not going to be pleased, to say the least.

anyhow, ill talk to you later pal. that stuff earlier sort of distracted me from working on model nine tonight, so ill be doing that most of tomorrow/today.

until next time . . . !!!!!!!!

hello? helloooooooooooo?
Mood:  caffeinated
Topic: things
hey folks, how goes it? bored and tired on this end. just up doing work on model nine . . . i cant tear myself away.

so, rex, how are ya doing, pal?

*nods*
Topic: the inexplicable
yes, perhaps i will be content not seeing these things . . . as long as they arent messing around with me, im content.

im off to bed too . . . again, after falling asleep early and then waking up at 3:30 am. so im going to try and normalize my sleep schedule again.

night(morning)!

ahh, rex, i talked to rosenthal about the idea of preserving a copy of a humans genes in the core of model nine. i dont care anymore, i think. i dont imagine wyles can read these posts, right? as you said, its rather safe. so basically i want to inject a genetic sample into model number nine, so that if faced with the situation, he could feasibly reproduce . . . except it wouldnt really be his offspring. nevertheless, thats the idea . . . rosenthal said he is going to start work immediately on a containment device and a delivery system which will work in harmony with the android body of my creations.

ohh man, i gotta get to sleep. my head is killing me, and ive got a terrible taste in my mouth


well, rex, its good that you werent pestered anymore by that strange presence . . . thats pretty creepy. i dont know what id do if one of them was hanging around my house.

argh . . . monday
Mood:  d'oh
Topic: work related
how is everything going for everyone? you know, i pose that question a lot, but i dont suppose you folks in the past can send your replies into the future! but if so, hey, give me and rex a heads-up.

anyhow, im at work still . . . i had to actually go into the office today, and i had lunch with rich rosental and we talked about some things. it was funny . . . perhaps this society makes one paranoid, but rich and i took our lunch in my auto-car actually. its one of few places i feel comfortable talking freely, especially about the information preservation project and model nine.

so, rex, how was the rest of your weekend? hopefully you didnt have anymore unsettling encounters . . . ?

alright, talk to you all later!

???
Mood:  quizzical
Topic: things
hmmm . . . maybe youre just really exhausted, buddy? you should probably go back to sleep. its already getting light out in this time zone, anyway! i mean, what did that thing look like in the light? could you make out its appearance? ive heard of some strange things, so im not saying you didnt see anything, but . . .?

maybe that dream was just symbolic, you know? i know youve sometimes said you felt that things are crumbling around you, and maybe thats what the disappearing earth in your dream was. maybe that brightness is something youre yearning for, something that cant quite be attained, at least not right now . . . and maybe the dreadful sensation of falling back down is symbolic of a reality check . . . maybe that blackness is reality, the REAL reality.

ah, anyhow, i sound crazy. im going to sleep. youve got me all goosebumpy now, man, geez!

ni hao ma?
Mood:  cool
Topic: studies
hello there friends (if anyone is reading this in the past), how is it going?

good, good . . . how are things with you, rex? you still awake? im just up late, learning some chinese, or rather, relearning it.

anyway, im going to bed a bit later . . . ill talk to you all soon.

whoaa, sorry!
Mood:  party time!
Topic: leisure
hey there, rex, sorry, pal! didnt know you were going to sleep!!

i was sitting here chatting with models one through eight, and theyre great man!! they have completely independent ways of thought, but they are still in parity, and they can also communicate remotely with each other. its sort of a.i. telepathy ;)

anyhow, whoa, whoa. number five was just screwing with my typing by messing with the network. *throws pipe at number five* hello? HEY! hi! im alan, im a mad scientist! %-D

hello? hello, this is number five . . . you are under our control now . . . this connection is terminated in five, four, three, two, one . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ;P


OKAY, okay, im back rex, everyone. you see? i never told you about number five, have i? . . . hes a real practical joker. hes completely harmless. i also cant SEEM to delete what he posted above!! grr . . . alright, im getting back to the conversation. ive had enough of this rascal!!

phew! until next time . . . !!!

ohhh, top o' the mornin to ya, laddy
Mood:  celebratory
Topic: things
happy st patricks day! hows it going this fine, green morning?

hello, hello
Mood:  lazy
hows it going, everyone? just about to hit the hay on my end . . . how are things with you, rex?

ive been working on model nine today, and ive been trying to get in touch with richard rosenthal from the genetics department, but its been quite hard to get a hold of him.

anyhow, im off to the 'big reflection'. i keep trying to realize when im dreaming, but it can be hard . . . alright, til next time . . . !

?????
Mood:  lazy
Topic: things
well, rex, that sure is interesting about that dream. strangely, as i read what the figure was saying to you, i had similar responses . . . then again, my eyes might have just sneaked a peak forward for me. but i dont think humans can be categorized into a whole. there are too many different factors and that to say that all of humanity is like a parasite, but certainly, some of us humans are parasitic. some of us are symbiotic too . . . i just need to find a lady to latch onto and we can be happily symbiotic. ;) shes got to be rich, too.

anyhow, well, its good that youre keeping your mind open on these matters. its strange that this figure would just start discussing these things with you, i mean, could it be your subconscious?

anyhow, its also good to see you want to take more of a role in politics . . . how do you plan to do that? its quite hard, you know . . . but it would be a remarkable achievement, my friend.

alright, im off to bed as well . . . night!

rex, the dark figure you were talking about finally made an appearance to you, thats strange . . . what exactly did you two discuss? i mean, you remember this dream clearly?

drinks,. drinks
Mood:  a-ok
Topic: things
well, here i sit, saturday night, and doing nothing once again . . . it was weird how my ex sort of popped back into my life for a few nights and disappeared. it makes me feel uncomfortable, because as i said before, she just didnt seem the same.

anyway,i suppose i do need to tone down my drinking a bit, but really, its sort of a recent thing . . . ive just had a bad feeling in the past few months, maybe my whole life . . . something is amiss, i feel. but its hard to trust the gut, you know. anyhow, i dont mean to go on and on about myself . . . ive been working on model number nine, and its going very well. ive probably got until mid-april to finish it, at least . . . just depends on wyles. anyhow, this model is going to be my crowning achievement . . . itll be very different from the other models, but yet quite the same.

okay, too much rambling . . . and rex, give me some life signs pal, just curious how the experiments are going

hmmm
Mood:  quizzical
Topic: research
you sure are working quite hard on these illusions, rex . . . its quite interesting in a way. in fact, you seem to have an overabundance of amazing things going on . . . but what are you planning to use your honed 'psychic veil' abilities for? just be mindful during your experiments. perhaps im jumping to conclusion, but shouldnt you try not to fool people and/or 'confuse' computers? ;)

anyhow, when the prometheus network is up and running, itll be just about the most complex, small-scale mobile network ever. and itll be in the form of independently functioning androids!! ;) im sorry, but nobody gets access to them besides me of course lol im the only one who could ever really fully integrate their skills and maximize their potential. anyhow, i shouldnt toot my own horn, let me just get back to the lab . . .

yawn
Mood:  caffeinated
Topic: things
geez, its a bit early. well, i guess ill do some work or something . . . ive actually got a full weekend ahead, so i might not be around too much. ill try to keep up to date from my handheld though!

until next time!

standards, huh?
Mood:  caffeinated
Topic: semantics
well, rex, i would say that youre somewhat right in your reasoning there. unfortunately, the prevailing viewpoint is that of the people in control.

anyhow, my 'standards' consist of a several decent things which are also completely vulnerable to revocation. among these things are (decent) health care, (stingy) research grants, and (completely farsical) rights to intellectual property.

dont remind me of how disparate things are . . . something is being done to change it.

anyway, im getting back to some reading . . . might be back in a few.

youre quite right, rex
Mood:  a-ok
Topic: things
"you still havent said anything about the experiment? if the past is any indicator at all, id assume that you had too much to drink last night, and that you didnt really do anything at all today except be lazy and hungover . . . am i right? ;)

anyhow, ill give you some slack because youre such a model citizen, as well a brilliant scientist.

bingo! this is true, my friend, but also, you forgot about the wagers ive had with wyles. i won the bet last night too! and so im one model away from retaining my rights to my creations . . . and yes, that is a demented concept i think. the idea of private property has been so distorted with the onset of 'corporate rights'. its disturbing, really.

anyhow, there isnt much to say about testing . . . we went through the whole rigmarole, you know, sensory testing, ai testing, reaction testing, strength testing, etc, etc. model number eight scored perfectly in all areas, like every previous model. model number nine will truly be the gem of the bunch, however.

anyhow, ill be checking in throughout the night . . . im curious to hear more about your travels.

*yawns*
Mood:  don't ask
Topic: work related
sorry i cant chat too much, buddy, im at john wyles right now. i beat him in our first chess match, and he convinced me to have a rematch. im typing to you from the bathroom . . . man, i need to slow down with the drinking tonight . . . already im heavcily buzzed

so you actually went through with your world travel plan, huh? where exactly did you go? im just curious how it all worked out, how you pulled it off . . . especially if you made several stops.

oh, ill tell you more about the testing of model eight tonight or tommorrow . . . lets just say that it went well, very well. im still managed to impress wyles, and so he has requested that i take a bit more time with model number nine, that way i can make it even better than the others . . . he doesnt know that its already pretty damn good, but ive got a few little tricks up my sleeve.

talk t ya later!

!!!!
Mood:  accident prone
Topic: work related
oh man, i accidentally shorted out the primary power source in prometheus 08 . . . this is normally a terrible thing, but the amazing thing is that 08 suddenly activated itself shortly after the short occurred . . . ive been sitting and having a small chat with him(it?), and he seems amused by the fact that i could be such a good inventor even though i drink so much . . . but its not as if im a complete drunk, like wyles.

anyway, we havent heard from rex in a while, have we folks? im beginning to wonder if he really went through with his little plan to go jetsetting around the globe.

anyhow, im going to get back to work . . . its rude to leave someone waiting. im not sure exactly what 08 is doing right now, but obviously nothing mischievous . . . god, im so pleased with the AI for the prometheus models . . . i couldnt have wished for it to work out better.

okay, back to the lab(and to my drink!!) ;)