20 May.2362
Such a beautiful weekend that I got a tune up and took my scocket out for a ride. Ten laps around Central Park before riding down Broadway then over Brooklyn Bridge to watch sun set from promenade. Jets loose, but still holding up.
3 May.2362
I'm tripping over flip-flops this week, a sure sign of spring. The weather is warm enough that people take out their summer standby to get places, and forget how easily they slip off when jumping between heights. So the lower you get, more empty pairs lie on the sidewalk like shells on a beach, to be collected by sweepers who wash and resell them through August.
9 Apr.2362
A 21st century photo album, one of the last of its kind, with faded 2D images on paper sold for a billion today on the exchange. Amazing.
5 Apr.2362
I set off the alerts when I went to get scanned for taxes today. Told to take off all my clothes, including shoes, as the sniffers went over my records to check what was missing. Turns out I just ran through the gate too quickly. In a panic to get it done before the deadline. Whew!
13 Mar.2362
Archeologists in Austin, TX were picking up strange signals from an ancient burial site near the capital. They dug up skeletons with datacasters on their bodies still working. These early forms of neurotechs dispel beliefs that early twenty-first century people were using primitive silicon tools to communicate. The diggers haven't explained the significance of fossilized grilled cheese sandwiches, breakfast tacos and beer concentrated in the area, although evidence shows it may have been sacrifices made to honor their god in the cloud.
23 Feb.2362
Locating home tonight to jump the last season into Silicon Valley, the early 21st century sim about a founder converting his startup to public domain. It chronicles the lives of people and their AI against the backdrop of the rising Pacific cyberwars. Panza coming over and we'll make mint soycakes with tea.
14 Feb.2362
Looked up this morning and saw the clouds shaped into hearts by the airsifters. Remembered it's Valentine's Day.
24 Jan.2362
President Caroline Sanchez delivers her State of the Union address tonight. She'll be making the address in English, then Spanish, ending in Chinese. Many politacs dodge early and leave ghosts in the chamber as the ceremony wears on. Haunted house by the end of the night.
14 Jan.2362
Left rocketboots on radiator to dry overnight. When trying to jump between skyhts this morning, they started to spit and couldn't get any lift. Hit the prop.belt to float to a sidewalk. When I popped open the lifters they were jammed with hair. Felix had been sleeping in them. Hairball fall.
1 Jan.2362
Happy new year everyone. May 2362 be a good one.
29 Dec.2361
Here are what I thought were the best sims for 2361:
1. Girl with the Raygun Glue - Shadowing a female weapons hacker who uncovers a global conspiracy to make all drones turn around and attack everyone on the planet was a mystery worth unraveling. Disarming them was the only solution. I especially liked wearing her formal outfit of a coat and tie, a respectful profile never making me suspect.
2. Tinker, Clinker, Bleaker and Firefly - It was funny being one of the classic four robots who work on the line assembling widgets in the Acme factory. When production ramps up, the chaos begins, and the slapstick challenge of keeping up with the accelerated steamers was hilarious.
3. Bigbanc - The toughest skin I wore was being a broker who is the first to discover a wormhole on the quantum exchanges without profit AIs. The stress was too much that a common backdoor of altering realrealestate formulas was the only way out for me.
4. E of Life - I jumped into this strange trip wondering where I was the whole time. Was a ten year old in medieval America, then saw dinosaurs, became a supernova, to end being washed up on a beach. The water was even cold.
5. Experiencing FinFin - This remake was inspired from an old 2D drawing sequence about a boy and his dog realtraveling across the Earth. An update of that primitive adventure now done offworld where I search from the Moon to Mars, Io to Titan for a lost treasure that every smuggler wants. It's a fun race in rockets and jetpacks that never stops. Importantly, I never ran out of air.
20 Dec.2361
I've adjusted the height of my Christmas tree three times this month. I always project a small one, but when I see the other trees in the windows across the street, I increase the height and add extra lights. Then this week, I felt it was too bright, so reduced the setting from Norway to Vermont. Felix still jumps up to try and knock the lights off only puzzled to wonder why he can never catch them.
8 Dec.2361
This morning, was having coffee at a Barstucks when a red headed girl in red boots flew by the window. I ran out, jumped three skyhts to watch her land. She had a halo, but I still tapped her on the shoulder to make sure. It wasn't her. "You OK?" she said. I looked down where coffee stains ran over everything. Miss her still.
28 Nov.2361
My holiday wish list:
1. Winter gloves - Mine are losing power. The new Palm 1000s have touch ID, screendraw between multi fingers, and can keep a cup of java warm for up to four hours.
2. Earfears - I've been wanting these augments since I jumped between skyheights a month ago and almost hit a floater my pathguider didn't catch. These use the ear to send echoes and warn of hazards missed, both hyper and real.
3. Justreal - A sub service so I can block all the spitters, adappers, and crawlers for clearview through my day. Peace and quiet.
4. Wristplay - Modskin to play games from elbow to wrist to pass time for those long flights offworld.
5. Airmate - My current lungvent is old, with a broken filter. This new one has two blades and a voicespike so I don't have to shout when it's on.
Santa come through.
21 Nov.2361
Although it's Thanksgiving this week, Christmas decs are up and everywhere. People have installed blinking lights on their outerware with Santas, trees, and reindeer. Holiday adappers are on the sidewalks and side of buildings. I even have to watch out for them on the train. Panza found a snowflake fold out in his hand with a midi he hacked to stop. Six weeks of edodging to go.
9 Nov.2361
Walking down the street, shuffling my feet through some leaves, many of them disappeared as they were kicked up. To save money, the city is putting digital reps on the ground instead of importing real ones from New England. They better not do this with snow.
1 Nov.2361
I've spent the day walking around with a Batman logo on my shirt from a Halloween party last night where someone tagged me with their costume. I can't break the password to get it off. Harsh.
22 Oct.2361
I was eating an ice cream sandwich in Central Park (I know, ice cream in October) when I saw a robot writing on the path with chalk. "Save our outdates" he wrote, but the 's' looked like an '8'. That's clever I told him. He shut down and restarted. Wrote it again, but this time "Save our updates."
5 Oct.2361
Before going to bed, forgot about the Jobstartup when networks pause for 56 seconds before midnight on this day. Something always works better the next morning.
5 Oct.2361
Got home last night and put my diary on the kitchen counter. Felix jumped up and knocked it over on the heat sticks and it started to catch fire. Put it out with my hand temped to cold. Burn marks on the front so found a store at zero level that had it rebound in new texture. Attached to this antique.
22 Sept.2361
Panza asked me if it was fate we're friends. I don't sign up for destiny but free will.
21 Sept.2361
With fashion week over, the hot new dress is an invisible cloak that projects the textures around it to make the female invisible. Although illegal, models walked down an empty catwalk for designer Mario Nintendo while paparazzi tried to capture the invisible parade. Police were on the scene after and it just added to the buzz. Now everyone is wondering when they're going to bump into the new look on the street.
11 Sept.2361
The Port Authority released figures today that over 1,100 metric tons of quarters and pennies has been collected from the bottom of the 9/11 memorial over the years. That's a lot of wishes.
16 Aug.2361
My neurotech just moogled out when I looked at the moon to map my next trip there. Had to close one eye to chart a distance. Bugs.
8 Aug.2361
Now a bear has escaped. Who's got the keys?
20 Jul.2361
A lion has escaped from the Central Park Zoo. Police floaters are being dispersed from 59th up to 107th to catch it. Look out.
29 Jun.2361
We both walked into our building at the same time. She was wearing red boots matching her hair.
"Cleveland?"
"Got a job with a company realtime reconstructing dead memories from the flood so they need me there." It was a lot to download. Not just finding out what she does but where she was going. Talk about a flood. "Be there a year. Sublease my space. Leaving end of this month."
"Will miss you."
"You too," as she leaned over and kissed me on the lips. Sweetness and light. The kiss I created to tag my recall of her. She left yesterday, and her memories are down to frames I can cache locally. No halo, so no way to know when I'll see her except another year. Tears at night.
6 Jun.2361
Just moved my memory to a new sky service and got an error message on some that said I didn't have copyright. After filtering, found out they were stopped by my Mom asking what I wanted for breakfast when I was seven. All I ate and asked for were ajax pops every morning, but never paid. It's not expensive, but I'm debating if I really need them anymore. Principle.
13 May.2361
I've been doing takeout last couple of days because I broke my plate and am too lazy to get toner to print out another one. Alarmed to go to supply store tonight.
29 Apr.2361
Since it's spring, The homeOS is playing bird sounds in the morning and evening. Felix stares around at the ceiling. I miss birds.
13 Apr.2361
April showers, drown mecha's power.
9 Apr.2361
Early spring weather brought me and everyone else out to Central Park today. The flowers are starting to bloom and the solar grass has gotten enough charge so bathers can get tans on both sides.
31 Mar.2361
Went with a girl last night to PS5, the museum in Long Island City, to see a movie, a 2D projection with no feedback. It was transmitted in a courtyard at night. As we approached the entrance, I noticed some kids jumping over the wall with their rocketboots around the block. I paused before buying a ticket.
"It's a date," she said. "Part of the realtime experience."
The movie was called a musical with dancers around fountains twirling their umbrellas. Even paid for the popcorn.
19 Mar.2361
Tonight, the moon is so close in orbit you can see the lights of Apollo Base in Mare Imbrium. The top of the Armstrong Tower can even be seen with docking beacon flashing. Check it out.
7 Mar.2361
Panza and I were having a drink this weekend at the Eastern Seaboard when I put my beer down at the bar and an ad popped up underneath for a new helicar. When Panza put his scotch down another ad rezzed for skinpaste. Every sip a new ad. Annoyed, we crawled to another pub called Dick's Last Resort with an only organic wood bar. Tasted better.
14 Feb.2361
She walked into the building with a rose clipped under the strap of her goggles.
"Those don't grow around here this time of year."
"Found some roses outside my door today," she smiled.
"Who from?"
"Someone who wrote a note. By hand. On paper." She pulled the rose out from her headgear and gave it to me. "I have more upstairs. Happy Valentines."
"You too." I pulled my diary out from my bag and put the stem in between the torn page.
31 Jan.2361
I had to realtravel for business to Toronto today. When crossing the border, my neurotech was reduced to singlestream because cost to connect is so high. Walking around this city, Canadians realcrowd around giant screens and watch a monosource of scheduled information while drinking coffee or beer. Lots of hockey always on.
27 Jan.2361
So much snow this morning that many airwalks are at halfdrift from so much weight. I waited to cross at the corner of 5th Ave. and 8th Skyht. with a gap of at least five feet. Only those with rocket boots or mechs could get across. Pures that couldn't make the jump turned around or tried to hail a cab. Some simplebots fell right off.
17 Jan.2361
It's cold enough that the nanogripping in my gloves are frozen so I have to take them off when I'm outside to get anything done. A line formed behind me to get on the train and I got no link from holding my coffee this morning so was sluggish until inside to plug in at my office.
12 Jan.2361
Snow crash.
11 Jan.2361
Panza is logged in today for Beetle's extended neurotech to the spine. He's excited to go running with it and getting more accurate feedback from his backleg when he jumps out of range.
6 Jan.2361
Snow expected. Mayor says snowbots fully charged this time. Wait and see.
1 Jan.2361
Happy 2361. May everyone have a good new year.
30 Dec.2360
Here are what I thought were the best sims for 2360:
1. Cold Steel - This timedive back to 1845 on the border of Texas and Arizona in a town called Providence was fun because it was more frontier and less shootout. Therefore, I was prospecting for gold, visiting saloons and singing songs around a campfire. I had my big day in a showdown that ended in a draw when One Tooth Jim forgot to bring his pistol. I didn't shoot but rode off into the sunset.
2. Eat, Drink, Freefall - I went on a date to this femsim to shadow a woman who gets divorced and disconnects from everything to get her halo back. She realtravels to Rome, India and Spain eating food and experiencing cultures to finally fall in love with a man again. It was better than I thought, but still an inefficient way to reformat goalsettings. I never got a second date.
3. Disinfection - This flush of a persons corememory had a warning for people to experience only with a ghost. The reason is that real and cybertime get crossed and so timekeys and mapping fold on each other. The goal was to get out under the layers and blankets. Am I still skipping?
4. Cloudburst - This sim offered a recreation of the totalcrash when all was lost. You play a father trying to reach his family in the course of that historic day and getting them all safely to a backup without losing anyone, even the dog.
5. Mars Needs Guitars - It was so much fun being the guitarist Ben Driscool as he and his band played across the Martian towns in the early days of the great migration. Playing classics such as "The Green Morning" and "Night Meeting" at famous venues like the Echodome in Arnus Valles while the crowds flicked their night beams at the Earth on a clear night and sang along was an ememory to burn forever.
7 Dec.2360
I went to get an immersion of freesource news from a public fountain uptown today and discovered it was offline. CommEd has been shutting off fountains at random around the city due to leaks they are trying to stop. The hole hasn't been found so finding one that works is hard. Panza says some kids have broken the pipes outside his apt and data is streaming off the skyheight.
24 Nov.2360
An efossil from the early twenty-first century known as an iPhone was sold at auction for a record CC$116m today. These devices people had to carry with them at all times and put up to their ear to transmit each other. The object was found in an underwater excavation along the coast of Nevada.
16 Oct.2360
Women are wearing longer video dresses this year so the images are fuller. A popular screen are water patterns that adjust to the weather. So on a rainy day, they show sunlit tide pools and on a sunny day raindrops ripple across the surface. I saw a woman outside on a bright day with an umbrella and rain splashing on her underneath. Pretty.
9 Oct.2360
Beetle just announced it's going to make available it's bestselling neurotech for the spine of its users. The bestselling biotech has been exclusive to the brain, but expanding to the spine will increase touch IO factors and open up broader markets. I know Panza has been waiting for this since he likes playing sports so much.
4 Oct.2360
"Did you lose weight?" the girl from upstairs asked as I was leaving the building this morning. "New clothes," I said. She didn't buy it. "I'm worried about you." I watched her fly into traffic as I walked to work like mecha buzzed from the rain.
3 Sept.2360
My doctor was fixing the utilities in my wristwear and came across an entry for audio that was a colored spinning disc. These diecons are always strange to find. I've seen one for something that looks like a monolith with a circle and square in it. Another is a rectangle with a circle in the middle and a small nob on the upper right corner. The strangest, and most famous, is a flower with blocks for petals. These must've grown everywhere before the great-tides, but botanists can't find it in fossil or digital records.
31 Aug.2360
There has been rumors that Beetle's next device will be an upgrade that combines all the multiple functions of the homeOS with a new navigation. Since every home runs on AI with little input from owners, it's curious why they would add anything. Low res leaks show a thin cord or thread hanging from the ceiling that someone pulls so the room is illuminated. We'll find out soon.
26 Jul.2360
The Octagon was hacked and codes for droid operations were leaked over nets for wars in the zonistans. Spiders are being sent to retrieve, but so much damage has been done that mem bombs and new codes are expected.
24 Jun.2360
Waited 4 hours to get my neurotech updated with new sys from Beetle Corp. The download was too long that I put a remote so I could work realtime. The new sys pixelates so you can tell difference between real and cybertime. That's especially helpful to kick circularity.
28 May.2360
I love spring in New York. The tides are down, the weather gets nice. Women start wearing dresses again. I was standing at the corner of 110th Street at Columbus at 10th Skyheight stop and this woman dressed in a beautiful white shirt and video dress was standing near the edge. A gust of radio wind came by and her dress went to static showing her legs, before going back to resolution. Spring in my step.
6 May.2360
An update on the algaeradial leak in the Gulf says that one of the unintended consequences is larger fish populations because of the increase in food supply. Therefore, quotas were lifted for more fishing in the next 5 years. Scientists say it's going to take at least 10 years to grow another floating radial equal in power to the one unwinding now.
5 May.2360
My alarm didn't go off this morning. We've had three days of radio winds and the static has been affecting my alarm, vscreen, even the homeop has been totally screwed up. It made me late to work. I told my boss that another bot got stuck on the trains. Ever since they were allowed to ride the skyway, they get stuck and slow things down. My director bought it, saying he saw a bot fall off the the 86th Street at Lexington at 7th Skyheight station yesterday. The bot hit a helihover somewhere near the 6th Skyheight below. They should have separate cars for them.
20 Apr.2360
Panza found a flat metal device in the bathroom at a memorybar in the village the other night. It has a glass front and back with only one sensor on the front. Panza tried to ping it on his neurotech but no bounce. We've tried to crowdsource it with no success. We still don't know what it is.
18 Apr.2360
Everyone has been able to have multiple profiles of oneself running on the net for the last 100 years. But a new skin offers a new type that prioritizes tasks and auto shuts down those things that you're not doing regularly so you can trace longer. This selective optimization is supposed to make our memories more efficient and therefore our virtual time more responsive. The trade-off is less multi-dating, friendsharing and neofamilies for no upload times. I'm still debating the outcome, but one good thing is not meeting oneself on another date.
11 Apr.2360
Spitter, the social network program that tags people with a sub link directly to their halos just bought Spittie. Now you can 'spray' multiple links at groups of people instead of lone targets on the street. Watch out.
2 Apr.2360
Lines are forming at Beetle Corp's kiosks for their new product called iPen. What is it? The device is a pen that can write. Anywhere. No tags, apps, pulse, script, fin, cart, jive, or reload needed. All movement in realtime carves through every plain. Translation is scalable. Some clerics are complaining it's a move backwards when nonstandard gestures led to foofighting. But how can freedom this easy be contained. That annoying light in my eye is progress.
22 Mar.2360
On the hundred year anniversary of the Asimov amendment which gave health coverage for artificial modifications to people's bodies, a parade in Washington of people with mods ended with a concert in the mall. I have a brain pump and Panza has an enhanced backleg for better jumps. There's no way people could live to 150 and above without the universal access to technology.
1 Mar.2360
Raining for five days straight. When the weather is this bad, older service mechas are not seen outside as much. I helped a messenger cross an airwalk the other day that was clearly drowning. A hardware rain washes away dated models. When the sun shines again, I'm always a little sad.
23 Feb.2360
I had trouble sleeping due to memorechoes going through my head last night. Ghosts of myself, old friends and relatives, and even girlfriends were appearing in my room and reloading multiple strings through my history. I rebooted the timekeys, but they still wouldn't filter to realtime. I'm getting old enough that my corememory is running out of space. I'm going to have to do a migration soon. I'm really tired.
17 Feb.2360
A datadiffusion bug is going around that drills through to someone's corememory and starbursts all primelinks to everyone on the net. I've been uploading buzzpills so I don't catch it.
11 Feb.2360
Panza bought tracetickets for both of us to the Olympics starting this weekend in New Vancouver. He got access for the men's and women's downhill and semifinals to the US team for snowboard hockey. Unrestricted forceback has been opened to add to the excitement. Can't wait.
26 Jan.2360
This morning, the man sitting next to me on the subway watched me writing in my diary. He asked me what it was, and I showed him using the pen.
"Not linked?" he asked.
"Offgrid," I said. He put his hand on the cover and made a scan. "There's no reference."
"I'll risk it," he smiled. "I collect outdates."
19 Jan.2360
An ice storm blew in last night. Very treacherous walking airwalks this morning. Be careful.
13 Jan.2360
The Open Source Museum in Beijing opened their exhibition on the great firewall with the largest release of declassified code recovered from its archives. A sample is in the main atrium rising two stories. It's amazing to think how the hack of this barrier was the precursor to the infowars that ravaged networks through the early twenty-second century.
9 Jan.2360
I was in line getting coffee from my usual hovercart at 4th St. and 6th Skyht. when the bot behind me started fizzing out and walked away to another one down the block. When I got to the counter, the Japanese woman said she put a magnofield around her cart to keep others away since many are run by bots. I asked was she worried about losing mecha in the morning. She said the loss in serving powerpacks was worth it to keep the space.
1 Jan.2360
Happy 2360. May everyone have a good year and a better decade.
29 Dec.2359
Here are what I thought were the best sims for 2359:
1. Out of Sight - This simulation comedy where you played someone offgrid entirely without a neurotech was funny trying to get through a typical day in complete realtime. I was disoriented after I got out of the shower not being able to read my feeds with some coffee then getting to work with no nav. I missed my skyheight something like six times. Up, down, up, down. People thought I was dancing when waving to ask for directions.
2. The Hacker - This sim about the early hacker that stalked networks in mid 21st century London was scary and a real hit. Jumping in as the detective hunting down the ID was a real thrill. The puzzles were challenging due to working through old protocols and old hardware like tablet computers.
3. Dynaman - Transforming into a superhero and saving the world was a thrill. I played both versions. I had more fun with the superpower of flying than invisibility.
4. Remote Force - Shadowing a commander of an elite drone unit during the infowars of the late 21st century was a blast using period tech. It was fun trying some of the first cyberweapons like static bombs, log-out guns, and bricks.
5. It's a Wonderful Life - This remake was inspired from an old movie in the 20th century. This sim has you be someone named George Bailey, a man with only one alias and never able to leave his homeaddress to cross all nets. You're about ready to freefall when an angel comes down and shows you that you've been connected all along by showing you all the subscripts created through a life of pinging. The redownload is very moving. I can see why it's a classic.
