The Book of Ashes

Eating fried rice at 2 in the morning with a Baileys 2:15AM

If you close your eyes and imagine a cold hunched figure, bent over the keyboard at quarter past two on a Sunday morning, then you've got me pictured to a tee. An empty bowl of legend fried rice sits to my left, left-overs from a meal earlier on, now devoured in the hunger of the early hours of the morning (sorry Fi, can't help eating before I go to bed), and to my right is a mostly finished Baileys, yummmm. But theres more where that came from. I am riding a little buzz right now, but better start from the begining...

Saturday morning, I got up at 9:30am, early considering I went to bed at 4am. I went in to see Damian and Kelly and then into work to rip a CD and upload some images to the web site. The Perihelion experienced its first disturbance in a month, it was about time to replace those 25th pictures. I have an idea for our biggest event yet though, but will put that up later. I then went back to Damian & Kelly's and did some legend work on the server. The site is becoming quite tidy these days and not only that but the Perihelion has gained its first level of conciousness. It was always designed as a site to test intelligence and interact with the user and so far I've only put in the basics to gain your interest, I mean how many people have found the ABOUT page yet or looked up words in the dictionary? I have lots of plans, but note that the final outcome is that the Perihelion will be a living entity, the first fully functional AI of this world. Hear my words well...

Anyway, blah, blah, skip through the boring stuff in the day, got to tea time, cooked a legend meal of fried rice, ate them out of my cool china bowls I got for my birthday, went out to ZEAL where there was many tiny bopers high on sugar, screeching and screaming and dancing about. I went to see my cousin, James, play in their band, Flinch. They were pretty cool. Char was down there being run off her feet. So after that I came home and found an invite to Amy's 21st so I went to RSVP to that and ended up watching a video there which was a little slow.

Upgrades to the Perihelion and cool discussions with the girls 2:38AM

UPGADES: The Perihelion now has a write up on the Blobby mission under the missions section, check it out. It now has installed the basis for conciousness and interactivity will begin soon. The diary entries now have a first and last page link added at the bottom. I will make these look prettier at some later stage but for now they are functional. I have just noticed that I am a little dumb and had cut and pasted the (first page) link so what should read (last page) also reads (first page). I will probably fix this by the time you read this, but note that for a while it did read thus. I am also importing a dictionary of 200,000 odd words or so which is quite exciting.

Back to the important stuff. After the video we had some good conversation. Two topics that we discused were what is the most crazy thing you would do right now (and what is the most crazy thing you've done before), and what is the most spontaneous thing you've ever done. Now for me crazy and spontaneous was the Blobby lighthouse mission, kick arse, that one rocked. Then, coming up, is the Fletcher Challenge, but its probably fairer to revert to my pre-perihelion days. So I said craziest was climbing on the roof of a polytech building one night in Dunedin, drunk on the way home, and singing offspring to myself. Just thought it might be fun. I do a few spontaneous things like Gerry daring me to run to the top of the hill in the rain in return for her doing the dishes for a week, it took me about 5 seconds to decide yes. Or Fi coming over one day and asking me if I wanted to go roller blading and I had just started tea. I started to say I can't, I've just put my food in the oven, when I thought, stuff it, yes I'll go. Turned the oven off and was ready in 5 mins. Life is to be lived. The tea didn't suffer much for waiting.

But after having gotten home I've thought of what really is my most spontaneous thing. Last year in my Easter holidays I was lying in bed when I got a call at 7:45 from my Poppa. He asked me if I wanted to go to Auckland as my uncle was driving up there and was coming round to my place in 30 mins. At the time I had never been to Auckland. Now having just woken up I don't function that well so I said let me think about it and I'll tell him when he gets here. So I got up, had a shower and that night I had planned to have drinks at my place with some friends. So far I had only invited one person and was going to invite the rest later. So after my shower and a quick breakfast my uncle turns up and I say ""Yup, I'm ready to go"" I rang my friend, while driving up there, and cancelled the drinks and had the most awesome trip. It was the most amazing day. The whole drive up there, I don't think there was a single cloud in the sky over the whole North Island and there was fresh snow on the mountains so I was suitably impressed with my first view of this far North

The becoming, word to the unwary, shotgun loaded. 8:02AM

Part of the Becoming is the belief that you are the one, preparing for a coming future that is to be yours alone. Many people must suffer from this delusion to varying degrees, but note it is only a delusion if you don't have the ability to make it true. If on the other hand if you do...

I've just been talking with my brothers in Dunedin, they're both sick and playing on the computer at Thomas's place. Thomas is of like mind to me. He believes he has the ideal body (function-wise, not looks) and mind. He is slightly taller than me, slightly heavier and has more endurance and strength, the cocky bastard. He's also too intelligent for his own good. We are on a close enough par to be well matched though. I told him there was no need for competition, theres plenty of world to go around, we are here to set up the Bryant Dynasty, not an individual tyrancy (hehehe I can talk a load of crap some times). Anyway I've arranged a meeting to discuss the details when I'm down that way next (October). My little bro, Eddie really apreciated his food parcel. We managed to get all the foods he really likes. Me and Robyn currently rock his world.

A word to the unwary - don't blow too hard on candles that have a lot of melted wax at the top. I blew out my candles last night and must have blown a little too hard as the wax also blew off, splattering over the table cloth and wall a little. People learn from my mistakes, thats why I'm here.

I have just loaded my shotgun and am thinking of going hunting tomorrow or the next day. Will see if I have the courage for it or not.

I am scared that if my brother got hold of the technology he would clone himself and try take over the world with an army of Thomas's. He is the modern day Hitler except he's also constrained in life by morals and ethics. He could never take over the world by force, its not in his nature. There are of course better ways...

""If you build it the people shall come. If you teach it the people shall learn. And if it is good and right then it shall prevail.""

The Perihelion is the place of learning, we have some lessons to teach the world. For this to work though it requires a lot of people to know about us and read about us. It is up to you guys to spread the good word, for it has been built, even though it is still growing so now I am sitting back and waiting for the people to come, and some have come already

Morals with money 8:13AM

Apologies to the person I'm talking about here but I believe this story should be told. Note I am trying to put across an ideal, not diss you. Sorry.

I was talking with a friend the other day, who shall remain nameless, about finding money. He said that he had found $10 or $20 the other day. He had seen someone drop it and walked over to it and placed his foot over it then picked it up after that person had left. Now I said I couldn't do this. The last couple of times I've found money were seeing a person drop it in the street ahead of me and I had to pick it up and run after them and hand it back and the other time I was sitting in Subway and I saw someone in the queue drop $20. Nobody noticed and I waited a few seconds thinking someone must see it but nobody did so I got up went over picked it up and gave it back to the dude. My belief is this, if you see someone drop it then you know its their's so how can you take it. I am really appreciative if someone gives me back stuff I've dropped. I would feel like I had stolen it if I knew who's it was and I could have given it back. On the other hand if I don't know who's it is then there's nothing I can do about it and its pretty much impossible to get it back to the original owner so I might as well keep it considering I was the one to find it. If its a wallet or other goods thats another story, take it into the police station.

So the moral of the story here is that finding $10 or $20 and keeping it is not worth compromising your morals for.

The money will be gone just like that anyway, but you will remain compromised.

Last night I slept on our couch. It is quite comfortable but theres not a lot of room to roll about on. I had been wanting to try it out for a while and now I have