Mark was sitting on the front porch of Matherson’s store watching the town’s most prominent men play cards. Mark wasn’t playing today. In fact, it is said that the two surest ways to throw away money are to buy a boat and play cards with Mark Pritchett. Anyway, today he was not in the business […]
Author Archives: games
Perpetuation of Righteousness – Chapter 1
Rick absent-mindedly thumbed through the change in his pocket as he walked into work. As a general practice, he parked in the very last row of the lot in order to a bit more exercise. Combined with the habit of always taking the stairs, he hoped that he was burning a least a few of […]
P2TP – Serial 04
Five years ago, the Department of Defense received permission to pilot a cyberterrorism counter-measure known as Komodo. The idea was that if someone attempted to access files or folders on a server, a passkey was needed. Without the passkey, the server would retaliate with various attacks to either erase the drives of the attacking computer […]
P2TP – Serial 03
Roger and Cherise made it to the Stratosphere just in time to see the space elevator being used. Roger remembered seeing the inaugural launch while he was a junior in high school. It struck him then that spoiled and rich celebrities were able to do something that NASA said was impossible. Those same celebrities send […]
P2TP – Serial 02
Calling Tom, he negotiated for a private room at the Stratosphere. One of Tom’s friends had five private suites booked for tonight that weren’t going to be used. All Roger had to do was cover the Gnu/Hurd Desktop Summit in Oregon. He’d have to do it alone and he had to bury the MCS story, […]
Power to the People – Serial 01
“Hey Roger”, she said from across the floor, “you gonna cover the new Xperience?” Roger was always struck by how out-of-place Cherise looked at the tech trade shows. She didn’t have the almost trademark black and pink hair piled on one side of her head. She also didn’t wear t-shirts and cargo pants that are […]
Story background about Roger Tannarick
Reporting from the tenth annual HI-AI (pronounced ‘hi-eye’) games, I’m Roger Tannarick in Las Vegas. The Rubik’s competition in the 4 and 5 row divisions are heating up as well as the Arimaa games. An AI named “Gravitas” is favored this year, the first AI ever favored. Gravitas lost earlier in the year to the […]