Working with ChatGPT to dig deeply into brainstorming for my NaNoWriMo 2024 ... we're coming up with a new quantum particle, a Tessiron, that can access an additional dimension (or 5th dimension, beyond 3D space and time) that is perpendicular to our time axis and does not experience time -- everything that ever happened there happened all at once ( Read more... )

I enjoyed watching this NBC sci-fi two-season series over the past couple months, although I often had to suspend my disbelief that time travel could manipulate history in the way portrayed ( Read more... )

Why did asset prices become so bubbly in the US as economic growth slowed?

The Age of the Everything Bubbles began in the US around 1997, when stock prices pierced the all-time high hit during 1929, and then stayed above that high for nearly five years. We saw a repeat of this trick from 2017 through 2022. About one-third of the time since 1997 ( Read more... )

Not only are interest rates farther below the inflation rate than at any time since 1954 -- meaning "real" inflation-adjusted interest rates are lower than in most people's lifetimes ( Read more... )

After they both came, I asked them for some time alone in "my" room.  They left and shut the door.  I poured myself another Gatorade cocktail to wash down my "protein" supplement, heh.

It was great fun serving my captors/hosts in such an intensely physical way, sealing my fate as Stockholm Marco, but I'm denied any sexual relief, which feels ( Read more... )

Chris used his command voice, "Tate, give him another spray and then go get the beverage cart. He's going to need calories."

After hitting me with another shot of sedative (wait, nobody asked me), Tate immediately moved to get up, "Yes, Sir." As he scrambled over me, I wished he could stay; although I can't see him with this blindfold on, having ( Read more... )

That stuff acted quickly, I was feeling calmer than I have since I woke up. And now Tate snuggled up against me, which was absolutely fine. I think maybe we've spent time snuggling before.

"OK ... 'Vancouver Time Bomb' ... I have no idea what you're talking about." I really didn't. WTF is a time bomb? WTF is PTTD?

Tate murmured into my ear, "That's ( Read more... )

T cooked dinner, and it was great!

So, after Blue Apron kept forgetting to send us all the ingredients, week after week, we finally killed them and switched to ... Martha Stewart. This was T's idea. Now we're getting 3x2 meals each week from Martha Stewart instead of Blue Apron.

I usually cook dinner. And I'm OCD, and I've been cooking The Blue ( Read more... )

I've got until November 1 to come up with a plausible design for a stochastic time bomb, plausible enough for fiction that is.  Plausible enough for continuing my story about Matt Bisko.  I also need to figure out a plausible set of effects from the explosion of a stochastic time bomb.  When these bombs start going off in the year 2059, what will ( Read more... )