Take Two

I am Toitle. NOT Toilet, as our alumni present so adamantly claim. That established, I, too, am present at the CST camp, and I, too, have not posted anything for quite some time. Therefore, lest you forget my presence:
Firstly, I. Love. My. Juniors. Really, I do. Imagine this: a group of virile, hyperactive Sec 1s [...]

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Night’s Dawn Trilogy

Just finished the Night’s Dawn Trilogy by Peter F Hamilton.
At 3000 pages, this monster of an epic stands as one of the longer trilogies I’ve ever had the chance to read. The Night’s Dawn Trilogy consists of The Reality Dysfunction, The Neutronium Alchemist, and The Naked God. All are well over a thousand pages, and [...]

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Gaia

“Oh, gosh, Kent, get off it,” Madison complained.
They were in the lounge, two scientists the very splitting image of the ancient stereotype. Jet-black cups of coffee liberated their aromas into the air. All around entropy waxed ever and small particles contributed inexorably to the ultimate decline of the universe.
“I still say, why not?”
Madison sighed theatrically, [...]

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Project Eclipse

Eclipse Rising has now begun.
Eclipse Rising is a casual experiment in writing, where contributors independently develop a universe and a plot in a given fantasy world, where each must accomodate the developments of others and mantain the continuity of the storyline.
The preliminary story takes place in a continent known as Avast, one of many in [...]

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4 Years Ago

It’s always sad when you glance at the cover of Clarke’s masterwork, 2001: A Space Odyssey, the one that was turned into a movie classic by Stanley Kubrick, whose theme became synonymous with vintage sci-fi flicks, whose psychologically-maladjusted supercomputer HAL became IBM’s unofficial mascot.
Look at the year, read the book, take a glance into the [...]

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The Quintessential Nova

In a fit probably triggered by apoplexy at the dismal state of his finances and/or room Nova has coerced me to post this slightly edited, incoherent MSN convo he and I had on the 4th of November.
Nova:
http://banks.acs.sch.edu.sg/acs_indep/sysinfo/
Nova:
Processors 4 Model Intel Xeon(TM) CPU 2.40GHz
Chip MHz 2394.81
Cache Size [...]

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A Brief Moment of Time

IBA has ended at last, and unfinished tasks have been unceremoniously dumped back onto the laps of those who issued them, even as completed ones have, in perhaps imperceptible and unseen ways, aided in the smooth running of that particular branch of the vast maritime empire of this nation.
Truly do the holidays begin now. If [...]

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