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I realize I havn't been updating my readers during the lllllllllloooooongggg progress of TwoRivers. I don't have an update on the story as such. So here's something else.
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This was just released. A secret text of intercepted short wave transcripts of how the U.S. Weather Service predicted the weather in Alaska last winter.
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Up in the north Yukon, a small settlement of Inuit fishermen had just acquired a short wave radio. It was August, and they were experimenting with it. They managed to get the U.S. Weather Service out of Anchorage. They heard that the forecasters were predicting a mild winter.
“Hah!” they said. “It is never mild up here. And the U.S. Weathermen are often wrong.”
So they went into the forest and began stockpiling wood for the winter. Winter comes early in the north Yukon.
A few weeks later, they listened to Anchorage Weathermen again. Now the forecasters were predicting “normally cold and stormy weather” for the winter.
The Inuit, being no fools, went back to the forest and gathered some extra wood.
In late September, it started to snow. And the forecasters out of Anchorage were now predicting a severe winter.
The Inuit, being no fools, went back to the forest and gathered some MORE extra wood.
As October came, so did the expected snow.
The forecasters now predicted one of the worst winters on history.
The Inuit gathered even MORE wood, for the winter.
One day they heard a caller on the short wave. He wanted to know how the U.S.Weather Service could predict such a severe weather.
“Oh,” said the man on the radio, “we watch the Inuit on satellite. They're never wrong. When they gather extra wood, it's gonna be a cold winter, for sure.”
I know nothing about guns, except you pull on the trigger (slowly) and it goes bang. So I come here to ask the biggest collection of [whatever name y'all want to call yourselves] I know of. I suspect there are places on the internet with more knowledge, but I don't know of them............ So, if your knowledge base is hammering on Toledo steel, and it's about 1650AD, and you have to make a rifle (not a flintlock rifle) that shoots a modern-ish bullet, what do you have to do? Let's assume you have the raw metals around, but no industrial base. There is a 1650 era gunsmith around, who's 'very inventive'. Don't tell me to go to the nearest Army-Navy Surplus store and shop, and don't tell me to get real. This is a throw-back story that's *fiction* or *fantasy*.
I recently came across this word in the latest chapter of A Better Man by G Younger. It's a good story of a young man growing up -- in many stories of which this is only the latest. Don't think you can start with anything but the first edition; you'll only get lost.
We have nothing to fear from AI. Herewith, proof that the internet contains no knowledge at all. And, by the way, a self-proving word that the term applies to the internet.
solipsistic -- Of, relating to, or being disposed to solipsism.
And, I DID have to look it up, for all the good it did me.
I'm not writing anything right now. [Because I've got 4 stories partly written and none of them are progressing. My muse as abandoned me. :-( ]
So I thought I drop off a couple of links to some stories of mine that are about 10 years old. They were both well received by the SOL reeders [both rated over 8].
They are:
95 A coming of age story about a special kid
https://storiesonline.net/s/76175/95
Las Vegas Fantasies An un-simple boy meets older woman story.
https://storiesonline.net/s/71193/las-vegas-fantasies
Feel free to ignore the shameless PLUG.
[Sorry I couldn't put in real links. I don't do html-ish.]
'Cause if I was perfect, I'd have just made my first mistake.
There was a mixup in the order of posting chapters in 'The Fuck You Announcement'
Chapter 14 as originally posted was really supposed to be posted as 16, after 15 and..... Oh the hell with it.
A NEW (to you, readers) Chapter 14 is now submitted and 14, 15 and the new chapter 16 (which you've seen before as the OLD 14). SO, if you want to see what you missed in the right order, check out chapter 14 after it is posted.
Then you can (re)read chapter 15 if you like. And 16 will be (re)posted in the correct sequence. And just for kicks, I'll be submiting chapter 17. If I can manage all that, THEN I'll be perfect.
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