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At last! My greatest invention to date is completed!
Posted Apr 7, 2002
By which, of course, I mean IRL inventions. Nearly every one of the CLI Inventions would leave this one standing. But this invention is real life, and it's finished, and once I figure out how to make it stop running backwards it'll be marketable!
I've invented the RaP Clock. Yes, that capital P is intentional. RaP stands for Radial Period. In short, my new clock measures time not in seconds, minutes, and hours, but in Radial Periods! It looks pretty much like a normal clock with different numbers (2Pi is where 12 normally is, Pi is where 6 is, 1/2Pi is where 3 is, etc., etc., etc.)
This makes two Real Life CLI Inventions so far: The RaP Clock, and the Infinite Monkey Simulator (see the previous journal entry). Once I get a few more, I can turn my secret laboratory into a public attraction and charge admission, thus ensuring the legalities behind the Jacob's Ladder that I'm going to build.
And soon, people will be paying admission fees to see an "Authentic Secret Laboratory." Not only will this legalize my Jacob's Ladder, but it'll also provide much needed funding to further my experiments! I'll be able to afford the supplies required to make more inventions, purchase more horrible B-Movies to force people to watch, and run better experiments, AND THE MONEY WON'T EVEN BE COMING FROM MY OWN POCKET! All I'll have to do is set up a neat looking laboratory, put my Klein Bottle where everyone can see it, charge people $2.00 for admission, have a pre-prepared speech about the history of mad science, and boom! Self funding!
As with all evil plans, this is probably doomed to failure, but hey, it'll be fun while it lasts. As long as I can legalize the Jacob's Ladder, it'll be worth it.
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My Movie Experiments
Posted Apr 1, 2002
I've decided to revive the Forrester Family Experiment: that being the attempt to break someone's will to live by showing them horrendously awful movies. I'm even going to try to break new ground and avoid movies that MST3K has used.
However, I've recently decided that I'm going to expand on that. Mike and Joel never lost their will to live, though some of the movies came pretty close to finishing them off. So, I came to a decision: they just didn't have the strong cultural backbone. They both obviously had the knowledge and know-how of fairly well-educated in the world's culture people, but the approach to the movies was all wrong. They only had movies that almost finished them off once in a blue-moon, and all of the other movies were merely annoying. So, Dr. Forrester should have been showing them good movies as well! Invasion USA was a bad movie, but how much worse would it have seemed if it had been the follow up to Casablanca?
The following is an "episode guide" of movies that I've inflicted on my current victim.
101-The Brain
102-Plan 9 From Outer Space
103-Godzilla's Revenge
104-Detective
105-The Creature From 20,000 Fathoms
He was mortified after The Brain, and he was shaking a little after Plan 9. His only comment on Godzilla's Revenge was that it was "Godzilla meets Barney", and he had the audacity to actually enjoy Detective. The Creature From 20K Fathoms seemed to have little to no effect.
After this, I've decided to base it off of an Invention Exchange. If my invention is better, he watches the movie I select. If his is better, he gets a good movie instead.
For the first exchange, I had the "Infinite Monkey Simulator", a computer program that randomly spewed out symbols. I actually managed to get "To be or not to be, that is the ques" before it went back to garbage. His invention was a method of transporting money through solid objects....a form of teleportation that he admits is just a simple magic trick. It was decided that his invention was equal to mine, in that his was a magic trick and I was only getting partial results, so we came to the following compromise:
106-Manos: The Hands Of Fate-MST3K Version
I'll keep you updated on the progress of the experiment.
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WARNING: Only read this if you are *ABSOLUTELY SURE* that you want to.
Posted Jan 10, 2002
The following posts in this journal will be a discussion with myself, Afgncaap5. I will be discussing a delicate issue that, in my mind anyway, could spark off a tiny emotional outburst from some. No, it's not religion as usual, nor is it anything about morals, or my position on laws, or things like that. This is a much simpler issue, which is why I feel that I have a greater chance of becoming angered by it.
Please Note: those of you out there who are my friends (if you think you're my friend, then yes, you are my friend. Everyone is my friend, as long as they don't attempt to be my enemy), I may discuss things that you were involved with, or you. This will not be intended to be gossip, you must understand. I am having a bit of a psychological difficulty, and I believe that it will aid me if I can think out loud about this issue (which is why I am on The Guide, as opposed to writing this in the journal that I keep in real life. I feel that if I am closer to what may very well be the source of this difficulty, that I can solve it sooner).
So, I will be writing things in the following conversation with myself that I don't even know yet. People who dare to read may not think that what I'm saying is important at all, others may be insulted by what I write, still others may want to lend a supporting hand, etc. What it boils down to is this: *PLEASE* don't take too much offense to anything here. I value all of your friendships too greatly. I was sincere when I said that if you think I am your friend, then I am. You have to work hard at it to make me an enemy.
And I will probably be mentioning my close friends before my enemies in this thread. So be warned: please do not read this unless you are prepared to forget about it outside of this conversation. And please, don't point this conversation out to others. It would just be too risky.
Oh, and moderators are already forgiven for reading. 
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June 21-I had a dream....
Posted Jun 19, 2001
Last night (well, actually it was more like 7:45-ish this morning), in that point that lies right between being asleep and waking up, a dreamy thought formed in my mind that the BBC had decided to shut down the h2g2 project. I immediately woke up, and looked at the sunlight pouring through my window, and realized two things: first of all, that I would have to collect Emails and web addresses of other people on h2g2 if, somehow, the BBC did decide to shut down h2g2 over night, and second, the disturbing fact that I didn't really care that much.
Now, while I guess it's good that I'm not so addicted to h2g2 to care too much if it goes away, and it may also have had to do with the fact that I was still a tad groggy, but you'd think that I would get a little emotional about something that I'd not only contributed a few fairly decent entries to, not only met great people on, but had (for all intents and purposes) invested just over two and a half years of my life into. Fortunately, I still think it's a good thing that I'm not hopelessly addicted, and, as is obvious, the BBC hasn't shut down the Guide. Yet. Oh, I', pretty sure it'll happen. Most things I get interested in get shut down due to Beureaucracy. Infocom, Zork, Animorphs, MST3K, the list goes on.
Anyway, that's my thought for the month. No more thoughts for another thirty days now.....
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So long, farewell, auf weidersen (sp?), and goodnight.
Posted May 21, 2001
Okay, I'm not permanantly leaving h2g2. But I'm definitely going to be cutting back. Lil's Atelier was the first to go, sadly, because it's one of the few forums that will live on without me.
Once in a while when I find a moment, I've been able to read what's happened at the Atelier since my last posting, and find that there is some confusion as to my reasons behind leaving.
First of all, I'm not leaving because I fear that the BBC would hold copyright over my ideas. I understand the laws about copyright notices to know just what's going on here, and that's never deterred me from contributing to the Guide before.
Second, people seem to think that I'm worried about h2g2 eating up all of my free time. Bah! I've got enough free time, even if I took up another forum or two.
Also, some seem to think that I think that the guide is stifling my creativity. No, h2g2 doesn't do that. H2G2 is actually helping to bring out my creativity in certain ways that I don't know if I could've easily reached before.
My need to leave h2g2 does not stem from my amount of creativity, my desire for free time, or for many of the other thoughts mentioned previously. As I stated previously, I have a limited creative urge. An urge to create, an urge to write, an urge to explore the depths of my own deep dark thoughts, into realms nothing like the Twilight Zone ever bothered to represent, or into the heights of such areas that C. S. Lewis, J. R. R. Tolkien, or any of the other Inklings ever bothered to put into words, although I doubt that they went without this kind of imaginings.
I have an urge to write, and to explore my own mind with my writing. Without that urge, I don't ever feel like writing. H2g2 fulfils that urge. Why? Because I'm writing. I'M DOING IT RIGHT NOW, FOR CRYIN' OUT LOUD!!!!! This writing on the Internet takes away from my writing urge while offline. *THAT* is why I'm going to be giving up h2g2 for a short while.
Now, I am pleased to say that, in the very, very short time since I started to gradually cut down from h2g2, I've already finished one story, and started work on editing and rewriting another. Maybe this really *is* working.
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