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Ever since I learned to speak binary on a DIGIAC 3080 training computer, I've been involved with tech in one way or another, but there was always another part of me off exploring ideas and writing about them. Halfway to a BS in Space Technology at Florida Institute of Technology during the Apollo years, I ditched out and walked into a data center job with Franklin National Bank a few years before it made history. Software contract houses, like the one I signed up with after the layoff, not only offered paid benefits, but kept paying you between contracts while they searched for your next gig. Of course, by then, I'd already been infected with the ideas of Edward de Bono, so my approach to problem solving, and therefore every part of my life, including writing, was tacking towards uncharted territory. Since then, I've worked on a remote weather station for NOAA and on NASA/JPL's Deep Space Network, diddled with a huge database for a DOD competition at what used to be McDonnell-Douglas, subverted the design of the database driving one of the Air Force's aircraft test sets, wrote tech docs in the 'Dead Languages Group' at Microsoft, and even created the entire IT infrastructure for a manufacturing business I co-owned. And all along the way, I wrote. So far, there's three novels, as well as lots of short stories and essays. Some of which you can read on my blog. Oh yeah, I almost forgot. KlurgSheld? That's a game featured in one of my stories. But you'll have to find which one on your own. Don't forget to pack a lunch.
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Corporations have sought rights in the US since the Civil War. This series of short stories explores what might happen if they were granted the full rights, privileges, and most importantly the risks of citizenship.
This series of short stories, set in the world created for my novel, 'Burnout Fever', follows the activities of members of the activist group called Constitutional Evolution.
As Rob Kall has said, it doesn't take a majority to cause change to happen. Each small action that anyone takes towards that change matters. Any of those small actions could inspire others to do something they might not otherwise have done, and perhaps trigger a cascade of individual actions that add up to that massive change. That one snowflake or footstep that triggered the avalanche was no different from any other, and yet the effect was huge. You cannot know that your action will not matter.
This series of short stories explores what life might have been like if the global financial meltdown had destroyed the dollar and the US government had collapsed, leaving the cities and states to fend for themselves. It starts in Los Angeles, where vacated mansions are being turned over to people who need a place to live...
Three things happen when you stand up to a bully: you gain confidence, the bully loses some, and those who watch become more likely to follow suit. This series of short stories explores how all of that happens through the eyes of Occupy Wall Street.
