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singledarkshade · 3 years

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New Old Friend

Part Three

(Part One and Part Two can be found here) Jack grimaced as he listened to the tenth complaint phone call in a row about power outages. Glancing over to where Jo sat, he saw she was listening to something very similar.

“Okay, Mr Fredrickson,” Jack said, finally managing to get a word in, “We’ll look into it.”

Hanging up he sighed, waiting for Jo to finish her conversation.

“Call Henry?” Jo asked the moment she’d hung up.

“Please,” Jack clasped his hands together. He headed over to their small chalkboard they had and cleaned it. He updated it to read, ‘0 days since something weird has happened.’ They’d never made it to 4 days never mind a full week.

Jo appeared at his side and handed him the phone, “Henry.”

“Henry,” Jack said the instant he took the phone, “We’ve had calls that there are a lot of power surges and outages around town. Tell me it’s not you.”

There was a pause before the other man replied, “Not from anything I have going on just now.”

Jack sighed, “Damn. That means GD is more than likely to be the culprit. I might need your expertise while I check this out.”

“We’ll meet you there,” Henry said before hanging up.

Frowning slightly, Jack mused, “We?”

Henry hung up the phone turning to where Rip and Gideon were scanning over some of his inventions. The AI was impressive but also very opinionated.

Henry loved her.

“Problem?” Rip asked.

Henry nodded, “I think your shard may be causing some power problems in town. I’m heading to Global Dynamics. Feel like coming along?”

Rip smiled interested, “I assume I have the credentials.”

“Who do you think you’re talking to?” Henry tried to look offended but didn’t quite manage to get rid of his smile, “Your ID badge is in the wallet I gave you.”

Gideon frowned, “I assume I will be turned off.”

Rip bit his lip at her tart inquiry as Henry turned to her.

“Actually no,” he smiled, “GD is used to people field testing their experiments. Although we might want to avoid Fargo, he is our current AI expert.”

Gideon smiled sweetly making Henry chuckle at how Rip rolled his eyes. Grabbing his coat Henry led them out to the truck. Rip climbed inside and Gideon appeared to sit between them.

Starting to drive, Henry smiled as he saw Gideon study their surroundings.

“Dr Deacon,” she said, “I am intrigued by the town. You stated that it was created for those with genius intelligence?”

Henry nodded, “Back in the fifties Albert Einstein and President Truman founded the town as a haven for the smartest people in the country. To give them a place to create and learn. It wasn’t much at first but soon the town grew.”

“It is a shame we do not have a place like this within our own universe,” Gideon noted thoughtfully, “It would have been a good place to relocate the children after we removed the Time Masters.”

Rip shrugged before musing, “It would be an interesting place to have grown up,” sadness filled his voice, “Or to raise a child.”

Gideon shook her head so Henry wouldn’t ask Rip anything, she didn’t say anything further simply watching the scenery fly by. Reaching GD, Henry was pleased by the soft impressed noise Rip made when he drove through the shield surrounding it.

“Hologrammatic shielding,” Rip noted, “Impressive.”

Henry nodded, “There are a lot of top-secret projects within this building, we need good security.”

“Of course,” Rip nodded, a small smirk on his face.

Henry frowned, “What?”

“I believe Captain Hunter has already worked out several ways to infiltrate this building,” Gideon noted amused.

Glancing at the other man, Henry frowned at the slight shrug, “Just try to refrain from doing anything that will get you thrown in federal prison. Or do you know how to escape from that too?”

Innocence covered Rip’s face as they climbed out the truck and started to the front door. Henry pulled out his security badge and motioned Rip to show his. The guard studied it for a second before turning to Gideon.

“She isn’t real,” Henry said before explaining Gideon was an ‘experiment’ Rip was working on.

Looking extremely impressed the guard motioned them inside and Henry led them to the rotunda. Turning he found Gideon glaring at him.

“I’m not real?” she demanded sharply.

“He didn’t mean it like that, Gideon,” Rip soothed, “It was a simple way to get past the guard without going into the technical specifications.” Giving a sniff she turned to look around and Rip shrugged, “She may forgive you sometime soon.”

Henry moved to stand in front of Gideon, “I am extremely sorry I called you not real, Gideon. I never intended to insult you.”

Gideon smiled and nodded graciously before turning to Rip, “You should be taking notes.”

Before Rip could retort a call came making them turn to see Jack jogging over to them.

Jack Carter had the look of a man who knew he was about to step into an insane asylum, a look Rip often saw on his own face when dealing with the Legends.

“I called Alison,” Jack said as he reached them, “She should be meeting us soon.” He looked at Gideon and asked, “Who is this?”

“I am Gideon,” she replied, “It is a pleasure to meet you, Sheriff.”

Jack moved to shake her hand stunned when it went through hers, “What?”

Henry laughed, “Sorry, Jack. Gideon is an AI, very advanced. Rip is testing an interface.”

Rip turned showing the disc attached to his temple, “Henry agreed to help me with the experiment.”

“What do you want, Carter?” a bored voice came from behind them.

Rip turned with the other two men to see a tall man with a sneer of superiority on his face walking with an elegant woman whose air of authority marked her as the boss.

“Nathan,” she scolded the man at her side before turning to them, “Carter, Henry and,” she paused at Rip, “Dr Hunter I presume.”

Rip nodded and took her offered hand, “Yes,” he said before adding, “And this is Gideon, my AI companion.”

“Dr Alison Blake,” she introduced herself to both of them, “Gideon, you are incredible.”

Gideon smiled back, “Thank you, Dr Blake.”

“Please don’t,” Rip muttered, “Her ego is big enough as it is.”

At Gideon’s sharp look he stared innocently at her.

“Dr Nathan Stark,” the final man introduced himself, “I’ve read your papers on Artificial Intelligence.”

A cough made them all turn to the Sheriff, who was standing waiting to explain why everyone has been called.

“Carter,” Alison turned to the Sheriff, “What do you need?”

Jack turned his attention from looking annoyed at the new man to Alison, “We’re getting reports all over town of power outages. I checked with Henry and it’s not him.”

“That’s some police work there, Carter,” Stark stated.

Irritation covered Jack’s face, but he continued, “We’ve gone over the other options in town and it’s not connected to any of them. So, here I am.”

Alison held up her hand to stop Stark from retorting, “We will check the list of projects to see if there is anything that could be causing the outages.”

“What about my favourite place, Section 5?” Jack demanded.

“That’s classified, Carter,” Stark stated, “As you know.”

“And as you know,” Jack retorted, “It’s usually the cause of all the problems.”

Alison sighed in annoyance, “Section 5 projects will be included in my check. Why don’t we head to my office?”

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Gideon was fascinated by Global Dynamics. Not the humans, who were arguing as humans usually did while her Captain was sitting watching, taking in the dynamics and relationships between the people in the room.

The interface her Captain was wearing which allowed her to be seen by the people in this world, had the excellent side-effect of allowing Gideon to interact with the computer systems of this world.

And the Global Dynamics computers were fascinating. None were as advanced as she was of course, but for the period they were in, advanced enough.

She hadn’t informed her Captain of her new abilities just yet; he might insist she not pry too much into the information she should not be privy to. Considering all the things he’d had her hack in the past though, he had no way to complain but she felt it best to keep this information to herself for the moment.

Accessing all the files for the people in the room, Gideon was impressed by Dr Blake. Smart and independent, she was raising her son alone who himself was different. Dr Deacon, Gideon already liked but seeing his file she was very impressed, and in another life, he would have been taken as a Time Master. Sheriff Carter was not as conventionally smart as the others, but he had his own kind of intelligence and his file showed how many times he had saved the town.

Finally, was Dr Stark, who Gideon didn’t like at all. Yes, he was smart but in this room that wasn’t unusual, but he believed himself smarter than everyone else. Gideon had seen that arrogance before in Thawne, in Druce and so many others.

He was the type of person who could so easily fall into supervillainy if the right, or wrong, type of dominoes fell. It looked however that the people in the room with him kept him on the right side, if only just.

Scanning the systems, Gideon checked for the power issues to help the Sheriff. Going through all the projects, she was impressed by some of the things the scientists were studying although others were laughable but that was humans, eternally optimistic.

Continuing her way through the systems, Gideon turned to Rip.

“I need to speak to you privately,” Gideon said to him softly.

Confused Rip touched the interface and turned it off before he moved to the other side of the office away from the others.

“What is it?” he asked softly so he wasn’t overheard.

“I have checked the projects within Global Dynamics, and nothing could cause the power outages Sheriff Carter is investigating,” Gideon told him.

Rip frowned, “How…”

“The interface Dr Deacon created allows me to access the computers,” Gideon smiled at him, “Quite interesting.”

Rolling his eyes, Rip noted, “But I’m guessing that is not what you wanted to tell me.”

“Astute as always, Captain,” Gideon replied before telling him, “The shard is in a laboratory in the area known as Section Five. It appears safe at the moment but accessing it may be difficult.”

“Wonderful,” Rip sighed.

Rip was surprised and extremely interested that Gideon could use the interface to access the computers, but it would likely be helpful to reach the shard. Henry motioned him to follow on as he and the Sheriff headed out the office.

“Well?” Rip asked Henry falling into step with the other two men.

“They’ll let us know,” Henry replied, as Jack let out an annoyed sigh.

They reached the exit and started to the cars. Glancing at Gideon, Rip shrugged, “It’s nothing in here that’s causing the power outages.”

Henry and Jack both stalled turning to Rip.

“How do you know that?” Jack demanded.

“Gideon,” Rip explained, “She had a quick check of the systems.”

Henry’s eyebrows rose in surprise, “The interface?”

“A small side-effect we didn’t expect,” Rip noted.

Jack chuckled, “Let’s not tell Alison or Stark about that but at least I won’t be wasting my time waiting for them.” He rested a hand on the top of his jeep, frowning in thought, “Okay, so there has to be a reason why the power in the town in going crazy.”

“Well, it has to be someone in town,” Henry noted, “But if it’s not a GD experiment, then it could be either an unsanctioned one or, even worse, a school project.”

Rip stared at them, “You’re kidding?”

Both men shook their heads, Jack adding, “I thought the same when I first came here but the kids are just as smart as the parents. Which means they can be just as much trouble.”

“Okay,” Henry said, “Let’s get back into town and make a plan.”

Jack nodded, “I’ll meet you both there.”

As the other man left, Henry and Rip climbed back into Henry’s truck. Rip reactivated the interface allowing Gideon to be seen by Henry once more.

“So,” Henry said as he began to drive, “Did you find anything else interesting while you wandered through the GD systems, Gideon?”

Innocence covered her face, “Why, Dr Deacon I am shocked you think I would look at things I am not authorised to access,” she told him.

A mischievous smile touched her lips making Henry laugh.

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cbacofficial · 7 years

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Connected by a Cable [Chapter One]

"I'm out here in Downtown New York City for the release of Law of Mahna! The new Online Multiplayer Game boasting a robust character creator and that no two characters are the same! Everyone is excited for the release and some are already cosplaying as the promotional art for many of the main characters."

"Start your new adventure in the world of Sephirion. Pre-order Law of Mahna now!" The hot new game that many news articles are claiming that the characters look more life like than before and the world feel real. The critics claim from closed beta testing alone that the emphasis on characters being more than that was neat and the interactions they had...but could it be real? We follow one gamer named Hioshi in line to pick up his game. A young man in his early twenties with short black hair and brown eyes. The store littered with themed decorations and hostess girls dressed as certain characters you could make in the game. All directing and keeping those in line waiting entertained. Hioshi looked at his phone and opened the application that connected him and his friends together. They all were anticipating the release and some were in the same line as him but earlier. All Hioshi wanted was to get the game and level up fast to be the best raider. He thought to himself 'this is just like any other game...' walking up and picking up the box. He inspected the artwork. It depicted a vague image of the game's goddess, Mahna. And the other darker image was Varthamith. The two formed a vague yin-yang symbol as if saying that both sides were in balanced and the text proudly proclaimed it was indeed the official game. Returning home, Hioshi moved aside a few boxes to open the case. A single CD laid inside. Popping the disc in the pre-started PC it began downloading his game with an estimated time at roughly an hour. It was the perfect time to clean his body, prepare a warm meal and snacks on the side while grabbing a few bottles of water. Hioshi took a day off work to enjoy a full on marathon of power leveling in this game much like others before he played. And soon enough, the game finished. Welcome to Law of Mahna. Please create your character. Hioshi knew that the game only had one server so it would be easy to find his friends. He received messages from his pals about how weird the game was, insisting that the created characters they made had their own personalities. Like living things. Hioshi chuckled and figured to make his character an Eternal. Though they look similar to the humans in the game, the Eternals had glowing eyes and the story about them interested Hioshi. Seeing the character customization option blew his mind. It was so detailed that they even had a slider for how thin or thick you want your character. Hioshi made the Eternal a female. Glowing green eyes. Golden yellow hair. Slightly tipped ears. About one hundred and sixty seven Centimeters. Average in most aspects but still had some muscles. There was also a slider for her bust as well. He slid the bar from the halfway point all the way to max, then to the minimum...then carefully adjusting it till it was slightly above the middle point of the slider. He picked the mage class since they had a strong connection to magical energies and now he was hit with the name. "Hmm..." he thought hard and long on this. It couldn't just be any old name...but he figured one name would fit. "Yukara." And with a push of a button the game began! ... ... ... Now that he was in the game, Hioshi decided to move the interface around to his liking. Adjusting the size of some menu options and checking the starting abilities. The music in the game was fantastic and so was the sound work. Why he could of sworn he heard some girl call out- "Master, are you there?" Hioshi did a double take and looked at his character who decided to turn around and face him from inside the game...and moving on her own. Hioshi rubbed his eyes and thought he was just deprived of sleep. But of course, he was not dreaming this. Those messages from his friends...they meant it. Hioshi asked "Are you...talking to me?" The Eternal nodded. "I am talking to you, Master. Are you ready yet to go and level up?" This had to be a dream...No game had this much interaction at all. He got up and walked over to grab some water to drink, then with a second look at the screen his character he made was stretching on it's own and waiting. She called out "Are you there? We got stuff to do!" tapping her foot. Apparently Eternals were also known to be quite the temper problem folk. He tried to ignore it. "Sure. Let's get going." with a glance off his character, he saw the starting zone and it felt refreshing. Unlike the typical forests, there was a small town they were at with the Eternal capital in the far distance. Viewable from over the large gate that arced over a path towards the next town. The trees infused with a magical power to give off a soft glow and the animals following this color and energy within. Talking to a guard, they were given a quest to take care of some small critters... Hioshi continued on, playing the game like normal when he noticed his character stopped moving. He continued to try and move her forward but she resisted. The Eternal looked back at him, giving him quite a spook. "Master. Are you trying to get me killed? Those boars are deadly." she spoke directly to him! Hioshi had to do a double take, cleaned his glasses and smacked himself silly. "Am I..really not dreaming?" Hioshi examined the character he made further. He tried talking to his character. "Yukara. The boars will not kill you. I'll see to it." assuring her enough to attempt and cast a few spells. The boar charged forth and did damage Yukara a bit, but it died without trouble. Yukara blinked. "Huh? Most characters die from these boars. You must be a real master at this!" Yukara gave some praise before looking to fight some more... ---- After killing the ninth boar, a new piece of armor dropped. Hioshi looked to see the stats were ideal. With a smile he opened the character window that showed all the items his character had on and could wear. There were a plethora of slots but not too many. He tried putting the cloth dress over the old to replace it, but red text above told him he had to remove the previous equipment first. Hioshi didn't take a second to think and his mouse cursor hovered over the chest slot for Yukara as she was trying to eat after a battle. Attempting to pull it off affected his character model however, and the robe started to fall down. With a shriek that attracted the attention of other Player Characters, she quickly held her dress. "MASTER! W-What are you doing, you creep?!" her words halted his actions. Hioshi tried to talk to her and reason with his character "Relax. I'm just going to put this better dress on-" and he was quickly shut down when Yukara hid behind a tree from his camera view. "You wanted to see me in my undergarments! Freak!" Was this a new system as well? No, this was their personalities. They were like real living humans. They had wants and needs and decency as well. Again, Hioshi tried hard to get her to wear the better armor. "Come on. The robe has intellect on it. It will boost your damage." and this made her peer from the corner of the tree. She took out the bag from...well somewhere and magically the robe from his UI vanished as it appeared in Yukara's hands when she held it up. Unlike the starter robes it was a red and blue robe color that covered her body completely. She then crumpled it up and tossed it away without a second thought. "It looks ugly!" she declared. The item completely gone now. Oh how furious Hioshi was at this point. She threw away a perfectly good upgrade for her low level. This was not going to be as easy as he had planned. At first he mapped out the quests he would take and go through from his friends in Beta but now it looked like this was more stressful. He tried reasoning with Yukara. "Okay. I am sorry i tried to remove your clothes. But if we are to do this together, You need to worry less about the look and more about the actual bonus of wearing the items. Okay?" Hioshi felt that was a good stepping stone. With puffed cheeks in anger, Yukara exclaimed "I don't like the robe though! Looks butt ugly. Plus i'd rather have something like that." Hioshi panned his camera over to notice a female dwarf showing off her new robes to a few other leveling friends. The torso had sleeves that didn't connect to the main robe. The gown colored in white, red and even black with frills on the bottom. It was gaudy but the attire was fairly rare to obtain. "I want that! Where can i get it?" she asked. Hioshi sadly told her "It's completely random if we see it. Best thing for now is to get any upgrades and worry about the fashion later." causing her to be even more defiant. Hiroshi wondered if this was really a good game? ---- After plenty of quests, headaches and grinding, Yukara made it to level ten out of fifty. It was at this point when they made it to the small town outside of the starting zone that Yukara sat in a chair. "Master, i'm tired...can we please rest?" she asked Hioshi. While her attire did get a slight upgrade, it wasn't all that appealing to look at. "But we have to keep leveling. My friends and their Player Characters are already two levels ahead of us because you refused to let me change your attire." Hioshi tried to explain. The course he mapped out was not going all on schedule. He knew by this point they could of been up there. "You just wanted to see me naked!" Yukara said again. "The gear had better stats." Hioshi shouted at his monitor. "You should of let me done it instead! Stop being a pervert!" Hioshi was finally at his limit. "I'm done!" he shouted. Slamming his hands on the table and getting up. "You can level yourself!" Yukara was more than shocked and scared. "Master wait! If you don't stay on I-" Yukara was cut off before she could say anything. He was fairly angry at her. "Stupid Yuara...Insulting me now? I'll never play this game again. Not worth the stress." Hioshi thought of a way to make her understand why leveling is important but she seems to have a different mindset on things. Hioshi felt a vibration from his pocket. A message from his childhood friend, Nira. She always seemed to calm him down at times when he needed her most. She texted him if they could meet for lunch since she was back in the city. It didn't take him even a second to consider this deal as he replied with the location and time he was available. Perhaps eating would calm him down as well. --- Hioshi stood out front of the applebees in a typical shirt and cargo jeans. The messages on his phone were from his gaming friends, trying to tell him it gets better if you sit and talk with the characters, but the last time Hioshi dealt with someone who was insufferable, it ended badly. He tried to reply to the text when he noticed someone approaching. The woman coming up was a blonde with a ponytail, wearing a tank top and jeans with her sunglasses resting on her forehead. She happily approached Hioshi and gave him a massive hug. "Hioshi! It's been a long time!" the girl chuckled in glee. This was Nira. A childhood friend who up to this point has kept in touch through text and phone calls. Some of their friends keep saying they should hook up, but the two knew they would never be more than best friends. "Nira. Glad you called me." Hioshi replied as the two grabbed their table over by the bar. This was all he could ask after the encounter with Yukara. Nira knew all the right ways to enjoy life. She was energetic. It was because of her connections that Hioshi met his online friends and created their little raiding circle. Thinking about it, Hioshi finally caved and asked her "Nira. How do you deal with someone who is not listening to you? I...Have this friend who doesn't listen to me and-" before he could finish, Nira interrupted. "Just talk with the person. Don't be a slouch and expect them to listen to you first. I know you better than anyone, and you do get along with people. Either this person is a complete ass or you just need to explain the situation." Nira already replied without hearing the situation. She had no idea that the person in question was a virtual character in his game. Instead he nodded and began to eat. "Right. I'll do that." --- Hioshi managed to get back on his computer after talking with Nira. Yet as he logged in, he saw Yukara sitting in the inn. Depressed and staring at the fire. "Why are you still level ten? Shouldn't you be fifteen by now?" Hioshi asked. Yukara turned around to look at his camera before back at the fire. "...When our masters stop playing with us, we Player Characters cannot gain experience no matter how hard we try. I need you to help me get better or i will...still be too weak." she admitted to Hioshi. Her clothes were a tad torn, possibly due to not repairing. Even when she knew her level wouldn't rise, she still trained on her own to kill monsters...and there was no reward. What Nina said about how to explain the situation, he did so to Yukara. "I'm sorry. I'm not trying to be mean or perverted. I wanted to get to max level fast to raid...but the question I should ask is...Do you want to get to max level?" Hioshi thought maybe it was best to communicate with her. Yukara turned around, her green eyes dimly lit on her mood. She replied "I want to make it to max level with a master I can trust. A master who knows what to do. A master that I know will help in achieving a high status." Hioshi smiled. "Well...I have this nice layout of quests we need to do at the best time and what stats you need. Do you want to try it? If we don't make it to level fifteen in under an hour from this, then I will let you pick the pace we level." he pulled up his notes and noticed Yukara doing something odd. On her knees she bowed to him. "Please, Master...Level me faster. Even until I pass out!" Hioshi on the other hand was startled. "WOAH! no need to go that far! We can take breaks now and then. But..." he checked her rested experience and a big smile came on his face. "We could level a bit more. You seem full with energy as is." and with that, Yukara stood up with joy in her eyes and a wide smile. Kicking off a friendship to last a lifetime.

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lojasbrasileiras · 6 years

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Builderall Review – Updated Overview hey guys J with rate review and I am with J and today I want to show you a quick over or give you a quick overview of build a roll I haven't done a builder off video in a couple months because I knew they were making a bunch of changes and adding some new tools and I just didn't wanna make videos that very quickly got out of date because already most of the videos I've made are all they all are show the old interface and don't really give you a good feel for what builder all has done so you can see here they've changed the that changed the font look of the whole initial landing page they've added a number of tools the most important add our new tool that they've added is their drag-and-drop responsive website builder one of the number-one complaints with builder all before was that they had a drag and drop where they used to call the drag-and-drop builder now they call it the drag-and-drop pixel-perfect builder but the problem with that one was he could build it he had to build a desktop site a tablet site and a mobile site now for people who are really wanting full control over each interface they loved it but for most people it was - there was a little bit of extra it was extra work that they didn't want to deal with and sometimes going between you know your desktop designing and redoing it and tablet I mean it just it got a little weird sometimes and people got frustrated with it they thought I'm gonna build a desktop sites gonna be responsive right I mean WordPress is responsive all these other places are responsible why would it not be responsive so a lot of people like gave up on it for that reason well builder all knew that and they finally got it and release this drag-and-drop response to the Builder it's probably been out maybe a month maybe a little over month I mean he was late January and definitely I think address is one of the main concerns so you can see here they've added some notifications here about new leads and stuff a little notification up here anytime you get it he's got new Commission's or you got somebody testing out you built a role that you've gotten signed up they've revamped at least the branding of the Builder all business they call the Builder all business now it used to be called the two-tier commercial license basically works the same and still kind of a two-tier plan but they've just rebranded it make it a little simpler and less lots of lots of sense there so let me just quickly kind of give you an overview if this first time you've seen builder all that way I can you know you'll get a good idea of what it is all the all the tools and then also if maybe you've watched an old video be like okay wow they have made a lot of changes and most importantly this drag-and-drop responsibility I think so basically you know anytime with any of these builders they're continually recent releasing new templates so if I go in here in a new responsive site you can see here they've got all kinds of templates they're continually adding they've got sales funnel templates they've got just you know normal basic website templates you can travel agency they got nonprofit Church stuff car school finance fashion you know they're again they've got sales funnels they got you know they've got they've invested a lot because of some of the people have come into the program they've invest a lot in Mike selling stuff like dropship stuff through Amazon and Facebook Ads and stuff like that so they've got a lot of funnels they're probably not quite I mean a lot of templates a lot not quite as many in the responsive site builder as there was and the drag-and-drop pixel-perfect but like I said they're continually adding you know every week every month you know new templates for you to work off of and there's a pretty good chance you could find a template for a site if you're building it for yourself or you're building for somebody else or you're building a sales funnel there's pretty good chance you can find a template that's going to work for you you can go in and make some tweaks edit some images copy and you'd be good to go they've also there's a lady named Shelly Turner that's been teamed up with builder all and is doing live trainings on I think it's Tuesday nights every Tuesday night for about an hour so goes through some aspect to build her all whether it's building apps or building sites are using the new responsibilities or working through a specific sales funnel she walks you through the whole thing and basically I mean you know you turned that tune into that and you get a really good feel for how to use so much on the tools so anyway so you can either come here and view the site or you can actually go into the editor I'm going to view the site first so that you can actually see that it's done responsible stating you know here's typical website and this is built with a response with the builder and see if I can grab the right thing here hang on all right here we go let's see here that I didn't suggest as we move over sorry so they're you know just kind of adjust as we move over sorry it's a little funny when I'm doing the screen recording and moving the browser window anyway so that gives you a feel for you know the responsive and then here's the me go back to return to edit don't you okay alright so you know in here you can you just they've got videos training videos on how to you know build the slice with the responsibility bitch basically have these different rows and you can define stuff and then you know the elements you put in these little boxes you know obviously you can drag around so you just have to define it because it uses these to then kind of calculate the whole response of how it how it reacts to stuff you can turn hope we can see you know this is not on mobile so you can kind of get a feel for you turn stuff off for certain devices and stuff so there again you have to spend a little time with it learn how to how the responsibility how these columns and rows work but in the day you know spend a little time with it just like any other builder you have to spend time with you get a feel for it in there again you can build responsive sites now which is just great leave that and while we're at it here this is mailing boss this is the autoresponder so builder all comes with all these tools included in that $29.99 price that you pay every month all these tools so you know you can build websites you got your autoresponder and then I'll show you some of the other tools but it just just tons of tools all in this digital marketing platform that are all included for that one low price and then if you want to do the Builder all business they've changed that up to where it's um you just you're paying I think it's $49.99 a month to be a part of the Builder all business and you get all the tools obviously for yourself to use as well so but they've changed their complete they've completely change the design of of the mailing boss they've improved the delivery and everything I'll be honest I moved away from mailing boss a few months ago because I was having problems within boxing just didn't feel like based on you know my my test and my open rates and stuff just didn't feel like it was getting every where it needed to go so I moved away from it and I honestly just haven't had time to come back and test it even though they've changed the interface and I know they've got a a guy that's working with them on with mailing boss that you know has run you know massive email campaigns for some other organizations so I know it's a very high priority to make sure that you know these emails are actually making it to the inbox not the spam folder or not anything else so I'm gonna go back and start testing it very soon as soon as I get past and stuff with my day job editing has been crazy for the past three weeks anyway so this is the new interface yeah they all kind all kinds of templates they got automation and stuff that you can build in so that looks completely different they still got the old drag-and-drop pixel-perfect builder which there again has tons templates and they got a mobile-first drag-and-drop builder and the responsive blog builder which is when you use that one I would say it's it's similar to I would say to like WordPress and that you kind of build it based on blocks and stuff it reminds me a lot like I use when I use WordPress a lot of times I use stuff the the Divi theme from elegant themes reminds me of that you kind of build blocks and you can yeah let me kind of put a block in place and you can either divide it up into a couple different sections and then you can put stuff in it it kind of reminds me of that and then they have the app creator which honestly I have not really had time or I need to mess with but I know people are building apps I mean these are mobile apps so you can build an app and publish it to the the iTunes or the the Apple Store the Apple iOS store the Android Play Store as well so you can actually build apps so think about it you know if you're a local and there's you're doing stuff for local marketing you can easily learn this I got tons of training videos and learn this create apps simple web apps for your customers and as a Nina and added kind of line item that you can charge for so and then we already looked at mailing by mailing boss these three actually these two right here design studio and presentation builder design studio is basically like a.m.

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A Life of Riley Part 4: The Dumptrucks of the Gods ch 1

catch up from the start

Something whined and screamed and screeched behind me, over my shoulder, and I pushed my earbuds in. It was Riley running the grinding wheel on something, probably finishing off one of the main reinforcing beams that we had been scavenging out of the submarine department ever since we got back from the island; this would take a while, and I could concentrate. Most of the time, I needed to have my ears open, as much as was safe in a lab where we did fabrication, but if Riley was busy, and wouldn't be coming over to ask for anything, I could sink down and wall myself off inside Eneferens or Zuriaake or Agalloch off my phone, and focus only on the code I had to finish for the stabilization digital-interface board. Slow chimes and mournful, distant drones, like a gentle rain falling around old, shadowy buildings, and I could detach, get myself away from the raw and real and concrete of day-to-day physics and really into the math, ideas, concepts, the chain of pulses to turn those things and pose them just so.

Most of the time, Sajitha did this; she was really the best at it and some of her functions, I would look at them and want to frame them and hang them on the wall. And Carolína usually picked up the slack filling out implementations, and of course Riley wrote the specs, and I found myself working the tools and building the cables for the actual moving parts that connected to the code. But I had to keep my hand in every now and then: I had to keep my skills sharp, too. This wasn't physics, but it was still all Applied Physics: everything we did was Applied Physics, and that was what drew me to the lab in the start, and what kept me here even with the things Riley tried to build, and the things we got caught up in, and how good a point Simon had when he talked about how with what I'd gotten from here so far, I could switch to astrophysics and finish my doctorate faster, easier, safer designing and building telescopes. He was right, but when a telescope is done, it's a telescope. The degree to which it becomes something beyond a telescope, beyond what any person could have thought of as a possible telescope, a possible piece of machinery for observing the universe, is constrained. And if there was one thing that wasn't, here in the lab, it was any kind of idea of, or respect for, anything resembling constraint.

Riley did not believe in "shouldn't", or "can't". Riley barely acknowledged "bad idea" or "physically impossible at the quantum level". And because "absurdly dangerous" and "not realistically achievable" and "contradicts too many basic theories to compile on a single whiteboard" didn't come into the lab, we'd built the dislocator – we'd done what was supposed to be impossible, or inherently contradictory, or self-defeatingly idiotic, and if we had a better power supply and energy source, we would have a lever in our hands with which to shift the entire world. And because we had built the dislocator, because we knew that some things are only impossible until they're tried the right way, we changed – we became able to think of other things; we became able to do and be other things that we'd maybe thought of as impossible, or unrealistic, or too hard before. Only a place to stand; only the right lever under exactly where it needed to be.

I tied up the last of the loop with a failsafe conditional and looked it over, my eye resting on the coral chunk on the foot of my monitor, a souvenir of our time on Wellman. It had gotten stuck in my shoe, a weathered and worn branch that had been broken up for the roadbed and weathered more there, a bit of a shell or something poking out through the skeleton-rock, and I hadn't noticed until we'd moved Riley's Ceiba unit all the way over to the beach. Maybe, maybe, there was some such thing as a little too much self-belief: because now we had the dead bones of a thermonuclear reaction engine, and having such a thing, there was no way it could stay dead for long. We hadn't shoved it down through the jungle and paid for it to be carted back here for it to just sit on the floor in the back half of the lab, crowding us all even more. No: a reactor is meant to react, and there was no way on earth that Riley would just let something with that kind of power sit around for long. Thinking any other way – would be impossible.

I saved my work, squinted at it a couple times, and then set the compiler to run in debug mode while I leaned back and flapped around, wondering where exactly my electric teakettle got to. It should be right over here; you didn't go around moving or unplugging things in the Applied Physics lab. Not only were a few normal plugs supplied at mains voltage, but if you confused what was plugged in where and tugged on the wrong cord, someone might lose a week's worth of work – or feeling in half their body. I pushed back from my bench, letting the earbuds fall and spatter the tinny buzz of ritualistic guitars into the lab, harmonizing with Riley's grinding wheel; it needn't be a big thing, but because it might be in the worst case, I had to find the kettle quickly. This was the AP lab – there was no telling how much worst a worst-case could get.

Almost as soon as I stood up, I saw it: the plug where the kettle'd been was taken, and the dull white pitcher itself was pushed to one side, a drift of bolts and screws and washers at its base. I followed the cord in the socket over a couple steps and found Leo working on something, soldering something into a circuit board. He saw me coming and stopped, switching his iron off and laying the board down, making sure to put a hand on one of the grounded handles coming up through the bench. "Yuping!" he said, "Sorry – I'm sorry, man; I should've said something, but I saw you were dialed in and thought I could finish this quick. The kettle had its boil indicator on and it was only like a minute, a minute or two. I'm sorry."

I nodded, accepting, and turned over to pick up my mug and the teabag, and then collect the kettle. Behind Leo, Riley's grinder went schworrrrrm and spit out a firework arc of orange sparks. "I was planning to do this on my own bench," Leo said, pointing over, "but when I'd gotten the board set up, Carolína was already using those outlets to test out some of the power connects in that weird computational DI box that Riley had us building over last weekend."

"Sorry," Carolína said from the floor, waving the tip of something that was maybe a screwdriver, maybe one of our custom probes. "But there was reasons, and we're on deadline. Leo, I'm sorry – I shoulda text you when I start, since you weren't in."

"And the reason that Carolína was using my outlets," Leo continued, "is that Riley took a bunch of hers to run power tools off of to work on that crazy skeleton." He nodded over at the rising framework that Riley was still grinding away on. "As the big lab project, I get that it takes priority, but… yeah. Riley's still only got two hands, so I dunno about having four tools plugged in and ready to go at once if all's you can operate is one. The rest of us have to share outlets."

"There speaks one who has no lived experience of Art," said Riley, who had obviously been listening to us over the grinder the whole time. "Scientific design is the precise arrangement of parts – Art is the consonance in that arrangement, and that demands the right tool for the right job at the right time. Science tells you how wide the chasm is, and what conditions on the other side are like, and what force at what trajectory you gotta apply to get over – but Art is how you run up and lift off. And we are in mid-jump on this thing right now, planktoneaters, so can it and don't grudge the oxen their chaff as they grind."

I didn't follow the last part of it – it sounded like it was supposed to be from the Bible, but I wasn't sure how that applied to hogging electrical outlets at all – but Leo was looking even more confused and rolling his head around, so I had to do something to bring it back in. "It's okay," I said, pouring from the kettle into my mug. "After all this, have to take time and start new debug run on sim" – I nodded back at my workstation, where fortunately the compile had finished – "and so tuning new test case, it's got time to steep." I trailed off the pour and set the teakettle back squarely on the bench, pulling up the cord to make sure it wouldn't get in anyone's way. Leo nodded, raised an eyebrow, and switched on his soldering iron again.

The reconfig didn't take too much longer than for the tea to steep, and by the time I was finished drinking this mug, finished with the new Summoning EP, the simulation run was almost complete, and I could make another mug – Leo was done and had plugged the kettle back in – while I merged the changes back into base. It was a pain having a full SVN for a small lab like this, sometimes, but it helped – it helped when we found some deep and hard bug ages and ages back, or when some piece of hardware melted and we had to rewrite half the controllers because there wasn't a like-for-like spare. The second mug was just done brewing, the merge just finished, and I was coming back to take an inventory of the controller and see what hadn't been done yet when Sajitha stormed in, clattering her bag and her tools and her computer across her bench. And Riley, for once, stopped; the chattering whine of power equipment died away, and the lab was about as quiet as it ever got.

"Sajitha – what is it? What's wrong?"

"Ugh – don't ask. Things suck. Everything's awful." Sajitha snorted, flipping her screen on and reaching around to link up cables and connections here and there.

"I know, I know," Carolína said, still down on the floor under the digital-interconnect box. "Remy's had mandatory chem labs all morning – it's got to be awful for you, to have to go that long."

"If you ever tried it sometime, Carolína," Sajitha shot back, leaning up over the bench, "you might get to know that dating someone is not completely composed of constantly pogoing on their weiner, but someone who rates herself better than anyone she might hook up with at this school might not be aware of that."

"True enough," Leo said, turning a bolt on the frame that Riley had been grinding, "It is not all weiners; sometimes you're face down in their muff, too, but the hell anyone else in this room who actually dates people knows anything about that." I raised an eyebrow; if that was supposed to be a burn on me, too, he was losing his touch.

"So yeah, if you dingus aspirants are done mating-dance displaying at each other; Sajitha, what the hell? Did someone mess with you? I thought you cleared out those grinckle jerks – is there some other molesters' union out there now? Do we need to get out the cannon?" Riley was looking genuinely concerned, but around this lab, "concerned" and "helpful" were sometimes farther apart than was good.

Sajitha shook her head. "No – it was the grinckle cops again, and they were being more civil, but they were checking everyone's bag – it took forever getting here off the bus. And I mean, what the hell? Wasn't Eng campus supposed to be grinckle-free like weeks ago? How did that even change? Where is close enough for them to walk over? Are people for real seeding those stupid fish back in places for the lulz? I mean, they can't be like respawning, right? If it wasn't for the part with the crutches and how bad they smell when people cook them, I wouldn't care, but if these Grinckle Elimination Front shits are going to paw all through everyone's stuff, that's it – that's it, they've got to go. Over the line. Anyone who's going around re-seeding these fish back into where Facilities is dragging nets through, they should get the cannon. Hanging's too good for them."

That took, I think, everyone aback, and the lab quieted down as Sajitha started in on her work, everyone moving forward on their own tasks, one foot in front of the other, stay in your lane, and don't talk about the weird bad fish. I had finished another control function and had collected the notes together to make the interconnect cable for the box that Carolína was working on, when I felt a shadow, and looked up to see Riley standing over my bench, hands on hips.

I put my phone down, notes and tunes alike, and took the Drudkh out of my ears. "Yes?"

"It's only for a second," Riley said, looking over past me, "but can you help shove this bench back over towards the wall? Sajitha's already down to the freight elevator to get a pallet jack, and I want to have everything out of the way when she gets back, so that we're ready to mate up Hardtack Ceiba to the rest of our Raging Potato."

I turned my head, trying to process. "I – I can help move bench, but what is Raging Potato?"

Riley nodded back at the skeletal frame, beaming with pride. "What we're building – that thing over there, a self-contained, self-projecting quantum disassociative cell, powered with the fury of a carefully-rationed thermonuclear warhead. It's going to be lumpy and weird-looking, with a bunch of like eye blisters, but it will rip, dude; hence the Raging Potato." Riley nodded, satisfied, and I squinted, trying to think through and make sure that this name wasn't trying to be some bootleg Baidu Ten Mythical Creatures that I should get offended about. But I couldn't come up with anything, and at last I decided to just give up. Easier; good idea with anything dealing with Riley.

"All right," I said, standing up. "Can move bench, can help move reactor when get pallet jack. Okay, it's for dislocator. But how are starting up? I didn't see any schematic." I pushed a couple old blueprints or pinouts out of the way to find my welding gloves.

Riley smiled ruefully. "I'm still working on that – like you didn't say, I'm pretty sure we don't have enough capacitors to get up to instant initiation energy either. But I'm working on it – and when we do –"

I nodded, and then nicked my head over, like we should start getting the bench moved. As long as we didn't have the power to start the reactor, it didn't matter what slice of the floor it was hogging, or what else it was plugged in to. No problem moving the bench. And on the other side, with Riley, well, it was the truth: no reactor could stay dead for long around this lab, and I had the distinct feeling that whatever the Ceiba was plugged in to when Riley tried to start it, rather than the bare fact of trying to almost-but-not-quite-exactly set off a hydrogen bomb, was going to be the least of our problems.

Chapter 2

#nanowrimo #alifeofriley #fiction

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