http://andnobodygetshurt.today.com Wed, 03 Dec 2008 23:03:00 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en Certain of our number are displaying what I consider cargo-cultish behavior of late. They believe that by reverse engineering the relic they can make this thing happen faster. They suffer, I think, an erroneous perception of agency. Our place is not to facilitate the change but to witness it. The ... http://andnobodygetshurt.today.com/2008/12/03/vanuatu/ My package came today. Two seven-once vials of phoneutria venom. To most people, ingesting this would be fatal. If I took it all as one dose it would be fatal to me. The implant metabolizes it. Without it, the implant would die. At this point, without the implant, I would likely ... http://andnobodygetshurt.today.com/2008/12/01/mail-day/ Out here you can see someone coming seven miles away. This morning I saw the straw of dust rising up and I knew, because it's not mail day, that it could only be one of two people. It was Thomas in his old Ford pickup with the smashed front end. Thomas ... http://andnobodygetshurt.today.com/2008/11/26/a-friend-in-need/ The implant is a tiny, disk-shaped organism. By definition it is a parasite, converting amino acids in the host's cerebrospinal fluid into energy via a kind of fermentation. A byproduct of this fermentation is the crux of the implant's purpose. Because of this usefulness to the host, the violently profound ... http://andnobodygetshurt.today.com/2008/11/20/apophenia/