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The Points Between: Part Two, Chapter 10

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A Cord of Three Strands

Franklin Stackford steps into the circle of candles. His shadow does not flicker and does not fade.

“We have waited a long time for this, my friends…” Franklin Stackford stands tall, his shadow taller still, and he speaks like a preacher exhorting his congregation. “We have had the knowledge for some time, but never the means. Never the power. Now that means and power have ...

The Points Between: Part Two, Chapter Ten

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A Cord of Three Strands

Franklin Stackford steps into the circle of candles. His shadow does not flicker and does not fade.

“We have waited a long time for this, my friends…” Franklin Stackford stands tall, his shadow taller still, and he speaks like a preacher exhorting his congregation. “We have had the knowledge for some time, but never the means. Never the power. Now that means and power have ...

The Points Between: Part Two, Chapter Nine

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The Coterie

As before, Matthew is struck by how unusually free of debris the tower is. A place like this shouldn’t be empty: if he’d grown up in Daylight as a teen he’d have been here all the time, no matter how hard adults tried to keep him away. But the only signs of anyone having been here at all are his own—his footprints from his visit two days ago are still here, undisturbed in the dust.

Acc...

The Points Between Podcast, Episode Six

The Picture and the Dream

Matthew takes some time to investigate the disappearances surrounding the Manor. More details about the incident in Richmond are revealed, and he finds his vision of the tower corroborated by a surprising and unexpected source.

0:38 Chapter 16 – Missing Days16:05 Chapter 17 – Unexpected Reunion25:25 Chapter 18 – The Picture and the Dream

We’re Back and Everything is Totally Fine

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Last week I tried to enable object caching on Eviscerati.Org. What is object caching, you ask? Well, there are many accurate answers to that question, but for the purpose of this site it’s “the thing I needed to enable so that WordPress would stop nagging me to enable it.” The short version: my attempts to enable object caching resulted in my database crashing at least once every 24 hours, which is not desired behavior in a database-driven webs...

Restoring from Backup

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One of the disadvantages of running your own site is that you actually have to run it. That means any time something goes wrong it’s usually at least partially your fault. Last week I tried to enable object caching on my site, because WordPress had been nagging me about doing that for years. To summarize a complicated process, I screwed it up and broke things. In the process of trying to fix it, I screwed that up and broke even more things.

The solution...

The Points Between: Part Two, Chapter Eight

Intellectus

The creature stirs. Matthew tenses, convinced that it has detected him at last, but fear turns to relief when it sets off into the woods at a brisk pace. Matthew, not having a better plan, follows it. Twigs snap beneath Matthew’s boots, but the sound never makes it past the barrier his spell provides. Eventually they come to a well-traveled path winding between thick trunks and hanging branches. The creature walks on, without apparent fear of discovery, its head bowed as if in...

Understanding Your Customer Base

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YELLOW-ROBED GOOGLE EMPLOYEE: Google isn’t interested in monetizing user data, Scott. Of course we do it, but that’s not our interest. It’s an industry standard. Google adheres to industry standards.

SCOTT: What is Google interested in, then?

YELLOW-ROBED GOOGLE EMPLOYEE: Google is interested in making it possible for our customers to understand and effectively respond to large...

A Very Specific Focus

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NARRATOR: MEANWHILE AT GOOGLE

SCOTT: What are we even doing???

YELLOW-ROBED GOOGLE EMPLOYEE: Scott! It’s great to see you. You’ve been doing fantastic work.

SCOTT: Don’t distract me with praise! I hear Google Maps is actually going to comply with the US Government’s decision to rename the Gulf of Mexico to the “Gulf of America?”

YELLOW-ROBED GOOGLE EMPLOYEE: Yep. We’re go...

The Points Between Podcast, Episode Five

The Fourth Way

Released from the hospital, Matthew stumbles into another encounter with the gray-clad creatures that attacked him and discovers they’re more than they appear to be.

0:53 Chapter Thirteen – Benefactors19:05 Chapter Fourteen – Gray Walker32:32 Chapter Fifteen – The Fourth Way