What Cal wanted now more than ever was a doctors note. He told him he had what Marianna had, and the doctor said that wasn't possible. Then he told him maybe it was cancer what Keith's got but the doctor said that was also impossible but still ran tests. All...

The HR guy of Spacecity knew they had a problem. His name was Danny, with Keith retired and still living here it was fine, they could support that. And he had, special circumstances, there was even a doctors note. But Danny while he sitting and pretending to work, thought up...

Shawn got up early. Earlier than most people. He knew this because no one was outside when he went on his morning cycle. In the winter after his shower it was just sunrise when he drank his coffee. In the summer the sun started with him during his cycle.

He...

Then Cal said again to himself "Maybe he was?"

He told Keith he should sleep.


When he got back to his room he searched Marianna's disease. 

Women usually get it more often, but when he looked at the symptoms he thought he had most of them. Actually he was sure. He felt...

Cal prided himself always telling the truth. Even when sometimes he would regret it, or a friend would get hurt, at least he was being honest. With Keith he felt like he couldn't. Maybe its because he knew he was going to die, maybe because it didn't feel like his...

Marianna had sunk into life on solid ground. Her savings taking a hit as she put down a deposit on an apartment near the cafe.  Gas City , she never thought she would work there, but she needed a job. She thought about driving off. She considered going all the...

Cal visited him in the common area. The supervisors still didn't assign him anything so Cal had nothing but time. On his desk he made it look like he was busy, spreading out a coffee cup, and scribbling notes. But non of it meant anything. 

"Dude man we're kind of...

It didn't register that Keith was going to die. The doctors told him it was the perfect storm, his mother smoked, his dad drank, and he spent almost a decade in space. His body had tried to adapt to all these things and everything else Keith through at it, but...

Marc Love felt free in  Gas City . I mean he was free in most places, but here he didn't feel like anyone knew who he was. He didn't hear the word blue ever. He thought that even if he painted his body and danced around, people wouldn't bother him....

Reading this book currently. Its free and interesting data driven approach to study how science works. It ends talking, like most things do lately, about AI. But still really interesting stuff, even that section I learned something new. 

One really cool thing it talks about is that persistence seems to...