Fyre's Domain

	10/6/2002
	Contributed by:Ben My latest science fiction story "ReBecoming", written for my Creative Writing class, is pretty much finished. You can read it here. Enjoy!

	7/17/2002
	Contributed by:Ben Well, I'm sad to say that it took me so long to finish my story, but at least I've finished it! Better late than never, eh? Read the whole text of my new short story "Quantum Glitch" right here! And don't forget, this is still my first draft, so I'll be editing it as I go along, correctly mistakes, filling out inconsistencies, fleshing out the philosophies, etc. Please enjoy! If you read this story, please leave a commentary for me of some sort, constructively criticizing or not. Here is how to contact me.

	7/3/2002
	Contributed by:Ben My own stubbornness is KILLING me. I must finish this Quantum Glitch story. I must! I tried returning to it yesterday, and I wasted all of the available time just re-reading it and getting back into the setting. I'm making a promise to myself now: tomorrow is the Fourth of July; I have the day off. I'm going to get this thing finished and posted by then. Mark my words, I shall!

6/6/2002

Contributed by:Ben
I wrote a poem today for an upcoming presentation in English class, so I decided, what the heck, I'll post it! Note, I am an Atheist, so this poem may seem kind of contradictory, but remember: just as someone may say what they do not mean, I am writing what I do not believe. Oh yeah, before I forget: poem copyright 2002 Ben McIlwain.

A Man's Divine Senses

God blinds a man with vision
From man's intellect comes nuclear fission
Like corrective eye surgery without precision

God silences a man by giving the faculty of speech
The perfection of God's voice no mere mortal can reach
One may only beg for mercy and beseech

God congests a man with the sense of smell
For a rotten stench will not smell swell
And there are no good scents down in Hell

God numbs a man by providing touch
Bereft in the dark this is man's crutch
Only to danger, not safety, will man clutch

God deafens a man by providing hearing
Because only through ears does one hear leering
And excess vanity comes from excess cheering

God does many things with a man's senses
Our imperfect perception is hindered by fences
Put in place to prevent the rise of Ubermensches

	6/3/2002
	Contributed by:Ben Rather big news recently on /. recently ... it appears that they've run an article that happens to deal very closely with the the subject of my upcoming short story Quantum Glitch. Specifically, if the entire world were to be computed by a computer, what would that take? This article says it would take 10^90 variables, and 10^120 floating point operations on these variables to get to the present time period. That is, of course, if the universe is deterministic, that is to say, if quantum motions really aren't random. This is exactly the subject of my upcoming short story, so it's kind of funny how I'm sort of working along in this philisophical field at the same rate as the big guns! For an excerpt of a particularly relevant part of the /. conversation, look at this text file.

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