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#Writephant 2026.0824 — A1. Do you love to cook? If so, what is your favorite thing to make? And if not, what is your favorite cooked meal?Yep, I cook. Many of the characters in my stories do, too. I often improvise. I was watching an anime where a character complained that he typically ate his eggs fried with soy sauce instead of western style, which led to the picture which is three eggs with soy sauce, plus sautéed garlic and scallions, butter, and drops of smoked sesame oil, finished with goat gouda after flipping the eggs half-over; that's why it looks like an omelette despite leaking yolk.

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The New Mexican Chronicles – One

Bilbo Baggins said something along the lines of: ‘One ought to be very careful when one steps out of one’s door, as one never knows where one may end up.’I stepped out of the proverbial door with the intention of getting horribly drunk at the local pub, which was conveniently within walking distance. I was doing just this when someone I’d had a nodding acquaintance with ten years back in the army, walked into the pub.

We were both not working me by choice because I had just sold my house and inherited a nice sum of money, Trevor because he couldn’t find work at that time. Anyway, Trevor had heard that, somewhere in Pretoria, a company was looking for men with operational experience to train troops in some African country, and they were paying very well – in Dollars! He had a contact name: Sergeant Pelsur, a company name: Executive Something, and a telephone number he was too bloody scared to act on. Well, I’m not known to be a man who sits on his hands, so after a good few drinks, off we went to my girlfriend’s house to make the call. All went well and an appointment was set up for the following day.

This, by the way, was Monday. I gave Trevor some money for petrol and booze and we both tried to find our old army records. My girlfriend Charmaine came home and I told her the news. She took it quite well but her 17-year-old daughter, Samantha, was none too happy. And that is another tale with a Devil’s Tail attached. The next morning, after my customary breakfast of a six-pack and a few shots of vodka……. to be continued

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[ARTEFACT #3 - THE WHISPER BOX SYSTEM] Future Archaeology Department, BDI - JOURNAL AUG 19 (Wednesday) - Berkeley, CA

"We generally believe the WHISPER BOX was a information storage / retrieval computer system, untraceable and robust against threats in the WHISPER CRAFT timeline (‡). While we have not yet recovered the printer components themselves, we estimate based on the few bits of descriptions we found, the BOX would take about 60 seconds to print a complete book it's native SCROLL format, making truly a print-on-demand pocket library. The WAND was what connected the BOX to this physical world: Photographed here is how a user would select from the WHISPER TROVE - millions of books, articles, games, and interactive applications distributed in a ROM format (still not recovered).

‡ The TIMELINE THEORY is pure conjecture, but all we have at the moment."

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[ARTEFACT #17 - THE WAND of WHISPER CRAFT] Future Archaeology Department, BDI - JOURNAL AUG 18 (TUESDAY) - Berkeley, CA

"In the world of WHISPER CRAFT, books were crammed with software that ran with a WAND tap. BOXES could print scrolls and books in seconds. Photographed here is the WAND, the primary UI device.

In our findings we generally believe WHISPER CRAFT was designed to make a computer system as robust as possible to protect against threats in the WHISPER CRAFT timeline (‡). We have found several motivations: A) hide from state and/or corporate surveillance, B) zero energy usage (what we are calling "off-state computing"), and C) a bulwark to preserve knowledge against some sort of explosion of pseudoscience and/or sudden collapse of institutions. This last one seemed the most far-fetched to me at first, personally, but with the discoveries we are making now, I am beginning to think this last motivation might best explain our WHISPER CRAFT findings...

‡ The TIMELINE THEORY is pure conjecture, but all we have at the moment."

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Future Archaeology Department, BDI - JOURNAL AUG 10 (MONDAY) - BERKELEY, CA

"The last ten days have been a whirlwind of discoveries, starting with the discovery of the WAND -- wood with a a simple scanner component, pictured here -- as well as scraps of a PAPER-BASED UI from a storage device called a "LARGE ROM", which the WHISPER BOX apparently used to store a massive library - none have been recovered, but we think millions of books, poems, and so-called "SCRAPBOOK ADVENTURE GAMES"!

We now ask: Why did they design their computers to be off-line and screen-free? Did they simply have no Internet or screen technology, or were they choosing not to use it? Was it simply for the peace and quiet, or was this a sort of last-ditch technology to save this vast library of books? If so... From whom?"

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Future Archaeology Department, BDI - JOURNAL AUG7 (FRIDAY) - BERKELEY, CA

"Photographed here is a complete SCRAPBOOK COMPUTER SYSTEM - based on the technology known as WHISPER CRAFT. We think the data patterns could still be scanned, and the scrapbooks are likely still usable as user-interfaces. Still no complete WHISPER BOX has yet been recovered. The search continues..."

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Future Archaeology Department, BDI - JOURNAL AUG7 (FRIDAY) - BERKELEY, CA

"Photographed here is a wooden box, seemed to be once used for "SCRAPBOOK COMPUTING". Each one is unique, and simply crafted, probably personal to the scrapbook computer operator. We believe these form the outer shell of the "WHISPER BOX". Unfortunately, no complete "BOX" has yet been recovered. The search continues..."

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Future Archaeology Department, BDI - JOURNAL AUG7 (FRIDAY) - BERKELEY, CA

"Photographed here is an ordinary two minute sand timer for the "WHISPER-BOX". No electronics or obvious connection to the "OS SCROLL", but an interesting find none-the-less. Perhaps useful in the scrap-booking games... or even included as a useful companion to the OS for productivity and focus techniques?"

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