31 Jan 2004 C.E.
For Future Reference
Entered 07:22:09 PM Terra, Sol-III Mutter's Spiral
The Biostar motherboard is rubbish. RAM must be underclocked to 100 mHz with a CAS Latency of 2.5, and 2,2,3,3 timings in order to be stable.
This machine is by far the most troublesome of all the machines I have ever worked with.
13 Jan 2004 C.E.
Temporal Anomaly
Entered 01:36:21 AM Terra, Sol-III Mutter's Spiral
I found myself in an almost empty Winn-Dixie Supermarket, examining the offerings in the soft drink aisle. Nestled amongst the various Pepsi, Sprite and Coca-Cola cans was exactly one (1) "six-pack" of Tab cola. I have not seen "Tab" Cola for over 20 years, indeed, I was unaware it was still in production. There were no other Tab products anywhere-- no empty packing boxes, no 2-liter bottles as there were for the other soft drinks. Whereas there were hundreds of every other product, there were only *six* of these... packed in between the others, so there was no chance that it was the sole remnant of a sold out row. It was clear to me this (temporal?) anomaly was a message. But of what, I wonder? Had I my trusty digital camera, I would have documented it.
The vision of it continues to haunt my mind.
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"The matter of why Doctor Xadium's Time Capsule is fixed in the curious shape of a 'beverage vending machine' from late 20th-century Earth [Humanian Era 607934] is a subject never broached in polite conversation. Ever. Whilst some have scurrilously posited that Xadium cannot properly effect the repair of a simple Type 60 Chamelionic circuit, it is generally accepted that these disgraceful innuendo are slanderous and utterly unfounded." - Lord Sendrilmetavanskastaron, "The Gallifreyan Renegades", thirty-eleventh ed. D O C T O R 
"Doctor Xadium was an errant Time Lord whose overactive sense of humour at High Council meetings earned him a more or less permanent holiday from Gallifrey. Stuck on Earth trying to cobble together a new TARDIS-- but equipped with nothing more than the technological equivalent of bear-skins and stone knives (as well as some metal tape)-- he decided to use his time to follow the myriad trends in Terran society, studying their crude, primitive laws and laughable attempts to improve themselves scientifically. Aproximately 26 Earth-years into his exile, in order to offset his growing frustration with the 'self-involved, short-sighted, bombastic ape-monkeys with delusions of grandeur"', he took to irregularly recording his more sardonic-- or dare we say even cynical-- views on the ever-progressing devolution of 21st century human civilization (not to mention his own petty irritations) in his 900-year diary, excerpts of which we have extracted from the data core of his notoriously insecure Terran 'computing device' (which in terms of function is slightly less advanced then a Gallifreyan child's first number line). It is almost refreshing to note the ceaseless amazement he displays at the Terran propensity to supress any information, be it political, archaeological or scientific, that gets in the way of their pedestrian, self-absorbed world-view. It is for this reason that historians have labeled Doctor Xadium 'The Discoverer of Obvious Truth' - Lord Sendrilmetavanskastaron, "The Gallifreyan Renegades", thirty-eleventh ed., WHO IS GOING TO GET SUED ONCE I GET BACK TO GALLIFREY BECAUSE HE DOESN'T REALIZE MY SUB-ETHER NET CONNECTION STILL WORKS AND I CAN SEE THE ABSOLUTE RUBBISH HE'S SPEWING FORTH OVER THERE AT THE OPPOSITE END OF THE GALAXY T H E |