January 2010
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The Cell
Image via Wikipedia 4215 Fre 41 (Memoirs and Reflections | by Aubsoluone Jikro 89th)A sister. The cold flesh. Birthed and on the table glowing in an effusive, self-contained bulbous cobweb of light, pulsating white, then blue, white, then blue … This is the first memory of life. The decanter spilling her across the table, she breathes and tries to understand life, immediately she is a...
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Competitor Research in Global Markets
Image by mastaschmue via FlickrCompetitive website analysis can be tricky for global markets. Take the stats for Baidu.com, the leading search engine in China, from Quantcast which is logically not representative of global traffic (including China) to the site; only an estimated 848K per month (compare that to US Google traffic of 146M). Of course those are hits mostly Chinese expatriots and...
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Competitor Research in Global Markets
Competitive website analysis can be tricky for global markets. Take the stats for Baidu.com, the leading search engine in China, from Quantcast which is logically not representative of global traffic (including China) to the site; only a reported The magic of quantcast.com, compete.com estimates [1] is simply getting scrubbed datasets from some ISPs. Therefore they can be drastically...
December 2009
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11 Eidon 29108.2 - The Plains
They stood over the plain troks below them from the narrow grated service ledge protruding to west from under the cylindrical rails of telldron track; Kwatsura held his balance standing with spine angled back towards the tracks and clenched calves pressing against the rails.
If someone punched me now, I’d follow the force back, catch my heels on the western rail and the east one with my...
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The Plains
Kwatsura stood back as Ysmelro drove the long hammer down, busting the calcified hinges clear off the ladder box; the metal plate of the busted door fell off and drifted down for several seconds, disappearing from sight before landing in the soft dirt of the plain below them. Posted via email from Quaternion’s mind dump | Comment »
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11 Eidon 29108 - The Plains
Light was barely awakening over the horizon as the telldron slid down over the plains through the dull of the night’s ending. Kwatsura leaned against the car’s dorsal rail gazing towards a small white grain of light being crushed under the dark sky and the exhausts and dust smoldering the lower atmosphere of the continent.
Beginning interim transmissions. Only a few hures ago there...
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11 Eidon 29074 - Rsola - East Edge Descent
Kwatsura stood at the ledge atop the mid section of East Edge looking eastward toward a white sand plain baking in the late afternoon sun. Islrinea followed him shortly behind, repelling on the common rope against the slick walls gripping the peak. She jumped down the final four feet alighting on the ledge directly left of her grunda and then spoke with a voice oscillating in volume between...
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Hot Chip
I noticed above me the risen ambulatories with harmonically diverging paths, spreading apart and providing buttress to the massive trunk of East Edge. A giant frond of some majestic fern sprouting from Rsola’s core. Posted via email from Quaternion’s mind dump | Comment »
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11 Eidon 29069 - Rsola - East Edge Tower Hike
Awoke expected time. Ceiling unlit looked like the pit of a narrow clay pottery. Blinding white lights of the Rolan walls in unimpeded sunlight now. Clouds had cleared, factories were at rest. A perfect day to observe and chronicle. Neh, naught behd.
Isrlinea wore ivrosian plates over her shins - a safeguard perhaps for the steeper bits of the day’s East Edge climb. She wore the same...
Flickr Color Search for "Aaku" Images
via aaku.tumblr.com I’ve been using http://labs.ideeinc.com/multicolr/ to try and match images from the creative commons with segments of aaku. Sometimes with good results, other times not so great. Hopefully they’ll form a whole that provides a good visual summary of the chapters. Posted via web from Quaternion’s mind dump | Comment »
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11 Eidon 29065 - Rsola - East Irdon High Tower - A...
White flashes of dim white light from the narrow windows hugging the ceiling of the drinking spot behind the main bar pushed thick rays of light across the room. The drinking spot was mostly full. Kwatsura and Isrlinea occupied two hugra cushions in the center of the room around an empty bowl sinking into the floor and filled with ash wet from spilled drinks and pipe liquor. They sat on the...
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11 Eidon 29064 - Rsola - East Irdon High Tower
Kwatsura and Isrilnea stood over the EIHT circuit on the terrace walk raised 20 feet over and encircling the high tower at its base. A slicked white, metallic awning covered the walk, its roof angle back and catching a waterfall of rain poured against the tower’s ivrosian chest plates. A current of motor bikes flowed across the one-way transit, wheels cutting through a sweltering of piling...
November 2009
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Heartbeats - The Knife
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11 Eidon 29061.1 - Rsola - Irdon Driking Spot
Kwatsura stood at the base of stairs, in the last penumbra of light growing dim from the the high tower salt smoke congestion; entering the vestibule almost in full darkness, ovralian stone black. The white shade of light flashing plum 3 times every 2 seconds disappeared in influence gradually as he entered to the expanding lobby drenched in darkness, seeping towards the expanse of the walls...
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11 Eidon 29061 - Rsola
Kwatsura waited in the shadow of the cab station peering out into the soft white light emanating from the streets of Rsola. Bikers flowed by the square opening of the station, their forms indiscernible, in a monotonous line of movement. Behind the white blur of traffic, on the opposite side of the transit, the stark white shell of a tower, its surrounding raised sidewalk and pedestrians walking...
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11 Eidon 29059 - Rsola
The telldron slid slowy into the peripheral terminal at Rsola. Kwastura had been awake for 2 hures watching the dusted pink sun rise over the flat, ashen plains expanding over the horizon. Through the window he saw the orruminae columns and the grey platform speeding closer and then slowing down as the platform brakes pushed against the belly of the craft, after which the vehicle came to a halt...
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11 Eidon 29047 - Fporta
The sunset shines through sky cloaked near the horizon in sepia puffs of cloud illuminating the firmament and renders deepening brown and orange. A sky of sun dried tamarin skin, ruddy orange melting to brown, and glowing red in spots - the wisp of clouds floating by the current longitude flaring up like Rallen leaves.
Pulsating amber beams of light reveals his figure in roughly consistent 400...