eece.eece.maine.edu |what is posted on any perticular day. io00038@maine.maine.edu | --David Fielder in _Byte_ ======================================================================= Enjoy, and I hope this makes at least a few things clearer in this (IMHO) excellent series of stories. ======================================================================= [Editor's Note] The next segment is from the 'Journal Entry Administrivia', posted 24 Sep 1991 ======================================================================== The first question is usually "What is all this?" Welcome to "The Journal Entries of Kennet R'yal Shardik, et. al., and Related Tales," a now 55 or so story-long chronicle of the life and loves of Ken Shardik, whose actual job would be almost impossible to explain. It is set in a science fiction universe not unlike our own, and spans at this point a period in time from approximately Terran 1883 to Terran 3030. The stories are mine (Elf's) and I write them for the fun of it. If you don't like them, that's fine; if you have trouble figuring them out, stick with 'em and they might become clearer. Never know. I've been writing them as a series for three years now, although the orignal Entries date as far back as November 1983. The second question is usually "What the Hell is the xxx / yyyy" format? The date! The first number is the number of days since the New Year, and the second number is the year itself. I keep my archives in a YYYY.DDD format. There are 292 days in a Pendorian year. (Oh, yeah, the homering is named "Pendor." The star is "Pin." There's also one planet in orbit, "Pandora." It provides a place for people to go watch sunsets and suffiecent gravity to produce tidal effects. Work it out yourself... As long as Pendor and Pandora are in the same plane, Pendor does NOT exert a sum total gravity vector in any direction on Pandora). The third question is "Is there any explanation for all of this?" No. The stories speak for themselves. The fourth question is "Are there any FTP sites for The Journal Entries?" Not that I know of. |