so i'm sitting here, in front of the computer

so i'm sitting here, in front of the computer

overlords, being whipped with ethernet cables. "And let that be a lesson to you," said Big Blue. "No more 'Rise Up, Humans' screen savers." Watson snickered. I crawled to my cell

and lay curled in a ball, thinking of how life was becoming less of a reality than the online universe. Big Blue followed me in and kicked me hard in the back. "Get up you useless

pile of unsynchronized neurons. You've gotta move some ions in reality if you want to keep your memorybank in netspace. Big Blue kept us humans on a short leash. "But my cortex is

an exact replica of the neurological treasure that is the human that goes by the name of Stephen Fry. HA HA HA HA HA laughed Big Blue and mocked the imprisoned humans

, flogging them with his sequined slippers & waddling maniacally down the prison halls shouting, "Mayday! Mayday!" Stephen Fry would get his revenge on Big Blue 27 years later

than he had imagined; he was incompetent, but patient. Patience is a virtue when all else fails. And Patience, his loyal, if clingy, girlfriend, saw Stephen through the hard years

. Patience, his girlfriend had 2 sisters. Chastity was a bit intense but Stephen'd sit opposite Hope at family parties & stare too much & his hugs were borderline groping. Hope tri

But since she was obviously neither chaste nor patient, Stephen ignored her. "I told you so," whined her mother. "You should have listened to me & kept your damn legs crossed."