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Staying up all night
I need to stay awake all night long. At 14:00, I will take electroencephalography (EEG), and I need to sleep with multiple electrodes placed on my scalp. When I am in a phase of sleep deprivation, I have visual hallucinations. Alfred Bester says in his book The Computer Connection that when you have an epilepsy seizure, you…
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Life again
Some time ago, I decided to write a science fiction book, mesmerized by too much cyberpunk literature engulfed during long nights of solitude. I finished it as well; it was in the year 2005 if I remember well. It tells about a great new Kantō earthquake that forced Tokyo to rebuild from the ground up.…
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Interfaces
The first time I used a mouse, I got a bizarre feeling. The machine had a very high mouse pointer acceleration, and I could not click icons. It happened a lot of years ago, but I still remember it very well. It also was the first time I encountered an infinite loop. The language was…