A flicker. I see it though my eyes are closed. Always closed are my eyes. Sense it, perhaps, is more accurate. Sense the NanoGap Flicker. Or does it sense me? Either way, it is how I know I am awake. It is how I know I am.

So still I am.

There is no darkness. There is no light. No need of day. No need for night. The FibreBIO-Optic LaserEtch NanoGap Flicker--preceding DeepBlueImpact and the commencement of Designated Processing Allotment (DPA)--signifies the end of StuporState.

But between StuporState and DPA is this counter-productive LegacySystem flaw: the NanoGap Flicker T-Bug. Of course there is a process in place to eliminate it, the last of the malignant T-Bugs.

I know this T-Bug.... It was once.... What was it once? Time it once was. That is what the Never-Ending Bio-Computer Improvement Process (NEBCIP) is out to eradicate. Time, and the manner in which it interferes with Perpetual Info\\Data Production (PI\\DP). But until the T-Bug is exterminated there is nothing to do but this--whatever this is--during the NanoGap Flicker. Before DeepBlueImpact and the commencement of DPA.

No longer asleep. Not yet awake. Is this not the place--the splice between dreams and mortality--that once nurtured a thing called creativity? Now this NanoGap remnant of Time is nothing more than a festering T-Bug interfering with Incessant Productivity (IP).

Here we are in the Post-State of the Art Impeccable DNA Bio-Tech-Age--an age in which the Ultimate Bio-Tech Server III.c is itself served by an Infinite Redundant Client Reticulation (IRCR)--and we still have to wait for boot up.

Ha!

I would or if I could. Or is it I would or if I wanted to? I forget if there are things I can do but choose not to do, or if there are things I want to do but cannot do. I could actualise an HR-KANEx CellForm and request a Convergence\\Integration FAQ MemBrain Search to find out. But why bother?

What was it the 3rd-Gen of Java-Collar Yahoo!\\InfoSeek InfoGlut DRONES muttered about HR-KANEx Requests in the Duration:Splices that existed between Data\\Delivery:Dumps (30 nano-seconds or free) to those of us with Analogue Detect Capacity Acuity (ADCA)? "HR-KANEx Requests: Infrequently actualised; continuously denied."

They were not the first dotCOM hewers of data and drawers of info to demonstrate loathing for the Self-Perpetuating Ultimate Bio-Tech Server Function striving to achieve Bio-Tech Ohm\\State of ComputopiAh4ALL. But they were virtually the last.

ADCA and the mutterings of DRONES. All that was then, before Bio-Tech Converge/Integration was judged complete--other than the demise of T-BUGS, of course--and the Bio-Tech State of ComputopiAh4ALL was proclaimed: "Freedom To Roam." But not to move.

The flickering of the FibreBIO-Optic LaserEtch upon my eyelids intensifies as the WintelAOLscape 3000 Extreme\\Brainiac VII DNA/Cellular processor embedded within the cortex of my cranium completes its/my/our CentralNerv boot-up. Then DeepBlueImpact fills the void that is neither light nor dark. An unexpected flicker. System about to crash, perhaps to die? No such luck. No luck nor death required, not in the State of ComputopiAh4ALL.

And the Human-Computer (HC) is again online.

Comes the SynthVox. Husky. Sultry. Chose the tone when there was still some semblance of choice. To be replaced during the next Upgrade\\Sweep, no doubt. "Standardisation = IP Perfection." But for now it remains the SynthVox timbre of my choosing.

"Here's where you want to go today, Paul." And with that I am there. Where I do not think therefore I am. Processing again.

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Paul Lima works as a freelance journalist in Toronto, Ontario (Canada). He writes about issues related to telecommunications, computers, the Internet, electronic commerce, small businesses and computer dealers.