…so you have money to buy a snack and feed your next change.

Some friends and family like seeing themselves here.

Some don’t.

For instance, let me give you the background information on a character currently under construction:

She is an aerospace engineering student specializing in propulsion with a minor in fluid dynamics, she’s told me (specifically, according to her online CV, working on obtaining her Graduate Degree from the local university; studying in the subject of propulsion with the intention of investigating this subject further in pursuing her PhD).  She has worked on projects involving vibrational analysis, voltammetry, and rocket engine development.  In addition, she has experience with diesel engine mechanics and worked in manufacturing prototype engineering.  She has moved new product down the assembly line and retooled the stations as needed.

On top of all that, she can dance.  In fact, she’s good enough to teach others the basics of many dance styles such as waltz, tango and foxtrot.

She has her shortcomings, including a lack of strong computer programming skills.

This is a strong character and deserves a prominent place in the ongoing story of our parallel universe in this blog that so closely matches the “real” universe in which you live and read this blog, that you should find it difficult to tell the two apart.

However, in your universe, people can divine their futures by reading horoscopes, tarot cards, tea leaves, premonitions, palms, crystal balls, signs from omniscient beings and other magical means of determining the precise condition of their states of energy in another point in spacetime, all while taking everything else into consideration a little fuzzily.

In the universe of this blog, the future is not divined.  Here, the future is calculated with a certainty measured by error rates and levels of confidence.

You exist in both universes simultaneously.  In fact, one is a subset of the other (you’re never quite sure which, of course).

Your behaviour is identical across the universes.

The difference is a matter of interpretation only.

In this universe/blog, we have already figured out the consequence of the United States being independent of Middle East oil reserves by 2030.  We know what will happen when China, India and Japan compete for external sources of energy while Russia, Brazil and the United States don’t.

In your universe, the outcome is not as predictable.  There are always those long tails, black swans, outliers and other terms that loosely describe the indescribable.

Here, we’ve analysed every one of the creditors who hold Greek debt and broken down the effect of Greece defaulting at the individual debtor/creditor level, basically turning imaginary entities such as bonds into other imaginary entities such as REITs, giving pieces of what used to be Greece to creditors for their personal enjoyment and/or profitmaking schemes, turning some debtors into virtual slaves for life.

You will probably do much the same, creating economic zones that cut across geographical regions and put people in touch with their feelings as they become integrated with the creditors who own their livelihoods and have direct control of their emotional states from now on.

Let us return to the character under development.  She needs a name, one that has no specific meaning in any language you’ve heard so I can’t represent her name or label using the symbol set of the language in current use.

In fact, I can’t use anything in the visible spectrum of electromagnetic radiation that allows those with working eye-to-optic-nerve-to brain connections to see the symbols in front of you and understand them as words, phrases and sentences that you see as ideas forming a storyline.

So we have a quandary now, don’t we?  The storyline has moved outside the boundaries set by this blog.

Therefore, we must look at the story from a new perspective, one that will stretch beyond your imaginative powers, possibly, and take us to a medium that does not yet exist as a readily-available format on the World Wide Web.

If I thought 2011 was not going to be easy, 2012 is downright next to impossible, very close to incredible in the true sense of the word.

All because we have a lot of catching up to do to reach an important milestone 13967 days from now on our way to the year 3011 (which, as you know, is not really the year 3011 but we can use that conventional correlation for the time being).

Are you ready to move into the realm of understanding that eliminates the slow communication method of light and sound?

Not all of you, I see.

Well, for those of you who aren’t ready, we can proceed with this blog.  I had already anticipated this moment and prepared a network of pathways that keep all seven billion of us moving in the right direction even if some of us look like we’re moving at the speed of light, barely discernible as we bounce across the local parts of either universe.

For those of you who are ready, I’ll prepare a list of the items you’ll need to keep up and apologize to you ahead of time that we’ll need to communicate at a speed where normal speech seems unnecessarily slow and uncomfortably interrupts us when we have to deal with the old day-to-day activities that others require of us occasionally.

Now is the time that we split into subsets.

I’ll show up here every once in a while to keep most of you updated while the others accelerate on ahead, a virtual form of time travel.

From this point forward, this blog tells the tale of the intersection of two subsets.  Two separate blogs — one in a spacetime contortion that goes beyond concepts like Internet2, and one similar to this one’s past entries — will tell the tales of the subsets individually.

Talk to you soon.