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INFO: Jake's personal file from Research.NRU

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MageSteff
Pretty talky there aintcha, Talky?

Joined: 06 Jun 2003
Posts: 2716
Location: State of Denial

INFO: Jake's personal file from Research.NRU

Here are the items in Jake's personal section on the Research Server. I'm including the Espoo.doc because it was here as well as in the Project file.

Yes, I know some of you can't open it, but it is image heavy, and if anyone wants to run a jpg hide/seek or deseg on it and can't get to it, here it is.

1208chat.txt
Description	Chat log between jake and Prof. Z.	Download
Filename	1208chat.txt
Filesize	1.78KB
Downloaded	165 Time(s)

draft1020.pdf
Description	Draft copy of Jake's investigation of odd power consumption	Download
Filename	draft1020.pdf
Filesize	1.39MB
Downloaded	135 Time(s)

harass.pdf
Description	Harrassment letter from Craig Becker	Download
Filename	harass.pdf
Filesize	527.09KB
Downloaded	144 Time(s)

missing.pdf
Description	Police Report, Jake Missing	Download
Filename	missing.pdf
Filesize	335.88KB
Downloaded	161 Time(s)

espoo.doc
Description	Espoo Program inside page, Phots and lecture titles	Download
Filename	espoo.doc
Filesize	64.63KB
Downloaded	173 Time(s)

_________________
Magesteff
A small group of thoughtful people could change the world. Indeed, it's the only thing that ever has. - Margaret Mead

Posted: Mon Dec 15, 2003 9:36 pm

MageSteff
Pretty talky there aintcha, Talky?

Joined: 06 Jun 2003
Posts: 2716
Location: State of Denial

INFO: Jake's Notes

I can't believe how fast I got clearance to get into the site. I'm still settling in, but at least I've got my own office! 2001 Sep 10 14:10

I still can't believe it. Everyone wandered around yesterday in a daze. This will be our generation's 'remember where you were when you heard..' The news is still on every station. You can't get away from it. 2001 Sep 12 16:52

My badge finally showed up � the picture looks like crap. Meg says she wants a badge too so we can have picnics in the atrium. Kris tells me equipment deliveries must be done at night so I'll be pulling double shifts. Craig Becker seems so starched. I cracked a joke that got everyone laughing and he just stared at me like I was from Mars. I mean what's with that guy? And Katrina! She met us all for lunch at the caf� � what an ice queen she turned out to be! I don't think she uttered three words the entire time. 2001 Sep 22 13:55

Golf, it's the most disturbing sport on the planet. It frustrates the hell out of me but I go back every couple of weeks to lose more balls. Things are slow in the lab while we get the new machines up and running. I hope we can start running baselines soon; all this talk about quantum physics in theory is getting boring. 2001 Sep 25 09:22

Kris' knowledge is amazing. He's got piles of notebooks from Sverdlovsk. I'm amazed how much they accomplished back then with all that ancient hardware. 2001 Sep 30 23:11

I'm forcing myself to make an entry today. There is nothing good to report on yet. Kris has been pissed off all week. It's rubbing off on everyone. 2001 Oct 08 17:55

Construction on the new Fock center has been delayed because of some paperwork snafu. It seems like every time we get started something comes up and we have to stop again. Stupid bureaucrats! 2001 Nov 5 15:01

Thanks to the idiots in admin, we lost an entire month for no good reason. This is f'in killing me! I understand the need for all this secrecy, but I'm really starting to miss the openness and collegial atmosphere at Riverside. Our new grid interfaces were held up by Becker for four weeks while he checked out the supplier. Then that buffoon shipped them to Fock instead of our current lab and promptly lost track of them. Arrrrrggh! It's a big hole in the ground, you moron! 2001 Nov 21 15:22

These new grid interfaces are truly amazing. I'm getting resolution at least three times better than before with half the power loss. I think by decoupling the grid from the amplification matrix, I'll be able to improve by another factor of 10. Need to run it by Kris to see what he thinks. 2001 Dec 10 09:51

Three days to write a damned status report for HCRD and they kick it back within the hour. I give them 150 pages about the processes, successes, and a list of remaining issues. The come back with, "When?" Kris has been really pushing to review the grid/matrix formulas in the context of his old research. I don't see how that is going to help. No matter. Everyone got the week off to recharge, so we'll hit it with a fresh perspective after the new year. 2001 Dec 30 07:22

Kris and I have been butting heads for two weeks. I'm sure my formulas are telling me we need to scrap the time/space attenuator in favor of something less complicated. With our current margin of error, we could fatally miss by a huge amount and not even realize it. Back to the simulators I guess. There are still too many variables to definitively resolve it. 2002 Jan 15 09:12

Sometimes the answers are so obvious they can't be right! I tried replacing the spatial algorithm with a loosely coupled Schroedinger feedback array. When I attenuated the inputs, I was able to perfectly synchronize the temporal and spatial coordinates. I think I've solved the granularity issue! I need to double check my figures and share this with Kris. 2002 Feb 27 20:39

As great as it sounded, we're still seeing noise in the feedback loop. Our measurements are useless until we identify the source and compensate for it. No one can figure out where it's coming from. I've ripped every piece of equipment apart and tested the components one by one. And, this morning, I realized I haven't done our taxes. Meg will be really pissed. 2002 Apr 15, 15:27

More power issues. The slightest variation in the initial load is causing a precessional effect that results in the gremlins we've been chasing. Somehow, we need to rectify that circuit until we're at the quantum equivalent of five 9's. 2002 May 30 16:44

Hallelujah! I reworked the control circuit by cascading it through an iterative feedback loop. Looks like we've licked this one for good! 2002 Jun 08 23:17

We're backup and running. Big breakthrough was the exposing a wormhole open for only the slightest fraction of a second. Kris won't sleep while trying to isolate how we can repeat that state and extend the time of the hold. I'm exhausted yet he rolls on. 2002 Jun 10 02:05

We still cannot isolate how we froze the wormhole. I'm beginning to think we need a try something completely different. Kris is off to ask for funding for a larger RHIC. I get to pour over data while he is gone and now someone from higher up has asked for me to begin writing the plan for full deployment of humans through the wormhole and how we prevent a paradox. It's a bit premature but ok. 2002 Jun 21 10:10

Meg and I saw fireworks in Tucson last night. They set the local mountain range on fire. From what I gather from the local news this happens every year. I'm not sure if it was the fireworks or the heat that did it. 101 right now and it is only 10 a.m. 2002 Jul 05 07:20

Yup, we're definitely on the right track. Overnight test results are looking great! 2002 Jul 10 07:17

Something is bothering Kris. Becker seems to have taken a liking to Kat. Bah! Who cares Becker's been in a much better mood. I haven't gotten a parking ticket in over a month! 2002 Jul 17 15:29

My proposal for safety and proper procedures for any human contact with history was accepted with only one change. I wanted a more academic person to return to places we're researching. Becker pushed for military types. They're more disciplined and will be able to react to situations quicker and understand that they are to never be taken alive in drastic cases of emergency. God I couldn't kill myself. I don't care how bad it looked for me. 2002 Jul 30 09:00

SUCCESS. We've isolated the state! It's not a state of power or timing. Absolute zero was the key; taking the state of quantum foam at that temperature we've been able to stabilize a wormhole. We ran the test 3 times today. Each time we were able to isolate. My god, someday we'll be able to relive history. 2002 Aug 07 22:42

We've pushed the state of the wormhole wide open. There is no longer a question of how big of an object can we send. 2002 Aug 10 21:12

HCRD officials showed up for the first time today. It's a formal review process. They want to make sure we won't destroy the world and only try to save it. Security credentials of everyone involved are being reviewed. 2002 Aug 12 17:10

We received authorization to do an object send. I suggested an old clock I found in the house we're living in. Kris likes the symbolism of it. 2002 Aug 18 11:47

The clock came back! So did the little cesium clock I stuffed inside. Our measurements were perfect! 2002 Sep 11 08:11

Meltdown. We've done it. Complete shutdown of the grid for NRU during a power up test. We're going to have to borrow power from the local Catalina grid. All kinds of systems failed safe. It's going to be a couple days before we're back up and running. 2002 Sep 20 19:22

Time for Bobo to hop. We'll be sending him back 100 years into the desert and bringing him back, hopefully in one piece. Kat's a little nervous. I think she's really attached to that chimp. She must have a thing for primates. 2002 Oct 09 09:10

Kris and I have been up for too long and now been into his private stash of vodka. Bobo made it back. We were able to put him at the exact elevation and longitude and latitude we projected. I should go home but I can't - I'd blab to Meg and she would think I was crazy. 2002 Oct 10 21:35

We're getting a lot of pressure to begin human trials. Kris is still really concerned about the safety. Between the power failures and spurious entries in the logs, he's not convinced that the margin of error has been fully minimized. 2002 Oct 22 09:42

I've scheduled a huge series of trials to prove to Kris that we're ready for primetime. 2002 Oct 25 07:10

We almost did it. Someone pushed that we send someone to watch the attack and document. Kris threatened to leave the program if it happened. 2002 Dec 07 12:02

Something isn't right. I'll be back. 2002 Dec 12 21:01

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Magesteff
A small group of thoughtful people could change the world. Indeed, it's the only thing that ever has. - Margaret Mead

Posted: Tue Dec 16, 2003 10:16 pm

lurker
Boot

Joined: 06 Nov 2003
Posts: 52
Location: uk

Date of harass.pdf

Not sure if it was always this way, but the date of harass.pdf is 12-24-03 16:08:25 ?

It's been put there in the future? On Christmas Eve?

Posted: Fri Dec 19, 2003 12:35 pm

grumpyboy
Unfettered

Joined: 04 Feb 2003
Posts: 660

Re: Date of harass.pdf

lurker wrote:

Not sure if it was always this way, but the date of harass.pdf is 12-24-03 16:08:25 ?

yeah, it's been like that since the the jstarkey login was figured out. Probably a typo? the date in the harass letter is Nov 25, 2002 so i imagine it's supposed to read 12-24-02 Confused

Posted: Fri Dec 19, 2003 12:54 pm

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