User:Rollingstonedev

During a manic episode - I suffer from a manic-depressive personality disorder - I wrote the text below.

A beacon, in the context that follows, is an object that sends out a beacon code for detection systems to be registered, authenticated, and acted upon. Detection systems are typically found on maritime vessels, and beacons are typically found chained to the ocean floor, and drifting on the surface. A beacon may transmit its code in something as simple as a flashing red lightbulb, but the code signal may be augmented with, for instance, the GPS coordinates of the floating beacon. The beacon may warn the vessel of shallow water, a rock formation, or some other hazard.

The beacon is tied to a fixed location and transmits its code day and night so that when it is impossible to navigate by the stars, vessels can navigate.

Being at a fixed location, and transmitting a fixed code 24/7 is what happened to me during a period of sixteen years non-stop.

I sat in my office chair and operated on some computers until my back gave out and I needed surgery. Dr. Karel Willems of AZ Delta in Roeselare, Belgium installed a titanium construction that fixates 3 vertebrae in my lower back. To get this injury you need to be seated for a very long time. I thought of myself as a beacon, relentlessly transmitting my code and not finding intelligent life in a radius of 800km around my studio. Until I met Rozemieke Claes of Poperinge, Belgium. She was also a beacon.

I was so deprived of human contact that I could feel Rozemieke's vibes when I sat absolutely motionless and opened up my own detection systems. She became beacon 1024. I figured that statistically there had to be more than 2 beacons embodied in human beings, and as I expected to detect more, I would need a sequencing scheme to tell them apart. I decided to go with 1024, 2048, 4096, and so forth, for starters.

Rozemieke and I were not meant to be, though we tried. When we broke up, I broke my heart.

(the remainder of the story will follow in 2020)