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A Future We'd Like to See 1.54 - The Joy of Silly
By Stefan "Twoflower" Gagne (Copyright 1994)

I turned a page, skimming the paragraphs. Problem with
these cyberpunk books was they kept concentrating on the guns. I
don't mind a little wild uncontrolled gunplay, but there's only
so much data I can handle on one particular weapon.

Take the shotgun the guy in the car I'm tailgating has.
It's a rather nice one, with a caliber and a barrel count and a
reloading time and stuff like that, but once you know it's a
shotgun, there's not much else you need to know.

"Get off my car!" he shouted out his driver's side window,
pointing said BoomStick at my hammock.

"Okay, okay, I'm going," I said, putting the book aside and
unhitching the framework. The hammock skittered along on all
three wheels, slowing down with no visible puller. I spotted a
likely speedster and harpooned it... little jobby of my own, with
a really thick cable and one bad-ass magnet. The kind of metal
lawyers make refrigerator magnets out of that never come off (you
never know when your own careless magnet relocation can cost you
a legal suit.)

The magnet, decorated with a LARRY COHEN, LEGAL ATTORNEY
slapped itself to the bumper, and the cord ran taught. I reeled
it in, hooked up and reclined into the hammock to continue
reading.

Most people wouldn't use a hammock on a rickety wheel-cart
to tag-along on the highway. Maybe a skateboard would be safer
or faster, but I like my hammock. It's comfy, and allows me to
get fresh air while relaxing under a good book.

Plus it's silly, and counts towards my quota.

Above the huge purple letters reading SNORT FISH on my shirt
is a flash patch, a simple happy face turned upside down
crossfaded to a purple letter G. This is the badge of the
Generik Sillys, a proud organization of wacky people that enjoy
doing wacky things. The wackier, the better.

The hammock didn't count as much as I'd like it to, because
Generik philosophy states that you're supposed to do your silly
things randomly. Spur of the moment. Feel like grabbing a
lobster and making it dance on an office block floor? Do it!
Want to hang glide without going anywhere, like a kite? Go for
it!