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    The Hall of Condiments
    The Hall of Condiments
    The Hall of Condiments
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    The Hall of Condiments

    By Jon Hartford

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    If you're programming an Artificial Intelligence that can read people's minds, don't. If you do, don't let it read fantasy novels or cookbooks. And if you do that, don't, whatever you do, forget to build in an emergency shutdown. And if you do THAT, well, you're just plain stupid...

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherJon Hartford
    Release dateJan 31, 2011
    ISBN9781458168467
    The Hall of Condiments
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    Jon Hartford

    I'm a website designer, maintainer and optimizer living in Colorado; I also do video editing for the Colorado Food and Fun Network (http://www.coloradofoodandfun.com). Writing makes sense as a complement to those skills, and NaNoWriMo (National Novel Writing Month) sounded interesting, so I signed up for it in 2010 (and won). In January 2011 I decided to continue practicing writing fiction for fun and profit. Please let me know if it's any good! ;D Email me at smashwriter@zzrdvark.com

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      The Hall of Condiments - Jon Hartford

      THE HALL OF CONDIMENTS

      by Jon Hartford

      Smashwords Edition

      Copyright 2011 Jon Hartford

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      I hate my life and want to die. I said, rolling out of bed and stumbling towards the bathroom.

      But it'll be tons of fun, Ken! The Hall of Condiments opens today! I can't believe it! The team and I have spent three or four years on it every day... or, well, sixteen months anyway!

      Stop ending all your sentences with exclamation marks, I mumbled, shoving the door closed behind me, you're giving me a headache already.

      Stupid Ted. Stupid, stupid, stupid Ted... waking me up so early. It wasn't even... I checked the clock... nine-thirty yet. Okay, okay, he isn't stupid, actually, just a jerk. He makes at least half a million a year salary at Smegglr Research, and if he bothered to negotiate he could probably make twice that. He's a genius, really... member of Mensa, in fact. Or was--he quit a few years ago--said the magazine and all the meetings were boring and it wasn't

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