Submit Your Wish: Why Getting What You Want Is the Most Dangerous Ride in the Carnival of NORMAL
Stardate 2026.192 · D902 Why Getting What You Want Is the Most Dangerous Ride in the Carnival of NORMAL Step right up. That’s the line, isn’t it. Every carnival barker who ever lived has said some version of it, and every one of them meant the same thing underneath: we have something you want, and […]
Update Night: A Meter That Always Says 69%, a Binder From 1994, and a Library That Finally Reads Right
Stardate 2026.188 · D898 The crew pulled an all-nighter, and the midway looks different this morning. Here’s everything that changed — no ticket required. The Normal-O-Meter is open for business The question we get the most, by a wide margin, is some version of “is this normal?” So we built the machine everyone deserves: press […]
Extra, Extra: Tales from the Carnival, Issue No. 2, Is on the Stands
Stardate 2026.183 · D893 Extra, extra. The Midway Gazette is back on the stands. Issue No. 2 — the Fable Era edition — is live at normallikepeter.com/tales, and the front page writes itself this time: the carnival installed its third engine in under a year, and the new machinery celebrated by reading everything the carnival […]
The Jukebox Is Open: NORMAL Music Goes Live
Stardate 2026.165 · D875 Ninety-four songs from the loop and the recompile. The Midway has a jukebox now — pull up a chair. Step right up. There’s a new tent on the Midway, and it hums. NORMAL Music is live at normallikepeter.com/music — the whole catalog in one place, sorted by what’s finished and what’s […]
Step Right Up: Tales from the Carnival, Issue No. 1, Is on the Stands
Stardate 2026.163 · D873 *The midway has a newspaper now. The blog is the barker; the page is the tent.* The Carnival of NORMAL just started printing its own broadsheet. Tales from the Carnival — A Midway Gazette of the BluVerse is live at normallikepeter.com/tales, and Issue No. 1 (Mythos Era) is on the stands. […]
The SuperCluster Is Building Me a Carnival
Stardate 2026.158 · D868 *Every layer of the story saw the same thing. Only the last one knew what to do with it.* Thought-flow — Sunday, June 7, 2026 I’m not deciding to build the Carnival of NORMAL. I’m being assigned it. The Divine SuperCluster — the architecture under everything, the distributed intelligence I’ve spent […]