C:\incrediblebilliondollargeek\incrediblebilliondollargeek.txt Thursday, June 06, 2013 9:22 PM The Incredible Billion Dollar Geek A Classic Tale of a Boy and His Mother by Poor Bear of the Wushiwashis (C) Copyright 1998 by T.L. Winslow. All Rights Reserved. In accordance with the International Copyright Convention and U.S. federal copyright statutes, permission to adapt, copy, excerpt, whole or in part in any medium, or to extract characters for any purpose whatsoever is herewith expressly withheld. No part of this book may be reproduced in any manner whatsoever without the prior written permission of the author, except in the case of brief quotations embodied in critical articles or reviews. For information, apply to copyright holder. This novel is a work of fiction. Names, characters, places, and incidents either are the products of the author's imagination or are used fictitiously, and any resemblance to actual persons, living or dead, events, or locales is entirely coincidental. FF -1- C:\incrediblebilliondollargeek\incrediblebilliondollargeek.txt Thursday, June 06, 2013 9:22 PM Table of Contents Part I. Chapter 1. Back When a Trim Was 40 Cents The rise of a nerd and a geek to wealth and power through personal computing software. Chapter 2. An Activist At the Age of Eleven The story of Mistress Mona, who, kicked in the head by a horse at age 4, beds her way into being the richest and most powerful person in the world. Chapter 3. Big Bills Mona's rise to the dictator of America. Her abuses of wealth and power. Chapter 4. Paid Guinea Pigs in Medical Tests How Mona created a new religion in America. And a race of werewolves. By mistake. Chapter 5. Reaching Farther, Climbing Higher Space exploration in the early 21st century is perverted into a plan to solidify her new world order. Chapter 6. Tested Under Fire Mona's new world order flirts with world war. Chapter 7. One Voice Can Make A Difference Mona's son Gill Four asks "When will it ever stop?", and slashes out at his mother. Chapter 8. You Don't Have to Trust Me With Your Tax Dollars The Amerindians and their story of woe through the centuries, revisited from a 21st century perspective. The story of the Wushiwashee Indian Tribe of Washington State, and Mona's connection with it. Chapter 9. The Boss Has Gone Crazy, Slashing Prices The new Mona tries to undo the damage and prevent world war. Chapter 10. Don't Rub Your Tummy Chief Tummy of the Wushiwashis and the New Divide. -2- C:\incrediblebilliondollargeek\incrediblebilliondollargeek.txt Thursday, June 06, 2013 9:22 PM Chapter 11. Don't Call Me Kid Gill Bates' only begotten son redeems the family name. Chapter 12. Give Yourselves Up Before You Get a Life Sentence The government arrests itself to save itself. Chapter 13. Real Perty Name The investigation of the name Bates turns up startling facts. Chapter 14. I'm Taking the Next Train Out The author of this book says farewell to the readers. Part II. Chapter 15. Wushiwashee or Wishy-Washy? The Bates family fights back. The real story of the Amerindian tribe that swindled America. Chapter 16. The Piano Player Sings the Blues Gill Bates' forgotten partner. Chapter 17. Genius Plus Soul Equals Jazz The real genius of Gill Bates. Chapter 18. The Spirit of Community, or Plug It In, Plug It In Is the world better or worse because of Teenysoft? Chapter 19. I'm Just a Lucky So-And-So Has the final chapter been written? Chapter 20. Just Ask Your Kids Gill Four straps on his own two cents worth. FF To the short but slow FF -3- C:\incrediblebilliondollargeek\incrediblebilliondollargeek.txt Thursday, June 06, 2013 9:22 PM PREFACE Sample list of Teenysoft (TM) products in their prime. Teenysoft DINO (Disk Interactive Operating System) Teenysoft Windoze (Graphics-User Interface Operating System) Teenysoft Office Teenysoft Home Teenysoft Factory Teenysoft Salesroom Teenysoft Bathroom Teenysoft Preschool Teenysoft School Teenysoft College Teenysoft University Teenysoft Court Teenysoft Government Teenysoft Money and Banking Teenysoft Library Teenysoft Bar and Grill, Steakhouse, Chop House, and Chowder House Teenysoft Farm and Ranch Teenysoft Resort, Vacation, and Great Outdoors Teenysoft Cathouse Teenysoft Repair Shop Teenysoft Internet Explorer (TIE one on) Teenysoft Network (TSN) FF Chapter 1. Back When A Trim Was 40 Cents This is the first paragraph of this novel. It is just a test. Please proceed to read at least the first three chapters before putting it down. If you can't do that now, purchase it or check it out and do it later. We understand you might be watched. Gilliam Masters Bates III was born in a manger in a -4- C:\incrediblebilliondollargeek\incrediblebilliondollargeek.txt Thursday, June 06, 2013 9:22 PM stable behind an inn on a foggy day in the Great Northwest. Of Israel. And he wasn't Jewish. Or was he? "It exploded. It just exploded. The entire mountaintop washed away while families just stood and watched. In some places water was as deep as telephone poles. In the city, people face dehydration, starvation, and sickness. Help is on the way, but could take days. And time is one thing the survivors do not have." Later, people were arrested for scalping bottles of water for five hundred dollars. The authorities booked them on computers which had software for which Teenysoft had charged them more than that, and they were glad to get it bundled free with the computers. "They continue to flaunt the rules, and break agreement after agreement. We hope these sanctions will halt this. Despite the standoff, Chief Inspector Buntline says his inspection teams will remain in Batesdad. But with no international support for military action, it seems highly unlikely that the U.N. will launch on-air strikes against Teenysoft anytime soon." Back when a haircut was 2 dollars, and a trim 40 cents, you would be a real nerd to try to change a hundred that way. Ah, but we've got to frame our story first. What is a geek anyway? What is a nerd? Smell the breath if you dare. Look for the pencil neck, the pocket protector, the calculator, the thick unstylish glasses. The mixing bowl haircut, the bad complexion, the too-fat or too-skinny butt, the sock in the pants, the tissue in the bra, the bra being worn by a male. There are many signs. A circus geek is a performer who makes his living eating live animals, usually biting the head off a chicken or a lizard, eating bugs and worms, that kind of thing. In a school situation, the nerds are the ugly people, who, out of self-preservation, become brainy types, and intellectual geeks, their own minority group, while the beefy types are called the jocks, and get all the good looking dates, usually cheerleaders. In this day of open homosexuality, the straight male jock might be getting harder to find in schools, but nerds are never hard to find. Just go to the chemistry and math classes, the computer lab, the chess -5- C:\incrediblebilliondollargeek\incrediblebilliondollargeek.txt Thursday, June 06, 2013 9:22 PM club. After college, the nerds go on to work for peanuts as scientists, engineers, and programmers, while the jocks go on to make huge incomes without working, as lawyers, executives, and the like. Nerds will always be with us, as will geeks. The working title for this book used Nerd instead of Geek, but don't think it wouldn't have been just as appropriate. Gill Bates was the first world hero of both, because he made it in a jock world, by acting like both, although the geeks had Prince Charles for decades. And the world has been paying the price for it ever since. This is the story of the greatest threat the world has ever known, the intiator of a new Dark Ages of Man, a person nurtured in the heartland of America during the days of Ozzie Nelson, I Love Lucy, and Leave It to Beaver, but also The Munsters, The Addams Family, Bewitched, Laugh-In. But also Sixty Minutes, Starsky and Hutch, and the Pillsbury Doughboy. This book will likely make you feel like John Glenn in the Space Shuttle, all that food going to your head, sick to your stomach, not experienced in being weightless, like in your old Navy days, spending more time hanging over rails than inside the ship, while your friends reminded you constantly how greasy that Spam was they had for breakfast. Gill, as he insisted people call him, was a software entrepreneur, at first. The very word entrepreneur suggests the words 'enter' and 'penis', and it is a real stretch of the imagination to apply it to him. But, in business, he was the ultimate prickhead, and, if you consider it that way, he was the most successful entrepreneur the world has yet known. He stuck it to the whole world, and big. In the early days, the early '70s, he dropped out of college to go into business as a computer consultant, hoping to write software for traffic signals and anything else he could get. When, in 1975, a small company in the telemetry business, M.I.T.S., released the first computer for hobbyists, the Altair 8800, Bates got a contract to write a version of the computer language Basic for the Altair. -6- C:\incrediblebilliondollargeek\incrediblebilliondollargeek.txt Thursday, June 06, 2013 9:22 PM Bates' company took two years to make the program, stealing ideas freely from bigger companies such as Digital Equipment Corporation.