All Joel wants to do is buy ten chocolate bars. Joel, however, lives in the near future when sugary foods are sold only at government-operated stores to prevent people from becoming unhealthy and burdening the health care system.

Two scientists descend below the Nevada Desert to examine an alien spaceship. They discover unbelievable things, and the aliens are a little weird, too.

Two slackers wandering the woods of Louisiana and Mississippi six months after the Zombie discover an unbelievable way to make the undead really "dead dead." They rescue four young women and become the heroes of the apocalypse.

Disaster prosperity is something that no one mentions publicly, but all public officials understand. If you have a disaster, money flows in and prosperity reigns. If you are ready, you look good and move up the ladder. The only problem is that no one can arrange a weather disaster. No one, that is, but the weather master.

Someone is crashing one IED-laden aircraft into the United States each month. No one claims credit or seeks negotiation.

Aliens have landed, disrupted our economy, and defeated our military without firing a short. The are not little green men, but they are tiny and completely unexpected.

This is a lesson in consulting. It is for talking with a person who knows what is good for them, but can't seem to do it. In the example given, the topic is going to a retreat. Almost any topic could be substituted for it.

They didn't seek it; it feel to them. The introverts ruled the world. They didn't see it that way. They saw themselves as the ones to rebuild civilization. As all reigns, it too came to an end one day.

A young man stumbles in between college and having an semblance of knowing what he is doing as an "adult."

A boy sees his family as high-achievers - all except himself. His grandfather and a guitar change that view and take him through his life in the blink of an eye.

The complete saga of a flight crew trapped at 30,000 feet with a plane full of zombies. They make their way to the ground only to be thrust into a small town struggling to survive the coming hordes of zombies from a major city.

A fundamental task of ours is to test or experiment with our equipment...so began a report I wrote. We were struggling to build systems. Analysis showed that our basic problem was how we tested systems and reported the results. This booklet records time-honored fundamentals of testing and reporting on tests.