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Karen had what looked like a piece of tree bark on her hand. She flicked it off and it landed on my hand. The bark slightly curled up, which gave me the startling realization that this was a living creature - some sort of armored burrowing worm. It bit the tip of my left index finger and I flicked it away in disgust and fear. It curled into a ball as it soared through the air. The bite mark on my finger was two precisely parallel small slits, which gave me the distinct impression that this was some sort of vampire bug. Blood ran in a single line down my finger and curled around my wrist, which i encouraged by squeezing my finger. I rushed to the sink to wash it off in an alarmed manner, but secretly I was perversely proud of this.

I was a partner with Jackie Chan, and sure enough we were trying to escape hordes of attackers in a house. Jackie slid on his stomach all the way down the upstairs hallway and I was automatically attached to him. For every moment that passed I had no clue what Jackie was doing, but I maintained constant faith that whatever he did was going to end up being a carefully calculated and beautifully executed evasive maneuver. Soon, everything was mostly made of Lego blocks. My vision cut to a glimpse of a character made of no more than six Lego blocks, looking very human nonetheless because he was performing an impressive martial arts dance animation. Jackie and I figured out how to pose in such a precise pattern that we would camouflage with the wall of Lego bricks behind us. [This wall had a lot of spaces between the rows of bricks, and some bricks were translucent or reflective.] This sudden pose maneuver kept reminding me of a Michael Jackson music video - because a whole group of us would pose in perfect unison. After a while of more fighting, we attempted another wall camouflage unison pose. Jackie's face was red on one side from an earlier punch, which ruined the perfect camouflage, and our attackers were able to hit us.

I was kneeling on a giant computer display floor, exploring Google's street-view map archive. I was showing this to my brother Jon. We were inside a large dark room reminiscent of a planetarium, and I was able to navigate the entire floor display. I zoomed out to a map of satellite photography at night of perhaps a hundred miles across. This caused Jon to begin to realize and appreciate the sheer scope of Google's database. The floor looked like the playful design of a rug for a child's bedroom.