As of May 1998 more than 500,000 episodes have been sent out!
The texts themselves are a mixture of science fiction, prose, and rather technical instructions of a mysterious computer program to the not always heroic hero, J.D.Flora, whose insights and outsights are being revealed in the process.
The individual episodes are short stories, conclusive in itself, and therefore perfectly suited as an e-mail sequel.
Many different subjects and questions are mentioned in the 'Logs':
Whole-Systems Approach, New Age Philosophies, Buddhist Ideas, Parallel
Worlds, Synergetics, General Semantics, to name a few.
Web pointers are inserted in the text at places where references are
made to specific areas of knowledge which are represented on the net, making
the 'Logs' a source of interesting but often unknown resources.
The Los Angeles computer expert eventually decided to make these files available via e-mail, and here they are!
He did a lot of traveling, undoubtely, much of it rather involuntary. Living in Southern California, his favorite spot was an odd place known as Death Valley.
It appears that a major timeline fault is crossing this region. There are many strange phenomena attributed to areas like that. For example, it is still not clear if JD Flora's house is identical to the 4D-house house mentioned by R.A. Heinlein (see above), or if it is just located on the same timeline fault.
The understanding of a timeline fault requires some knowledge about geometry. The best (but not easiest) introduction that we know of was written by Gerald de Jong in his essay The Geometry of the Mayan Time Star.
It is now known that JDF has been visiting many places in a quite ordinary way as well. He investigated the ruins of Angkor Wat in Cambodia, traveled in North- and South-Thailand, visited Burma and Indonesia and many other countries.
Reports from other continents include the medium KB's channeled visit of JD Flora on the Table Mountain near Cape Town/ South Africa.
Synchronicities abound in Giuseppe Iannicelli's reports about the Scottish computer expert Lorenzo MacEwan, a well-known Internet Investigator (Netective).
We receive many reports from readers who claim to have seen or met JDF. The few instances that we could verify (based on the 'Logs' themselves) are described in the List of recent JDF hang-outs.
JDF's ethnic origin is still uncertain, except that his roots seemed to have been somewhere in Central Europe.
He apparently was a fan of the music of Lisa Franco. Her site contains actual sound samples of her wonderful music and a list of her albums.
If you absolutely have to try some of the Thai recipes that JD Flora was raving about, here is how you can learn the art of Thai Cooking.
Maria Loren created computer art visualizing the notorious Lady Madasa: the Dream of Madasa, and the Nine-Headed Serpent Spirit of the Royal Khmer Ancestry.
And, for all who asked, here is the picture of a Praying Mantis.
Last, not least, it shall be mentioned that these Web pages were made possible by a couple of dedicated 'netters who have been investigating the person of JDF, the locations of the 'Logs', and the current (unknown) whereabouts of JDF.
However, recent enhancements to mail readers allow you to jump directly to URLs from within a mail message. Maria Loren will therefore make a new effort to attach URLs to the 'Logs'.
Over time, the editors have compiled a list of pointers to other Web sites as well as a list of books which deal with issues that are mentioned in the logs.
