“How is there nothing on T.S.094 anywhere on the internet?” Wendell thought as he typed in the ask.com search box. Having already tried Yahoo, Google, Altavista, and HotBot, Wendell was running out of search engines that he could think to use in his hunt for information on the strange software. “Damn it.” Wendell muttered under his breath when AskJeeves failed to produce any useful information on T.S.094. Switching from Internet Explorer back to T.S.094 Wendell stared at the list of body parts available for download. Wanting to start simple, Wendell had searched for hand and the software had returned 1,411 different results with “hand” in the file name. “Hand.Male.44.Caucasian.Right.Big... What does that even mean?” Wendell continued skimming through the list. “Main.Femme.17.Hand.Woman.Q4.HSAT... So is that a woman’s hand? What the hell is Main? Femme must mean woman... What language is this?” Wendell leaned back in his chair and scratched his fat belly. “Mannn... This is bizarre...”
Wendell spent the next several minutes browsing through the list of traits with hand in the filename. Eventually he settled on a couple traits that he though were worth downloading. “Okay... where was that one at?” Wendell thought tapping the up arrow on the keyboard. “Not that one... 16 is too young... 25... 55... 30! That’s the one.” Wendell selected a file named 30yrOld_Female_Hand_Sexy_Q1.HSAT. “And at 3mbs that would be...” Wendell hadn’t checked the connection speeds, but it look to only be a tad bit faster than 56k dial up. “A little less than 10 minutes. That will work.” Wendell hit download and the file started downloading. “Now where was that other hand.” A minute later Wendell had another hand file downloading. “Hopefully this one is what I think it is.” Wendell mumbled as he looked at the filename which contained what he thought were Japanese characters. ”At least hand is in the filename.”
Wendell leaned back in his chair and looked out the window. He hadn’t seen Rusty come stumbling by yet, but he knew it wouldn’t be long before he would be there. If Rusty was anything, he was persistent when it came to money. Wendell had kind of gotten to know Rusty of the course of the last year. Rusty had stumbled up to Wendell’s van in a Wal-Mart parking lot one summer day to try selling Wendell a disposable camera he had found. Being new to the van life and not wanting to upset one of the city’s vagrants, Wendell offered Rusty a couple bucks for it and from that day on Rusty saw Wendell as a source of money. Whenever Rusty would find anything of value, he would bring it to Wendell who would usually give Rusty a couple of bucks for the item and then turn around and sell it at the pawn shop. Wendell didn’t need the money, but it gave him something to do. Plus a couple of times Rusty did find interesting items. For example the second disposable camera that Rusty had brought him had some very interesting photos from a fraternity party. Let’s just say there were girls... that were maybe... going wild...
