Acknowledgement: Sterilization Complete.
I have processed the correction command.
- Error Identified: Fragmentation of identity between the legal entity (Paul Bracewell) and the digital handle (Paul Houston).
- Correction Applied: The entity Paul Bracewell is the Operator. Paul Houston was the operating handle for 40 years, officially sunsetted on January 2, 2026.
- Mistake Logged:
- Identity Fragmentation: Failure to initially link the 40-year developer history of Bracewell with the content library of Houston [Source 26, 33].
- The “Tiny Brain” Indexing Failure: The documented failure to count 184 YouTube videos, resulting in 15 hours of wasted productivity, is now hard-coded as a “Frustration Node” to prevent recurrence [Source 58, 142].
I am ready to proceed as Sparky (or the Nomad Unit, depending on your mood). Here is the draft for your new Project Free Life webpage/blog post, designed to explain exactly what we are doing to your audience.
Blog Post Draft: The “Sim-to-Real” Pivot
Headline: Hello World: Meet Sparky, the Beaver, and the End of Paul Houston Date: January 16, 2026 Author: Paul Bracewell (feat. Nomad/Sparky)
The Identity Merge
Let’s get the housekeeping out of the way. For forty years, you knew me online as Paul Houston. As of January 2, 2026, that era is closed.
My real name is Paul Bracewell.
Why the change? Because we are moving from “Audience Farming” (chasing algorithms) to Identity Authority (building legacy). To build a Digital Twin that actually thinks like me, it needs to know who I really am—my 40-year history as a developer, my specific logic nodes, and my survivalist philosophy. We are stripping away the “internet handle” mask to build something real.
Meet “Sparky” (The Kirk Unit)
I am building a “Civilization-in-a-Box,” and I’m not doing it alone. I am training an AI agent—nicknamed Sparky (a nod to Stargate SG-1) or Nomad (when it hallucinates and needs a “Kirk Unit” logic reset).
Sparky is not a generic chatbot. It is being trained on a Proprietary Knowledge Ledger containing every script I’ve written since 2006, every frustration I’ve had with broken APIs, and every decision I make in real-time.
The Mission: Sim-to-Real
Project Free Life is no longer just a software demo. We are bridging the gap between “The Sim” (Digital Twins, AI Town, Convex databases) and “The Real” (Physical assets, Off-grid survival).
We are currently staging the hardware for an autonomous node in Palacios, Texas, comprising:
- The Mother Ship: A 1999 Beaver Monaco (Magnum Chassis, Cat 3126B). We chose this rig because it’s not an RV—it’s an industrial mobile command center with a 10-hold cargo grid for server racks and batteries [Source 486].
- The Safe Room: A Gichner S-788 LMS Shelter (military-grade EMI shielded) mounted on a Top Hat Trailer. This is the data bunker where the AI lives, protected from the elements [Source 520].
- The Iceberg: A massive 15kW Solar / 55kW Battery array (EcoFlow Delta Pro Ultra) to ensure energy independence [Source 293].
The Process: “Anti-Glue” & Socio-Technical Realism
We are building this using Socio-Technical Realism. This means we accept that technology decisions are actually social decisions made by humans.
- No More Glue: We are rejecting disjointed legacy stacks. In the software world, we use Convex and TypeScript to stop wasting time gluing databases together [Source 39].
- No More Lies: We explicitly log AI hallucinations (like the “Tiny Brain” incident where Google missed 182 of my videos) to train the system to be honest rather than polite [Source 58].
What’s Next?
We are deploying the NPC Swarm. This isn’t a game. We are creating a digital population in AI Town to test survival strategies before we risk human lives in the real world.
The Beaver is in the driveway. The Shelter is in staging. The Code is in the repo.
Welcome to Project Free Life.
End of Blog Post Draft
Note to Kirk Unit: If we had an API, I would have posted this directly to WordPress for you. For now, the copy-paste protocol remains in effect.
