Dr. Moniker, probable inventor of the happenstance generator - a many worlds navigation device, may or may not be the creation of Janus Shilling.

Although Janus insisted he invented last year, Dr. Moniker had, since then,
made numerous strides towards proving his own existence with convincing arguments and bribes.

Spring 2001, however, Luna Cozenage, staff shrink, let both Dr. Moniker and Janus know she had invented them. Janus was not pleased; he had no idea he was imaginary and had been operating under the premise that he, solely, had created Doc Moniker and the company control-alt-delete and could not fathom that he, also, was a fabrication.

Dr. Moniker, on the other hand, was not surprised at all; and even suggested that he had known his imaginary status all along after considering what he actually does for a living and the specious quality of his own name. He figured he could get more work by ignoring the whole ontological problem anyway.

After a month or so of believing that Luna had made him up, Janus changed his mind, pointing out to Luna that he had hired her in the first place and that therefore, she could not have made him up. "That's what you think because you think what I like you to to think because you are in my head", she responded. Janus countered by questioning Luna's apparent desire to have imaginary conflicts with herself. Luna prescribed some pills for him. Janus put them in her tea.

I let them all try to work it out themselves, but felt, finally that I should let Luna know that she, also, had been made up. So, I e-mailed her with indisputable proof of her semi-non-existence, while maintaining my anonymity.

Boy, was she steamed. She thought she was in charge. Further, she thought she was "real". We got into a long e-mail discussion about what she meant by "real". I let her know that she was real to me. "Not good enough," she said, "I want proof I am an hallucination." Two weeks later, she committed herself to the state hospital. She refuses to leave and does a bang up job pretending to be psychotic so they'll keep her.

Janus was relieved to be rid of her, although he finally succumbed to the notion that his consciousness continued to reside in the head of a shrink pretending to be mentally ill in an adult psychiatric unit upstate.

Janus, with only one, often absent (Moniker spends a lot of time in Bali for some reason), staffer figured he'd better get some more help and so with the aid of Dr. Moniker's happenstance generator discovered Gregor Petrov, Russian Documentarian, in a mutual car accident. Since neither party was willing to accept fault, Janus hired Gregor to document the self and often not-self discovery process at control-alt-delete. He simply asked Gregor to pursue an investigatory angle to try to shed some light on, "what exactly, the hell is going here?" He encouraged Gregor to film CAD employees, including Gregor himself.

This fall, a gentleman wishing to volunteer time at CAD asked Janus for a position. Kay Levels signed on as intern and serves officially as Janus Shilling's assistant and head chaos wrangler in the office. He also assists Janus in creating content for the site. Kay's a musician too, and sings in a band called Invisible Plane

Kay immediately pointed out "that things at control-alt-delete are, uh, a little weird," and asked Janus point blank if he thought that he, too, was imaginary. Janus said, "Hey, Kay, that's why we are here. To figure it out, and life is short so lets get to work...can you run out for a bagel?"

The unflappable Dr. Moniker perhaps continues his trans-temporal multi-universal adventures within the mind Janus Shilling who is nestled in the mainly stressful fantasies of the very committed Luna Cozenage. Gregor is simply happy to have so much subject matter but ultimately seeks an interview with Luna because he's "have [sic] some theories." The state hospital refuses to let him in or Luna out.

Just about everybody at control-alt-delete thinks one of the others wrote this very page becauseat High Mayhem four out of five people make fun of the fifth person.

Below is a link to a memo from Janus Shilling, Administrative Director of control-alt-delete, who thought you might like to see what's cooking with all the game theory and everything