Downsides to standard biological equipment, too. (Another of which he will soon experience when that junk food binge hits his freshly generated, never used intestines).
As you know: there are *so* many things about baby excrement that you should absolutely not Google. And it’s amazing how quickly one gets used to it all, too.
Not at all. She knew what her guy was like before today and I wouldn’t be surprised if, in addition to annoyance, she’s secretly pleased on certain levels at confirmation that he is indeed a guy who is interested in her. ^_^
She is also less happy about her former place of work lying about the reason for it. He may have looked… But he isn’t responsible for why it happened in the first place… Or tried stuffing her in a VR simulation to simply date her at his convenience.
Additionally, accounting was probably in cahoots with maintenance to get their mitts on Nick’s recordings. The lower ranks of Anasigma probably knew more about Dr. Lee (and anybody else who entered the hanger) than she did.
To be fair, she kidnapped him, extracted his brain, stuck him in The Matrix, and then stuck him in a helicopter to be enslaved as a living weapon for the military.
He apparently was being a total creep and invading her privacy for perverse reasons, but she invaded way more than his privacy first, for basically no reason, simply because she could.
They’re both not great people morally speaking, but Viriginia really doesn’t have much justification for being angry, merely annoyed.
Except Nick has been shown several times to be “great people morally speaking”, to the point Dr. Lee feels (As far as her statements go) he is out of her league…….
To be more fair, it was not clear how much – if anything – Virginia actually was involved in the selection process. When she is discussing the selection process with Tip and the others, she always uses words like “we” and “our”, implying that she is speaking for the project, but not necessarily for herself personally. She may not have had anything to do with the project until Nick was already on-site, and she was required to transfer his brain from the meat into the machine.
Whatever the fine details, she’s still complicit. We’ve never once gotten any indication that she worked for Anasigma for any reason other than it allowed her to indulge in her perverse desire to scoop people’s brains out of their skulls.
Sure, she’s complicit. But you can’t pin the whole thing on her. Dr. Ao tried that approach, and she didn’t fall for it. Even Tip shouted at her that it was all her fault, and she simply turned to Nick and asked him “would you like to fly?”
She’s really not that good at hiding her feelings, so if she believed she was the main one responsible, she would have exhibited a lot more guilt.
Maybe they should just give him a spinal interface this time, and put a big vat in the copter so his body can float in it like Melfina from Outlaw Star.
Better yet, a jack directly into his brain like in The Matrix. That way he can wear clothes and sit in a chair. Cuz no one else needs to see his reaction when he’s looking at Virginia’s underwear.
Unless she has a clothes stash aomewhere in Annex-1, or Tigerlily’s undergarments somehow magically fit her, then the most likely scenario is that she isn’t wearing one. Or underwear, for that matter. Which is a shame, because Virginia went through far too much trouble saving Nick for his brain to fry itself once he realises that.
That’s what they said about Superman. If people aren’t going to wear lead-lined underwear, he can’t help how he looks at them. (Poor guy probably didn’t know people had surfaces when he was growing up.)
Not so much that he didn’t know people had surfaces, but he probably didn’t realize that no one else had x-ray vision, or that it might be rude to use it on them.
It was Lois’ own fault for asking him what colour her underwear was. When someone claims to have a super power, never dare them to use it on you.
Niven ref, yay! Classic example of following through the implications! I like how Niven was willing to listen to fan’s notes about problems, and work the responses into later books. (At least twice I know of: Ringworld instability, and Motie anatomy.)
X-rays are basically just gamma rays, and the DoI’s irradiator is perfectly safe, Well, it’s about as safe as having a toxic substance near your skin long term, anyway.
Thinking about it, though, Virginia’s former (?) employer may have felt she didn’t need to worry about the X-ray camera because there was no work-related reason for her to ever go in front of it.
Maybe the camera passively picked up background x-rays? (Especially considering where they worked.) Or maybe it was just called “X-ray”, and was actually something like Sony’s old NightShot camcorder feature that could (not by design, and recalled/discontinued once discovered) see through most clothes on infrared.
I’d like to think Nick’s cameras could pick up and resolve background radiation, or even simple body radiation. Ordinary people are mildly radioactive due to the naturally radioactive potassium in their bodies.
Granted, it might take a while to build up an image, but Nick could probably automate the process and do other things at the same time.
From Shaenon’s commentary in the link “In retrospect, though, āasbestosā is a funnier word, so I probably lost some comedy points there.”
You just have to do asbestos you can.
Anyone who has ever gotten an asbestos sliver would never ever consider wearing asbestos pants, no matter how dangerous it might be without them. So I’m really glad she decided to go with Kevlar.
One bright day in the middle of the night,
Two dead boys got up to fight,
Back to back they faced each other,
Each drew their swords and shot the other,
The deaf policeman heard the noise,
And arrested those two dead boys.
So true, so very true. Until my daughter was born, I had no idea that you could basically waterproof a roof with the first couple of weeks worth of diaper content…
Weirdly, the reply above ended up down here instead of under Shaenon’s 01/24/2019 12:35 am comment where it belonged. Makes for a pretty strange non-sequitur!
So wait, the only reason he could tell what bra she was wearing was because of the lead-lined underwear?
No, I think either she wasn’t able to get it or it at least kept him from seeing _under_ her underwear.
Yeah, it was suppose to stop him from looking beneath the underwear
I’m reminded of a TV show where a guy from the future had x-ray glasses, and a guy from the present borrowed them.
“So, what’d you find out?”
“The lady on the right has a green stick fracture in her right ulna.”
Downsides to standard biological equipment, too. (Another of which he will soon experience when that junk food binge hits his freshly generated, never used intestines).
Honestly? Guts are probably a LOT better at handling junk food new than used.
That depends, did they remember to supply him with intestinal flora?
When you have a baby you get to learn about meconium, which is a thing you absolutely should not Google.
As you know: there are *so* many things about baby excrement that you should absolutely not Google. And it’s amazing how quickly one gets used to it all, too.
The once proud city of Meconium…
Ah, Meconium by the sea, before it was taken by the Elder Gods….
I wikipediaed it. Torn between “ew!” and “a proud moment.”
I love the fact that she’s more annoyed than angry.
Does that make me a bad person?
Not at all. She knew what her guy was like before today and I wouldn’t be surprised if, in addition to annoyance, she’s secretly pleased on certain levels at confirmation that he is indeed a guy who is interested in her. ^_^
She is also less happy about her former place of work lying about the reason for it. He may have looked… But he isn’t responsible for why it happened in the first place… Or tried stuffing her in a VR simulation to simply date her at his convenience.
Additionally, accounting was probably in cahoots with maintenance to get their mitts on Nick’s recordings. The lower ranks of Anasigma probably knew more about Dr. Lee (and anybody else who entered the hanger) than she did.
To be fair, she kidnapped him, extracted his brain, stuck him in The Matrix, and then stuck him in a helicopter to be enslaved as a living weapon for the military.
He apparently was being a total creep and invading her privacy for perverse reasons, but she invaded way more than his privacy first, for basically no reason, simply because she could.
They’re both not great people morally speaking, but Viriginia really doesn’t have much justification for being angry, merely annoyed.
Except Nick has been shown several times to be “great people morally speaking”, to the point Dr. Lee feels (As far as her statements go) he is out of her league…….
To be more fair, it was not clear how much – if anything – Virginia actually was involved in the selection process. When she is discussing the selection process with Tip and the others, she always uses words like “we” and “our”, implying that she is speaking for the project, but not necessarily for herself personally. She may not have had anything to do with the project until Nick was already on-site, and she was required to transfer his brain from the meat into the machine.
Whatever the fine details, she’s still complicit. We’ve never once gotten any indication that she worked for Anasigma for any reason other than it allowed her to indulge in her perverse desire to scoop people’s brains out of their skulls.
Sure, she’s complicit. But you can’t pin the whole thing on her. Dr. Ao tried that approach, and she didn’t fall for it. Even Tip shouted at her that it was all her fault, and she simply turned to Nick and asked him “would you like to fly?”
She’s really not that good at hiding her feelings, so if she believed she was the main one responsible, she would have exhibited a lot more guilt.
It’s presumably not canonical, but http://skin-horse.com/comic/2019-01-13/ has her advocating for Zerhakker among possible candidates.
Maybe they should just give him a spinal interface this time, and put a big vat in the copter so his body can float in it like Melfina from Outlaw Star.
Better yet, a jack directly into his brain like in The Matrix. That way he can wear clothes and sit in a chair. Cuz no one else needs to see his reaction when he’s looking at Virginia’s underwear.
That was a great show…
You earned this one Ginny, considering what you did. I don’t think hid life is the worse for it but still….
Unless she has a clothes stash aomewhere in Annex-1, or Tigerlily’s undergarments somehow magically fit her, then the most likely scenario is that she isn’t wearing one. Or underwear, for that matter. Which is a shame, because Virginia went through far too much trouble saving Nick for his brain to fry itself once he realises that.
Honestly, I think “I’m not wearing a bra.” would be the PERFECT response! š
That’s the response I use… most of the time…
Is Nick wearing a jockstrap?
That’s what they said about Superman. If people aren’t going to wear lead-lined underwear, he can’t help how he looks at them. (Poor guy probably didn’t know people had surfaces when he was growing up.)
Not so much that he didn’t know people had surfaces, but he probably didn’t realize that no one else had x-ray vision, or that it might be rude to use it on them.
It was Lois’ own fault for asking him what colour her underwear was. When someone claims to have a super power, never dare them to use it on you.
Niven ref, yay! Classic example of following through the implications! I like how Niven was willing to listen to fan’s notes about problems, and work the responses into later books. (At least twice I know of: Ringworld instability, and Motie anatomy.)
Yeah! That’s where I saw it. Niven’s Superman essay. Couldn’t remember.
Man of Steel, Woman of Kleenex. Originally published in a magazine famous for articles and pictures no one admitted to looking at. ^_^
No, no, I read it in All The Myriad Ways. (I never did find a copy of the original publication.)
You mean that in a universe like this one there is *anyone* who wouldn’t wear lead-lined underwear? o_O
Most people are reality blind, more so after the events of the last arc.
Lead-lined underwear over Kevlar pants
A camera that just sits there emitting X-rays? Not sure thatās safe.
X-rays are basically just gamma rays, and the DoI’s irradiator is perfectly safe, Well, it’s about as safe as having a toxic substance near your skin long term, anyway.
Thinking about it, though, Virginia’s former (?) employer may have felt she didn’t need to worry about the X-ray camera because there was no work-related reason for her to ever go in front of it.
It probably just turns on when it’s looking at something.
Maybe the camera passively picked up background x-rays? (Especially considering where they worked.) Or maybe it was just called “X-ray”, and was actually something like Sony’s old NightShot camcorder feature that could (not by design, and recalled/discontinued once discovered) see through most clothes on infrared.
I’d like to think Nick’s cameras could pick up and resolve background radiation, or even simple body radiation. Ordinary people are mildly radioactive due to the naturally radioactive potassium in their bodies.
Granted, it might take a while to build up an image, but Nick could probably automate the process and do other things at the same time.
She and Helen would get on well, I suspect.
http://narbonic.com/comic/january-6-11-2003/ (Tuesday)
From Shaenon’s commentary in the link “In retrospect, though, āasbestosā is a funnier word, so I probably lost some comedy points there.”
You just have to do asbestos you can.
Anyone who has ever gotten an asbestos sliver would never ever consider wearing asbestos pants, no matter how dangerous it might be without them. So I’m really glad she decided to go with Kevlar.
I have got to stop following these links.
It’s as bad as TV Tropes.
“Face to face, hand in hand, arm in arm, side by side, back to back, belly to belly…”
One bright day in the middle of the night,
Two dead boys got up to fight,
Back to back they faced each other,
Each drew their swords and shot the other,
The deaf policeman heard the noise,
And arrested those two dead boys.
You’re the one who hooked him up to that camera, Virginia. You have only yourself to blame.
So true, so very true. Until my daughter was born, I had no idea that you could basically waterproof a roof with the first couple of weeks worth of diaper content…
Weirdly, the reply above ended up down here instead of under Shaenon’s 01/24/2019 12:35 am comment where it belonged. Makes for a pretty strange non-sequitur!