I know this sounds perverse, but they could probably work something out. Shouldn’t be too hard to load the inside of nick’s copter mode with some artificial nerve endings and other gizmos. Dating a helicopter could have its perks too. Your boyfriend IS the fun ship.
Actually, I can imagine the USAF inventing an advanced optical cloaking system and only fitting it to a single blade of a tilt-rotor. Gotta spend all that grant money to get the same amount next year, after all.
It’s the new Comicpress Shuffle. Like an iPod Shuffle, only even less useful. It’s designed to keep commenter mindfulness high by forcing them to create a flow diagram in order to follow the more intricate comment-threads.
Or, more likely, it’s what happens when someone spills crude oil on a laptop containing the update before sticking it in the microwave (someone, please find a way to get this on Mythbusters) and uploading it via two steel cans and a piece of string.
Still. At least it’s not adding our replies to the *wrong* post. Yet.
“Still. At least it’s not adding our replies to the *wrong* post. Yet.”
Maybe the comments system has become sentient and is just practicing messing up replies before it moves on to it’s grand scheme: sowing chaos by purposefully mismatching replies to the wrong comments like some unholy mashup of Telephone and Mad Libs.
Someone call the Annex One team. Do you think Unity can punch the Internet?
So if I can’t encode HTML spaces, I’ll try something different to indent …
(TUNE: “I’m Happy Just To Dance With You”, The Beatles)
We were heading out to see a show …
I’d prefer it if we didn’t go!
We could stay at home and get it all for free …
I’m inviting Doctor Lee in me!
It’s so awesome that Virginia flips
When I mention “lossy YouTube rips”!
Entertaining vids on which we both agree,
Man, I’m happy having Lee in me!
_ Having Lee in me,
_ With Funyuns all for her now,
_ That’s not a barrier!
_ I’d like to marry her,
_ But it’s nice just having Lee in me!
Kick your shoes off now and spend the night,
Watching redshirts dying left and right
On a ninety-nine-inch plasma screen TV …
I’m just happy seein’ Lee in me!
Well, this is a perfectly lovely date, and yes, Dr. Lee seems truly into Nick. And as for how they progress from here, they could go the mechanical route and perhaps modify Nick somewhat, either his helicopter body or the violet bee drone, or they could go the VR route.
He should keep the drone and use it like the waldo it was intended to be.
At least until he and the good doctor have dated long enough for Nick to ask her for a better tactile suite and some anatomical revisions. Or she makes him a new drone for Christmas.
Awwwwwwwwwww….. Yes, just “Awww” and nothing else. This is awkwardly, stupidly romantic. Why is it that the more intelligent you are, the stupider you tend to act in forming relationships? I bet Albert Einstein was stupendously awkward, and well, we all know about Tesla. So there.
@eddurd: It looks like HTML entities do still work.
I, however, do not have javascript for this site enabled. WordPress.com is enabled, although I am not sure that it needs to be in order to comment. I am using the noscript extension on firefox.
So maybe javascript-enabled commenting is what is causing problems with HTML entities not posting?
This is what Dr Lee thinks of when she talks about “making friends”. :-/
I wonder if she intended to make a “Special Friend” with Nick, or if this is just more of the experiment for her… what an opportunity for scientific observation of the subject as it attempts to engage in “casual social intercourse”…
mnem
Oooh… I wonder what the drone will get up to while Nick’s jacked out?
Given Dr. Lee’s specialties and known track record, her “making friends” may be more literal that one might want to think about. Nick might be an example in more than one way.
No and no. He had the VR deleted and, in Nick’s own words, “the hardware is really really REALLY not up to that level”. See this entry his LJ: http://zerhakker.livejournal.com/5579.html
Testing how line breaks work…
And using a mini-filk to test it, because why not?
Hey I’ll, tell you something,
I think you might find odd.
Yeah I’ll tell you something:
I want you in my bod.
I want you in my bo-o-od.
I want you in my bod.
And when you touch me
I feel happy inside.
It’s such a feeling but
The drone isn’t right.
Isn’t right,
Isn’t right.
Yeah you, the one who made me,
From the [corpse] made by G-d.
Yeah you, are the person,
Who I want in my bod.
I want you in my bo-o-od.
I want you in my bod.
(Okay, not such a “mini” filk after all, but it’s still a tiny bit shorter than the original song. I have no idea how Nick pronounced “God” with a hyphen, but he’s good at saying things that most people can only type as long as it’s not a [filking] expletive, so I guess he found a way.)
Possibly the first time “I want you inside me” has worked as a pickup line.
Well, the second.
I know this sounds perverse, but they could probably work something out. Shouldn’t be too hard to load the inside of nick’s copter mode with some artificial nerve endings and other gizmos. Dating a helicopter could have its perks too. Your boyfriend IS the fun ship.
awww, she likes him too!
Is it just me, or is Nick missing a rotor blade?
He just has /really/ accurate stealth equipment.
I just checked Google. Ospreys have just three blades on each rotor.
Look at his port nacelle. The angles don’t look right for the blades to be evenly spaced.
Osprey rotors can fold to pack better on carriers. Possibly they interfere with walking on the roof if they’re fully extended.
Actually, I can imagine the USAF inventing an advanced optical cloaking system and only fitting it to a single blade of a tilt-rotor. Gotta spend all that grant money to get the same amount next year, after all.
It turns out that the perfect date was inside Nick all along!
Ba-dump bump!
And that was supposed to be a reply to Axel. How did ComicPress bill this upgrade, “Now with extra suckiness!”?
I’m pretty sure that line has worked a heck of a lot more than twice. It just doesn’t work that often when a straight guy says it.
@Manifesta
It’s the new Comicpress Shuffle. Like an iPod Shuffle, only even less useful. It’s designed to keep commenter mindfulness high by forcing them to create a flow diagram in order to follow the more intricate comment-threads.
Or, more likely, it’s what happens when someone spills crude oil on a laptop containing the update before sticking it in the microwave (someone, please find a way to get this on Mythbusters) and uploading it via two steel cans and a piece of string.
Still. At least it’s not adding our replies to the *wrong* post. Yet.
“Still. At least it’s not adding our replies to the *wrong* post. Yet.”
Maybe the comments system has become sentient and is just practicing messing up replies before it moves on to it’s grand scheme: sowing chaos by purposefully mismatching replies to the wrong comments like some unholy mashup of Telephone and Mad Libs.
Someone call the Annex One team. Do you think Unity can punch the Internet?
Testing something out…..it looks like replies are fine, but replies to replies are bugged.
Nope, they’re all bugged equally randomly. Ok, I’ll reset the microwave.
You know you’re a mad scientist is when you really love Funyuns.
OMG
And I don’t even have a Master’s, much less a PhD.
I’m doomed!
Don’t worry about it.
Many great inventors had little or no formal education.
Just got to your lab and start doing SCIENCE!
I LOVE Funyuns…but HATE onions. It’s a conundrum.
A conunyundrum.
So if I can’t encode HTML spaces, I’ll try something different to indent …
(TUNE: “I’m Happy Just To Dance With You”, The Beatles)
We were heading out to see a show …
I’d prefer it if we didn’t go!
We could stay at home and get it all for free …
I’m inviting Doctor Lee in me!
It’s so awesome that Virginia flips
When I mention “lossy YouTube rips”!
Entertaining vids on which we both agree,
Man, I’m happy having Lee in me!
_ Having Lee in me,
_ With Funyuns all for her now,
_ That’s not a barrier!
_ I’d like to marry her,
_ But it’s nice just having Lee in me!
Kick your shoes off now and spend the night,
Watching redshirts dying left and right
On a ninety-nine-inch plasma screen TV …
I’m just happy seein’ Lee in me!
(Seein’ … Lee in … me!)
… and of course it deletes the extra spaces. Lovely. 🙁
Aww.
Well, this is a perfectly lovely date, and yes, Dr. Lee seems truly into Nick. And as for how they progress from here, they could go the mechanical route and perhaps modify Nick somewhat, either his helicopter body or the violet bee drone, or they could go the VR route.
He should keep the drone and use it like the waldo it was intended to be.
At least until he and the good doctor have dated long enough for Nick to ask her for a better tactile suite and some anatomical revisions. Or she makes him a new drone for Christmas.
Awwwwwwwwwww….. Yes, just “Awww” and nothing else. This is awkwardly, stupidly romantic. Why is it that the more intelligent you are, the stupider you tend to act in forming relationships? I bet Albert Einstein was stupendously awkward, and well, we all know about Tesla. So there.
Awwwwwww…..
test line 1
test line 2
Hm; the above comment was to respond to eddurd’s complaint about indents.
I wrote it as:
test line 1
test line 2
What does this do?
test line 1
test line 2
Huh. The above used   to indent.
@eddurd: It looks like HTML entities do still work.
I, however, do not have javascript for this site enabled. WordPress.com is enabled, although I am not sure that it needs to be in order to comment. I am using the noscript extension on firefox.
So maybe javascript-enabled commenting is what is causing problems with HTML entities not posting?
I tried testing that myself, since I don’t have any kind of script blocker… and kept getting “Invalid security token” errors.
Well, the first time it worked for a male bodiless brain mounted in a helicopter but using a cute female robotic drone.
That line has been used successfully on my by cute females.
This is what Dr Lee thinks of when she talks about “making friends”. :-/
I wonder if she intended to make a “Special Friend” with Nick, or if this is just more of the experiment for her… what an opportunity for scientific observation of the subject as it attempts to engage in “casual social intercourse”…
mnem
Oooh… I wonder what the drone will get up to while Nick’s jacked out?
Well, it’s better than… wait… I shouldn’t complete that thought….
Given Dr. Lee’s specialties and known track record, her “making friends” may be more literal that one might want to think about. Nick might be an example in more than one way.
:facepalms:
mnem
I got nuthin’.
What’s with all the demands for a physical relationship?
So far, she’s only been interested in his brain.
Testing to see
if I managed to disable
Javascript properly
Hoo
-ray!
Thank you Nerdly Nerds!
A bit late maybe but…
Wouldn’t the VR suite they used to ‘train’ Nick still be potentially viable? She could jack into that easily enough.
Er, no pun intended.
No and no. He had the VR deleted and, in Nick’s own words, “the hardware is really really REALLY not up to that level”. See this entry his LJ: http://zerhakker.livejournal.com/5579.html
Testing how line breaks work…
And using a mini-filk to test it, because why not?
Hey I’ll, tell you something,
I think you might find odd.
Yeah I’ll tell you something:
I want you in my bod.
I want you in my bo-o-od.
I want you in my bod.
And when you touch me
I feel happy inside.
It’s such a feeling but
The drone isn’t right.
Isn’t right,
Isn’t right.
Yeah you, the one who made me,
From the [corpse] made by G-d.
Yeah you, are the person,
Who I want in my bod.
I want you in my bo-o-od.
I want you in my bod.
(Okay, not such a “mini” filk after all, but it’s still a tiny bit shorter than the original song. I have no idea how Nick pronounced “God” with a hyphen, but he’s good at saying things that most people can only type as long as it’s not a [filking] expletive, so I guess he found a way.)