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2013-02-05

by shaenon on February 5, 2013 at 12:00 am
Chapter: Railway Children
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  1. Prodigal
    February 5, 2013, 1:54 am | # | Reply

    That really is, yeah.

  2. Forzin
    February 5, 2013, 1:56 am | # | Reply

    Her innocent joy at her success is as disturbing as it is endearing.

  3. Ebony Sable
    February 5, 2013, 1:57 am | # | Reply

    Look at those glasses. She’s as mad as the rest of them.

    • Some Smartass
      February 5, 2013, 5:25 am | # | Reply

      She does have a sort of anti-Dave’s glasses thing going, doesn’t she?

    • Michael
      February 6, 2013, 2:58 am | # | Reply

      Yeah, I noticed that.

    • SotiCoto
      August 21, 2014, 8:17 am | # | Reply

      Nope. Just enthusiastic.

  4. Eddurd
    February 5, 2013, 3:34 am | # | Reply

    (TUNE: “Over The Rainbow”, Arlen & Harburg)

    Now, there! Look at the brains go!
    Now online,
    There’s a neural dispenser
    Juiced up and working fine!

    Now, there! Look at the brains go,
    One by one!
    Watching brains going “plip” is
    Really a lot of fun!

     We’re hearing shots and screams, oh no!
     We must go in, get Sergio
     And back out!
     Now Nick has got a plan so fine,
     ”Just like an unused railroad line,
     Let’s get … the … track … out!”

    Now, there! Look at the brains go!
    Not half-bad!
    Ginny’s science, she says, is
    Sensible, not so mad!

     If Ginny Lee, that neural whiz,
     Is not a madgirl,
     I … don’t … know … who … is!

  5. Mental Mouse
    February 5, 2013, 4:40 am | # | Reply

    At this, point, the proper response is actually “OVER HERE!” — get the zombies to the brain dispenser!

    • jdreyfuss
      February 5, 2013, 6:06 am | # | Reply

      I was thinking that exact thing. Call the zombies over and pray that they haven’t gone completely feral yet.

      • Dewy
        February 5, 2013, 6:59 am | # | Reply

        More likely they will charge in and stop in horror. “I say, who dumped all these perfectly edible brains on the floor? How appaulingly unhygienic!”

        • Smithnik
          February 5, 2013, 10:09 am | # | Reply

          Yes, she has officially invented the brain equivalent of a printer with no paper tray. Their comments do seem to indicate that it really is a brain synthesizer, which is heartening. It’s reassuring that it’s not just teleporting brains out of people who weren’t using them much. She may be mad, but she’s not evil…

          • jdreyfuss
            February 6, 2013, 4:09 am | #

            You have it the wrong way round. She’s evil, but not mad. She’s also that special brand of evil that thinks it’s good because it’s psychotically well-meaning.

  6. Glenn
    February 5, 2013, 7:15 am | # | Reply

    Ironically, on the local NPR radio station yesterday, they had a news blurb about the scarcity of donated human brain tissue to study…

    “Sorry, we’re all out of samples of a corpus callosum, try back next week…”

    • Smithnik
      February 5, 2013, 10:12 am | # | Reply

      Isn’t finding fewer brains than bodies one of the early warning signs of a zombie outbreak?
      NPR could be onto something here…

  7. Axel
    February 5, 2013, 10:58 am | # | Reply

    Oh, so it makes the brains, it doesn’t just dispense them from a repository of clone tanks? That explains why it was a complicated ordeal to fix-slash-recreate. And if it’s making them one at a time, that output rate is all the more impressive!

  8. wykstrad
    February 5, 2013, 11:54 am | # | Reply

    Okay, something is going on with those glasses. Don’t know what yet, but something is.

    • Axel
      February 5, 2013, 2:13 pm | # | Reply

      A wide shot vs a close-up?

  9. butting
    February 5, 2013, 1:12 pm | # | Reply

    She’s reminding me of Rachel in Blade Runner, her eyes glowing then not-glowing then glowing again in the “Will you come after me?” scene. Her (situational?) madness is… oddly comforting.

  10. Becky
    February 5, 2013, 3:37 pm | # | Reply

    Okay, how is she not mad yet? =D

    • Kanta
      June 22, 2016, 10:39 am | # | Reply

      To quote Neil Gaimen’s Sandman, “His madness keeps him sane.”

  11. BMunro
    February 5, 2013, 3:54 pm | # | Reply

    She hasn’t quite reached the “punch physics in the face” stage of madness yet. Once she builds a teleportation device out of old clothes hangers and double A batteries, we’ll know she’s gone beyond mere genius.

    • Mr. Eldritch
      February 5, 2013, 5:18 pm | # | Reply

      I don’t know. Building a machine that makes brains out of who-knows-what at that output rate out of random shit while hiding from zombies counts as magic.

      • Rex Vivat
        February 12, 2013, 2:11 am | # | Reply

        She made a machine that makes brains out of another machine that made brains. All the necessary components were there already, so it’s not really that “magic” if you consider that she has lots of experience reverse engineering madsci devices.

        Her fogged glasses, on the other hand…

  12. Saberbeam
    February 5, 2013, 5:15 pm | # | Reply

    Whether it’s admiring her brand new brain dispenser, looking horrified at her comrade’s blood curdling screams, or psyching herself for a kickass rescue of said comrade, Dr. Lee manages to look adorable no matter what she’s doing.

    New method for falling asleep: counting brains as they fly out of the brain dispenser. Plip, one brain… Plip, two brains… Plip, three brains…

  13. Manifesta
    February 5, 2013, 5:48 pm | # | Reply

    Not sure why, but I think “plip” is my favorite sound effect ever.

    • Frank
      February 6, 2013, 2:22 pm | # | Reply

      …now that I’ve seen “plip” in sans serif, I must find out what font Shaenon uses!

      • Shaenon
        February 6, 2013, 4:27 pm | # | Reply

        Fonts are for the weak.

        • Frank
          February 10, 2013, 4:51 am | # | Reply

          LOL!

          You rock

  14. Don
    February 7, 2013, 1:37 pm | # | Reply

    Wait, you killed him?

  15. Darkstarr
    May 17, 2016, 6:02 am | # | Reply

    Am I the only mad scientist here who wants one of those for his (or her, for you Helen Narbon types) laboratory? There are just so many interesting things you can do with a nice fresh brain, don’t you know!

    {singing} If I only had spare brains! {maniacal laugh}

  16. Dementron
    December 18, 2016, 9:08 pm | # | Reply

    *plip*

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