I missed midterms, but I'm sober. There's a first.

[Midterm elections? No. Midterm exams.]

I can fix the sobriety, but not the causality.

The library is asymptotically approaching catalogued. Just ask the computer by the door what you're looking for and it'll tell you where to find it. If you have no idea what you're looking for, it'll help you narrow down the field. It accepts voice input in English, German, and French, and does the standard text translation trick. The ( Read more... )

[Fred's library cataloging is proceeding as quickly as one might hope, but as a result of the day-night cycle not meaning much here, his sleep schedule has drifted, and he's fast asleep in the middle of the afternoon. However, his symbiont not being the type to waste time, it has borrowed Fred's motor functions, and to all appearances, Fred is ( Read more... )

Did you know that a four-dimensional sphere can be represented as a circle in seven dimensions, or, more specifically, as either a cross-section of or inscribed on the surface of a seven-dimensional torus?

[Thanks for that, Fred.Does anyone out there have the time and inclination--and expertise, not to belabor the obvious--to check some pseudo- ( Read more... )

Herz--or anyone else, really--were you serious about classes? I can teach, well, anything at the high school level and quite a few things at the college one.

Let me know.

[Fred takes a second and throws together a courtesy "please don't read this" lock. He's capable of much higher security, and consequently of hacking much higher security, but ( Read more... )

An informal and entirely statistically invalid survey, if it's not too much time out of your day.

[And what are the odds someone has anything better to do than sit around woolgathering over the comms?How many of you are from universes with FTL--that's faster-than-light--interstellar travel ( Read more... )

You'd think I'd've learned after Halloween.

[He laughs.]

The peppermints are harmless, at least.

[Crunch. Mmm, spontaneous candy cane. Fred stirs his hot chocolate with the rest of the cane. The library's not so bad when he's not getting coal winged at him by things that look like the supporting cast in a bad acid trip.Has anyone else played ( Read more... )

Has the killing died down?

I ask solely for information and not in any way as an implication that you should stop killing each other.

[That just might be dry sarcasm.]

I just saw a giant, grinning Hershey's Kiss go bouncing across Deck 8.

Is this normal?

Does anyone know how to get these things to pick a language? Any time my concentration drifts even slightly, the damn thing flicks back to English. Yes. Okay. This is a wonderfully convenient and thoughtful touch. But I'm trying to parse a bunch of dead rabbis arguing with each other, which means I need the Hebrew. And the Aramaic, dammit, as ( Read more... )