xp_logs | Net boy, net girl, send your signal 'round the world (Reply)

Marie-Ange is in Biology, writing a report on dissection (of a 6-legged frog, to boot.) Doug is in Computer Science. Amazingly, both get their class work -done- in this as well as chatting illicitly.

x tarot: Faith in my precognitive abilities there, Doug?
x tarot: I am not ever, ever, ever drinking that coffee again. It blinked at me.
CypherDoug: I figure sleep deprivation enhances the precog, why not mood-altering substances? Because from what I've heard, Doctor MacTaggart's coffee definitely qualifies.
x tarot: It seemed like a good idea this morning. There is a pot of that stuff in this classroom. I think it is staring at me.
CypherDoug: What, is the bio class testing it for sentience?
CypherDoug: ;-)
x tarot: No, I think she's drinking it.
x tarot: Although it might explain the frogs. They have six legs.
CypherDoug: _Six_? How'd she get frogs with six legs?
x tarot: I have no idea. But they're not as scary as that coffee pot.
CypherDoug: I don't even think _Lorna_ is caffeine-crazed enough to try Doctor MacTaggart’s coffee.
x tarot: I hope not. We don't need her making the cutlery dance.
x tarot: ... IT LOOKED AT ME! The coffee looked at me, and winked. I think it knows I had some and wants me to have more!
CypherDoug: Okay, am definitely classifying Doctor MacTaggart’s coffee as a mood-altering substance.
x tarot: I wonder if Manuel can sense if it has emotions. I think it is intelligent life.
CypherDoug: And I just got the mental image of Lorna reenacting the "Be Our Guest" scene from Beauty and the Beast.
CypherDoug: :)
x tarot: With Dr. McCoy as Beast?
x tarot: And ... and.. Remy as the candlestick, because his accent is worse than mine!
CypherDoug: Cogsworth is British, but I don't think Mr. Wisdom is stuffy enough to play that part.
CypherDoug: And it's either Doctor McCoy or Logan to play Beast. I think I'd rather Doctor McCoy. But then who plays Belle?
x tarot: Alison!
CypherDoug: I was thinking her, but I wasn't sure if someone else would be better.
x tarot: Paige?
x tarot: Alison can dance though, I don't know if Paige can.
CypherDoug: *nods* Paige has the whole 'bookish' thing going for her.
x tarot: Who would be Gaston?
CypherDoug: Hm. Can't think of who would be good for that role.
CypherDoug: Paige is Belle, because Alison is the teacup that was played by Angela Lansbury. And Miles is the little teacup.
x tarot: Someone big, cranky and not very tactful?
CypherDoug: Mr. Marko!
x tarot: We must never, ever let him see this conversation.
x tarot: I don't know that I could make any more walls.
CypherDoug: Besides, he's big enough that he might break through one of your walls.
x tarot: I don't know how strong those are, besides.
CypherDoug: *nods* So anyways, who else do we need to cast for this? :)
x tarot: Give me a second? I have to find a way to describe frog ovaries for a dissection report.
CypherDoug: Frog ovaries? Ew. I'm so glad I'm not taking bio.
CypherDoug: Give me nice logical physics equations every day.
x tarot: We've been cutting up mutant frogs. I think Dr. MacTaggart has a hidden agenda.
CypherDoug: _Everyone_ in the mansion has a hidden agenda, didn't you know? ;-)
x tarot: Not everyone.
CypherDoug: Aw, c'mon. You're telling me _you_ don't have a secret agenda?
x tarot: None that would hurt anyone. Do you?
CypherDoug: Secret agendas don't have to hurt people.
Frito KAL: Hee.
CypherDoug: They just have to be secret.
CypherDoug: And I think my agenda is not-so-secret.
x tarot: Oh. In that case, yes. Lots.
x tarot: You have an agenda?
CypherDoug: I think everyone knows it after last week.
CypherDoug: :-/
x tarot: I need a word for grumeleux that isn't 'lumpy' . (Frog eggs are lumpy, but I used that once.)
CypherDoug: Squishy?
CypherDoug: :)
x tarot: They are that, also.
CypherDoug: Although is 'squishy' really a technical term? :)
x tarot: Your agenda is not that obvious, or different from everyone else. No one wants to be alone. And you aren't alone.
CypherDoug: Darn. Was hoping if we changed the subject to fish eggs quickly enough, you wouldn't notice that comment. *chuckle*
x tarot: I don't think squishy is going to work on this dissection report. I hate these things. The only good part is using the computer to write them.
x tarot: frog eggs. Fish eggs are not icky, and occasionally good.
CypherDoug: Er, yeah. Frog eggs. Duh. Doug's brain is also squishy.
x tarot: *pokes brain with pencil*
CypherDoug: And you could use an online thesaurus to find another word for lumpy?
x tarot: Usually it is faster to ask you. :)
x tarot: I wonder if coarse-grained is detailed enough.
CypherDoug: Hee. You're looking at the same online thesaurus I just went to, aren't you.
x tarot: Probably.
x tarot: The eggs were like grains, and it is better than lumpy.
CypherDoug: Because I know you probably didn't come up with 'coarse-grained' on your own.
CypherDoug: :)
x tarot: I could have! Eventually.
CypherDoug: You know the only thing I don't like about programming class?
x tarot: I could guess, but it would be wrong.
x tarot: So tell me?
CypherDoug: What would you guess?
CypherDoug: <<-- is curious.
x tarot: I actually have no idea, because I've never been to a programming class.
x tarot: I think you and Kitty just start speaking another language when you talk about it.
CypherDoug: Having to check for invalid inputs. Doctor McCoy never lets us assume anything about users being smart enough to enter valid inputs.
CypherDoug: So silly little programs become twice as complex, because you have to worry about people being stupid.
x tarot: Are people usually stupid about programs?
CypherDoug: Actually, quite often.
x tarot: You realize I have no idea what an invalid input is, yes?
CypherDoug: An invalid input is when someone puts in something that isn't right. Like if you're expecting the user to input a number, and instead they put 'aldkjf'.
x tarot: So you have to prevent them from putting letters? That makes sense, I suppose. And only increases my resolve to never take that class, ever.
CypherDoug: Well, if they put letters in, you have to output a message the screen usually about how the input wasn't valid. And unfortunately "You're an idiot, can't you read instructions?" usually doesn't qualify as a good input error statement.
x tarot: I could give you some good insults in French, except, Dr. McCoy speaks French, and he would understand them.
CypherDoug: *nods* And I could use insults in other languages, except then Doctor McCoy would look at me, and clean his glasses on his lab coat, and say "Douglas, as much as the desire to constantly exercise your mutant power is laudable, profanity, no matter what language it may be in, is the last resort of a feeble mind, and it ill-behooves you to use it in your programs."
x tarot: Did he say that, or is speaking Dr. McCoy part of your power?
CypherDoug: He didn't say that. I just know that that's approximately how he would react. Glasses-cleaning and all.
x tarot: Are you sure that's not part of your power? - and - OW. Either writing this is giving me a headache, or that coffee did something to me.
CypherDoug: I'd give better odds on it being the coffee. That stuff scares me.
x tarot: I don't know. I suspect it might be having to figure out what I learned about mutations from cutting open a frog with six legs.
CypherDoug: I dunno. I mean, there's schoolwork headaches, and then there's crazy Scottish coffee headaches.
x tarot: This is the kind that feels like I stuck something in my left eye and am prodding around inside my head a little. It does not hurt a great deal, it just hurt for a moment very badly.
CypherDoug: I think it's the coffee trying to strangle your brainstem and usurp your higher brain functions.
CypherDoug: :)
x tarot: Do you suppose she would believe that I learned that a mutation visible on the outside can also affect parts on the inside? This frog had some really strange things going in with its spine.
CypherDoug: Stands to reason. Six legs have to all connect to the nervous system somewhere...
x tarot: Oh yes. Lots of little dangly spinal cord bits.
CypherDoug: Sounds fun.
x tarot: Loads. More when Fred was making his dance.
CypherDoug: Fred still has nothing on Jamie for being silly, though.
x tarot: Jamie is the king of silly. I think Fred was just trying to be icky.
CypherDoug: Speaking of Jamie and silly...*grins*
x tarot: Is this one of those hidden agendas?
CypherDoug: Oh yes. But you can be in on it. I'll probably need Lorna's help, too, as long as she'll actually talk to me.
x tarot: You know I can't go throw socks at you from here. Its unfair, saying things like that over the instant message.
CypherDoug: That's why I make sure I'm out of sock range before I say them. :-/
x tarot: We have dance class together, I will save them up.
x tarot: Although I suppose that making you take that class is revenge enough.
CypherDoug: She and I exchanged emails after the thing on Mr. Dayspring's entry last night. And I think everything's okay...just, I worry, y'know?
x tarot: You worry too much. If people were mad, they would say so. If she did not want to talk, she would not have emailed.
x tarot: Or responded to your email.
x tarot: Or however it went.
CypherDoug: Responded to mine.
x tarot: See, if she was mad, you would not have gotten a response.
CypherDoug: Either that or had my computer wiped by a magnetic pulse. *chuckle*
x tarot: That would be bad.
x tarot: Oh. I need to raid your Magic cards if we are going to teach Jamie to play. Mine are all in French, and I don't think it would help him to just see one set. I don't have many with me anyway.
CypherDoug: Very. I <3 my laptop. *cuddles it*
x tarot: Do you need some time alone with that computer, Doug?
CypherDoug: *rolls eyes*
CypherDoug: And I've got a decent-sized stack of cards in my room. Even some really new stuff. Mirrodin and Darksteel. Dunno how set releases work in France, if they're behind the US or what.
x tarot: Tell me if this sounds stupid? "In dissecting the frog, I observed that the additional limbs were not just an external mutation. The frog's skeleton, nervous system and heart were also changed to support the extra legs. My conclusion is that mutations are not always visible from the outside, and that additional changes to support the visible ones exist as well."
x tarot: I think we were up to date, but I have not gotten cards in a while. I didn't think anyone else played.
CypherDoug: Sounds good to me. Exact.
CypherDoug: I really like the whole new Equipment concept from Mirrodin.
x tarot: I hate these things. I never know what to say I learned. This class was less hard when we were looking at plant cells.
x tarot: I read about that. I wonder if we should start with the earlier cards though? Too many concepts in the new things, I don't want to scare off Jamie before he knows enough to make joke about Atogs.
CypherDoug: Probably wise.
x tarot: Do you ever get the impression we're about to create a monster with this?
CypherDoug: Oh yes. But since it was your idea, I'm blaming you.
CypherDoug: :)
x tarot: So you have an excuse to have me owe you?
CypherDoug: Exactly. *grin*
x tarot: Darnit. I don't get extra credit for drawing frog guts.
CypherDoug: Ew. No. Because that's required for bio class.
x tarot: That's what Dr. MacTaggart said. "An if ye animate them, you'll be earnin' a day of helpin' Mr. Marko."
x tarot: She's being very mean. ;(
x tarot: I didn't animate them though.
CypherDoug: Thank god for that. That'd just be disgusting. Animated 3-D frog guts?
x tarot: I didn't even think about it before she said!
x tarot: YAY! Report is all done.
CypherDoug: Woo!
x tarot: I really, really don't want to go to Speech class.
CypherDoug: Why's that?
x tarot: Its the hardest class I have so far.
CypherDoug: Why is it so hard?
x tarot: It is all talking. In English. It is the most frustrating class.
CypherDoug: Your English is very good, though.
x tarot: It is also all listening and trying to guess what people are saying with their faces.
x tarot: You would actually probably be really good at it.
CypherDoug: I have an unfair advantage. :)
x tarot: I noticed.
CypherDoug: *grins*
CypherDoug: So anyways, Jamie and the dress.
x tarot: I do not have any advantage, and part of the class is trying to fluster everyone else.
x tarot: Jamie and the dress, what?
CypherDoug: I have a Cunning Plan.
x tarot: Tell me?
CypherDoug: Okay, one morning when Jamie's in the shower, we move all the clothes out of the room, leaving him only a very nice dress to wear when he gets out of the shower.
x tarot: We would be so dead.
CypherDoug: Yes.
CypherDoug: Especially me.
x tarot: I'm in. What do I need to do?
CypherDoug: But if there were pictures? *grin*
x tarot: I have a camera.
CypherDoug: I know.
x tarot: I don't know that pictures are fair though. That could be really embarrassing.
CypherDoug: Um, I really need Lorna's help, because there's metal in hangers, so she could probably get all of his hanging laundry out relatively quickly. We'll need to figure out a way to handle the dresser drawers and laundry hamper.
x tarot: Do you think we can recruit the weapons of mass cuteness?
CypherDoug: I think so. Besides, they're safe from the Wrath of Jamie.
x tarot: Of course, and Jamie cannot be the only one giving them a proper education.
CypherDoug: Of course!
x tarot: Artie might have some girl-cootie issues with Lorna touching his clothes.
CypherDoug: That's okay. I'll handle Artie's clothes. And we'll come up with a cootie-prevention treatment to counteract their temporary location in Lorna and Alison's room.
x tarot: How long is Jamie in the shower for? We'll have to work fast.
CypherDoug: I would estimate no more than 10 minutes, just to be safe. Think we need anyone else in on this?
x tarot: We don't have dupes to help, we might need a few more sets of hands.
x tarot: Jubilee? She might, just to try to be funny.
CypherDoug: *nods* Shall I send an email out about it?
x tarot: Do you think 5 sets of arms is enough? Although, I guess you could do yours and the boys' ahead of time?
CypherDoug: Yeah. That should be plenty. We could probably keep it down to you, me, and Lorna along with the kidlets if I do mine and the boys' ahead of time.
x tarot: Yeah. Jubilee isn't exactly subtle either..
CypherDoug: Okay, will send an email to Lorna.
x tarot: YAY!
CypherDoug: Besides, if she was mad at me, I think pictures of Jamie in a dress would make her not mad anymore.
x tarot: I think pictures of Jamie in a dress might not make anyone mad anymore. Those are worth more than gold.
CypherDoug: Oh yes. Besides, I still owe Jamie for the last prank.
x tarot: What did he get you with last?
x tarot: You aren't going to try to get revenge on me for the Jr. Devil Woman thing, are you?
CypherDoug: I think the hair was the last thing he got me with.
CypherDoug: And would I do something like that? *innocent*
x tarot: You're about as innocent as I am, Mr. Ramsey.
CypherDoug: *raises eyebrow* Mr. Ramsey? And how innocent _are_ you, Ms. Colbert?
x tarot: How innocent do you think I am, considering that I got you to dance with me for the rest of the semester?
CypherDoug: Good point.
CypherDoug: I get the impression there's something you're not telling me on that front, though.
x tarot: How do you mean?
CypherDoug: There's varying levels of not-innocent. You suckering me into dance class is one thing, but I feel like there's something deeper than that.
anything for certain, just suspects.
x tarot: What are you trying to say?
CypherDoug: Just that...I can't shake the idea that there's something you aren't telling me.
x tarot: ...
CypherDoug: ...Angie?
x tarot: Yeah?
CypherDoug: You okay there? Didn't mean to freak you out. *worries*
x tarot: I'll be okay. I just .. wonder which one of us has precognition sometimes.
CypherDoug: No, I'm not precognitive. Just...hyper perceptive sometimes.
x tarot: Cheat in person? I have a break.
CypherDoug: Me too. I'm starting to go a little cross-eyed looking at the computer screen.
x tarot: Okay. Besides, the coffee pot is staring at me again.
CypherDoug: Then by all means, make your escape. Sunroom?
x tarot: Let me print this thing out, and turn it in and then yes. Class is nearly over.

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