Tennie:-Too stupid, too crass... and too difficult to get out of his head.-Not at all, actually. I was just looking for a distinctive last name that fit the word-salad-esque style of MSLN, and that was the first to come to mind.-True, but: -I don't watch Mythbusters; -That's how the saying goes; -I always thought it was about how well people would take the concept of a lead balloon, not how well it'd work; -Sounds like something that'd be easy to puncture. Lead's sorta soft... and -Led Zeppelin went over rather well, which is sorta the opposite of what I was going for.
Rob://www.youtube.com/embed/zhEH6MvNWIw?rel=0I was mixing my references.
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Once I'd paid the fee (curse you, storage industry, for not letting me pay more than six months in advance!), locker 0451 opened at last, revealing something I'd been missing for years now.
My laptop. My original, Earth-tech laptop, complete with messenger bag, charger, some USB keys, my favorite earbuds, and all my files.
Okay, then. I want to copy a few things off of this machine, and onto my Device. How do I go about it?
...more importantly, do I have time to go about it? It can hold quite a charge, but I was using it over two whole weeks. I seem to remember it getting pretty low.
Well, there's one good way to deal with that issue... as soon as I get the coordinates, which means a trip to a public access terminal. Better that the records of this trip stay safely anonymous.
Ten minutes later, I was pulling up a map of known space at a public terminal... and scratching my head in confusion at it. Why aren't the unadministrated worlds listed? I mean, they're labeled as such, but not named, numbered, or given coordinates. What's with that?
Eh. I'm sure there's a way around that.
To make a (half-hour) long story short, there was. None of the worlds were listed as anything but 'Unadministrated World' on the map... but since I already knew which unadministrated world I needed to find, all I had to do was search the Link for information on UAW #87. Specifics, of course, were impossible to find, but I didn't need them to narrow down Earth's location to one of three possible worlds.
Once I had a small enough sample size, I just measured the (scale) map, and extrapolated some rough, ROUGH coordinates from that. I'd never use them- they were as likely to drop me in the sun as anything- but they were enough to perform more refined searches with... and one of those searches led me to an amateur world-spotting group, which had more exact coordinate sets.
Coincidentally enough, one of those coordinate sets returned a hit on... well, it looked like the equivalent of a blog... describing a country named 'Canada'. The instant I saw that, I smiled. Pay dirt. On the correct continent, too, so I won't have to go as far to get what I need. Time to give this a shot.
I walked away from the public access station I'd been using (getting a dirty look from the guy behind me; he must've been waiting the entire time to be that irritated), and headed for the nearest park. Didn't take long to find an isolated spot; thirty seconds and a flash of light later, and I was gone.
My Unitarian Jihad Name is: Brother Atom Bomb of Courteous Debate. Get yours.
I've been writing a bit.
Rob://www.youtube.com/embed/zhEH6MvNWIw?rel=0I was mixing my references.
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Once I'd paid the fee (curse you, storage industry, for not letting me pay more than six months in advance!), locker 0451 opened at last, revealing something I'd been missing for years now.
My laptop. My original, Earth-tech laptop, complete with messenger bag, charger, some USB keys, my favorite earbuds, and all my files.
Okay, then. I want to copy a few things off of this machine, and onto my Device. How do I go about it?
...more importantly, do I have time to go about it? It can hold quite a charge, but I was using it over two whole weeks. I seem to remember it getting pretty low.
Well, there's one good way to deal with that issue... as soon as I get the coordinates, which means a trip to a public access terminal. Better that the records of this trip stay safely anonymous.
Ten minutes later, I was pulling up a map of known space at a public terminal... and scratching my head in confusion at it. Why aren't the unadministrated worlds listed? I mean, they're labeled as such, but not named, numbered, or given coordinates. What's with that?
Eh. I'm sure there's a way around that.
To make a (half-hour) long story short, there was. None of the worlds were listed as anything but 'Unadministrated World' on the map... but since I already knew which unadministrated world I needed to find, all I had to do was search the Link for information on UAW #87. Specifics, of course, were impossible to find, but I didn't need them to narrow down Earth's location to one of three possible worlds.
Once I had a small enough sample size, I just measured the (scale) map, and extrapolated some rough, ROUGH coordinates from that. I'd never use them- they were as likely to drop me in the sun as anything- but they were enough to perform more refined searches with... and one of those searches led me to an amateur world-spotting group, which had more exact coordinate sets.
Coincidentally enough, one of those coordinate sets returned a hit on... well, it looked like the equivalent of a blog... describing a country named 'Canada'. The instant I saw that, I smiled. Pay dirt. On the correct continent, too, so I won't have to go as far to get what I need. Time to give this a shot.
I walked away from the public access station I'd been using (getting a dirty look from the guy behind me; he must've been waiting the entire time to be that irritated), and headed for the nearest park. Didn't take long to find an isolated spot; thirty seconds and a flash of light later, and I was gone.
My Unitarian Jihad Name is: Brother Atom Bomb of Courteous Debate. Get yours.
I've been writing a bit.