Hi everyone,
I guess it's time for me to delurk. I'm Brent, manager of a lovely little fixer-upper complex in Venice Beach, California. My first group of tenants just moved in, and well, I can use some advice.
Like everyone else, I had quite a shock when I realized exactly who my tenants are: the undines from the Aria anime -- specifically I have the Three Water Fairies and their trainees. And President Aria, their cat mascot. For those of you who haven't watched, they're not actually fairies -- it's just what they call gondoliers in Neo Venezia, on Mars. Anyway, they were rather unhappy about being assigned to Venice in California instead of Venice in Italy, but they're settling in okay. One fake Venice to another, right?
They're great, "down-to-Aqua" people that are just fine with doing things in an old-fashioned manner, so it's been pretty easy working with them, for the most part. Surprisingly little culture shock. It helps that we've managed to get an actual gondola. And much much easier to manage than what the rest of you got -- even just the sourcing the carrots for Ryo-Ohki alone must be a nightmare.
But I do need advice about one thing which is a bit above my level. Well, below my level, technically: the link layer. Akari Mizunashi managed to smuggle her laptop into our world in her backpack, and she'd like to hook it up to the wifi. Which would be fine, except our router doesn't understand 802.11wf or 802.11wd. Anyone up to reverse engineering a wireless protocol from 200 years in the future?
Related offer: Anyone interested in looking at crypto from 200 years in the future too? Luckily there's a C compiler (and telnet!) floating around on this machine, so I can actually compile software that hasn't deprecated every technology used on the web. It turns out the Year of Linux on the Desktop will be 2303.
Also tell her to avoid giving interviews in elevators at creepy seminars, and to definitely avoid taking the black rose. You know, in case that comes up. Wouldn't be weirder than anything else I've read about in here.
I guess it's time for me to delurk. I'm Brent, manager of a lovely little fixer-upper complex in Venice Beach, California. My first group of tenants just moved in, and well, I can use some advice.
Like everyone else, I had quite a shock when I realized exactly who my tenants are: the undines from the Aria anime -- specifically I have the Three Water Fairies and their trainees. And President Aria, their cat mascot. For those of you who haven't watched, they're not actually fairies -- it's just what they call gondoliers in Neo Venezia, on Mars. Anyway, they were rather unhappy about being assigned to Venice in California instead of Venice in Italy, but they're settling in okay. One fake Venice to another, right?
They're great, "down-to-Aqua" people that are just fine with doing things in an old-fashioned manner, so it's been pretty easy working with them, for the most part. Surprisingly little culture shock. It helps that we've managed to get an actual gondola. And much much easier to manage than what the rest of you got -- even just the sourcing the carrots for Ryo-Ohki alone must be a nightmare.
But I do need advice about one thing which is a bit above my level. Well, below my level, technically: the link layer. Akari Mizunashi managed to smuggle her laptop into our world in her backpack, and she'd like to hook it up to the wifi. Which would be fine, except our router doesn't understand 802.11wf or 802.11wd. Anyone up to reverse engineering a wireless protocol from 200 years in the future?
Related offer: Anyone interested in looking at crypto from 200 years in the future too? Luckily there's a C compiler (and telnet!) floating around on this machine, so I can actually compile software that hasn't deprecated every technology used on the web. It turns out the Year of Linux on the Desktop will be 2303.
Rob Wrote:Does anyone have any ideas how to cheer up a 12-year-old girl who already thought she wasn't anybody special?That seems like a normal teenage girl thing that everyone goes through, even interesting people. Tell her that she's an interdimensional traveler now, which is super interesting? Some of the greatest people in the world became great without money or power, like Dr. Martin Luther King, Mohandas Gandhi, Michael Faraday, J.R.R. Tolkien, and Joan of Arc. Stanislav Petrov proved that an ordinary man doing his job can save the entire world. Comparing yourself to others is a sucker's game; you have to compare yourself to the best person you can be. I don't know that you can tell a person that in a way they'd truly believe it, but maybe give her the right story book, and the idea will stick.
Also tell her to avoid giving interviews in elevators at creepy seminars, and to definitely avoid taking the black rose. You know, in case that comes up. Wouldn't be weirder than anything else I've read about in here.
"Kitto daijoubu da yo." - Sakura Kinomoto