You people...

[x_maker]

I leave for one evening to actually get OUT of my room and the lab for a change, and I come back to all my socks missing...

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[x-cypher.livejournal.com]

Whoa.

I suddenly have serious nerd envy.

[x-forge.livejournal.com]

As well you should, my polyglot friend.

By the way, what is this email sitting in my inbox about racquetball? What in the world is racquetball?

[x-cypher.livejournal.com]

It's what young professionals do to unwind together, and sometimes discuss business in a less formal setting. It's like the jock equivalent of a power lunch or something.

I dunno. There's a health club near here that I've been wanting to try out, and I want to pick your brain about something, I decided why not just combine the two.

[x-forge.livejournal.com]

Oh, we're pretending to be jock yuppies for the day? Sold.

[x-cypher.livejournal.com]

Pretending to be jock yuppies while actually secretly mocking them.

Besides, we should be able to figure this out. It's all math and angles and patterns and elastic collisions, right?

[x-forge.livejournal.com]

I am looking up the rules... okay, so basically, it's Pong. Three-dimensional Pong. This shouldn't be hard at all.

[x-cypher.livejournal.com]

That's what I'm saying. We may not be yuppie jocks, but we're reasonably fit young men.

[x-forge.livejournal.com]

And if stockbrokers and insurance analysts can do it, hell, we foiled a bank robbery! We're superheroes!

And now, I go to test my aerodynamic physique out in the hall. Avanté!