Since it's already claimed one "victim"

[x_maker]

Apparently Overfiend One has a subroutine designed to prevent, shall we say, interlopers of the feline persuasion from absconding with the fish it collects. As in, a rather comical compressed-air cannon system that I just witnessed sending a purple furball across the room. Apparently Dr. Wallace had nosy cats, too.

Dr. McCoy, are you sure I can't disassemble it even a little? I've got the documentation that Dr. Wallace provided and -

Wait. Noticed something. More on that later. If this is what I think it is, I won't have to disassemble anything at all...

Comments

[x-catseye.livejournal.com]

NOT FUNNY!

Catseye will get that fish!

[x-mirage.livejournal.com]

good luck. I am bribable.

[x-forge.livejournal.com]

It seems to have an almost military-grade recognition and reaction subroutine. Apparently four legs under forty pounds = something liable to steal the fish.

[x-catseye.livejournal.com]

ShinyBitsBoy can stop snickering now.

ShinyBitsBoy SHOULD stop snickering now.

Catseye will get the fish. Just you wait...

[x-beast.livejournal.com]

If Catseye wants the fish, Catseye should do her pleading kitten eyes at Forge or me to get it. You are far too difficult to resist when you're cute. The squid, on the other hand, does not think that you're cute, and won't give you fish.

[x-forge.livejournal.com]

Don't look at me in that tone of voice, Doc. She wants the fish, there's an obvious way for her to get it.

[x-beast.livejournal.com]

Well, maybe it's just me. The kitten eyes get me every time... of course, Miles totally did away with any resistance I ever had to little-and-cute. Lockheed is good at it, too.

[x-crowdofone.livejournal.com]

Catseye, I kinda doubt there's actual fish in there, unless it has its own built-in freezer, or they've been testing it in the lake already, or something.

[x-forge.livejournal.com]

No, we've got actual fish. Dr. McCoy made a sushi run late last night, and OF-1 does have a built-in freezer to keep its catch fresh. Apparently it has a complete preparation subroutine - it's like its own Iron Chef episode - I just haven't gotten through to that particular application layer yet...

[x-crowdofone.livejournal.com]

it's like its own Iron Chef episode

Literally. :)

And I bet it's got something in there to rinse the fish off before preparing . . . so it really does have everything and the kitchen sink.

[x-catseye.livejournal.com]

There are fish! THEY ARE CATSEYE'S FISH!

AAAAAAAAAAAH!

[x-kitten.livejournal.com]

-blinks-

You have to shift to human to reply on here anyway, and the squid won't let you at the fish while you're a cat. Why not just go at them as a human?

[x-catseye.livejournal.com]

Shhhhhhhhhhhh!

;D

[x-kitten.livejournal.com]

-laughs-

[x-sanfuaiyaa.livejournal.com]

It's called Overfiend? Please tell me that's a joke.

[x-forge.livejournal.com]

With Paige's reaction, I found it oddly apropos to name it thusly.

[x-sanfuaiyaa.livejournal.com]

And if you make a mate for it, you can name it La Blue Girl.

[x-forge.livejournal.com]

Sadly, I'm cut off from the fabrication aspect of this project. It's strictly an analysis and documentation experiment. Which if you ask me is like telling Michaelangelo "Just describe the Sistine Chapel to us", but alas, such things are required at times.

[x-cypher.livejournal.com]

#1. Just because you are a mutant genius doens't mean everybody else is. Except me. I'm also a mutant genius.

#2. Despite the fact that you are a mutant genius, keeping track of revisions and changes that you have made makes it easier on you, because then you don't have to recreate your thought process Every. Single. Time.

#3. Unless you are the only person planning on using this stuff, helping other people be aware of how things work and interact is a good idea.

#4. If you ever want to make millions mass-producing your genius stuff, other people to know how to make it.

Today's lesson in Why Documentation Is Important is brought to you by my very yummy Garlic Triscuits. Yay Garlic. And Berry Sprite. Yay Berry.

[x-forge.livejournal.com]

Holy crap. Dr. McCoy? You got short! And white!.

God, it's like an echo.

But yes, documentation. An apparently necessary chore.

[x-cypher.livejournal.com]

Indubitably!

[x-kitten.livejournal.com]

-snort-

You see, the rest of us have already been well trained. Doc. McCoy used to smack Doug with a rolled up newspaper when he was bad...

No, wait. That was Jamie.

[x-crowdofone.livejournal.com]

"Was?" :)

[x-kitten.livejournal.com]

-snicker-

Of course you don't do it anymore. Remember the great esteem you hold his girlfriend in? And the terror of the umlauts?

[x-crowdofone.livejournal.com]

Oh! Right, right, them. Yeah, of course I don't anymore. That would be silly, what with the esteem and the umlauts. Don't know what I was thinking there.

[x-beast.livejournal.com]

That, young lady, is a vicious calumny.

It was a rolled up magazine.

[x-kitten.livejournal.com]

Favorite. Teacher. Ever.

And I don't know that that's really all that much better, since it was The New Yorker. You should at least have been hitting him with Scientific America.

[x-mirage.livejournal.com]

I'm bringing you a sandwich now because I'm sure you haven't eaten in a while.

[x-beast.livejournal.com]

You may dissassemble it to look, if you wish... but you must put it back *exactly* the way it was. It's a prototype, and should not be altered.

On the other hand, if you wish to build something in a similar vein yourself, you certainly may. Catseye insists she wants a MiniSquid to chase, and it would certainly make swimming in the lake in summer that bit more exciting. (Of course, I don't have quite the same resources, materials-wise, that Wilbur does, but if you ask him nicely, I'm sure he'd let you have one or two of the more esoteric parts)

[x-catseye.livejournal.com]

Catseye can have a MiniSquid?!?

MiniSquid!!!

:D

[x-beast.livejournal.com]

If Forge agrees to make one, I certainly have no objection. You must ask him, though.

[x-kitten.livejournal.com]

Sure, Catseye gets a minisquid but I can't have any nanoSquids...

Although having a squid in the lake would open us to so many new Harry Potter jokes.

[x-beast.livejournal.com]

The no-nanites in the house rule exists for a reason. They're tricky little devils.

And it really would, wouldn't it? *g*

[x-kitten.livejournal.com]

But we could keep a terrerium of them, and they'd stay in their little glass box until we took them out to torment play with.

[x-beast.livejournal.com]

Oh, that's how it *starts*, but they never stay in there. You haven't been watching enough science fiction, young lady. I invite you to think about what would happen if they started working their way through the house, consuming available metals in order to replicate themselves.

Most of the plumbing, for example?

[x-kitten.livejournal.com]

Um... well...

At least we'd be safe then from any rampages Lorna decides to go on?

No, probably not. She'd probably just throw the nannites at us.

[x-crowdofone.livejournal.com]

And speaking of rampages, imagine what metal-eating nanites would do to her kitchen. :)

[x-kitten.livejournal.com]

Dear God, no, never mind. She'd kill us.

[x-dazzler.livejournal.com]

If you were lucky.

*g*

[x-beast.livejournal.com]

If you build nanites, and they get into Lorna's kitchen and eat up her utensils, I am not going to protect you, I warn you now.

[x-kitten.livejournal.com]

Noted, sir. I do, thankfully, have some self preservation instincts.