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-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.