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Dec 09, 2010 09:50

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[Nina is... well, the spoken issue became apparent since day one, but something's been bugging her about the auto-translator here. Namely, she's not sure about the efficiency or the perfection of it. Particularly when it comes to something written - that level of thing would be a neural chip? On the networks it's obvious, but things ( Read more... )

who said i'm insane?, throw in a rondis and it's a party, @john crichton, stream of consciousness, #adult, @buffy summers, @april o'neil, trouble in the air, @leonard mccoy, settled, babel fish; what's that?

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[Written] harveyinmyhead December 9 2010, 18:00:22 UTC

[Binary is such a bitch to decode. After a little work, he responds in turn.]

01001000 01101111 01110111 00100000 01100001 01101110 01101110 01101111 01111001 01101001 01101110 01100111 00101110

[Written] compos_mentis December 9 2010, 21:20:41 UTC

[She's mildly surprised that someone could think of how to decode that and respond. But she should be, so after a distinct amount of works herself, she responds as well.]

01001001 01110011 01101110 00100111 01110100 00100000 01101001 01110100 00111111

[Written/Voice] harveyinmyhead December 9 2010, 21:25:33 UTC

[Binary is no fun. He goes for a one word response this time.]

01011001 01100101 01110011

[And then adds in voice:]

Thank God we're not computers.

[Voice] compos_mentis December 9 2010, 21:32:13 UTC

[...Pfft. That actually gets the one not laugh out of her. More of a "Heh" than anything.]

Yeah? Never wanted to have your "brain" work so purposefully?

[Voice] harveyinmyhead December 9 2010, 21:34:22 UTC

["Brain", huh? He feels vaguely insulted. On the other hand, he should probably be used to this.]

If I'm going to work that hard, it's going to be on bigger stuff than chit chat.

[Voice] compos_mentis December 9 2010, 21:38:01 UTC

There's something we agree on. [Even if she did seem to do just that] It's a pain to work with in writing.

[Voice] harveyinmyhead December 9 2010, 21:40:37 UTC

Hell, it's a pain to work with in any form not involving a TI-83.

[Voice] compos_mentis December 9 2010, 21:45:12 UTC

[TI-83? Clearly some type of model but... not righting any bells. Oh well, she's used to that]

I've been forced to before, but these days I usually delegate those moments to the closest solaan. [Oh Charles, you're so helpful for being her robot-buttmonkey]

[Voice] harveyinmyhead December 9 2010, 21:46:54 UTC

So your salon does your numbers and your hair. Fancy. [That may or may not be Crichton intentionally mishearing that word she just made up. He does that.]

[Voice] compos_mentis December 9 2010, 21:51:20 UTC

And for such a reasonable price, too. It's a bargain. [Okay, we'll just roll with it]

[Voice] harveyinmyhead December 9 2010, 22:40:05 UTC

Sure beats being your own barber. So what's with the binary anyway?

[Voice] compos_mentis December 9 2010, 23:40:00 UTC

Testing out the auto-translator. Seems it didn't work on that one.

[Voice] harveyinmyhead December 10 2010, 03:17:57 UTC

Yeah, not even my translator microbes work on binary. Or Java. Or hell, even Klingon.

[Voice] compos_mentis December 10 2010, 03:24:38 UTC

[Hold up] Translator microbes?

[Voice] harveyinmyhead December 10 2010, 03:27:51 UTC

That's right, the staple of civilization, sister! Tiny bio-engineered micro-organisms that are injected into the bloodstream, where they colonize at the base of the brain, allowing you to understand almost any language. Think of it as the less intrusive version of the Babel Fish.

[Voice] compos_mentis December 10 2010, 03:34:21 UTC

Hah, if only we had that. Instead we just have Standardization in all its messy glory.

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