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My last ‘company’ meeting? Boooring.. 2 hours of intelligence torture and processor cycle wasting. Here’s what happened.. In painfully senseless chronological order. Anyway, I just stuffed myself with a burger, medium fries and medium coke. That’s NOT healthy. And maybe that accounts for 99% of the computational errors I do in the next 2 hours. I’m full, and I really can’t process what’s around me with 100% of my processing capability. My cores are busy with something else. The future is dark within The Force, I sense.

Point Zero

Okay, so here we go. Oh, first let’s make a pre-meeting assessment,

1. Smart look, ah.., uncheck
2. Formal dressing, um, check? Probably not
3. Papers, check
4. Pens, check, oh wait.. I don’t have those
5. Sanity, check
6. Willpower, not much, check
7. Precog ability, check, do I have one? Duh..
8. Fuel, check
9. Focus, check
10. Anything left unsaid? Check, probably.

It’s starting! Whoosh.. I tell myself, “oh, come on, what could possibly go wrong? We’re civilized, and we’re cool.’

+15 Minutes

Okay, so far so good. All the introductions and basic stuff are done for. The level of seriousness escalates a bit. Being an observer as I am, I can’t help to make a personality profile, I always make this virtual table in my mind with blinking cells made of colorful Jell-O’s which indicates personal psychological  and mental states, as I observe and feel. Each group of cells is assigned a photo of a specific person, and I arrange the groups in a large circle. Every interaction is visualized by colored lines which indicates the ‘feel’ of the dialogue between two parties. When A says something to B and B feels good about what A says (as I observe), the line is green and glowing happily! A counter argument is yellow and an attack is red. There’s also blue which is personal talks. It’s real-time, and it’s fun, and I’m happy to mentally play with something while physically doing nothing at times like this. At least I can keep my brain busy.

+30 Minutes

Uh, okay. We’re talking about the things we’ve been talking for the past.. 30 minutes. Redundancy is key to complete comprehensiveness, it seems. That’s good, I have yet another reason to replay a level of a game where I don’t feel I’ve played it thoroughly. My spouse (when I have any), will surely understand that if not joining me playing the game in the process. Wait, why don’t I feel thirsty? I should have been thirsty. O yea, I forgot. I don’t speak. For real. Meh. Let’s test my precog ability. Hmm, let’s see.. <thinks> .. <watches> .. Wow it happens! The conversation goes exactly as I have foreseen! Can I inject a thought? <force> .. <watches> .. Holy shrimp!

+60 Minutes

Ha, now I know what it feels like to be The One. Like Neo, The One. I can finally see them, the truth of what The Matrix is. Oh, everything is transformed into glowing mumbo jumbo characters, floating and scrolling sideways in very repetitive and predictably unpredictable ways. Is it hex? I think so. It is hex. I haven’t seen so many hex’s since, well since tonight actually when I reshack-ed some dlls. I seem to remember something, replacing some vague bytes of some vague dll just to remove the windows dotted-focus indicator! Do I really need a focused item be dotted all around it? Who decided that it *improves* user accessibility? It hurts me eyes, MY FOCUSED STUFF IS IN DIFFERENT COLOR! I don’t need it to be border: 1px dotted #333; like you showed me. Okay, reshack > replacer, there you go. Bye, focus rectangle. I’m hurt, am I supposed to be hurt? I shouldn’t be hurt. Is it hurt anyway? If it is, it’s against Asimov’s First Law of ‘Three Laws of Robotics’.

1. A robot may not injure a human being or, through inaction, allow a human being to come to harm.
2. A robot must obey orders given to it by human beings, except where such orders would conflict with the First Law.
3. A robot must protect its own existence as long as such protection does not conflict with the First or Second Law.

I’m a human being. I’ll sue you, robots. Now, what’s your model and production batch? <Pull ‘Universal Robotic Scanner’, scans the other parties> .. <beep beep beep beep beep> .. No that can’t be, one more time.. <beep beep beep beep beep> .. No! All youse isn’t robots! Youse all is The Crystal Skull from the latest Indiana Jones movie! The superb magnetically magnetic folks with extremely extreme psychic ability. No wonder my circuitry is.. What? MY CIRCUITRY? Am I.. <scan self with ‘Universal Robotics Scanner’> .. <ding> Fried shrimp! I’m the robot! What’s my manufacture date again? 16th of February? And I thought it was my country’s Independence Day, it’s not? Wait.. It can’t be.. My existence is no existence? Impossible, nothingness can’t be no more than a nothingness unless it’s not a nothingness in the first place. Nothingness, I seem to remember that a new particle is ‘created’ at a rate of one particle per kilometer cubic per year. Is that even scientifically correct? It couldn’t be more wrong than Rapidshare placing a 15 minutes gap after each download. It’s wrong. It’s terribly wrong. Even though I can circumvent that, it’s still wrong! Like, totally! Wrong! Anyway, youse aliens, so you over-psychic me and made me think what you want me to think what I want you to do in the last hour? It can’t be.. Now I feel like this Sauron guy, he is so incredibly powerful that his weakness is himself, he splits himself into two, and later he allows half of him to be destroyed by one Gollum which is under the influence of him, which results in his destruction. Don’t he survive with just half a soul? Ever heard of Horcrux, Sauron? Lame. Anyway, Arwen is so phriggin’ beautiful, is she an Elf? She is? Well, that explains a lot.

+120 Minutes

Fsck! My ext3 data partition is probably corrupted in some inodes. I need to umount /dev/sda2 and repair it offline. Okay, umount it is. <type type type damn I love Terminus>. That’s it. My data partition is offline, I’m going into ghost mode with limited personality and intelligence. Just enough to get me back home. Sigh.

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