Yay, weekend!

[ultranos]

I survived a week in which I had three, count 'em three, major papers due. However, we actually have not yet reached the part of term where my diet becomes entirely "caffeine and ibuprofin". (This can't be healthy.) We will not talk about how much coffee/tea/caffine I am actually consuming daily. I also survived a week in which I spent Tuesday through Thursday evening running around and sending emails to various professors (most of which I don't even know) asking about a summer research position that I can turn into a thesis next spring. The most disappointing was trying the main AI lab on campus and finding out that they really want coders this summer. And since I'm so very much hardware, this is not so very good.

So imagine how happy I was when I got an email today saying that I need to get the paperwork in, as I've been accepted as a member of a particular group at the Media Lab, home of wacky projects. I'll get to hopefully work on lots of things, and the one that pans out best will hopefully become the thesis. I'm pretty stoked about it. (And, um, considering the group, I, er, might be building Skynet or something. Or something like that cell phone grid in The Dark Knight. WHO KNOWS?)

I also started poking at the rulebook again (instead of torturing characters for abyssinia4077's and my Fic of DOOM). I just realized I've put steampunk in the Pegasus Galaxy.

I think I won.

I'm not sure what, but I'm pretty sure I won something.

Comments

[holdouttrout.livejournal.com]

*cheers you on*

[rodlox.livejournal.com]

if memory serves, the Hoffans had a steam system underground. and before the Genii went nuclear, steampunk seems a likely precursor (might they still have words and terms from that part of their history in their language?)

just a thought.

ps: there is nothing wrong with your television - er, with building SkyNet.

[ultranos-fic.livejournal.com]

That's a good point that I never considered. Now the fact that I wrote it in doesn't seem too weird. :)

P.S.: I hope not. *looks shifty*

[rodlox.livejournal.com]

happy to help.

*light bulb goes off*

maybe have the rarest forms of technology be these:
* lavapunk ("congratulations, your civilization chisels pillars of lava from the shallow seas. Earth examples: Nan Madol")
* grasspunk/stringpunk ("congratulations, like the Incans, your civilization is highly accomplished at making ropes and bridges and clothes out of grass and other sources of string")

ps: trust me, SkyNet was not the worst option when it comes to ruling mankind.

[ultranos-fic.livejournal.com]

grasspunk/stringpunk ("congratulations, like the Incans, your civilization is highly accomplished at making ropes and bridges and clothes out of grass and other sources of string")

So, you're telling me that these people would be really good at string theory. :)

[rodlox.livejournal.com]

guh...oooh. :)

honestly, they would probably have an easier time conceptualizing/grasping/visualizing string theory - so maybe a one or two point reduction in how much it costs/hard it is to learn.