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Dorkmaster

Ok, this sucks... just got word that my manager is calling a meeting literally 29 minutes from the expected "metastisize" update... So I'm gonne come back about ten to fifteen minutes into this, my inbox flooded with emails, unintelligible posts, and spec up the wazoo, and I'll miss it all!!! AAARRRGHH!

**Posted:** Tue Aug 10, 2004 10:48 am

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Anonymous Coward · Boot Joined: 25 Jul 2004 Posts: 39

"Are we nearly there yet?"

"Quit it!"

"Are we nearly there yet?"

"Shut up!"

Etc etc etc... Wink

**Posted:** Tue Aug 10, 2004 11:01 am

Dorkmaster

I'm seeing it like the old (American) West:

there's the ILB crew (Queen, etc) on one side of a dusty road in the middle of town, and there's all of us on the other side... we're doing that squinty thing with our eyes, and our hands are trembling at our sides, waiting to pull out the puzzle solving gun. We know ILB will draw first, shooting multiple puzzles at us, but we're determined to draw smarter, shooting bullets (puzzles) out of the air, even as they hurtle towards us...

Ok, so wow, that was way too deep for even me... see ya on the other side...

(*EDIT - WOW! Nothing beats this kind of tension... Seriously, I think the Gunslinger parallels this quite closely! I'm on the edge of my seat (in all likelyhood) a good hour and 45 prior to update!!)

**Posted:** Tue Aug 10, 2004 11:09 am

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"The future is here. It's just not widely distributed yet." -William Gibson
"Always read stuff that will make you look good if you die in the middle of it." - PJ O'Rourke
"ACADEMY, n. A modern school where football is taught." - Ambrose Bierce

ABoxInABox

Not long now... Get your firewalls ready!

**Posted:** Tue Aug 10, 2004 11:26 am

jellyfish_green

16:30 BST - and still no metahoneyglazedlemonchicken. have to go home now... Sad

(I mean, how hard can it be to reconstruct an AI's entire personality complex from eighteen pages of core dump and one autonomous routine anyway? Smile

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Zedix · Veteran Joined: 26 Jul 2004 Posts: 93 Location: Ottawa

If it's anything like the past updates, there's 30 minutes left to the updates. My F5 key is fading away rapidly.

**Posted:** Tue Aug 10, 2004 11:29 am

CoffeeJedi

F5

F5

aaaaaaaaaaaa Shocked

**Posted:** Tue Aug 10, 2004 11:31 am

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!splotch

babbler · Boot Joined: 02 Aug 2004 Posts: 48

**Posted:** Tue Aug 10, 2004 11:41 am

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Zedix · Veteran Joined: 26 Jul 2004 Posts: 93 Location: Ottawa

5 minutes left... I'm holding my breath... turning blue... someone call an ambulance if I don't post again... Shocked

**Posted:** Tue Aug 10, 2004 11:57 am

ABoxInABox

This medium has metastasized.

**Posted:** Tue Aug 10, 2004 12:01 pm