"You need an adaptor."
Posted: Fri May 23, 2008 8:56 am
Jonas sat in a plastic chair in the gymnasium, head tilted downward, watching as he ran a hand along his leg. Back and forth, feeling the corduroy beneath, watching it change from dark to light. Back and forth. Dark to light. Hypnotic. He glanced over his brow without moving his head, watching a sweaty fat man in the white labcoat attempt to boot up a monitoring device. He knew it was a monitoring device, because it "told" him. The sweaty, enormous man stood up after several minutes, and huffed as he drew a ponderous arm across his forehead. He turned his head, smiling over a massive shoulder at Jonas.
"Just ignore me," he said. Jonas figured he meant it, which was amusing, considering that they were the only two occupants of the gym. Just him, and the elephant. A big white elephant, right there in the middle of the otherwise empty gymnasium. Jonas smiled, and the large man nodded and tended to the monitor. Jonas shuffled his feet in his chair, and figured the humor of the situation was his alone.
He shrugged, bored, and "reached out" to the laptop the man had set up. It was easy to interface with the computer in the slim black case; cellular modem, bluetooth-accessible. Wireless adaptor. Jonas scanned the contents of the drive in the space between seconds, blinked as he came across a piece of hex code buried in an otherwise unremarkable program.
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"Good work, Jonas," said the elephant in the labcoat. "The test is completed."
Jonas ignored him.
"Just ignore me," he said. Jonas figured he meant it, which was amusing, considering that they were the only two occupants of the gym. Just him, and the elephant. A big white elephant, right there in the middle of the otherwise empty gymnasium. Jonas smiled, and the large man nodded and tended to the monitor. Jonas shuffled his feet in his chair, and figured the humor of the situation was his alone.
He shrugged, bored, and "reached out" to the laptop the man had set up. It was easy to interface with the computer in the slim black case; cellular modem, bluetooth-accessible. Wireless adaptor. Jonas scanned the contents of the drive in the space between seconds, blinked as he came across a piece of hex code buried in an otherwise unremarkable program.
67 6f 6f 64 20 77 6f 72 6b 20 6a 6f 6e 61 73 2c 20 74 68 65 20 74 65 73 74 20 69 73 20 63 6f 6d 70 6c 65 74 65 64
"Good work, Jonas," said the elephant in the labcoat. "The test is completed."
Jonas ignored him.