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So Topher's room was what one might call 'aggressively unclean' at this point, and the extremely hyper and curious robot puppy running around was probably not helping matters. However, Topher had a very good cleaning strategy to prepare for coding funtimes with Victor: kicking the majority of his stuff under his desk, into the closet, or over towards the other side of the room. It was such a great strategy, he couldn't believe no one had ever thought of it before!

Once that was taken care of, he removed his drawer of inappropriate starches from his closet and placed it beside his desk for optimal snacking, set Broca II the robot puppy on his bed to "nap," and then settled at his desk and began looking up ELIZA applications to play with. Whee, coding!

[[open, expecting one!]]

Date: 2012-09-18 12:20 am (UTC)
ultron_junior: ([neu] in the sun)
From: [personal profile] ultron_junior
Victor wandered in a little later, prepared something intelligent to say and ... pretty much immediately got distracted by Broca II.

"Dude, is that a robot dog?" he asked, tentatively reaching to touch it.

Date: 2012-09-18 12:41 am (UTC)
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"He's trying to sit on my lap," Victor noted, a strange note of delight in his tone. On the one hand: impressive. On the other: uncanny. "Okay, wow, this is a way cooler project than anything we can do with ELIZA."

Date: 2012-09-18 12:55 am (UTC)
ultron_junior: ([neu] interested profile)
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"..."

Give Victor a second. Sometimes there just weren't words.

"I think I'm fine without one?" he said. "I mean, he's awesome, but I'm not sure I'd want to drag a dog into fights, you know? Kind of not fair to the dog."
Edited Date: 2012-09-18 12:56 am (UTC)

Date: 2012-09-18 01:13 am (UTC)
ultron_junior: ([neu] with name)
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"Plus it's not like the dinosaur was my idea," Victor added, a bit defensively. "Kind of came as a package deal with this one girl, way before I joined the team."

Date: 2012-09-18 01:32 am (UTC)
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Victor took a moment with that question. "If I were time traveling and looking for animals to genetically engineer into protecting my kid, I probably wouldn't have picked a dinosaur?" he tried. "But it's not like you could take Old Lace away from Gert, so."

Date: 2012-09-18 01:43 am (UTC)
ultron_junior: ([neu] fascinated)
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"Not a shark, it has to be in water," Victor pointed out. "A penguin with fangs would be pretty cool. You could, like, engineer one to be okay with the heat."

Because that's what would totally strike fear into the hearts of evildoers. An attack penguin.

"Maybe a goat."

Date: 2012-09-18 01:58 am (UTC)
ultron_junior: ([neu] in the sun)
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"Name it chupacabra and feed it on the blood of my enemies," Victor said, and shook his head. "Sorry. Weird mood tonight."

Date: 2012-09-18 02:11 am (UTC)
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"Little bit," Victor said, also joking. "But if you could get an attack goat together in five months, I'd be impressed."

Date: 2012-09-18 02:19 am (UTC)
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"What exactly does a coffee robot do?" Victor asked, lazily playing with Broca.

Date: 2012-09-18 01:18 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] iwishiwasbig.livejournal.com
Before returning to the room for the evening, Dave - naturally - made a stop for coffee. And that was fortunate because it gave him something to hold onto when he saw the state of the room.

"Topher?" Dave asked, holding the cup by his mouth just in case he felt the need to unleash a spit-take, apparently. "Is that a robot dog?"

Date: 2012-09-18 01:31 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] iwishiwasbig.livejournal.com
"More importantly than that, he's here. Why is there a robot dog?" Dave asked, his coffee continuing to hover right by his mouth in case he needed it. "I figure I can skip the who and how and just skip to why."

Date: 2012-09-18 01:34 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] iwishiwasbig.livejournal.com
"What do you mean abandon him?" Dave asked. "You built him, right?"

Date: 2012-09-18 01:45 am (UTC)
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"If you don't mind, I kind of want to go back to 'why?'" Dave requested.

Date: 2012-09-18 02:00 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] iwishiwasbig.livejournal.com
"So did mine, but I didn't make a bunch of robot cats," Dave pointed out. "... Not that I could."

Date: 2012-09-18 02:11 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] iwishiwasbig.livejournal.com
"I didn't say I'd try. I don't know the first thing about building a robot anything," Dave pointed out.

Date: 2012-09-18 02:21 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] iwishiwasbig.livejournal.com
"Not really. I'm a cat person, really," Dave pointed out.

Date: 2012-09-18 02:38 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] iwishiwasbig.livejournal.com
"I'm not saying that," Dave said before finally taking a sip of his coffee. "I mean, I guess I'm kind of implying it...."

Date: 2012-09-18 02:51 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] iwishiwasbig.livejournal.com
"That's part of the issue. I don't usually find metal adorable," Dave pointed out.

Date: 2012-09-18 03:01 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] iwishiwasbig.livejournal.com
"Yeah, well just make sure your dog doesn't make a mess out of any of my stuff or I'll call in the mothership to take him away," Dave warned.

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