Laager and Limehouse - Archive 20120129


	Archive 20120129
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		Bell
		Elizabeth
		Jaakko
		Nils

# in Nils' room
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Chronology of a hack

Hour 1

[Nils]
This donnering
program's a
piece of...
oh, sorry Bell.

[Bell]
No worries. Just,
um, could you keep
your voice down? I
was trying to listen
to some heavy metal.

[Nils]
Not if I have to keep
working with this thing.

I don't know how they
dare call this software.

In fact I think
I'll write my own...

[Panel 2]
[Caption]
Hour 2

[Elizabeth]
Tea?

[Nils]
OK, you want fewer peers,
but you're seeding...

So I'll trim out some
of the other seeds...

[Elizabeth]
I'll just leave it here.

[Nils]
And if there are too many others
left, blot them out at random
until we're down to few enough...

[Panel 3]
[Caption]
Hour 3

[Nils]
Well, that passes all the
tests, and it's backed up...

Tea. Mm. Bit cold.

Hey, what's it doing being
midnight all of a sudden?

And where did that tea come from?

[Panel 4]
[Caption]
Next Morning

[Nils]
What do you mean,
people are USING it?

[Phone]
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Apparently it's the only thing
to do that job that wasn't
written by monkeys on crack.

[Nils]
But, Jaakko, it was
only a few hours' work!

[Phone]
On top of how many years'
programming experience?