Nerd Boy, episode 420

         So, do we speak fluent           By "we in the future", do you
         Japanese in the future?         _ , mean your future self; me?
         I'm trying to learn. `O        O."
                            |_( ________'))|
                ___________ | |b|      |dd||______



                 Yes. Just answer        You have a time machine. Go to
                   the question.         _ ,  the future and find out.
                              `O        O."
                            |_( ________.))|
                ___________ | |b|      |dd||______



Tried that once. Didn't understand        So..?
anything; everyone spoke Japanese.       _ ,
                              `O        O."
                            |_(.________-))|
                      _____ | |b|      |dd||____




            So.. We went back to         This is what I get for
            our time, what else?         _ ,  travelling into
                              `O        O-"   the stone ages.
                            |_( ________ ))|
jg_________________________ | |b|      |dd||



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Stone ages indeed. This is especially true if the future
Nerd Boy is a post-Singularity uploaded mind that's evolved
into a Power. If ve is, I get a feeling that what we're
seeing is just one of vis avatars that's been allocated
very little computronium. If you don't know what I'm talking
about, google for it or go to www.singinst.org. Or read NB64.

I think it's interesting how Nerd Boy seems irritated by
future Nerd Boy's exposition line in the first panel. He ought
to be. There's nothing more irritating than when people use
plot devices like "the clueless character", that is introduced
into the plot just so all the other characters can explain the
plot to the audience via explaining it to the clueless character.
I'm trying to avoid that stuff.

-- 
 OO  Joaquim G�ndara
.||. http://www.Nerd-Boy.net
 bb  jg

"Joaquim G�ndara" <cla...@lords.com> wrote in news:bhc6i2$vm12t$1@ID-
102694.news.uni-berlin.de:

> 
>                  Yes. Just answer        You have a time machine. Go to
>                    the question.         _ ,  the future and find out.
>                               `O        O."
>                             |_( ________.))|
>                 ___________ | |b|      |dd||______
> 
 
I thought Nerd Boy would say: "Hmmm, go and power up the time machine and 
travel to the future and then come back OR you could just tell me in 2 
seconds!"

But I was wrong.